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If You Are Vegetarian If you are vegetarian, you will have realised by now that it is difficult to undertake an exclusion diet and to stick to a vegetarian regime. Some of the most common problem foods – eggs, cow’s milk, cheese, grains, nuts, beans, soya, pulses – are the building blocks of a vegetarian [...]

There are other tests available that, it is claimed, can identify allergies and other sensitivities. These include the cytotoxic test, in which white blood cells are exposed to allergens. This has been shown to be a valid test, but accurate only in up to 70 per cent of cases. Until its accuracy can be improved, [...]

The following is an index of clothing, listed alphabetically by category, providing detailed advice, plus sources of unusual and hard-to-find products. The sources given are mainly for pure cotton, silk and linen clothes, and clothes with low levels of chemical treatment. Wool, most synthetics, viscose and synthetic blend clothes are widely available and sources for [...]

If you are chemically sensitive generally, or if you know you are specifically sensitive to: • Nylon • Polycotton blends • Latex • Acrylics • Other pure synthetics you should avoid using synthetic, latex or synthetic blend bedding, mattresses and pillows. You are unlikely to be able to use any of the anti-dust mite bedding [...]

Extracts from plants are used as ingredients in many manufactured products (including perfumes, fragrances, flavouring agents, solvents, medicines, foods, adhesives, plastics, resins, paper and fabric finishes). It is predominantly chemicals with complex structures from the oleo-resin fraction of plant chemicals that cause sensitivity – including essential oils, phenols, terpenes, resins and camphors. Sensitivity to these [...]