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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy

This week is National Allergy Week.

Unfortunately, it is estimated that one in three people will develop an allergy during their life. Diseases in which allergy plays a role include asthma, hay fever (allergic rhinitis), eczema, contact dermatitis, urticaria and food allergy.

Allergy is an immune response by the body to an apparently harmless substance, typically a food or inhaled allergen such as pollen, house dust mite, cat fur, household substances or the environment. In developed countries diet, food manufacturing and processing have changed dramatically in the last twenty years.

During this time sensitivities to intolerances to food have often been reported and are now the most common category of allergy. The main culprits are usually wheat, dairy, eggs, oranges, treenuts, shellfish, soy and chocolate. Too often the foods 'you can't do without' are the foods that you should avoid.

Whatever the trigger, immune reactions vary with a response that may be out of all proportion to the 'threat' posed, such as itching, swelling, headaches, nausea, respiratory and digestive discomfort and in extreme cases anaphylaxis.

As the body's immune system is highly active within the digestive tract it is therefore important to ensure that food, particularly protein is digested properly and that exposure to the immune system by undigested particles does not initiate an immune 'attack' and stress or irritate the system. It is also thought that other syndromes such as IBS, Chrons, arthritis and migraine may be induced or exacerbated by such reactions.

Another key factor is thought to be reduced exposure to microbes early in life due to modern hygiene, antibiotics and caesarian births causing an imbalance in good bacteria and inappropriate immune responses. Most studies have found that allergies are more prevalent in urban areas and that children raised on farms have fewer allergies.
(Thanks goes to Sue McGarrigie - Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist for this article)

National Allergy Week 11th-15th May 2009.
It is aimed at raising awareness about the many different allergies that are now becoming increasingly common, from hay fever to allergies to cat hair and providing advice and information to allergy sufferers.
For further advice go to http://www.allergyuk.org/news_allergyweek2009.aspx

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"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."

- Roger Miller

I thought this was quite apt, as it is raining heavily outside at the moment.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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