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Article: Arthritis: are food allergies an answer?
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- April 1, 1984
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For years the idea that food allergies play a role in arthritis had been dismissed as nonsense by much of the medical establishment. But not so today. The reason for the change of heart is straightforward: slowly, scientific evidence is implicating food allergies in a variety of health problems.
Last October, a team of British doctors, writing in the British medical journal The Lancet, reported a link between food allergies and migraine headaches in children. More than 90 percent of the 88 children in their study improved once the foods they were allergic to were eliminated from their diets.
"Most people have just one picture in their mids of food ...