Sound Nutrition Isn’t One Size Fits All By Julie E. Williamson Nearly every time I log onto Pinterest or Facebook, or do nutrition-, food-, wellness- or allergy-related web searches, I stumble across posts, articles or infographics with some very strong directives: “EAT THESE HEALTH FOODS EVERY DAY!” “NEVER EAT THESE FOODS AGAIN!” “HAVE [...]
Could You Have Oral Allergy Syndrome? By Julie E. Williamson If you haven’t heard of oral allergy syndrome, you’re probably not alone. But if you happen to be like me and suffer from both food and environmental allergies), there’s no better time to become schooled on the subject. As the American College of [...]
Oral Immunotherapy: Controversial Treatment Shows Promise for Food Allergies An article in the Feb. 15, 2016, issue of The Wall Street Journal outlined how oral immunotherapy – a treatment used for environmental allergies -- is showing success in treating patients with food allergies, primarily to peanuts. The controversial treatment involves increasing ingested doses [...]
Holiday Season Not Always A Gift for Allergy Sufferers Spring and summer are the times of year most attribute to environmental allergies, but allergy sufferers can still find themselves surrounded by potentially problematic triggers over the course of the holiday season and beyond. The good news is they can usually sidestep those risks [...]
We’re More Than What We Eat – We’re Also What We Do By Julie Williamson When I’m especially plagued by my food allergies and feeling not-so-hot, I have a tendency to become a human hermit crab. Although I’m social, by nature, when I’m feeling out of sorts, I clam up, become more reclusive [...]
So THIS happened… and It’s a Real MTHFR By Julie Williamson Genetics are one strange bird. Take, for instance, how my mom – a gorgeous, brown-eyed redhead – and my tall, dark and handsome dad, also with snappy brown eyes, wound up with three blonde girls and only [...]
