One of the factors contributing to the rise in food sensitivities is damage to our immune systems - the gut has a role in the immune system - of heavy metals, chemicals, artificial sugars, GMO foods and the like. I developed escalating food sensitivities - first dairy, then vinegars and yeasts, then gluten, then high fructose corn syrup, then soy - as a result of mercury poisoning from my mercury amalgam dental fillings. Mercury is a great antiseptic, leading to systemic yeast overgrowth. Once you get leaky gut, all the things that aren't supposed to pass through it do, and your skin and systems react badly to it. In addition to being trained in food allergies and alternatives, perhaps restauranteurs and chefs would like to join with Hidden River/One Challenge and promote citizen engagement and education on the issues, risks and safer alternatives to mercury amalgam in dentistry in the coming year. Then more people can eat your delicious meals and continue to dine out, and fewer people will develop chronic, costly, devastating diseases, of which food allergies and sensitivities are only the tip of one iceberg.

Seriously...exactly how many fillings did you have?  Was this documented by an actual doctor?  Millions of people around the world have horrible dental health and the cheapest/most common filling used is a mercury amalgram....  You don't hear about their food allergies....in the slightest.  GMO foods cause food allergies...according to what actual medical study?

I'm sick of pseudoscience entering the dialogue about a whopping 5% of the U.S. population "estimated" to have food allergies....  Its 5% people.  MUCH MUCH more than 5% of the U.S. population has mercury amalgram fillings....