elimination diet

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I think the elimination diet will give you better info.

What I would recommend ---

Eat only O-beneficial fruits, veges and meats. Organic if possible.

Drink good water and maybe a good green tea.

For 1 week min. but preferably at least 2 weeks. It takes 4-5 days for

reactive foods to clear your system. Be prepared to have some sick feeling

days as your body detoxes.

At the end of that time evaluate how you feel. If your energy is stable

and you feel good then you can start " testing " foods. Eat only 1 new food a

day.

Bad reaction -- add to a no-no list. Then best to wait a few days for it to

clear before trying another new food.

No reaction -- you may try eating it a second day or try a new food. A

reaction after a second day of eating means you may get by with occasional

consumption (1 or 2 x a month)

And so on from there.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Debra <mermaideeee@...> wrote:

> Okay, I think, I am going to have to do the elimination diet when the

> holidays are over. I've been very tired last couple of days, sleeping for

> 12

> hours. I've given up wheat and that has helped the depression, but

> something

> still is making tired. It could be anything to dairy, eggs, sausage,

> alcohol.

>

> I've been reading about elimination diet from the web and books. It seems

> there are several versions out there. Can anyone give me a recommendation

> for the one they used and how to make it work?

>

> I am trying not to spend the money on an ALCAT test as I lost my job

> several

> months ago, but it may be worth the money spent if it is easier than doing

> the elimination diet.

>

> Thanks for your help,

>

> Debra

>

>

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On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Laure Haro <aslan1959@...> wrote:

> If you don't get definitive results from a straightforward elimination

> diet, another budget-friendly and informative approach might be to try

> the diagnostic diet outlined in Rudolf Wiley's book " Biobalance. " His

> work built on the metabolic typing of , Wolcott and others, but

> he found that a simple blood test combined with this diet to be a way

> to figure out what groups of foods worked best for people, and made

> the revolutionary discovery that in SOME people, their reaction to

> foods literally switched completely during different times of the

> month or even, in rare cases, throughout the day. For people who

> could not afford the blood work, he had them do daily self-observation

> questionnaires in conjunction with the diet, and gave an example of

> how to do it, and one of his patient's logs so the reader can try it

> on their own.

>

> Either way, doing a journal along with any elimination diet is

> probably useful.

>

> I had trouble finding it through my local library system (almost

> always my first stop!), but it was easy enough to buy on Amazon.

>

> Also, I think it is possible to be allergic to foods in one's type

> group, and to combinations of things, due to my personal experiences

> with this. And you could be allergic to things IN the dairy, eggs,

> sausage, alcohol, etc...not to the essence of them in their purest

> state, like people who found they could eat raw dairy but not

> pasteurized (or goat vs cow), TRUE free-range eggs vs they

> no-antibiotics-added-except-the-ones-the-law-allows-them-to-sneak-in,

> nitrites and preservatives in sausages, pesticide residue in alcohol,

> etc.

>

> Laure

>

> >

> > Okay, I think, I am going to have to do the elimination diet when the

> > holidays are over. I've been very tired last couple of days,

> sleeping for 12

> > hours. I've given up wheat and that has helped the depression, but

> something

> > still is making tired. It could be anything to dairy, eggs, sausage,

> > alcohol.

>

> >

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I'm also interested in learning more about the elimination diet. I did try a

food rotation diet and it sounds somewhat similar. First I had to omit wheat

for awhile, then eggs, etc., with the list of what to eliminate based on the

most common food allergens (I think that they included, if I recall correctly,

wheat, eggs, soy, dairy, corn, citrus, fish). The issue for me is that there is

a difference between being allergic to a food and sensitive to a food, and with

soy, for example, I am not clinically allergic but oh gosh, soy gives me such a

bad stomach ache that I just avoid it.

Also I have a not-related question: my doctor wants me to go have yet another

series of blood tests but told me to wait until I'm having a flare-up (because

for me at times my finger joints are so swollen that it is painful to even try

to bend them, and when that happens my knee joints also are very very painful).

So my question is: how do I know when it's at the " peak " ....I mean, every time I

have a flare-up, I think - oh gosh, this is the worst it's been...but sometimes

it gets worse from that point...and then other times it does improve. I guess I

feel like it is hard to judge the " best " time. Or am I just stressing too much

over this - yes, I admit, I am a worrier:)

thanks!

Joanne