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Allergy sufferers, rejoice… sort of. While traditionally viewed as a gross overreaction to relatively harmless pathogens, symptoms of allergies (coughing, sneezing, red bleary eyes) may actually be a sign that your immune system’s working fine. Mild symptoms of allergies, according to new research, may be how bodies are supposed to work. While the immune system [...]
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Gluten free foods have exploded in the last year as more people have been diagnosed with an allergy, or who have discovered that they just feel better without gluten. You may find yourself entertaining a guest this season who has this in-everything food sensitivity, and you may be wondering, What Is Gluten?, and What Foods [...]
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While the summer of 2011 may be remembered for a heat wave, many are reporting both symptoms of influenza as well as the more common summer ailment stomach flu. (Stomach flu is more common because the summer heat provides the perfect warmth for bacterial growth in food). If you think you have flu symptoms, it’s [...]
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With pollen in the air (allergies!), swimming, and traveling (especially in sealed airplanes) summer is the perfect time to catch sinus infections, or just suffer from a mild sniffle. Sinus infection symptoms include pain in the sinus cavities (above and under the eyes), as well as sinus pressure, post nasal drip (sometimes causing sore throat), [...]
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Want to understand how allergies work? Joanne Manaster (ScienceGoddess) has a series of videos that use food to simply (and scientifically) explain what allergies are—and you’ll learn a little about the immune system too! Here’s the first video on where symptoms of allergies come from:
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