Experts estimate that up to 80 percent of the population has some form of food allergy or intolerance. You may have suspected that certain foods don’t agree with you. What you probably may have never suspected is that food intolerances can lead to inflammation which leads to weight gain or the inability to lose weight even with exercise and a healthy diet. Your body may also perceive certain foods as a poison and thus limits digestion of nutrients, thus causing the body to store fat.
Weight Gain Effected by Food Allergy
As unlikely as it seems, the biggest culprit in weight gain may be food allergies or intolerances to the foods you eat on a regular basis, even ones that are “good” for you – foods that you would never suspect are harming your body. Food allergy reactions do not always occur right after the food is eaten. Symptoms like bloating and swelling can occur hours later. Weight gain can be caused by food allergies causing inflammation which causes fluid retention.
Food Addiction caused by Food Allergy
People often crave the very foods they are allergic to! In an effort to neutralize the uncomfortable symptoms caused by these problematic foods, your body releases substances called endorphins into your bloodstream. Endorphins trick you into believing the “allergic” food is actually making you feel good by giving you a “high”. Thus you have become “addicted”.
What Causes Food Allergy?
A result of a low variety diet, your body must process the same foods (your “favourite” foods) over and over again. In individuals with weight gain and food intolerance, this can cause a number of problems: The job of repeatedly processing the same foods taxes your digestive system tremendously, often resulting in suboptimal nutrient absorption. Today’s heavily processed foods use up your digestive enzymes at a tremendous rate, leaving insufficient amounts available to digest and absorb nutrients. You may end up deficient in certain nutrients that are present in the foods you are not eating.
Ultimately, your body becomes sensitive to the foods you eat most frequently. When you continually feed your body with the same foods over and over, it eventually revolts. The modern-day diet of heavily processed foods, in combination with the chemical toxins present in today’s environment, allows only partial digestion of your food. Your body recognizes the remaining undigested particles as strange, hostile invaders, and it reacts allergic. You end up with an overworked, underfed allergic reacting digestive process.
Conclusion
The perfect weight loss diet and nutrition program may be as simple as eliminating foods your body is intolerant of. Talk to a nutrition expert at any famous wellness centre to identify food allergies and successfully lose weight.
