The recent development of the automated haematology analyser provides a tool that can give a comprehensive measure of the neutrophil's reaction to a food in vitro. By assessing the effect of a food extract on whole blood against a control sample of the same blood, it is possible to detect foods which do not activate the neutrophil. Constructing diet exclusively from such foods provides a simple and highly effective means of controlling inflammation. The implications of this discovery are far reaching. Inflammatory illnesses are costly in both quality of life and medical resources.
Treatment is simple, involving little more than a change in food purchase and preparation habits.
Clinical results are both dramatic and sustainable suggesting that as the closing years of the nineteenth century saw an end to the water-borne epidemics, the closing of the twentieth century may see an end to the epidemic of inflammatory disease. Ferguson A 2. Young E et al 3. Cooper J 4. Lancet p1419-1420. 1988.