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Les Rowley, YORKTEST PR Manager 0800 074 6185
"We have had large amounts of national press coverage - the subjects of food
intolerance, liver health and weight management are becoming increasingly widespread
and YORKTEST is at the forefront of 100% home delivery, finger prick blood testing services."
The danger and long term consequence of eating an unbalanced diet is fed to us on a daily basis, but it has just been revealed that the humble potato, the staple diet to millions, in food intolerance terms, is the safest food in Britain and that's official.
And our LiverCheck 2008 survey says...43% have tried to or thought about giving up alcohol as part of a detox regime. Nearly 80% of people's alcohol detox doesn't last past the end of January. Men are more likely to keep their detox going longer than one week (61%) compared to women (47%.)
A whopping 30 per cent have simply 'guessed' they have a food intolerance while almost one in ten have just typed their symptoms into the internet. Surprisingly two per cent have self-diagnosed themselves with a food intolerance because their friend has the same signs.
With the launch of food intolerance week YORKTEST caught the appetite of The BBC, Daily Mail and the Daily Express.
It's 'Coffee Rage' and that's official because The Sun says so. Headlines such as 'Coffee's Not Quite So Full of Beans' and 'Lay off Coffee' have all filled the media in August and a YORKTEST press release about an increased food intolerance to coffee seems to have put the froth into café culture we live in.
It might be classed as one of the main superfruits in our modern day supermarket trolley but kiwi fruit is hiding a more sinister 'ingredient' other than its plentiful source of Vitamin C.
"I recently had the York allergy test done. It's a blood sample which tests for four allergies in the body"
Hiding in the health section of the government's own petition website is a food intolerance page advocating free food tests on the NHS. What we are hearing from our customers is this would not be a bad idea.
The findings of the UK's largest ever study into food intolerance has revealed that over 32% of patients who got better through food intolerance testing were getting no real help for 10 years or more whilst being treated by the NHS. In one case a YORKTEST patient had visited 60 different doctors for 35 years before finding relief through food testing.
YORKTEST recently exhibited at The Allergy Show in London. There was a Free Prize Draw for visitors to our stand to enter - see the winners here!