Food allergies processing

Because food allergy places particular limitations on children s lives and frequently leads to restrictions in a variety of activities, there is the potential for these perceived illness-induced limitations to generalize to disease- unrelated events as children progress along the development pathway. For example, we have evidence of an over-interpretation of ambiguous information in terms of processing of potential threat not directly related to food "you d be worried if you were somewhere new... that you weren t before when other kids see an advert for a circus, they think fun, I think danger."... 

IgE and/or specifically reactive lymphocytes do not mediate many of the adverse reactions to cromoglicate, which mimic allergic processes of the immediate or delayed type. These reactions fulfilled the criteria that characterize pseudo-allergic reactions (3,10). There is a much higher incidence of such adverse reactions when cromoglicate is used orally in the treatment of food allergy, as high as 29% of cases treated (3,10). 

Approximately 1-2% of the population and 5-8% of children experience food allergies that are the result of natural selection processes that have occurred over thousands of years. Elevations in these frequencies may suggest allergic reactions to GMOs. Such allergic reactions are of two general types, immuoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated and non-IgE mediated reactions. 

Perhaps even more than cancer, CFS is a reflection of the impact our modem toxic environment has on the human body. In chapter 1, we learned how processed foods, dairy products, meat, refined sugars, and food additives such as aspartame can increase the acidity in our bodies. People with CFS are very susceptible to these substances, and their vulnerability manifests as food allergies,... 

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