Food allergies cause obesity?

reginakarl
reginakarl Posts: 68 Member
edited November 24 in Health and Weight Loss
My theory is based on CICO.

My friend took a blood test at her chiropractor and discovered that she has food allergies. She eliminated the problem foods such as gluten and lactose and lost weight. She is now advertising the blood test and I am not sure what to think.

I would like to tell her that she lost weight as she decreased her calories. However, I am a polite person.

I don't have any experience with her theory. What are your thoughts?

Thank you.

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  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    reginakarl wrote: »
    My theory is based on CICO.

    My friend took a blood test at her chiropractor and discovered that she has food allergies. She eliminated the problem foods such as gluten and lactose and lost weight. She is now advertising the blood test and I am not sure what to think.

    I would like to tell her that she lost weight as she decreased her calories. However, I am a polite person.

    I don't have any experience with her theory. What are your thoughts?

    Thank you.

    Well, I basically would not believe her unless she could offer something that made sense.
    I'd ask how her allergy was determined and why she had a chiropractor and not an allergist do this testing. I would be skeptical that she was allergic to anything.
    https://www.foodallergy.org/life-with-food-allergies/food-allergy-101/diagnosis-testing/unproven-diagnostic-tests

    If she eliminated a bunch of foods she undoubtedly reduced calories. Ask to see a food diary.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    My youngest sister was allergic to almost everything. She was also pencil-thin as a kid. My middle sister was allergic to a lot of stuff. Like me, she was heavy. She's had a gastric bypass since and kept a lot of weight off, but she (like me) made up to morbid obesity, first. I have no food allergies and got up to obesity level 3 before I started with MFP (I'm now overweight and shrinking).

    My anecdata doesn't bear out the hypothesis, but I'm open to seeing studies.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    moosmum1972 wrote: »
    If you have an allergy if you eat what you are allergic too you most probably will DIE......I suppose putrifaction is loss in a way.

    Allergy is slashed around so much that it annoys me when people visit a shill they always come back with allergy.

    True for peanuts and some other allergens. But my sisters, with their fish, citrus, chocolate, etc allergies broke out in hives. Miserable and uncomfortable, but not life-threatening.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Lol, many chiropractors are quacks when it comes to weight loss and nutrition. I had one tell me that because my nerves were inflamed, I'll keep having tight muscles in my neck. I did shoulders the day before.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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    Recently, a chriro, that I new since he was 10, was sanctioned for ordering unauthorized blood tests for his nutrition seminars and believe me he knows only a bit more than average person about that topic and shouldn't be charging for it. DC's are not properly trained in this type of thing, and in my jurisdiction he needs an MD's signature to order the tests. Apparently, the person he was using was under a license suspension himself and since the DC had already been taken to the board over doing this before with the exact same MD he had no excuse for not knowing about the suspension -- which he used to get off the first time he was caught.

    I have no trust in DCs.
  • Shawshankcan
    Shawshankcan Posts: 900 Member

    reginakarl wrote: »
    My theory is based on CICO.

    My friend took a blood test at her chiropractor and discovered that she has food allergies. She eliminated the problem foods such as gluten and lactose and lost weight. She is now advertising the blood test and I am not sure what to think.

    I would like to tell her that she lost weight as she decreased her calories. However, I am a polite person.

    I don't have any experience with her theory. What are your thoughts?

    Thank you.

    I am going to guess the test was done by your friend holding a vile while the chiropractor pushed down on her outstretched arms?
  • reginakarl
    reginakarl Posts: 68 Member
    N0repinephrine wrote: »
    Firstly, you can't be allergic to gluten. You can have celiac disease and that's an autoimmune diesase, and I HAVE IT.

    Also, YES it can make you obese!! I was in REAL starvation mode due to this disease, I was malnourished, literally dying, yet I was 240 lbs!! I was finally diagnosed with it, cut gluten, and within a year, I lost 70-ish lbs through weighing and logging my food (which I WAS doing before but wasn't losing), and using a fitbit to track everything.

    Aside from this, I am also lactose intolerant, which comes hand in hand with celiac. My doctor told me, in not so many words, I was causing myself weight gain/retention and bloat because I was being stupid not cutting lactose/dairy from my diet. I lost 15 lbs within a month when I finally did cut dairy out.

    So from personal experience, yes, if you have REAL issues with these things, they can cause weight gain and/or inability to lose.

    Keep in mind though, celiac disease affects less than 1% of the population and even fewer get diagnosed with it!

    And a real MD would make the diagnosis instead of a DC.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    moosmum1972 wrote: »
    If you have an allergy if you eat what you are allergic too you most probably will DIE......I suppose putrifaction is loss in a way.

    Allergy is slashed around so much that it annoys me when people visit a shill they always come back with allergy.

    Depends on how severe the allergy is. Usually I just break out in hives. Too much pecan, walnuts or Dr.pepper and I get a numb tounge and puffy fish lips, but so far I haven't died.Or even had to go to the hospital. Benadryl generally takes care of it.
  • Enjcg5
    Enjcg5 Posts: 389 Member
    Momepro wrote: »
    moosmum1972 wrote: »
    If you have an allergy if you eat what you are allergic too you most probably will DIE......I suppose putrifaction is loss in a way.

    Allergy is slashed around so much that it annoys me when people visit a shill they always come back with allergy.

    Depends on how severe the allergy is. Usually I just break out in hives. Too much pecan, walnuts or Dr.pepper and I get a numb tounge and puffy fish lips, but so far I haven't died.Or even had to go to the hospital. Benadryl generally takes care of it.

    Yes. But what I understood from it was that you would experience “more” than just a tummy ache. Usually I get a stomach ache with bubble guts and constipation when I eat stuffed pizza but not when I have a grilled cheese sandwich the difference being about a pound of cheese! I’m not allergic to dairy, my body (or any body) just doesn’t do well with loads of cheese.
    My husband gets hives and face swells up near raw shrimp. Being within a few feet of raw shrimp caused his face to swell and break out on more than one occasion. He has a diagnosed shellfish allergy.
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