How to test food intolerance?
In professor Jonathan s opinion the link between food and symptoms is unlikely to be made when the body is subjected to a constant bombardment with the food. For him the standard test used for diagnosing food intolerance is the elimination diet, in which all or most of the commonly eaten foods are avoided for a period of one to three weeks. The diet consists in two parts. First you avoid any food that might be causing trouble and see if the symptoms clear up – exclusion phase. If the symptoms do disappear, then foods are reintroduced, one at a time, to discover which ones produce the symptoms – reintroduction phase. This diet must be strictly followed by medical observation. The patient often feels a great deal worse initially, but then recovers fairly spectacularly on the sixth or seventh day. The purpose of the elimination diet is to ask your body questions about the foods it has to cope with, and give it a chance to tell you which ones make it ill. In order to hear the answers you n
