Food allergies and missing nutrients

[Guest guest]

I just came across something today that intrigues me. According to the

excerpt I pasted below, food allergies are a result of a lack of

certain nutrients that are needed for that food to be digested.

I've also heard that food allergies can be cleared completely by doing

cleanses (intestinal, liver, etc.) Perhaps such cleanses make

nutrients easier to assimilate, and in turn prevent our bodies from

not tolerating certain foods?

" 'The reason people have food allergies is that they're missing

nutritional factors, complementary nutrients, that need to be

available for a particular food to be digested. You need particular

minerals, vitamins, or amino acids for particular foods,' Brigida

says, expounding on a concept expressed by LePore, N.D., in his

book The Ultimate Healing System.

" With wheat, for example, 'you need histidine, which is an amino acid,

and you need magnesium, and you need a particular essential fatty

acid. So if you're low in magnesium, which many people in America are,

because they eat so much wheat, you'll have trouble digesting wheat.

You won't have magnesium to keep your blood pressure down, to keep

your irritable bowel from being irritable, to avoid spasms in your

legs, or cramping, or aches and pains, or for your digestion or nerves

or heart.' "

http://www.back-to-eden.net/article.htm