ROCHESTER, England, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A new report from Allergy UK has found that 45 percent of common health complaints in Britain are directly caused by food intolerance.
Allergy UK exec Muriel Simmons revealed her medical charity's findings on the widespread prevalence of food intolerance and called for assistance from Britain's National Health Service and grand practitioners, the Independent said.
"Around 20 million people are suffering from symptoms that impact on their daily lives and yet they are not able to get help from the NHS," Simmons said. "We want to see more dietary advice being available and more training given to GPs so that they can recognize that food could be the trigger for some of the symptoms that they are seeing on a daily basis."
The most common instances of food intolerance are related to milk and its contained sugar, known as lactose, along with gluten and wheat.
Suffering from food intolerance typically results in headaches, rashes and stomach pains, but it can also inflame other ongoing medical conditions.
The newspaper said the group's findings came from a survey of thousands of British citizens who have suffered food problems.
