The Top Allergy Fighting Foods

Susan Irby, CFNS, CFH

While spring is a season to look forward to after a blistery winter chill, some people dread this flowering time of year as allergies wreak havoc on runny noses and eyes, and often make it hard to breathe.

If allergy season is cause for concern, consider making some simple adjustments into your weekly menu planning. These basic nutritional tweaks could make a world of difference.

How Nutrition Affects Allergies

Corticosteroids keep breathing passageways open. Free radicals from the environment and foods can cause inflammation that obstructs those passageways due to a compound called histamine. In addition to outside influences, histamine …read more