Food Allergies: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Food Allergies

I have been migraine-free for five years since reading this book! I had tried Imitrex, acupuncture, physical therapy, massage, biofeedback, chiropractics, herbs, oral sprays and everything I had heard of for migraines except Botox injections and nerve severance. My general practitioner, second opinion doctors and neurologists told me to avoid red wine, Chinese food and chocolate. Their "migraine diet" came from the back of an Imitrex pamphlet (keep in mind, this was five years ago). When I told my doctor about my self-diagnosis of food intolerances from this book, she tried to act like she already knew this. Then why didn't she diagnose me? Why didn't she put me on an elimination diet? Why didn't she send me to a nutritionist, allergist or immunologist? Why did she put a teenage liver on codeine permanently and say I would have to live with it or grow out of it? If your doctor is not part of the Nutritional Enlightenment, YOU NEED THIS BOOK to help you find the right specialist. Even if this book isn't all inclusive, it will introduce you to the basic concepts and terms to Google and talk to your practitioner about. I am not sensationalizing that this book changed my life. I almost didn't graduate high school because of migraines, and now I have a computer science degree.

Immediate relief! That was my reward for reading this book and putting it into practice. It has my full recommendation for anyone suffering from the effects of allergies. This author is sympathtic and the book is easy to read. It is apparent that the doctor has scaled his vocabulary WAY DOWN to facilitate the reader's ability to concentrate on WHAT he is saying, rather than be dazzled by how brilliant he is. After battling allergies for 25 years, he has brought me new weapons. I thank the good doctor and am in his debt.

Dr. Walsh's book is very easy to understand. He gives examples of patients he's treated plus he uses many metaphors to help explain medical terms that a non-medical person might not understand. I was just diagnosed at 27 with a severe allergy to wheat plus various other allergies. Why all of the sudden? He answers this question plus many others in this book. A must for anyone suffering from food allergies!!!!

Dr. Walsh has done it again, written a clear, and easy-to-read book about why people with food allergies need to pay close attention to what they eat.With so much mis-information in the popular press about food allergy and how to treat it, this book is one that health professionals can feel confident recommending to their clients.It's refreshing to find a physician that is so well-informed not only about the science of food allergy, but of the day-to-day details of how this translates when you go grocery shopping or want to dine out in a restaurant.If you have a food allergy, suspect you might or know someone who does, this book is a valuable guide that will help you understand more about how your body works and how you can work with your body to achieve optimal health and wellness.

Well written. Clearly written. Empowering. This book is a must for anyone who would identify, or rule out, food allergies and sensitivities as causes of distress in their lives.This is a book that cuts the subject of food allergy into small, easily digestible pieces, and guides us along the path to understanding.Food Allergies: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Food Allergies is truly a complete guide. It is a book that leads us along its well designed paths with both care and patience.This is a book that every person should read, think about, and keep as a reference. Those who recognize that they are plagued with allergies and sensitivities will reap immediate rewards, for therein are the words of a man, a practicing physician, who speaks to each of us with kindness, understanding, knowledge, and humility. Over the years he has struggled to learn how to help himself and his patients overcome their allergy-related illnesses. He takes us down the road that he followed, tells us of his mistakes and his successes, and helps us understand and overcome our allergy-related illnesses more quickly than he overcame his own. Dr. Walsh tells us that we- each of us - knows ourselves better than any physician can possibly know us. That we must trust in ourselves and in our own observations, and that we must search out physicians to help us who are willing and able to do the same.For those who have allergies and sensitivities but have not recognized them, and for those whose allergies and sensitivities will surface in the future, reading Food Allergies will plant seeds of awareness that will make traveling future roads to wellness easier.