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2012
Watch Dr. Hillary Jones talking about food intolerance and allergies on Daybreak on 23/1/12 - http://on.fb.me/zX7QiK
Listen to an interview on Sunshine Radio 106.8 with Chris Barry and Sonja Waters, Area Manager of YorkTest in Ireland on YorkTest Complete Food&DrinkScan: http://bit.ly/yfrExu/
Life and Fitness Magazine: http://bit.ly/rNGEvk See what they are saying about YorkTest DrinkScan!
2011
Positive Life - http://bit.ly/tHHno8
Naturally Good Health http://bit.ly/rsoCwk Free Yourself From Your Problem Foods
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Food Intolerance and Kids
Food intolerance is known as a "hidden" condition for a reason. Causes are often
difficult to pinpoint, especially when treating children. Food intolerance can
really get in the way of your child's or nursing infant's day, and cause uncomfortable
symptoms like bloating, diarrhoea, headaches, and eczema. Diet has also been linked
to poor concentration and learning disabilities among children. Taking a natural
approach to curing these symptoms may seem like a difficult road but food intolerance
testing and programs can help parents along.
Case Study- Jon and Esther Lee passed on your email address. I just wanted to drop you
a line to tell you what a difference having the test done on our little Miika
last year has made.
Ever since being very little, Miika has suffered from very bad eczema all over
his body. He used to look red and sore, very poorly little boy with lots of antibiotics
for infected eczema, bandages, stronger and stronger hydrocortison creams and
bucketfuls of regular creams!! He used to wake up most night, often several times,
scratching and crying... It was quite tiring for all of us but the worst thing
was seeing him so upset.
We'd seen numerous doctors, who all just said it's normal and he will grow out
of it. When he turned three and his skin was as bad as ever, we got slightly disheartened.
Around this time Esther and Jon moved to the area and we soon became friends.
Esther told me about the York testing, she even booked Miika a test! (They are
amazing...!) When the results came we could barely believe it!! Miika had reacted
to egg, soya, gluten, wheat, peanuts, dairy and coconuts... This is a boy who
had wheetabix with soya milk for breakfast and peanut butter toasts were his favorite
snack! Obviously it never had occurred to us to exclude all these things at the
same time.
As we left these things out of his diet, within a week or two Miika's skin had
cleared up completely and he started sleeping through few night after I cut them
out - for the first time since he was a baby! He is such a handsome boy... Even
his behavior improved as he wasn't so uncomfortable in his own skin anymore. Miika
was so excited and proud himself that he kept pulling his top up and showing his
arms and belly to people, saying 'Look, no spots!'
The dietary change was a challenge to start with mainly to me as we have two
other children to cater for too but with a bit of research I got there and slowly
became an expert in 'special cooking and baking'. Our GP was so amazed by the
change too that the practice agreed to give Miika special bread on prescription,
especially as the creams and antihistamines weren't necessary anymore. So for
the past eight months we have picked up a bagful of bread and flour from our chemist
for free every month- this has been a huge help considering the cost of special
foods and flour.
Ok, it looks like this turned into a bit more than a line but just wanted to
say thank you. We've recommended the test to many of our friends and many have
found it very helpful! We are currently waiting for my husband's, Tom's results
as he is an acute eczema patient too.
Migraine Study 2011
Important News For Migraine Sufferers
A new survey of a 1,000 people suffering with migraine by the charity Migraine Action has revealed that over two thirds of members affected by frequent migraine attacks believe that certain foods could be the cause. The survey found that 85 percent of people affected by debilitating migraines had their symptoms reduced, and quality of life improved, when their food triggers were discovered and avoided.
Additional research from the University of York has further supported the Migraine Action findings, uncovering that the frequency of migraine attacks was reduced by almost a quarter (23%) over 4 weeks when the YorkTest FoodScan test was used. Dr Andrew Dowson, head of headache services at King’s College and member of the medical advisory board of Migraine Action, commenting on the research said: “A link between food intolerance and migraine has long been suspected. Recent research has shown that when people with migraine follow tailored diets to eliminate trigger foods their symptoms significantly improve, however the treatment of migraine is not a ‘one size fits all’ situation, each person needs to establish their own specific combination of triggers, which can also include factors like stress and irregular sleep patterns”.
Migraine Action Week - September 12th to 18th 2011
Sunday World Magazine - July 2011 - Read All About It - 'Cure For My Eczema - Siobhan Doyle'
YorkTest working with Food for the Brain
Have you taken the Food for the Brain Cognitive Function Test? If so, you may have been advised to find out your homocysteine level.
Recent research completed at Oxford University has shown that you can prevent both the age-related memory loss and brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
According to the research team at Oxford University, “high levels of homocysteine are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s.”
The Homocysteine Test from YorkTest Laboratories helps identify if you have a raised level of homocysteine in your blood. Professor David Smith at Oxford University states, “Alzheimer’s is a preventable disease, not an inevitable part of the ageing process. The trick is to identify any decline in memory function as early as possible and take the necessary prevention steps.”
The Homocysteine test is a quick and easy 100% home test that delivers reliable laboratory test results within just 10 days, all from the comfort of your home.
Check out 'Waterford Today at http://bit.ly/jrv0Vv
September 2010
B vitamins slow brain shrinkage and age-related memory loss, according to latest
research at University of Oxford.
The two-year randomised clinical trial is the largest to study the effect of
B vitamins on mild cognitive impairment, and one of the first disease-modifying
trials in the Alzheimer’s field to show positive results in people. Around 1 in
6 elderly people over the age of 70 has mild cognitive impairment, experiencing
problems with memory, language, or other mental functions, but not to a degree
that interferes with daily life. Around half of people with mild cognitive impairment
go on to develop dementia – mainly Alzheimer’s disease – within five years of
diagnosis.
Certain B vitamins – folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 – are known to control
levels of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood, and high levels of homocysteine are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s.
The team found that on average the brains of those taking the folic acid, vitamin
B6 and B12 treatment shrank at a rate of 0.76% a year, while those in the placebo
group had a mean brain shrinkage rate of 1.08%. People with the highest levels
of homocysteine benefited most, showing atrophy rates on treatment that were half
of those on placebo.
Along with rate of brain shrinkage, the team from the Oxford Project to Investigate
Memory and Ageing also monitored cognitive test scores, revealing that those with
the slowest rate of shrinkage scored more strongly. The team suggests that, since
the rate of brain atrophy is known to be more rapid in those with mild cognitive
impairment who go on to develop Alzheimer’s, it is possible that the vitamin treatment
could slow down the development of the disease. Clinical trials to test this should
now be carried out, they add.
Clinical Trial 2004
A clinical trial, published in the medical journal ‘GUT’, focused on diagnosed sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The IgG test study was designed by the University Hospital of South Manchester and used on 150 out patients who had been diagnosed as suffering from IBS - using the YORKTEST Laboratories foodSCAN IgG ELISA test (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). The study looked at the effectiveness of an exclusion diet based on the results of the YORKTEST IBS test.
Patients were randomly selected to receive a diet based on their blood test results eliminating the foods they were intolerant to, or a dummy diet, eliminating food to which they were not sensitive. The trial followed patients for three months and the severity of symptoms recorded. It showed that the elimination diet based on the true results was “significantly more effective” than the dummy diet in reducing the severity of IBS symptoms.
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