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 If you think you have food allergies, alternative health practitioners recommend the following diet. Try sticking to these dietary recommendations for at least 3 weeks to a month.
After this initial period, begin adding questionable foods back into your diet. Add one new food, every four days. Eat a lot of that food that particular day. Look for a reaction to foods daily.
Most reactions to foods will occur within 4 days. Reaction can vary from big red splotches on the body, to the ears turning bright red, to indigestion, diarrhea or constipation, and even explosive temper outbursts. Identify how you are feeling daily and note what potential foods may have caused this change.
Go back and retest this food in a few days. If there is no problem, enjoy the food.
Eliminate The Following
- Dairy Products - Milk, cheeses, ice cream, frozen yogurt, non-dairy creamers. Check labels! You may have to eliminate foods containing milk products.
- Meats - Beef, pork, ham and veal, cold cuts, frankfurters, sausage, canned sausage and canned meats.
- Breads and Cereals - All gluten containing foods such as wheat, spelt, oats, rye, barley or malts. Gluten is contained in breads, crackers, pastas, cereals and products containing flour made from these grains.
- Soups - Canned or creamed.
- Fruits - Fruit drinks, citrus fruits, strawberries, raspberries, and dried fruit.
- Fats, Oils & Nuts - Margarine, shortening, unclarified butter, refined oils, peanuts, salad dressings, mayonnaise and spreads.
- Alcohol - All alcoholic-containing products: wine, beer, liquor and over the counter products containing alcohol. Read labels carefully. Over the counter medications may contain alcohol, caffeine or other substances that you may react adversely to.
- Beverages - All caffeine-containing beverages including coffee, caffeine-containing teas, cocoa, sweetened beverages and soda pop. Coffee substitutes from gluten-containing grains should be avoided along with decaffeinated coffee.
- Yeast - All processed and packaged foods, refined sugars, foods from a box, bottle, can or package, foods containing yeast, cheeses, commercially prepared condiments, peanuts and vinegars.
- Processed Foods - If it comes in a cellophane wrapper or pre-made from the frozen food section, don't eat it.
- Sugar - Reduce sugar intake by 90%. If you can, cut this down to zero. Sugar is in just about everything. Do your best without going crazy. This includes chocolate also. Do not substitute Nutrasweet or products sweetened with Nutrasweet.
What You Can Eat or Substitute
- Dairy - Rice milk, nut milks, such as almond milk and soy milk.
- Legumes - All legumes, dried peas and lentils.
- Meats - Chicken, turkey, lamb and cold-water fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna, swordfish, and mackerel may be acceptable if you are not allergic or have an intolerance to these foods. Select from free-range/organic whenever possible.
- Breads & Cereals - Whole grain rice, products made from brown rice, millet, soy, potato flour, buckwheat and gluten-free flour, sweet potato, potato, quinoa, amaranth, tapioca and arrowroot.
- Soups - Clear, vegetable-based broth (not canned) and homemade vegetarian soups.
- Fats, Oils & Nuts - Cold pressed, unrefined flax, pumpkin, canola and walnut oil. Sesame, canola or olive oil to heat. Sesame, sunflower, flax or pumpkin seeds. Walnuts, pecans almonds, filberts.
- Beverages - Drink at least 2-8 oz glasses of filtered purified water 4 times per day. Freshly made fruit and vegetable juices, non-citrus herbal tea, naturally decaffeinated black teas.
- Sugar - Stevia, an herbal sweetener, can be used in limited amounts.
- Vegetables & Fruits - Lower starch, high water content, alkaline mineral rich vegetables, including asparagus, bean sprouts, beet greens, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, endive, lettuce, mustard greens, radish, spinach, Swiss chard, watercress, beets, brussel sprouts, chives, collards, dandelion greens, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, okra, onion, parsley, pimento, pumpkin, red pepper, rutabaga, string beans, turnip.
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