New Year, New You – Time for a Food Intolerance Test?

We’ve all heard the phrase, ‘new year, new you,’ to inspire us to change our diets or embrace a more active lifestyle as part of our resolutions. While we’re often ready to feel healthier and energised after the Christmas break, cutting out certain types of food without taking an intolerance test could have the opposite effect. Of course, laying off the chocolate is only sensible if you’re trying to cut back on calories, but if you want to make long-term changes to improve your health, food intolerance testing in the new year could ensure you start 2023 on the right path. Here’s what you can take in order to take steps to eliminate your food intolerance symptoms. Read on to find out more.

We can still be intolerant to healthy food

Food plays a huge role during Christmas celebrations, and most of us love tucking into traditional dishes. However, you can definitely have too much of a good thing, and by January, we’re often ready to replace Quality Street and other treats with healthier alternatives. But what happens if you’re intolerant to the alternatives you start tucking into? While they might be lower in calories and higher in vitamins, if your body doesn’t agree with them, you could end up feeling a lot worse. This means that your new year diet could impact your wellbeing instead of giving you the boost and health kick you’re after.

Stop food intolerance symptoms before they start

It’s not uncommon to be intolerant to a certain food and ingredient without realising it. If we only tend to eat a small amount of the item, the physical symptoms may be minor, go unnoticed or just put down to something else, such as indigestion. If you begin to eat more of this food because of a diet change, symptoms such as stomachache, feeling bloated or lethargic could present themselves and make you feel quite unwell. Without taking a food intolerance test, it can be difficult to work out the real reason behind a certain symptom and wrongly assume it’s down to being ‘overtired,’ ‘under the weather’ or ‘run down. By finding out if you’re sensitive to a certain food, you can plan your new year’s diet around dishes that make you feel your best and don’t cause your body to have a negative reaction.

Make the right changes to your diet

Whether you think you have a gluten intolerance, are sensitive to dairy or suffer from digestive problems after eating a specific ingredient, our food intolerance tests are easy to do and take seconds to complete. Once your test has been received at our lab, the results will be emailed back to you within 72 hours. As well as checking for food intolerances, the test also analyses sensitivities against environmental non-food items, so it’s a comprehensive health MOT. By understanding more about ingredients that aren’t compatible with your body, you can eliminate them from your diet and focus on eating foods that will help you start the new year feeling your best.

Discover your food intolerance symptoms

If you’d like to find out more about our intolerance tests and how they can improve your health in 2023, please email [email protected] or fill out the contact us form on our website.