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CHAPTER 4
World’s Healthiest Foods Help You Manage Adverse Food Reactions Adverse food reactions (what people may call “food allergies”) can cause numerous symptoms and can be the underlying reason for challenges to optimal health. These negative reactions to specific foods are more common than you might expect, and they can be surprisingly difficult to pinpoint as contributing factors to health problems. Adverse food reactions can include food allergies that start in early childhood and continue on throughout life. They can also involve more temporary reactions to food that occur when you are feeling particularly low in energy and when your physical health is especially compromised. But in either case, you will not always have an easy-to-spot symptom that tells you, “Aha! My body is having a problem with something I ate.” In the case of adverse food reactions, it’s much more likely that you will feel bad in some way (i.e., fatigued, irritable, depressed, foggy headed, lethargic) that could involve dozens of causes. All of the above symptoms, for example, could be caused by lack of sleep, or chronic stress, or a long list of psychological factors. When we have adverse food reactions, we might be reacting to several different food components. It could be some unique food proteins that are triggering our problematic reactions. It could also be the presence of sugars in food that we lack the enzymes to digest properly. We might also react to food additives and preservatives, or to pesticides or other food contaminants. Regardless of the food component that is triggering an adverse 55
