Just like a sudden heart attack, an asthma attack can be brought on by eating the wrong meal or snack or drink, at the wrong time. Unfortunately the sudden heart attack does not always end well. The way we eat or drink, the amount, at what time and the types of food we choose to eat or drink has so much to do with how we feel, and it has a direct effect on the quality of our lives.
Many people snack indiscriminately between meals and before bedtime. If proper food is eaten there is neither need nor desire to ‘snack’ on crisps, popcorn, biscuits, various ‘nutritional’ bars etc. An apple or other piece of fruit is always much better if a quick lift is needed between meals. Eventually there is too much strain on the liver, the heart and the small intestines fill with sludge, the gut starts leaking, absorption falters and gas kicks in. Energy slows and the brain gets foggy. Doctors will then give you statins and not even check your bowels. Asthmatics get steroids and the beat goes on.
More and more people are asking me where to get allergy tests as they are realising how important this issue is. The main allergies for most are usually:
- Wheat
- Dairy
- Sugar
Eating fatty foods also can become an allergy.
I remember eating some delicious but fatty lamb chops in Spain years ago and I suddenly couldn’t breathe and had to lie down for several hours with severe cramps and palpitations. I did not touch lamb again.
In Bali they use garlic powder (which is not on the menu, or noticeable until after you ate it) on many dishes. I am allergic to the powder but feel fine with the real thing. The cramps associated with this were unbearable. Top that with the ones that are not so obvious such as soy and corn.
Everyone will have certain allergies and they will affect and show in skin, hair, itchy eyes, energy levels as well as weight. The reason our grandparents did not suffer allergies like we do today, is that in their day the food was bought locally and fresh. People spent time preparing the dishes and fast food did not exist.
Year after year there is more ‘messing around’ with foods to increase production and additives are added indiscriminately. Often we do not know what is in the food we buy. As we saw in the horse meat scandal last year in the UK. People are wising up slowly. However many people are still unaware.
To be on the safe side buy fresh food as much as possible. Prepare more food at home, like our grandparents did, and we will all start to feel better. Keep yourself well informed about additives and how they affect us and avoid food that contains these things.