Preface from the book, Food Allergy

Food allergy, as a topic in medicine, has been actively suppressed for many years and is not taught in medical schools. Too many vested interests have too much to lose if more people discovered that popular foods were making them ill. Commonly quoted "expert" opinions tend to minimize the incidence and importance of food allergy. While the dogma is misleading, it represents vested interests and is remarkably persistent.

I began to learn about food allergy in 1981 when I first developed inflammatory arthritis. I discovered a simple truth that eating a few safe foods resolved my illness and returning to my previously normal diet recreated the illness that was so severe, I could not work or enjoy life. Later I developed dermatitis herpetiformis and realized that even a small amount of wheat in my diet was a big problem.

I thought that my medical colleagues would be as excited as I was to discover that a serious and prolonged illness could be cured with diet revision. I did encounter the occasional MD who shared my enthusiasm for further research but most MDs were hostile to the science of food allergy, even when the therapies they offered patients were ineffective and even harmful. I have learned a lot about the politics of medicine and the strategies used by corporations to control the market place.

The problem is not that 25% of people recognize symptoms from food ingestion, but that many more people do not recognize that food is making them ill. I hope the reader will take the time to find out why we think food allergy is such an important mechanism of disease and how to resolve common food-related health problems by diet revision.

At Alpha Nutrition, a major commitment is too educate people about delayed patterns of food allergy and to point to opportunities people have to resolve serious illness on their own. Our strategies of self-management are simple and straight forward, but require knowledge, perspective and self control. We are the first to acknowledge that some people lack these prerequisites and our information will not help them. Stephen Gislason MD

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