4. Food Standards Agency - Eat well, be well - Food allergy and intolerance

Food Standards Agency - Eat well, be well - Food allergy and intolerance: "Food allergy and food intolerance are both types of food sensitivity. When someone has a food allergy, their immune system reacts to a particular food as if it isn't safe. If someone has a severe food allergy, this can cause a life-threatening reaction.

Food intolerance doesn't involve the immune system and is generally not life-threatening. But if someone eats a food they are intolerant to, this could make them feel ill or affect their long-term health."

The Food Standards Agency is a wealth of food health information that I often refer to.

3. Why you shouldn’t ignore advice

People who have a special diet, because of a food allergy will get all sorts of symptoms, some very severe, and those symptoms will prevent them from eating the foods in question, but food intolerances are less severe. A food intolerance may not be taken as seriously because the symptoms are so subtle.

But if you continue to eat foods that you are intolerant to, your body cannot digest the food properly, and will store it as fat. Not only that, but you will be making all the organs in your body work much harder than they need to.

So you will be jeopardizing your whole health, if you ignore the advice you have been given. I wasn’t even trying to lose weight, but I did lose weight when I gave up all processed foods, and only ate the foods that I was supposed to.