Interdisciplinary panel: obesity and food intolerance

2025-05-13

In society, the problem of nutrition is becoming conceptual. Every civilized person who cares about their health and longevity has at least once tried to apply one or another fashionable diet to themselves. There are diets based on the detection of food intolerance, the developers of which promise their clients to normalize body weight and relieve them of health problems. But are these promises adequate?

The essence of these programs is that a blood test determines the body's ability to digest various foods, after which a list of "useful" and "harmful" foods is compiled (some foods are excluded from the diet for 3-6 months, followed by a gradual reintroduction).

For the first time, a working classification of pathological reactions to food was proposed in 1984 by the Committee on Adverse Food Reactions of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology (AAAI) in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and published in the recommendations.

Today, the classification of pathological reactions to food is used, which was proposed at the XV Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Stockholm, 1994). The basis of this classification was the mechanisms of development of pathological reactions, which are divided into two types - toxic and non-toxic reactions.

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