For years I ate peanut butter like it was the bread of life and suffered miserably from mouth ulcers and bleeding from the colon at one time.

Out of trial and error I stopped eating peanut butter that is only made with hydrogenated oils and Whalah! the mouth ulcers stopped.

I can still eat peanut butter but it has to be organic or just made out of peanuts. I have since just about eliminated all the hydrogenated oils from my diet and I feel much much better.

Be careful what kind of fuel you put into the engine ....
Hope this helps
Jim V.

This section covers oils of all types, how they affect allergies and how they affect health.

Oils are probably the most misunderstood food in our diet.

While many people eat too much unhealthy fat, they are actually starving themselves of healthy and necessary oils.

What's the difference?

Processed fats and oils, especially hydrogenated and trans-fats, are extremely unhealthy.

Meanwhile, we need healthy oils, such as omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9 as a basic requirement of life.

Does chocolate contain yeast?

Answer: yes and no, it depends.

The short answer is that chocolate, the ingredient and the bulk of high-quality chocolate bars, does not contain yeast.

However, some chocolate bars may contain yeast.

The main culprit is maltose and other similar ingredients. Maltose is a fermented product, usually made from barley. Fermentation in this case involves yeast.

There are now two new articles on this site about sulfites.

We were getting a lot of questions about sulfites, especially related to wine, so we now have more information.

One article is a general discussion of sulfites.

The other article has a long list of foods that contain sulfites.

Sulfites are in many foods. I had no idea until I started researching this subject.

This makes diagnosing a sulfites allergy tricky.

Sulfites (or sulphites) describe a group of compounds containing the SO₃^2- ion.

Sulfites are added to foods for the following reasons:

Note that all fermented products, such as beer and wine, contain natural sulfites. They can also contain added sulfites.

Here is a partial list of foods that can contain sulfites:

By Karen Blue

I have long been impressed with the allergy guide at Swiss Chalet so I decided to find out how other restaurants owned by the same company compared. Swiss Chalet is owned by Cara Operations Limited, a Canadian company also owns Restaurant chains Harvey's, Kelsey's Milestones and Montana's Cookhouse. Cara decided to discontinue using peanut free ice creams, and have gained mixed reviews from people with allergies.

This section covers the important topic of how to eat out at restaurants or as a guest at friends houses when you have food allergies.

This is a challenging topic. It is much easier to eat at home, and that is hard enough at first!

When you eat at a friend's house, you have to cope with your friend's understating of both food and your allergy, as well as the social situation. It seems like an imposition to dictate what you can and can not eat. Still, it has to be done. At least your friends truly care about your health (if they don't, then they are not really your friends).

This is a very fast and easy gluten-free pie filling. It takes almost no time and is very tasty.

If you use frozen blue berries, you will find this to be pretty inexpensive. It will taste much better though with fresh blue berries.

Ingredients

• 2 Cups Blue berries

• 2 Tbs Maple syrup

Directions

1. Make one of the gluten-free pie crusts.
2. Add the blue berries to the shell.

This section contains a variety of pie fillings, all suitable for dessert.

There are flavours for all tastes, and fruit for all seasons.

Often, you can use frozen fruit instead of fresh, which pretty good results, but fresh fruit is always better.

I don't recommend canned fruit. The taste is generally not as good, there is almost always too much liquid and generally too much sugar. Still, if none of that bothers you, you could use canned ingredients. Occasionally I might point out where I've used canned ingredients with success, but you will find this to be rare.