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The Red Wine Headache Cookbook: Over 300 Simple and Delicious Recipe Ideas, Using Scientifically Tested Low Histamine Ingredients
The Red Wine Headache Cookbook Over 300 Simple and Delicious Recipe Ideas Using Scientifically Tested Low Histamine Ingredients Author:Ella Elizabeth Imagine a diet without meat: Quite easy, yes? Lots of people are vegetarian. Maybe you're one of them. Now imagine that diet without any cheese either - or tomatoes, or mushrooms, or nuts, or the popular meat substitutes. You're beginning to see the challenge faced by sufferers of Histaminosis every day. Histaminosis (sometimes called Histami... more »ne Intolerance,) isn't some rare and exotic malady: There's a one in ten chance that you have it. Throughout the developed world, millions of people suffer food-borne histamine intolerance, making them feel rotten every day. Yet the symptoms are so common, and so varied, that most sufferers don't even know they're affected. They just know that they feel terrible most of the time. Like an allergy, Histaminosis is a spectrum disorder: At the "mild" end, are those people who get allergy-like symptoms such as itching, hives, or a headache after drinking a glass of red wine; while at the severe end are those at risk of scrombroid poisoning, anaphylaxis and death. Most sufferers are somewhere between the two; enduring life marred by digestive problems, bloating, stomach pain, heartburn, acid reflux, IBS, tension or cluster headaches, migraines, PMT/PMS, heart palpitations (Arrhythmia), low blood pressure, hives (Urticaria), eczema, hay fever, asthma, or a dozen other apparently "idiopathic" complaints. In desperation, they resort to painkillers, antihistamines and antidepressants: none of which solve the problem, and which in the longer term actually make matters worse. As with coeliac disease, Histaminosis medicines are only effective when combined with a modified diet. Indeed, most sufferers can manage their symptoms by diet alone. However, the foodstuffs that must be restricted are many of the staples of the modern western lifestyle; leaving frustrated sufferers wondering, "What can I eat?"« less