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British scientists have concluded that the vast majority of people who believe they have food allergies do not actually suffer from it, writes The Daily Telegraph.
A study conducted at the University of Portsmouth found that around a fifth of adults believe they are allergic to a particular food. However, upon clinical examination, this diagnosis is revealed in no more than every fiftieth of them. Women are more often mistaken about food intolerance than men, and often unreasonably consider their children to be allergic, depriving them of healthy foods.
Most often, people “discover” that they are allergic to wheat – 4.5 percent of the population are convinced of its presence. In fact, less than one in two hundred people suffer from it.
According to study leader Carina Venter, this frequency of erroneous self-diagnosis is associated with the proliferation of low-informative test systems for self-detection of allergies and the abundance of hypoallergenic products, as well as with the fact that in recent decades this disease has become a “fashionable diagnosis.”
Based on the results of the study, scientists warn that unreasonable refusal of certain foods as causing allergies can cause self-diagnosis lovers and their children to become deficient in a number of vitamins, antioxidants, dietary fiber and other essential food components.
Website source medvestnik.by