The recent years have seen an alarming rise in the numbers of people with allergic disorder of one kind or another including atopic dermatitis, bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis. A nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Health Welfare in June 1991 confirmed that out of every three Japanese suffers from allergic disorder of some sort. Deterioration of the living and dietary environment is believed to have triggered the growing number of allergic cases. In worst cases, allergic disorders can cause death.
Food allergy is explained as a rejective reaction - a kind of defensive reaction.
Premature as it may be to make a definitive statement, my daily experience of diagnosing patients with allergies makes me suspect that food in general today is becoming more and more polluted. My suspicion is that the human body rejects the polluted food and produces allergy as a means of avoiding the risk of being harmed by the polluted food. It was not so long ago that all eggs available were free-range eggs laid by hens that fed on fresh greens and earthworms. Hens laid eggs for the prosperity of their own species - it was human beings who pinched those eggs to put on their table as food. These hens that are healthy in appearance alone have become machines for laying eggs - and the eggs we eat are coming from them.