FYI...

January 21, 2007
Food allergies said linked to British ills
By Tate Walters

A new report from Allergy UK has found that 45 percent of common
health complaints in Britain are directly caused by food intolerance.
Allergy UK exec Muriel Simmons revealed her medical charity's
findings on the widespread prevalence of food intolerance and called
for assistance from Britain's National Health Service and grand
practitioners, the Independent said. "Around 20 million people are
suffering from symptoms that impact on their daily lives and yet they
are not able to get help from the NHS," Simmons said. "We want to see
more dietary advice being available and more training given to GPs so
that they can recognize that food could be the trigger for some of
the symptoms that they are seeing on a daily basis." The most common
instances of food intolerance are related to milk and its contained
sugar, known as lactose, along with gluten and wheat. Suffering from
food intolerance typically results in headaches, rashes and stomach
pains, but it can also inflame other ongoing medical conditions. The
newspaper said the group's findings came from a survey of thousands
of British citizens who have suffered food problems.

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