The presence of pan-allergens guarantees immune tolerance. Can you recover from a food intolerance or allergy simply with fruit and vegetables? Thanks to the combined and daily use of raw fruit and vegetables, you can develop immune tolerance towards the majority of food allergens and it also offers the body the mineral and vitamin elements with which to strengthen itself.

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Profilins, vicilins and LTP (Lipid transfer proteins) are among the substances that explain and justify crossed reactivity. In other words,  a person who has a reaction to lentils can also have a reaction to peas or soy (which belong to the same botanical family).

In the same fashion we can also find that a person who has a respiratory allergy to Gramineae also has antibodies for wheat, (which is, by the way, also a graminaceous plant) thanks to the presence of some substances in pollens that are breathed as well as in the grains that are eaten.

But the most extraordinary and least considered fact is that this homology between different vegetable products, linked to the presence of pan-allergens, guarantees the survival of the species in a way that deserves our understanding and respect.

As a matter of fact, we know that a true elimination diet (one that abolishes all foods that contain the substance or something that resembles it) can cause serious anaphylactic shock and is therefore to be avoided at all costs. Instead, one should observe a diet that facilitates the re-introduction of foods by following the guidelines of infant weaning.

We are right in asking ourselves why, after a year of abstinence from cherries, we don't go into anaphylactic shock when we re-introduce this food into the body. In reality, something odd happens, and almost everyone has a slight intestinal disturbance caused by the cherries that lasts for a few days. But after two days, the cherries no longer create problems. This is due to the fact that all edible fruit and vegetables contain pan-allergens. Their daily use, in small quantities, before eating other foods, activates the immune system which in turn tends to develop tolerance for ubiquitous allergens, thus increasing the body's abilities for adaptation.

So what this means is that a child who eats something "Raw, Fresh and Colorful" before eating other foods will find himself cured of a food intolerance much more quickly than might be expected. The same is true for an adult.

An interesting study that was recently published on the British Journal of Nutrition (Crespo JF et al, Br J Nutr 2006 Nov;96 Suppl 2:S95-S102) analyzed the presence of pan-allergens common to oily seeds. It also made reference to a scientific work done in 2002 (Pereira MJ et al, Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 2002 Nov-Dec;30(6):346-53) which offered a careful description of the pan-allergens present in foods.

By using vegetables and raw substances in their diets, adults and children can re-discover a form of anti-allergy therapy that is low-cost and available to all.

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