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Posted: April 18, 2017 at 1:47 pm
A new study recommends that the peanut-allergic try consuming other nutsbut only under the supervision of a licensed allergist.
Millions of Americans live in fear of thepeanut. And for good reason: These humblelegumes are associated with some of the most severe of all food-related allergic reactions, including life-threatening anaphylaxis. Moreover, studies show that peanut allergies in children have more than tripled from 1997 to 2008, leading to what the National Institutes of Health have deemed a growing public health problem.
Its no wonder that the once-ubiquitous peanut butter and jelly sandwich has been quietly disappearingfrom school menus around the nation. But sadly for the peanut-allergic, the trouble often doesnt end with PB&J. Many also know the frustration of having to studiously avoid chocolate chip cookies with walnuts, candy bars with almonds, ice cream with pistachios, or any other delicious treat made with tree nuts.
After all, as theyve been warned by their doctors, skin and blood test resultsreveal that those with peanut allergies are also often allergic to tree nuts. Better safe than sorry, right?
A new study by a team of allergists suggests that those tests arent as accurate as we thinkmeaningtree nut allergies may be massively overdiagnosed. In many cases, peanut-allergic individuals who studiously avoid other nuts could be doing so without cause, the authors conclude. Not only that, but people who've had an allergic reaction to one type of tree nut may actually be able to eat all the ones they've never triedeven though blood or skin tests suggest otherwise.
Prior to their study, published March 27 in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the authors noted that there was little research on nut allergies beyond peanutswhich are actually legumesthough they weren't sure exactly why. [Allergy]research has focused primarily on peanut, egg, and milk allergies, says Chris Couch, a Phoenix-based allergist and co-author of the study.
To fill that knowledge gap, Couch and his co-authors decided to (very, very carefully) feed tree nuts to a group of people with known peanut or other nut allergies.
The results were eye-opening. The peanut-allergic participants, they found, were able to eat other nuts without incident at a stunning rate of 96 percent. Moreover, more than 50 percent of participants with a known allergy to one tree nut tested negative to the othersmeaning that many of those who had gone their whole life thinking they were allergic to all tree nuts could actually be enjoying other types of nuts.
We want to liberate people's diet as much as we can, says Couch. Unlike a peanut allergy, which renders many types of cuisines off-limits,"it's possible to just avoid one type [of tree nut] if that's all you're allergic tothat cashew or pistachiowhile still eating others.Based on the results, the researchers suggest that more people who have tested positive for tree nut allergies should considertrying small doses of nuts they haven't tried, under the supervision of a licensedallergist.
Couch adds that the uncertainty and fear his patients often experience can be magnified when they believe they or their children are allergic to foods but don't know for sure, because they've never actually tried them. The new findings, he hopes, will relieve a lot of anxiety.
An allergy occurs when your body reacts inappropriately to food or another substance, thinking its an invader. When this happens, your immune system produces antibodies known as immunoglobulin E (IgE) to fight off the allergen. Reactions can vary, but allergic responses to both peanuts and tree nuts are more likely to induce severe reactions including anaphylaxis, a sometimes life-threatening condition in which blood pressure plunges, and breathing can be difficult.
While death by any food allergy is rarefood-related deaths likely total fewer than 50 cases per yearaccording to a study of U.S. healthcare databasesthese allergies are responsible for about 200,000 emergency room visits annually. Besides the obvious psychological cost to the individual, systematically over-diagnosing allergies has a larger economic cost as well. In a study last year, Couch and co-authors calculated that delaying food challenges for a patient who turns out not to be allergiccosts the health care system more than $4,000 per yearfor extraneous services.
An estimated.6 to 1.3 percent of the U.S. population hasa peanut allergy, according to a 2014 report by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. About half that numberhave a tree nut allergy. Given those numberscoupled with the difficulty of determining exactly which kinds of nuts were in different foodsallergists have historically taken a conservative approach to nut allergies. If you've had a reaction showing you're allergic to peanuts or one kind of tree nut, manyadvised simply avoiding all other tree nuts.
According to the new study, though, the assumption that one nut allergy is usually linked to other nut allergies may not always be true. The allergists studied 109 people with known allergies to one type of tree nut, because they'd had a physically adverse reaction in the past. Such patients are considered more likely to have other nut allergies, and indeed,study participants did often test positive for allergies to nuts other than the type that had caused their reaction.
But upon trying some ofthose other nuts for the first time, more than half of them found that they had no ill effectsmeaning that despite blood and skin test results, they weren't allergic after all.Almonds were a special case: 100 percent of participants passed the almond challenge, with cashews being the most likely tree nut to cause a reaction.
(It should be noted that oral food challenges can be dangerous and should never be attempted at home, the researchers caution. These tests took place in a controlled environment, with researchers feeding participants carefully measured doses of food and closely monitoring them for any reaction. At the first sign of allergy, like flushing skin or hives, the test was stopped and the patient can be given any needed medical treatment.)
Andrew MacGinnitie, clinical director of immunology at Boston Children's Hospital, says the research supports an emerging consensus among many allergists that they aren't challenging enough kids. We know from this work and other work, that the testing we have now isn't very good for predicting who's going to have a reaction and who isn't, says MacGinnitie, who wasn't involved with the new study. There can be two people with identical testing and one will react during a food challenge, and one won't.
The study also paid close attention to participants who reported known peanut allergies. Researchers had those 46 peanut allergic patients take 68 different food challenge tests with various tree nuts. Surprisingly, the peanut-allergic participants passed allergy tests for other nuts at the high rate of 96 percent. We found that the pass rate for tree nut challenges was pretty high for people with peanut allergiesand that's a little different from previous studies, Couch says.
It's a common clinical situation that we test someone who has reacted to peanut, and is clearly allergic to peanut, and their tests also show much lower values to tree nuts, MacGinnitie adds. Our practice has been to tell those people to avoid tree nuts. But I think that this study sort of shows that we are wrong about that and a lot more of those patients could tolerate tree nuts.
Food allergy tests, whether blood tests or skin prick tests, work by detecting the levels of IgE (the antibodies your body produces) that are associated with the food you've consumed. But that association isn't ironclad, notesMatthew Greenhawt, an allergist at the Children's Hospital of Colorado and a co-author on the study. Greenhawt is also a panel member on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseasess Guidelines for Peanut Allergy Prevention and a member of physician and medical advisory boards for Aimmune, Nutricia, Kaleo Pharmaceutical, Nestle and Monsanto.
In cases where no antibodies are detected the test results are pretty easy to interpret, says Greenhawt. It's very hard to be allergic without any antibody detection, he says. But the presence of antibodies, we have a much harder time interpreting that, ... For example, you might test positive to a tree nut because you're allergic to birch pollen, which is in the air in your region. The test is detecting an antibody that's there, but it doesn't have the context that you needand these things look alike.
By giving food challenges to people whose test results show nut allergy at varying levels of IgE antibodies, Couch and Greenhawt hope tohelp identify new thresholds at which people would benefit from taking a food test. They suggest that in many cases, because of the inaccuracies in skin and blood tests they describe, those who tested positive actually had a 50/50 chance of passing a food test. Hopefully, this is a reasonable ratio that could encourage providers to offer more testing, Greenhawt says.
Currently the ratio used for recommending a food challenge is often much higher than that, MacGinnitie adds. There's no exact ratio that's correct but I think it should be a lot closer to 50/50 than to 90/10.
Testing decisions should also be individualized and factor in patient choices, MacGinnitie adds. He describes a situation that was recently documented by Robert Wood at Johns Hopkins:
If you have a kid you know is allergic to five tree nuts, and has reacted to those, clearing her for Brazil nut probably isn't very important to her, he says. On the other hand, what if you have some kid whose only thought to be allergic to almonds and he is about to go off to college? Even if it's only 20 or 30 percent likely that he's not allergic, because of the chance that he can eat safely at the dining hall and not carry an EpiPen, taking a food challenge might be worth it.
So yes, just because youre allergic to peanuts or one type of tree nutdoesnt necessarily mean you cant eat all the others. But until you've spoken with your licensed allergist and undergone the appropriate food challenges, you'd still be nuts to try eating them on your own.
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You may have seen the television commercials for the prescription weight-loss pill Contrave.
Contrave is the combination of two older drugs - bupropion, an antidepressant, and naltrexone, an addiction-treatment drug. Its ads say the drug works on the brain to reduce hunger and control cravings.
The FDA approved Contrave is for obese people or who are overweight with a body mass index of 27 or higher and those who suffer from serious conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or type 2 diabetes.
The commercial cites studies in which patients who took Contrave along with diet and exercise lost approximately two- to four-times more weight than those who simply dieted and exercised. However, a Consumer Reports analysis of the three clinical trials used to gain FDA approval of Contrive shows the drug works, but the amount of additional weight loss is small and could pose serious health risks.
Contrave can cause anxiety, insomnia and headaches, according to Consumer Reports. Serious health problems such as liver damage, seizures, increased blood pressure and possible heart risks are also possible. People who took it up to 56 weeks lost only five to nine pounds more on average than those who took a placebo.
Consumer Reports advises to speak with your doctor about the risks and different weight-loss options. Consumer Reports health experts say its best to lose weight the safer, proven way, by eating less and exercising.
If you've been unable to lose weight on your own, ask your doctor about intensive behavioral programs that have at least 12 sessions a year and include multiple strategies to help you switch to a healthier diet and increase physical activity.
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Women's Health | 5 Celebs Reveal Their Biggest Weight-Loss Struggles Women's Health Though you may not think it, weight loss is hard for everyoneeven those with money and movie deals. Yes, they have access to the best trainers, nutritionists, and chefs, but at the end of the day the choices you make are your own. And the choice ... |
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What emotion sends you to the refrigerator or the snack cupboard, or both? Angry, elated, confused, sad, bored, anxious, depressed, joyful, lonely or all of these and more?
Emotions can be uncomfortable. Food is used to regulate the discomfort and try to feel something good instead of bad.
Emotional eating is arguably the major reason for obesity. Its not sugary beverages which is where legislators are pointing their fingers and suggesting heavy taxing to save us from ourselves. Whoops, thats the topic of another blog and one that could drive me to emotional eating to soothe my anger.
Emotional eating is the swiftest way to end a successful diet. As a culture we have a habit of stuffing our feelings. We use food for more than fuel; we use food to help us cope. Its plentiful and legal making it a perfect choice to cope with whatever bothers us whenever we need it.
Every action we make is driven by the need to escape pain or to gain pleasure. I mean every action, even self-destructive actions. In other words, there is always a positive intent behind everything we do. I dont eat a bag of chips because I want to make myself fat and unhappy. I eat them because Iam unhappyand Im using the chips to try tofeel better.
A few chips nicely complement a ham sandwich or taste great with a dip. No matter how many chips you eat, they cant take away your emotional pain, but they may make it worse!
Emotional eaters turn to food to try to feel better at least for a little while. Stuffing down feelings with highly palatable food can provide temporary distraction and brief pleasure. It also has a rebound effect. Its both the way people ease pain and the cause of more pain.
Its not unusual for diets to cause people with poor coping skills more pain and its a particularly nasty cycle. The pain causes overeating, the overeating causes guilt and weight gain, the guilt and weight gain cause pain, and the pain causes more overeating. The cycle is established and hard to break.
The cycle needs to be broken. Easier said than done, but possible. If youre an emotional eater whos tried to stop the behavior and was unable, its not because its you cant do it. its because your approach was missing some essential elements necessary for success.
One thing is for sure, emotional eating gets worse when we follow diets that are too restrictive. Diets that keep us from eating enough to feel full and satisfied or restrict us from eating certain foods or food groups, usually end with a full-fledged, out-of-control, emotional eating episode.
Its a mistake to think if I can stop eating (fill in the blank with what you usually choose to eat when under any emotion or stress)cold-turkey when Im feeling overly emotional. I just wont do it.
Stopping an unwanted or negative action requires replacing it with a positive action.Here is a winning strategy to overcome emotional eating step-by-step.
1. Follow a healthy and satisfying lower-calorie food plan.Your food plan should provide all the essential nutrients, enough calories to provide satisfaction but slightly fewer than your body uses for its energy needs. It must have room to include a few treats. Its important that you can fit in and eat your emotional go-to foods as part of your overall food plan.
2. Have a list of non food strategies ready.What activities do you enjoy? What relaxes you? How can you blow off steam without eating? What might be soothing? Typical solutions include:
Im going to close my eyes and see me sitting on a dock in the bay. Im going to imagine I can smell the saltwater and feel the sun on my face and hear the cry of the gulls.
A cuddle or a pic (if the object of your affection isnt close enough to cuddle) works a lot better to comfort than high-fat/high-calorie food eaten hastily and chased with a giant helping of guilt.
3.Allow yourself to feel to identify the emotion.Turning to food in response to emotion happens so fast you may not even realize thats what youre doing until you are halfway into an emotional eating episode. When you have an urge to eat and its not connected to physical hunger, take a deep and ask yourself, whats really behind my need to eat?
4.Pick one or more coping solution from your list.Find what works to ease the discomfort of the emotion. You might also find that experiencing and working through the feelings brought on by the emotion is healing.
5. Practice the steps for managing emotional eating with visualization.When youre in a calm, stable state of mind think of the steps you are going to take next time you feel like stuffing down an emotion with food. Think about a recent upsetting incident that lead to your using food to cope. Now insert the different ending! See yourself engaged in a solution from your list.
Use all of your imagination to make it feel as real as possible. Feel the power of being in control and the good feelings you get from that. The more you practice in your mind the easier you will find it to change your behavior when faced with a real situation. Its the same technique professional athletes use to stay at the top of their games.
Its not bad or wrong to continue to use food to cope. If thats your choice, own it. In other words change your self-talk from I cant help it to this is what I want right now! Changing your self-talk puts you back in control and with control comes the power to manage your eating.
Managing your eating means you dont grab a container of ice cream and a spoon and go to town. It means you serve yourself 1/2 cup serving and count it on your food plan. Instead of shoveling the ice cream (and guilt) into your mouth, you take time to savor the flavor and creaminess so that the experience is enjoyable rather than creating guilt (more unpleasant feelings.)
As with many weight management actions, handling emotional eating is a skill. Its an especially difficult skill to learn and master. Dont expect to be a pro the first time you try. Its okay to be a beginner. Stay positive and keep practicing until it becomes as easy as tying your shoe or riding a bike.
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Asa English, 26, from Sheffield reached 11st after following an unhealthy diet of processed meals and booze
A STUNNING fitness model has shared her amazing transformation from couch potato to super-fit.
Asa English, 26, from Sheffield reached 11st after following an unhealthy diet of processed meals and booze.
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But, when her grandmother gave her a few home truths combined with the shock of an unflattering bikini photo, Asa decided to ditch the junk food and join a gym.
Impressively, the blonde bombshell lost four stoneand gained a huge fan base on Instagram account of over 400,000 followers, who can ogle her washboard abs and lean glutes on her account, jellydevote.
Asa, originally from Vaxjo Sweden said: I saw a photo of myself in a bikini and that triggered me to start transforming my body.
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I hated myself and thought I looked horrible.
I almost didnt recognise myself and realised then I needed to change. I felt like the outside didnt match my inside.
Then as well, my grandma just said, you have gained a lot of weight and when your grandma that always wants to feed you with loads of food, thinks youve got big that hurts.
I wasnt happy thats why I chose to start working out.
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Asa says her battle with the bulge began in her early twenties.
She said: When I was young, I was always considered normal not big, not small just normal.
But all of the sudden, when I hit my twenties I started to put on lots of weight.
I was eating and drinking a lot of alcohol and soda and a lot of processed food.
I would never cook and would only get ready meals or fast food.
I have no idea how much I ate and I never went to the gym what so ever.
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I ended up weighing in about 70kgs and was very unhealthy. I had an unhealthy life in general.
Fed up with feeling low, Asa decided to turn her life around and now she runs a blog to help others change theirs.
She said: I stopped with alcohol and started to cook my food instead, so I always made sure I ate healthy.
I went to the gym and now I am lighter and happy and healthy.
She added: I now work with my biggest passion, which is fitness.
I get to inspire and help others to be the best version of them self. And thanks to this job I can travel the world and I have experienced and grown so much from this experience.
And, if youre feeling a tad overindulgedpost-Easter, why not check out fitness blogger Courtney Blacks guide to beating the bloat.
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Alison has hailed her Strictly Come Dancing pal as phenomenal and revealed shes following in her weight-loss footsteps
ALISON Hammond has lost 2st since taking part in Sugar Free Farm earlier this year but shes not alone in her weight loss journey.
The This Morning presenter has called on the help of her good friend Lisa Riley to help her keep off the excess pounds and credits the Loose Women star as her weight loss inspiration.
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Alison told Closer Magazine: Lisa is an inspiration. I spoke to her recently and she is phenomenal. Shes in a happy place and has managed to cut out everything bad.
Alison, 42, used to weigh over 20st and admitted she would happily eat five chocolate bars every day.
However after a gastric band failed to help her lose weight Alisons body rejected the weight loss aid the Strictly Come Dancing star had to focus on changing up her diet and exercising more.
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Since losing the weight during Channel 5s Sugar Free Farm, Alison is determined to keep on losing weight and is looking to Lisa for help.
Alison continued: There is nothing bad she puts in her mouth whatsoever. She was a role model for me and I watched her on Strictly Come Dancing before I went on the show.
Mum-of-one Alison was open about her addiction to unhealthy treats on Sugar Free Farm, even admitting that chocolate was like her crack.
She during one of the shows televised therapy sessions: Chocolate is like my crack cocaine. I love it, I cant do without it.
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She added: I get a real big buzz when I eat sweet food. I get a physical reaction and just feel happy and then I want another one.
My son sometimes hides my chocolate from me.
I feel theres another Alison inside, dying to come out.
No one wants to be super-obese, I tell you, but what I can say is Im addicted.
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Personal trainer, Courtney Black, 20, from East London, has become an Instagram sensation for her muscular body and fitness advice.
She showed her 158,000 followers how to extra weight in under two weeks - without any fad diets or detoxes.
After eating over 7500 calories each day in burgers, milkshakes and cakes on a trip in New York in December 2016, she claims she lost weight following just four simple steps.
Her tricks include sweating it out in the sauna, working out your maintenance calories, cutting out rest periods in your workout, and even giving yourself a cheat meal.
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Weight loss tips from Instagram fitness model Courtney Black on how you can shrink in two weeks before your holiday
And the results were clear to her army of fans when Courtney showed off her two week post-holiday transformation from bloated to toned.
Courtney explains: I went to New York for five days after Christmas and gorged on calorific treats at every meal.
However when I returned home, I felt awful and bloated. The extra weight I put on made me feel lowsy and slow.
I absolutely hate hearing about juice cleanses or shake diets in order to lose weight. In my opinion, they should be banned, she added.
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Instead she proposes her four step plan to get you in shape quick.
Your body cannot change that drastically over such a short period of time, Courtney says of sudden weight gain.
Most of the weight that you have gained is water retention from not drinking enough water, lack of physical activity and eating high-salt and sugary foods.
Although a session in the sauna wont make you lose weight, itll help you sweat out a lot of the water your body is holding onto, which is subsequently making you look bloated.
A bit of time in steam room is also great for relaxation and good for clearing your skin after an unhealthy holiday.
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Get back in the gym and make every workout count.
In order to really shed that excess holiday weight, you need to make your exercise time more intense by make the rest periods during your workout shorter.
Its no good simply following some general/popular low calorie diet you need to work out the precise maintenance calories your body needs in order to lose weight.
For a female, your maintenance calories could be anything from 1400-2000 calories (depending on your weight, height and how often you workout).
You need to be eating below your maintenance to lose weight but never drop more than 500 calories under that figure.
There are a plenty of online calculators that will help you work this out or get professional advice.
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Restock your fridge with lots of healthy and nutritious food but give yourself a cheat meal too.
A weekly cheat meal (rather than a whole cheat day!) should be a part of your diet in order to bounce back to your ideal weight as they boost your metabolism and help you shed those pounds.
There are significant weight-loss benefits to a planned cheat meal. It encourages your body to burn calories more rapidly instead of allowing it to adjust to a lower calorie lifestyle.
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