"A...cause of food allergies is the present-day tendency to eat exclusively foods from just a few types or families. Of the 4,000 or so edible plant species that have fed human societies at one time or another in the past, only 150 are widely cultivated today and just three of them provide 60 percent of the world's food. Today our choice of foods is limited to about thirty species, and for many the choice is even more restricted. It is not unusual for some children to eat nothing but pizza, hot dogs and peanut butter sandwiches, or for those following the macrobiotic diet to consume mostly rice and soybean products with a few vegetables. Such diets will not only be deficient in many nutrients, but the constant call for enzymes needed to digest those particular foods can lead to exhaustion of that specific digestive mechanism. The exclusive use of just a few foods can lead to sever food addiction—every bit as harmful and as difficult to break as addictions to drugs or alcohol. These food addictions, with their concomitant allergic reactions, nurture the biochemical disruptions that lead to more serious degenerative diseases."
Copyright Sally Fallon 2001A simple solution: remove a substantial amount of common allergens such as foods containing white flour and white sugar, and DIVERSIFY...more green foods, more whole foods!
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