Living with Food Intolerance (Overcoming Common Problems) - Softcover

Gazzola, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859699390 ISBN 13: 9780859699396

Publisher: SPCK, 2005

Synopsis

Identify troublesome foods and find the diet that suits you. Food intolerance is common and involves an adverse reaction to a particular food. Far more people suffer from food intolerance than they do from food allergy, and it's important to distinguish the two. This book will cover: our relationship with food - historical background; what food intolerance is and isn't; difference between intolerance and allergy; other problems with foods - aversions, phobias, food poisoning; types, symptoms and possible causes of intolerance; how to seek an accurate diagnosis; managing and living with your intolerance; preventing recurrences.

About this title

About the Author

Alex Gazzola has been a health writer for almost fifteen years, and specialises in nutrition, digestive diseases, allergies and food sensitivities.

From the Inside Flap

Food intolerance is far more common than food allergy, with which it is much confused. Intolerance, which can stem from staples in the Western diet such as wheat and dairy products, provokes various adverse reactions from tummy upsets and rashes to tiredness and migraine. Unlike allergy, however, intolerance can often be managed by cutting down on foods or avoiding them for a while, rather than excluding them permanently.

This book covers:
* what food intolerance is and isn t
* types, symptoms and causes of intolerance
* how to seek an accurate diagnosis
* the most common culprit foods
* living with and recovering from your intolerance

Edition details

• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859699390
• ISBN 13: 9780859699396
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128