More than 250 known diseases can be transmitted through food. Food poisoning is a common, usually mild, but sometimes deadly illness. Food poisoning comes from eating foods that contain germs like bad bacteria or toxins, which are poisonous substances. Many different disease-causing microbes, or pathogens, can contaminate foods, so there are many different foodborne infections. The known causes of food poisoning can be divided into two categories first infectious agents and toxic agents. Secondly Infectious from agents include viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Read the rest of this entry →

Food poisoning is very common now a days, as there’s inclusion of contamination in food in one way or other. Food poisoning effects people of all ages but children are more vulnerable to the risk, as their chances of eating contaminated food are relatively more than adults. Here in this video there’re some really very good tips that can prevent your child from having food poisoning.

You might be unaware of the fact that more than one-fourth of all adult Americans agree in one way or other that some of the foods they take in daily routine, cause them recurrent symptoms. These may include, skin rashes, diarrhea, and vomiting etc. The interesting thing is that, most of the time these allergies are not taken as allergies, instead are considered more as food intolerance.

Some people are really food allergic, and they try to control it by making drastic changes in their diets. But not taking few essential foods will not help avoiding allergies, instead it’ll deprive them of very important nutrients.

Health experts are of the opinion that true food allergies are quite rare, probably affecting less than 2% of the adult population. But still, having it checked and consulting a doctor will only and only improve your health condition.