food allergy, food intolerance

Are You Experiencing a Food Allergy or Food Intolerance?

Do you know the difference between food allergy and intolerance? In most cases, food allergies manifest with ingesting specific foods, which triggers an antibody reaction within the immune system. The immune system recognizes this usually harmless food as harmful or foreign. It then produces antibodies to attack the foreign object. Food allergy symptoms vary from ...

Nathan Machoka

Foods rich in calcium strengthen your teeth and bones.

Do You Know That Children With Asthma May Also Have a Peanut Allergy?

A study that was presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference in Denver has found that children with asthma may have a peanut allergy and not know about it. Parents may also be unaware their child has a peanut allergy, as symptoms are similar to an asthma attack, such as shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing. ...

Wilma Oakes

Peanuts in the shell.

Controlling Allergies Medically and Naturally

Are there ways of controlling allergies? Many times, to bring comic relief to a certain scene in a movie, there is a part where the protagonists are suffering from some allergies. The hero gives a bunch of flowers to the heroine as a gesture of apology and she starts sneezing in a cute way. She ...

Armin Auctor

A young woman with a pollen allergy.

Could ‘Leaky Gut’ Be the Cause of Your Food Allergies?

Your intestines are designed to be impermeable (or resistant) to large protein molecules that your body may mistake as “invaders,” leading it to launch an “attack” by producing antibodies, which in turn leads to allergic reactions. The modern diet — especially wheat products — lifestyle, and medications often compromise the permeability and strength of our digestive tract, ...

Sheridan Genrich

Woman's hands on her stomach.