Scientists know that the first stage of increasing personal income in any country is followed by increased consumption of meat and fruits – the share of these food products in the diet grows even in the countries where meat is not traditional food, and Japan is the best example of the trend. The second stage of growing wealth is accompanied by a larger share of sweets, especially chocolate: such increase up to the European and American level is taking place in Japan and Singapore and has begun in South Korea and China. I.e. compared to the diet of our ancestors the diet of a modern person is overloaded with unusual food products and we consume “traditional” products only during the season.
The recently (last 100–150 years) increased diversity of diet in cities and well-developed countries and a growing share of “foreign” food, such as tropical fruits, nuts, seafood and particularly finished products with complicated composition and high degree of processing have their cost – the burden of additional morbidity and mortality, born by the local population. Still the burden is hidden because it has been compensated by fast development of medical science but it can be revealed by analysing the sickness structure in big cities during the last 100 years. While infectious and other acute illnesses prevailed in the early XX century, chronic diseases (oncologic, diabetes, cardio-vascular, e.g. hypertension, etc.) became high on the agenda at the end of the century. Chronic diseases of many patients are complicated with susceptibility towards neurosis and depressions (N.V. Elshtein). The number of people suffering from different allergies has drastically increased. Morbidity has increased by 30–40 percent compared to the previous decade, and in some countries almost half of the population demonstrates standard symptoms of allergies. According to a WHO forecast by the year 2010 these diseases will lead the illness patterns of well-developed countries.
Until recently not all physicians have regarded being overweight or obesity as clinically important pathologies. Today when the relative share of overweight people in many countries increases, the correlation between being overweight and serious chronic diseases becomes evident. Up to 30 percent of adults and about 50 percent of older people in economically developed countries are significantly overweight and the trend is continuing (Martinez J.A., Kearney J.M., Kafatos A. et al). Most sick people today are chronic patients and many of their physiological systems are affected. Though often their diseases are regarded as belonging to a certain group, e.g. cardio-vascular or diabetes, it is just a fixation of the most evident symptoms, while in fact pathological factors influence each other and diagnosis is greatly complicated. Some people think that the changes of the disease pattern are the result of “achievements of medical science” in the recent 10 years – increased life expectation and the ability to deal with emergencies. But medical statistics confirm that many diseases that used to be elder-specific are becoming much “younger’. Drastic increases of diabetes and atherosclerosis are matters of special concern. According to Scottish physicians the number of autoimmune patients younger than 22 has almost doubled in the last 10 years (Hunter I., Greene S.A., MacDonald T.M., Morris A.D.).
Thus epidemics of infectious diseases affecting people in the most densely populated cities have been replaced with epidemics of chronic diseases hitting the same social group. What hypothesis explains such changes? A hypothesis offered by a group of scientists and physicians (V.M. Rozental, V.L. Voyeikov, A.V. Volkov, S.E. Kondakov, K.N. Novikov) seems the most reasonable one. They think that chronic diseases spread due to diverse food available to dwellers of a “global city,” where the opportunity of consuming individually intolerable food is much higher. According to this hypothesis the abovementioned chronic diseases and their multiple manifestations (hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, autoimmune diseases) are the consequences of low-intensity and slowly developing food allergies caused by consumption of food product or products unsuitable for the individual. Unlike common food allergies this illness is not immediately revealed as a rash or other symptoms but is gradually developed as a chronic disease with many manifestations. This unlikeness hampers instant finding of the dangerous product and it is obvious that the more diversified a diet is, the higher the risk is of taking a product from the store shelf that is dangerous to you.
Latent food intolerance.
Recent investigations prove that a part of potentially immunogenic proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and composite biopolymers that enter the gastrointestinal tract with food may, before it is dissociated to monomers, influence the internal environment of the body provoking its reaction. And the food allergy itself confirms it. But in most cases food products do not cause classic allergic reactions. Nevertheless consumption of some food products entails uncomfortable feeling or negative reactions, commonly referred as “food intolerance” or “delayed type food allergy” because the symptoms may appear long after consumption of the food. In such cases blood tests reveal not only IgE antibodies, traditional for allergies, but also IgG antibodies, which confirms that the antigen has penetrated the blood (Dixon H.S.) We shall never exclude traditional ways for non-dissociated food macromolecules to get into the blood through an injured mucous membrane either. The amount of such molecules may be enough to initiate an immune reaction. Nevertheless there might be other, more physiological but less researched ways of interaction between the internal body’s environment and the external environment, including the gastrointestinal tract. The existence of such ways is confirmed in particular by delivery of antibodies and ferments from breast milk to a baby’s blood. An abnormal food sensitivity may provoke the development of multiple chronic diseases. Some specialists consider being overweight a symptom of an abnormal food sensitivity. They think that regular provocation of neutrophils’ immune reactions may affect the excretory function of kidneys and water homeostasis, and cause excessive water accumulation in the growing fat tissue of the body.
Testing for “prohibited” food and consequences of refusing it. Before the 1990s food intolerance was diagnosed only by evident allergic reactions, while most physicians did not even consider other types of intolerance due to the lack of reliable tests. About 10 years ago news came from South Africa and then from the United Kingdom that naturopaths developed an original method to reveal abnormal personal sensitivities to individual food products and thus to combat being overweight. The South African method was called the ALCAT test, and the British one – the NuTron test. Parallel to the “cell” tests, the ALCAT test and NuTron test, the UK developed an immunological test called the YORK test (IgG ELISA test), aimed at finding IgG antibodies (immune globulins) circulating in the blood.
It was the IgG ELISA test that became very popular in world clinics due to its reliability, credibility and reproducibility, and it is the IgG ELISA test that the ROLE clinic uses as the scientific and technological basis of the individual ROLE program. The ROLE clinic uses certified food allergy test panels made in the US and EU with food extracts.
Using the test results the ROLE specialists are able to investigate the “immune reaction” of a certain individual for different food products. In this test “immune reaction” means quantitative response. It reflects the number of specific antibodies, bound in the course of reaction. The quantitative response corresponds to the immune system reaction for the product and shall be deemed as a certain tolerance rate of the specific human body for the specific food product. Processing the test results with unique software often reveals congenital peculiarities and acquired later injuries that cause the “food intolerance” of the individual. The test results are the foundations on which the ROLE specialists build an individual nutrition program in order to stimulate immune relaxation and activate purifying and restoration processes within the specific human body.
Recent independent statistic survey confirmed a high (84%) percentage of positive results out of more than seven thousand clients who used the ROLE program.