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How to test ...foolproof...for allergies

Some of you may recognize the name CARLTON FREDERICKS.  He was the grand-daddy of American Nutritionists.  I met him when he worked with Dr Robert Atkins.  I was going to Atkins to try and get a handle on my crazy allergies, which turned out to be celiac.

Fredericks poo-pooed the ususal scratch test for allergies which he said was only as good as the techie reading them.  an aside..this hit home for me when I had to have a tine test for tb..remember those?  The technie told me I was positive. Of course I went hysterical but luckily that night I had a date with a teaching cardiologist who taught at NYS Downstate medical School.  He took one look at my arm and told me that it was not a positive but AN ALLERGY TO THE TEST!!

Back to Fredericks...He advocated the technique of self testing outlined in DR COCOA'S PULSE TEST FOR ALLERGIES.  You can test yourself for any and all food allergies.  

Forst. pick a FOOD GROUP...stay off it for an entire week. So, if you are testing milk, no milk, margarine, yogurt, butter, ice cream etc.  

Then on the chosen day, on an empty stomach, take your pulse and record the number

Then take about a half cup of the food chosen....a half glass of milk, or plain cooked noodles, etc. 

Wait 30. 60. 90 min and take pulse each time and record.  

Here's the kicker  ANY RISE ABOVE TEN PERCENT INDICATES AN ALLERGY...the greater the rise, the stronger the allergy.  

I went thru extensive testing, including cytotoxic all of which confirmed the pulse test results!

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