Is a food allergies addiction sabotaging your weight loss?
View a list of common food allergies and see if you might have an addiction to your favorite foods.

A food allergies addiction can wreak havoc on your whole body, and can sabotage your weight loss goals.

Here's a brief list of common food allergies:

Wheat (bread, baked goods, etc.)
Dairy (ice cream, cheese, milk, yogurt)
Coffee
Chocolate
Sugar (candy, cookies, cereal)

Do you see any of your must-have foods on this list? That's the rub with a food allergy—It can create a strong craving (addiction) to the very food that you're allergic to!
Many of the foods that cause allergies are also high-calorie, high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods. With a food allergy, the more you eat, the more weight you gain.

It's really a vicious cycle. The sooner you can identify the foods that you're allergic to and find out if you have food allergy-related addiction, the sooner you can address weight loss on an even playing field.

What Causes a Food Allergy-Related Addiction?

When you eat something that you are either sensitive to, or allergic to, the body produces substances called endorphins. Endorphins are morphine-like "feel good" chemicals. But they only last in your system from a few minutes to several hours. So once their supply diminishes, you become uncomfortable and seek to recreate the good feelings--and you crave the food that caused this reaction so more of those "feel good" chemicals are produced.

The only way to stop this allergy-related addiction is to stop eating the food that causes the reaction. That is part of the essential detoxification ("detox") that must begin any diet.

The following links provide more thorough explanations of food allergies. There are more serious, sometimes life-threatening, types of acute, immediate-response food allergy. But there are also food allergies that cause less serious (delayed) responses that can cause water weight gain and food allergies addiction. These types of food allergies are best identified through a blood test.

So get yourself a beverage and read the info on the following sites. You will gain some insight into how food allergies can turn into food addictions.
For More Information about Food Allergies

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network

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