West Cork Nutrition and Wellbeing

You would be surprised to see how many packaged foods have this ingredient. Check your labels people.

8 months of daily nausea, vomiting, abdominal bloating, and diarrhea attributed to irritable bowel syndrome were followed by anaphylaxis during a barium e***a.

All caused by the common food additive carrageenan.

A case report details the experiences of a woman with severe gastrointestinal complaints who had an anaphylactic allergic reaction to a barium e***a.

The barium e***a was being used as a diagnostic imaging test to investigate the patient’s 8-month history of daily nausea, vomiting, abdominal bloating, and diarrhea, which had been attributed to “irritable bowel syndrome”.

It was suspected she had a latex allergy, but tests disproved that. The doctors then performed allergy tests with other components of the barium e***a and found she reacted to carrageenan.

Removal of carrageenan from her diet cured her “irritable bowel syndrome”.

“In our patient we can conclude that the anaphylaxis during a barium e***a was due to allergy to carrageenan...
The role of carrageenans in the gastrointestinal symptoms of this patient is also of interest. Oral challenges with carrageenan were not performed because of her history of anaphylaxis. Even though she had no urticaria or respiratory symptoms associated with the gastrointestinal symptoms, these symptoms could be due to allergy to carrageenan. It is known that double-blind allergen ingestion challenges in people with food allergy can elicit exclusively gastrointestinal symptoms. A direct inflammatory effect comparable to that observed in animals is also possible but speculative. Further consideration of the possible direct or immunologic effects of carrageenan in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndromes or inflammatory bowel syndromes may be warranted, particularly in patients with symptoms exacerbated by milk products, including infant formulas, in the absence of milk allergy or lactose intolerance.”

Ref: Anaphylaxis to carrageenan: A pseudo-latex allergy

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has CONFIRMED that the FDA misled the public for nearly two decades about dietary fats in order to benefit Big Pharma.

I remember being told this in nutrition school.

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*PLEASE SHARE this far and wide, I’m calling on @schwartz.uk to remove sugar from their Chinese 5 spice blend!* Why do these huge brands hide sugar in products where it is completely unnecessary??!! Chinese 5 spice blend should not have sugar in it full stop, let alone be its main ingredient!! And yes @schwartz.uk I’m looking for a response. Hidden sugar is being added to more and more packaged foods you would just never expect, and busy shoppers who are just trying to get in and out of the supermarket quickly are buying foods with all this hidden sugar and they have no idea. The cous cous the other day is another example. With 50% off the average Irish person’s calories coming from ultra processed foods, this hidden sugar is really adding up and it is no wonder that diet-related chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes and obesity have been increasing. These big food companies have A LOT to answer for… they are driven purely by profits and I believe they’re adding sugar in foods unnecessarily to make these foods more palatable and therefore make people buy more of them! It’s immoral and I will continue to call out these big food companies and increase awareness about what they’re putting into our foods!! This is another great example that brands are not always better!! Swapping to Tesco Chinese 5 spice will save you money and be better for your health. Would you ever have thought you’d find sugar as the first ingredient in Chinese 5 spice blend?! I’d love to know in the comments x #nutrition #bigfood #ultraprocessedfood #foodlabels #cleverswaps

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