Whilst allergic reactions to such foods are often obvious and get diagnosed quickly, food intolerances are not as easy to diagnose and are often missed. Food intolerances are responsible for vague symptoms like headaches, behaviour changes such as anxiety/depression, digestive symptoms like IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), aches and pains (including arthritis type symptoms), reflux and indigestion, inability to lose weight and many others seemingly unrelated symptoms.
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Even if you don’t have an autoimmune condition, you probably know somebody that does. Autoimmunity (when your immune system is over-activated and attacks diverse body tissues) can present in many different forms.
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When I explain to friends what a Paleo way of eating is about, I only have to wait for about a minute until the penny drops and they get that look on their face (as if I’m from Venus) and they predictably exclaim ‘You mean you don’t eat bread??’ I always find this amusing, as if the human race can’t possibly survive without this staple, and to avoid eating it is like a heresy equivalent to witchcraft! It’s important to know that despite the fact that in today’s world bread is everywhere and grain products are not only a part of almost every meal, but are an ingredient in the vast majority of processed products, this wasn’t always so! Humans only started cultivating grains around 10,000 years
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