Food Allergies and Hair Testing

Food Allergies and Hair Testing

Food allergies are common and the consumption of foods that you are sensitive to can bring about reactions of hyperactivity, itching and rashes, high blood pressure and arthritic pain.

Consuming foods that you are sensitive to  can develop due to nutritional imbalances. Stress, environmental pollution and medications can aggravate also aggravate food allergies. Nutritional imbalances can further be contributed to by restricting food variety, such as eating only a small group of foods on a daily basis. Often a person will develop a craving for the food they are most sensitive to and may eat the same food or food group more than once a day. Certain foods that may impede a rapid and effective response. Consumption of these foods should be avoided completely for four days after you start your HTMA rebalancing program. After this time, you should not be eating these foods below more frequently than once every three days during nutritional rebalancing.

Food That Stimulate Histamines

Consumption of the following foods can stimulate histamine release in certain metabolic types and may contribute to respiratory-type allergy reactions.

  • Apples
  • Beet Greens
  • Black Tea
  • Blueberries
  • Chard
  • Chocolate
  • Concord Grapes
  • Cocoa
  • Collards
  • Eggplant
  • Green Beans
  • Parsley
  • Peanuts
  • Pecans
  • Rhubarb
  • Spinach
  • Strawberries
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Wheat Germ