It has been said that up to 60 percent of all human illness involves food sensitivities/allergies (or intolerance).
A food sensitivity or allergy is your body’s mild or severe reaction to a substance. When a person with sensitivity is exposed to an allergen, his body starts making antibodies. Allergens and antibodies attach to each other, releasing chemicals like histamine into the body. Histamines cause blood vessels to dilate and allow fluid to leak out of the vessels and into body tissues. Some of the results include swollen nasal passages, itching and tearing eyes, hives on the skin, diarrhea or leaky gut. Some reactions are life threatening; fluid accumulation in the lungs and larynx can suffocate a person if proper emergency care is not instituted immediately.
 
What is food sensitivity and how does it occur? Food sensitivity is an immune system over reaction to a substance you ingest or consume. This reaction causes an increased intestinal permeability or “leaky gut” to develop. A leaky gut allows large food particles to enter the blood stream, thus weakening the immune system even more because it is your white blood cells that have to eat these large food particles instead of eating bacteria, viruses, parasites, candida, and cancer cells.
A leaky gut also lets toxins into the blood which can either throw the immune system into imbalance or deposit in other glands, organs, and tissues, causing the full spectrum of pre-disease symptoms all the way to actual disease itself. What is a possible cause of food sensitivity? Eating enzyme deficient food. When we eat large amounts of cooked, enzyme deficient food, the body sees these heat-altered fats, proteins, and carbohydrates as stressors. The actual cooking process not only changes the chemical structure of the food, but also renders it of little nutritive value. Dr. Burkholder of Yale found that sprouted oats had 13 times more B2 content than raw oats and 100 more B2 content than cooked oats. A diet of high cooked food content can only sustain life but not regain or improve life and health. So how do the allergies occur? We eat the same cooked, enzyme deficient, nutrient deficient food day in and day out. This is why dairy products are the number 1 food allergy. We have consumed cooked (pasteurized) milk daily since we were babies. The solution lies in changing the diet to a high energy, high enzyme, high oxygen, high bioelectricity diet of living, raw foods that are animal product free (vegan). This is vegetables, sprouted grains, seeds, nuts, beans, and legumes. Also, rotating any cooked food in the diet so it is not eaten daily. What about the people that eat a piece of raw spinach and break out in hives? We must realize that not all reactions we experience are allergic in nature. Many times, when we eat raw, living foods and have this kind of reaction, it is nothing more that the enzymes from the food reacting in the body with some toxin or foreign material that has to be expelled. The enzymes in raw and living food actually cleanse and purify the body of unwanted debris and can throw it out through the skin as detoxifying reaction. So when you eat organic, living food and have a reaction, you might just be cleaning and detoxifying your body, so cut back the amounts and build up gradually.
 

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