Anti-Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood,
Health, Behaviour and Learning
By Brenda Sampson
CLASSIFYING ALLERGIES
Two kinds of allergic reaction are recognised:
1 Allergy to nutritious foods, such as milk or wheat products. This is really an immune reaction, as explained in Understanding allergy.
2 The second type is usually called "sensitivity". It is not an immune reaction; it is a reaction to a chemical that is toxic to the body; such as a food additive, a pesticide, a toxic gas such as smoke, perfume, or volatile solvents used in quick drying glues, etc. These fumes are probably toxic to everyone; whether they produce a reaction will depend on how efficiently the individual can excrete them.
Allergies can also be classified into those that produce physical symptoms in the body, and those that produce mental and emotional symptoms in the brain and nervous system. The latter are called cerebral allergies. Cerebral allergy is the cause of much or most disturbed emotions and behaviour in children (and I believe in adults, also). Cerebral allergy also produces learning difficulties and hyperactivity.
ALLERGY TREATMENT
Always remember that the basic cause of allergy is stress. Allergic symptoms appear when the total stress load is more than the body can cope with. So the first step in allergy treatment is to reduce stress.
Stress can be of two kinds; mental and emotional stress, or physical stress. We give our bodies physical stress when we put something in the body that it does not want; either by eating or drinking or breathing it. This is the easiest kind of stress to reduce; we just have to stop doing it. So this is where I advise people who want to overcome allergy, to begin.
Reduce physical stress (chemical stress) by using a sugar-free Feingold programme. The Feingold programme reduces the quantity of toxic chemical additives in the diet, and eliminating all sugars starves thrush in the bowel and reduces the toxic wastes it produces.
