Why food intolerance is not accepted by many doctors?
For many years Medicine has focused on developing effective methods of controlling or suppressing a problem. Only recently has it started investigating possible causes of common chronic conditions e.g. house dust mite in asthma, caffeine and tyramine in migraine, diet in cancer and cardio-vascular disease and so on b) Busy health professionals follow guidelines formulated by medical experts. These guidelines place little or no emphasis on the way complex factors in the environment or food can cause disease c) The same foods often cause different symptoms in different people, thereby making it hard to investigate and associate specific symptoms with a single cause d) Tests for intolerance available today fall short of the 100% accuracy and reproducability of most routine medical tests. Without laboratory documentation the diagnosis cannot be substantiated.
