How to Treat Food Allergies

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Dr. Tammy Ruefli on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about food allergies and how to deal with them. The most common foods that most people have food allergies or food sensitivities to are wheat, wheat glutton, sugar, soy, dairy, eggs, and nuts and as far as wheat goes it's typically the white refined wheat. This process is actually detrimental to your health because it's taking out all the nutrition, you're basically eating empty carbs. Most people eat them everyday when we eat the same foods everyday especially process refined foods, we are depleading the bodies enzymes and ability to breakdown food. So then we get back the problem with improper digestion so to change things up a bit it's good to try other food types. Here we have another grain that it is called Quinoa. It is an ancient grain from south America and it's very high in protein and iron. It is easily digested by the body and it is very easy to cook, it actually takes shorter time to cook this grain than brown rice. Especially if you have a rice cooker so people who have food allergies to wheat and wheat glutton they are safe with eating Quinoa. You can also find Quinoa flour if you would like to bake so that is a wonderful new product and for those people who having allergies to sugar and want to limit their sugar intake. We have Blue Agave preferably organic raw Blue Agave, it is a great sweetener for drinks and also can be used in baking. It is low glycemic index so it's pretty safe for diabetics."