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Natural Health, March, 2004

Changing your diet may ease your hay fever. In a study in the European journal Allergy, subjects whose diets were high in oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat found in olive oil, had an increased risk of hay fever. But a diet high in eicosapentaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid (pictured) found mostly in fatty fish, lessened the risk. The research also found that, among women, a diet high in beta-carotene boosted the chance of hay fever, while vitamin E suppressed it.

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