Modern Diets to blame for increase in allergies

New studies in New York have found that modern living has led to a significant increase in allergic illnesses. Allergies in Greenland have doubled in the last ten years. Dr Tyra Grove Krause of the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen express surprise that such an increase could occur in a relatively short period and across the board in terms of age and sex. He suggests that it may be due to evolution in that the residents of Greenland have moved away from a traditional hunting and fishing society to a modern, urbanised society.

Edith Maskell of Bromley health Management noted "This is the basis of Dr Peter D'Adamo's book Eat right for your type and the practice known as metabolic typing".

It is reported that allergic illnesses including hayfever and asthma are at an all-time high in the United States, currently affecting 50m people.

Friday, 4 October 2002