dried goji berryHow to Arrange Food Allergy Testing
If you have a food allergy it is essential that you identify it as soon as possible so that you can avoid problem foods.
Food allergy testing is the only way to identify a food allergy. Once you are aware of your food allergies, you can ensure that you do not eat the foods which are harmful to your body.
If you are allergic to certain foods your immune system releases large doses of chemicals when they are eaten to protect your body from them. The problem is that these chemicals produce a variety of symptoms that can be severe and sometimes, life threatening.
Food allergies can be identified by carrying out food allergy testing. However, there are only 90 NHS allergy clinics in the UK. This means that if you want food allergy testing on the NHS , you might have to wait a long time. Therefore, you might want to arrange food allergy testing privately. If so, you have two main options:
Food Allergy Skin Prick Test
A food allergy skin prick test uses a small needle to gently prick the skin through fluid containing a known allergen to see how it reacts to it. If you have a food allergy, your skin will go red and itchy and a small white swelling will develop. This will fade within a matter of hours.
The food allergy skin prick test provides a clear �yes or no� result as to whether or not you have a food allergy. It is not painful and the results are generally available very quickly.
Food Allergy Blood Test
The food allergy blood test allows you to analysis your reaction to over 400 different allergens.
It involves a sample of your blood being taken and sent to a laboratory where it is tested for levels of IgE. IgE triggers the release of histamines into the bloodstream when the body is exposed to a food or substance which it is allergic to.
You can find places where you can have food allergy testing by searching on the internet or alternatively by asking your doctor for a recommendation.
Elizabeth Harfleet is a Manchester nutritionist specialising in food allergy testing
Kakadu Juice - The World's Most Powerful Antioxidants!
Scientists from Sydney discover a Native Australian Bush Food that is many times more nutrient dense than Goji Berries, contains over 300% the level of antioxidants in Blueberries and is a highly rich 'natural' source of Folic Acid and Iron and this "New Australian Health Product" - "Kadadu Juice" containing Native Bush Foods could make many modern-day nutritional supplements obsolete!
From some of the world's harshest landscapes ~ comes the world's most nutritious plant foods like:
Kakadu Plum which holds the World Record for Vitamin C content, Tasmanian Pepper Berry hailed as the World's Strongest Antioxidant food and a polygodial-rich food plant traditionally used as a bush medicine by indigenous Aboriginals of Australia. illawarra plum A very close rival to the pepper berry for the title of strongest antioxidant. Plus a host of other super potent plant foods like; Blueberries, Quandong, Wild Rosella, Acai, Goji, Mangosteen, Pomegranate, Green Tea, Cherry, Flax, Barley Grass, and Grape Seed.
One major thing that separates Kakadu Juice from many of the competing brands is that it is the first product to release that is not 60% or more plain water. It is the first truly concentrated product with real value for money. Secondly Kakadu Juice contains a unique blend of very powerful native bush foods. Thirdly it is a complete product, not just an antioxidant, or a vitamin product but a rich source of all the major essential nutrients. See www.SuperWonderJuice.com for more information. Fourthly it is proudly Australian.
Australia's unique wild plant foods have sustained the world's longest living culture ~ the Australian Aborigines for thousands of years. The health benefits of these fruits, herbs and spices are gaining global attention as emerging research reveals record levels of natural Vitamins, Antioxidants and Unique Phytonutrients.
Now after many years of research, testing and development, these newly recognised, world-leading Australian food plants are blended with exotic foods from around the world in an exquisite nutrient dense SUPER BEVERAGE known as (see front cover photo) Kakadu Juice.
Can Kakadu Juice make you healthy and wealthy?
Well, consider this quote from the book "The Wellness Revolution - How to Make a Fortune in the Next TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY" where author Paul Zane Pilzer says "Teaching consumers about such products and services, intellectual distribution, is the greatest opportunity now and for the foreseeable future".
The Wellness Revolution is here and Australia is staking its claim with a world-beating functional food beverage that offers a refreshing mix of innovation, integrity and value for money in an industry tired of the 'hot air' that seems to keep many direct sales companies afloat. Kakadu International has created a no-hype opportunity for people to stake their own claim in the burgeoning Wellness Industry by offering ordinary people a way to get involved with a great Australian company and learn how to create additional income from drinking and sharing Nature's tastiest liquid bounty.
Thanks to the work of dedicated people like Dr. Kowalski, Vic Cherikoff and the tireless efforts of those in the CSIRO and other home-grown agencies, awareness of and the subsequent demand for Australian Bush Foods has created a viable industry that is now established and thriving. In similar fashion to the progressive growth of the Organics industry, Australian Bush Foods are now experiencing an organic growth all of their own.
With the emergence of scientific research into the Native Bush Foods, they've entered the record books for their nutritional and medicinal potency - something that Wellness industry entrepreneurs have a very healthy interest in. As a pioneer in this emerging sector of the Australian economy, Kakadu International, creators of Kakadu Juice, is proud of the knowledge that every bottle of Kakadu Juice is not only making people healthier but also providing employment for Aboriginal Australians.
The Australian Outback is one of the last pristine wilderness areas of the world. Wild harvesting of bush foods from this region relies on ancient Aboriginal knowledge of healing foods meshed with the modern practical skills of how to transport, process and distribute these foods in a way where nutritional vitality is...vital.
Remember the first vital rule to success in Network Marketing is you must have a very unique and highly consumable product that can not be obtained from anywhere else. Historically the most successful Network Marketers made their fortunes with nutritional products. Unfortunately many of them are overhyped, overpriced supplements that do little more than create expensive urine and some studies indicate do far more harm than good. This results in mass public confusion because one month we read how one thing protects us and a month later we read another study that the same synthetic supplement raises your chances of disease and premature death. Who do you believe and trust? The big pharmaceutical and supplement manufactures or the wisdom of Mother Nature?
The Truth About Supplements
The Dirty Secret Supplement Makers Hope You'll Never Discover The overwhelming number of supplements on offer can leave many consumers feeling confused and frustrated; not daring enough to venture into the local health shop without first getting a degree in biochemistry! If that's you, then you'll be glad to hear the good news which is, there's really only 2 kinds of supplements to choose from; those that are completely natural and those that are not.
The hard part is knowing the difference. Since the World became aware of "natural is better", supplement companies have done everything in their power to convince you that their product is either "natural" or is so high-tech that it's now "better" than natural. The truth is that the vast majority of nutrition supplements actually don't contain any real nutrients, instead they're made from cheap synthetic chemicals. A lot of slick marketing has led the Nature-seeking public to buy chemical products, with questionable results. How did we get it so wrong?
A Brief History of Vitamins
The ancient Egyptians noted that night blindness (vitamin A deficiency) could be cured by adding certain foods to the diet. In 1747 James Lind, a Scottish Naval Surgeon made the connection between a lack of citrus fruit intake and sailors developing scurvy. In 1905, Englishman William Fletcher discovered there were 'special factors' naturally present in whole food that when processed away, resulted in disease. A few years later a Polish scientist named Funk identified these special factors and called them "vitamins"....or did he? He identified what he thought were the special factors that prevent disease; in fact, these Funky "vitamins" were only single molecules, a small part of the whole. The scientific methods available to Funk were fairly crude, no mass spectrometers, no electron microscopes or particle accelerators; science not sophisticated enough to correctly identify the complete structure of a vitamin.
Your body DOES know the difference Vitamins in Nature do not exist as isolated molecules. A molecule of ascorbic acid is not vitamin C, d-alpha tocopherol is not vitamin E; they're merely individual pieces of much bigger puzzles. It's not even just a matter of missing out on some benefits, these nutrients have multiple interacting roles. So, when you use a synthetic instead of the living complexes found in Nature, you upset the metabolic balance. The reason you don't have to consciously control things like breathing, your heart beating and the digestion of food, is they're just too complex. To say that a supplement chemist can create the right balance of chemicals to mimic what happens naturally in "your" body or any living human is like saying a child who makes a paper plane could just as easily build a space shuttle. A cell in a dish doesn't equal a cell in a living human. To say otherwise is an embarrassment to real science and an insult to Nature.
Value for money!
Imagine paying good money to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra flawlessly perform a 2-hour piece of powerful classical music. Thousands of you sit, waiting to have your breath taken away by 50 of the World's finest musicians all playing in perfect harmony but, they don't show. Instead, a child walks out dressed in a tiny tuxedo and spends the next 2 hours bashing a xylophone with a brick. Not the experience you were hoping for was it? Well, your body feels similar disappointment every time it's forced to metabolise cheap synthetics instead of the breath-taking perfection offered by Mother Nature's vitamin source - whole foods.
But I buy mine from Company XYZ...
Is your favourite supplement actually synthetic or mostly full of artificial ingredients? It has a great story behind it, pictures of rain forests on the label, endorsements by doctors, everyone else takes it...must be good, right? Ask anyone who was alive in the 30's and they'll tell you that doctors actually used to prescribe cigarettes to their patients. Between 1929 and 1949 doctors believed that "smoking relaxes the nerves, renews energy and soothes throats". Cigarette companies used doctors to promote the 'health benefits' of smoking until 1950 when the facts about lung cancer became undeniable. The medical community pulled away from the tobacco industry and the use of health claims in tobacco advertising was banned in 1951. By learning to read labels and ask questions you see past the advertising hype and avoid the disappointment of buying something synthetic.
How to read a product label
Ask any biochemist and they'll reveal that levels of vitamins in real food are not constant, they go up and down. Any manufacturer will tell you that it costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars to have exact amounts of a single vitamin tested. So, when you see a label with Vitamin C - 60mg or a list of 20 nutrients each with an exact quantity shown as being the same month after month, either they have money to burn, test every batch and by some freak miracle they're all identical every time, OR, in reality they are synthetic nutrients, not natural ones. It kind of takes the fun out of playing the "which one has more in it" game when comparing supplements. Either way it doesn't matter which has more if one or both contain synthetics.
What happens when you eat chemicals?
When people begin taking multivitamin tablets they may feel some brief benefit. This is your body doing its best to use its reserves of real nutrients to fill in the gaps. Manufacturers know this, it's why they recommend "take with food". Once your body runs out of its reserves, isolated nutrients act like drugs, cannot be used the way natural nutrients are, create more imbalances and like all synthetic chemicals must be removed from the body before toxic damage takes place.
Easier said than done... Take iron for example, an important mineral that you don't want too much or too little of. Most iron is stored in red blood cells. Women lose blood every month and have much fewer iron toxicity diseases than men do. Inorganic iron from multivitamin tablets or from meat is difficult for your body to eliminate. Furthermore, iron from non-vegetarian sources destroys vitamin E, a nutrient essential for life. When iron comes from plant foods, it does not harm vitamin E and it is joined by 'real' vitamin C which improves absorption. It also comes with phytic acid which is not only an antioxidant which prevents that 'rusting' effect that excess iron creates in the body, it also helps bind and remove excess iron from the body. It's an efficient, intelligent, synergistic system when left up to Mother Nature but a complicated, destructive mess if not.
What are multivitamin tablets made from?Well, you now know how to check the label to find out how artificial the ingredients are, you could also just ask the company who makes them but also consider that those artificial ingredients don't just naturally stick themselves together in the shape of a vitamin tablet. Here's a partial list of the things they use:
gelatin (from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals)
stearic acid (from boiled cow fat)
carnauba wax (car polish)
sodium alginate (chemically processed algae used in the paint & printing industry)
croscarmellose sodium (wood pulp)
What does the Scientific Community say?
As long as they're not being paid by a company who makes synthetic supplements, they're going to show you the research which as suspected indicates quite strongly that when its Mother Nature vs. Synthetics, Big Mamma beats Big Pharma every time! In February 2007 The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) published a review of 68 scientific studies involving 232,606 people, which sought to determine the effects of supplementing with antioxidant vitamins and minerals for prevention. Their findings stated: "supplementation significantly raised mortality" (made people die faster). Headlines like "Vitamins Can Kill You" followed soon after. This negative attention resulted in numerous researchers looking closely at the meta analysis to see how it could be that increasing dietary vitamin intake could actually be killing people. Unsurprisingly they found that ALL of the studies under review involved synthetic supplements, not natural ones.
An 11-year study by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research involving 1,056 test subjects, found, those who ate at least three serves of green leafy vegetables a week reduced their risk of skin cancer by up to 55 per cent.
Studies from the Human Nutrition Centre on Aging at TUFTS University suggest that consuming antioxidant rich fruits may help slow the aging process.
Research scientist Maret Traber found that the liver will preferentially recycle natural vitamin E and excrete the synthetic imitation, effectively 'spitting it out' like a bad taste. In a Vitamin E study by the National Research Council of Canada, Dr Burton discovered that given a choice, the body ALWAYS chooses natural vitamins over synthetic ones. Don't you think you should do the same?
Well, now's your chance to get behind Australia's Best Kept Secret and experience for yourself the difference that real nutrition can make to your health. Kakadu International invites YOU to benefit from its unique profit sharing opportunity as it expands internationally.
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Using the Right Concession Equipment to Keep Your Pizza Fresh and Appealing
It is no surprise that pizza is a number one favorite with consumers nationwide. Millions of Americans consume pizza on a daily basis, especially when out at an event, such as a fair, carnival, sporting event, stadium, and concert. Pizza is an appealing favorite because of its mouth-watering smell and delicious eye-appeal. People have fallen in love with pizza, time and time again, because it appeals to all of the senses at once.
There are three different types of pizza concession stands: pizza merchandiser cabinet, countertop oven, and conveyor oven. Which one you choose will depend largely on the amount of space that you have in your concession stand. For example, a pizza merchandiser cabinet is much smaller than a large conveyor oven. In order to choose the right concession stand equipment, you must be familiar with the three types of pizza stands.
The Excitement of a Pizza Conveyor Oven
A pizza conveyor oven is a terrific way to grab the consumer's attention, creating a higher amount of foot traffic to your concession stand. A conveyor oven usually costs approximately $1800 dollars, and it is capable of producing over 30 nine inch pizzas in an hour, or 14 twelve inch pizzas per hour.
A pizza conveyor oven is recommended for a mid-level concession stand. The conveyor oven is an economic, versatile, and compact way to increase the amount of menu offerings at a concession stand. Also, this type of pizza concession stand usually yields the highest profits. In just eight to ten minutes, customers can enjoy a piping hot, mouth-watering pizza.
The Convenience of a Pizza Countertop Oven
The pizza countertop oven is designed to service a snack bar or a mid-sized concession stand. This type of concession equipment is designed to cook two eight inch pizzas at once, or one sixteen inch pizza. One of the major benefits of having a pizza countertop oven is the fact that it can also cook cookies, pretzels, pastries, and other precooked items.
The pizza countertop oven is more compact and versatile then a conveyor oven. A smaller pizza countertop oven, perfect for handling mid-level trafficked events, costs approximately $1200 dollars. There are several wholesale retailers that may offer a discounted price on any type of pizza concession stand equipment.
The Appeal of the Pizza Merchandiser Cabinet
A pizza merchandiser cabinet is one of the most eye-appealing and attractive ways to draw the consumer's attention to your pizza stand. A common pizza merchandiser cabinet is capable of holding a sixteen inch pizza. This type of concession stand equipment is priced around $900 dollars.
The pizza merchandiser cabinet works with a special humidity system that maintains the temperature of the product. A mid-sized merchandiser cabinet can hold up to three pizzas. A pizza merchandiser cabinet is the perfect, compact way to showcase pizza at a fair, carnival or a snack bar. Its visual appeal draws customers to the booth with its lighted displays.
These are three most popular types of pizza concession stands. Your choice depends on the amount of space and budget which constrains you. If you want to produce high volume, larger pizzas, then the conveyor oven is the perfect choice. However, all three can be great options that increase the volume of your concession stand.
Dominic Lee is the spokeperson for http://www.MyPopcornMachine.com - the premier internet destination for concession equipment, supplies, and restaurant equipment. You can check out their wide variety of pizza equipment at http://www.mypopcornmachine.com/pizza.html
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