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Could a Toxic Food
Be Spoiling Your Life?A
doctor friend of mine, who regarded himself as being in perfect
health, did some experimental testing on himself to discover
whether he had any food intolerances. He uncovered an allergy to
wheat and, as a further test, he omitted wheat from his diet. To his surprise
he no longer felt tired at the end of a busy day and woke in the morning
with a feeling of exhilaration instead of his usual dread of a heavy day’s
work. The doctor suddenly realized that his perfect health was far from
being as good as it could be.
When bread, which is usually regarded as the staff of life, disagrees
with you, and you are an unsuspecting victim of what is happening as a
consequence, you can come to regard health as a mere absence of disease.
This is not good enough. A positive sense of well being with plenty of
energy always ready for use is what should be regarded as normal health.
An allergy to the food you are eating every day can take the edge
off your enjoyment of life, can cause you to feel under the weather without
anything definite to complain about or can actually be the cause of severe
inexplicable illness. But the vast majority of people do not know that this
is what is happening to their bodies and state of mind. They simply accept
that mystery symptoms which come and go are just normal.
A huge amount of pathology and suffering, from bellyaches, to
strange and inappropriate moods, even violence, is dismissed, even by
doctors, as just one of those things. But that’s ignorance, not science. From
the early 80s onwards I made it my business to begin to educate the public
about the phenomenon of individual food toxicity, including food allergy
and intolerance.