May be useful for complaints such as irritable bowel syndrome, other digestive disorders, seizure disorders, learning disabilities, poor concentration, fatigue, depression, arthritis, neuroses, asthma, hay fever, coughs, sore throat, migraines, skin rashes, dark circles or bags under the eyes, acne, disorders, bed wetting, cystitis, headaches, and dizziness.
NUTRITION
1. See "Elimination and Challenge Food Sensitivity Diet" list, at the end of this article, for list of "Foods Allowed" and for list of "Foods to Avoid."
2. Read labels in stores for foods to avoid.
3. Omit foods listed in the "Stomach Irritants" list at the end of this article.
4. Remove all foods "to avoid" from your diet, plus others that you suspect are problems. Omit these for 6 weeks at least and up to 6 months. (Be sure to omit them until all or most of your symptoms are gone). If all of your symptoms are gone or much improved in 6 weeks, start adding one food back into your diet every 4 days. Do not add food items back more frequently. Take rice, for example: I return it to my diet. I may have it on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. If symptoms return or intensify, 1. I omit rice again. 2. I place it on my list of suspected problem foods. 3. I add no new food until my symptoms resolve or settle down again. In some cases, one meal of a "returned" food item will be offensive enough to trigger symptoms. In other cases 3-4 days of it are required to produce warning signs and symptoms. As to which foods to add back first; this is up to you. Pray for guidance.
If you are underweight, add back the higher caloric foods such as nuts, seeds, tubers, and legumes. But remember always to eat even good foods in reasonable portions. Remember to use nuts, seeds, spreads, gravies, sauces, and butter sparingly. Remember to eat vegetables freely. Don’t eat tubers, legumes, olives, and avocadoes freely. These, like grains, should be taken moderately. Grains are cereals, breads, and pastas. It would be a good idea to add wheat back into your diet. If wheat is tolerated well, try honey on your wheat. If these are tolerated well, try bread made of wheat flour, water, yeast, and honey (and salt if desired). If the yeast is tolerated well then bread is an acceptable item for you. Remember to eat fruit generously. However, don’t eat dried fruit or fruit juices generously. These should be taken sparingly because they are easily overeaten and because they are more concentrated than raw.
5. When reintroducing corn; remember corn meal, corn oil, corn grits, corn in kernel form, corn syrup, corn sugar, and corn starch. Watch labels so you don’t use these products until you are purposely reintroducing corn to determine if it is acceptable as a food item for you.
6. If you lose weight rapidly while on only the foods listed in the “Foods Allowed” list of the "Elimination and Challenge Food Sensitivity Diet" list, use olives, avocadoes, winter squashes, and the permissible grains, thickeners, and dried fruits regularly for calories.
7. Occasionally, people will continue to have serious problems even on this diet. If so, your symptoms may be caused by (a) some of the foods listed on the allowed list or (b) non-food items in your life.
8. Shop at health food stores and produce markets.
9. Cook at home. Experiment.
10. Use these anti-oxidants at mealtime:
400 i.u. Vitamin E daily
200/mcg Selenium daily
500 mg Vitamin C daily—Non citrus source! Take at a different time from other supplements.
Quercetin 2 caps (500 mg total) daily (if it contains Vitamin C, omit the C above). Available from Twinlabs (health food stores)
Twinlabs’ "Allergy Fighters" contain all the above anti-oxidants in 1 capsule, but there is the disadvantage of having the vitamin C with the selenium. Absorption of selenium may be impaired. The dosage is 2 capsules twice a day.
11. One level teaspoon of powdered activated charcoal at mealtimes may help also.
12. If you determine that you have no citrus allergy, eat the white part of the skin each day.
13. Once you have established a list of food items that especially give you trouble or that you suspect are causing problems, avoid these items. Now, in a year or so if you want to challenge your body with these items, do so one at a time, 1 per week. It could be that months of careful health reform will prove to have strengthened your constitution to the point that you can have items that once offended you.
14. Animal products—meat, milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt, butter, or commercial products are not good foods. They should be reintroduced and used rarely if at all. They may not produce unacceptable symptoms overtly but they are bound to produce disease of one nature or another.
WATER
1. 6-8 cups daily and not at meal times.
2. May drink 2 cups Echinacea tea daily as immune system stimulant.
3. Nettles may be used as a tea (1 cup) or capsules (2) as needed for nasal congestion and mucous.
4. Do not use fluid foods at meals generally. These include soups, juices, and beverages. Now, some may use a light 3rd meal in the evening. If so, a grain beverage and grains or a glass of juice a bowel of soup or a large slice of melon may be acceptable and enjoyable.
5. Daily bath is essential.
SUNSHINE
A 20-60 minutes sunbath daily would be healthful. Expose at least face and arms.
TEMPERANCE
1. Alcohol, cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, cigarettes, coffee, tea, chocolate, other sources of caffeine, overeating, eating junk foods or rich foods, secretive eating, other substance abuses, and impure thoughts and practices, etc., are to be left behind “forgetting those things which are behind.”
2. God will help you; expect temptations to assail you. But look away; run away. Look at Him; run to Him. The Holy Spirit will supply power once we say no!
3. It is impossible for us to do many of these things listed on these pages in our own strength. Like leopards, we cannot change our spots. But “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
AIR
1. Pure air in bedrooms and workplace, summer and winter (no cigarette smoke).
2. Avoid dust, molds, mildewy areas, smog, pets (cats, dogs, and birds).
3. Deep breathing exercises.
REST
1. Regularity, routine, and regimentation with some flexibility.
2. Schedule mealtimes, sleep time, worship and prayer, and devotional time.
3. Simplicity, back to basics.
4. Enter into the blessings of the weekly 7th day Biblical Sabbath.
TRUST IN DIVINE POWER
1. Pursue a relationship with Jesus Christ
2. Rededicate your life to Him.
3. Pray through the day. He's your unseen friend.
4. Keep your joys, your wants, your sorrows, your cares, and your fears before God. You cannot burden Him; you cannot weary Him. He who numbers the hairs of your head is not indifferent to the wants of His children.
5. Every soul is as fully known to Jesus as if he were the only one for whom the Saviour died. The distress of every heart touches His heart. Each cry for aid reaches His ear. He came to call all men unto Himself. He bids them "follow me" and His Spirit moves upon their hearts to draw them to come to Him.
6. Read Alone with God from Pacific Press Publishers. Written by Matilda E. Andross (1961).
7. Read Allergies Made Simple by Doctors Thrash, Uchee Pines Institute.
ELIMINATION AND CHALLENGE FOOD SENSITIVITY DIET
FOODS TO AVOID:
Dairy products* Wheat Bananas
Chocolate Oatmeal Seeds
Colas Onion Lettuce
Coffee Yeast Garlic
Tea Cane sugar Nuts (all kinds)
Eggs Legumes (beans, peas) Pork
Citrus fruits and juices Beef Beer (all alcoholic beverages)
Artificial colors Fish Strawberries
Apples Rice
Corn (cornstarch, corn products)
Cinnamon (irritating substances, spices)
Nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, tobacco)
* responsible for over 60% of all food allergies
FOODS ALLOWED:
Grains
Amaranth Buckwheat Millet
Quinoa
Thickeners
Tapioca Cassava root Arrowroot
Herbs
Basil Dill Sage
Bay leaf Parsley Thyme
Vegetables
Artichoke Cauliflower Pumpkins
Asparagus Celery Rhubarb
Avocado Collards Rutabaga
Broccoli Cucumber Spinach
Beets Honeydew Brussels sprouts
Kale Sweet potatoes Cabbage
Melons Swiss chard Cantaloupe
Okra Turnips Carrots
Parsnips Watermelon
Squash (acorn, zucchini, butternut, hubbard, summer)
Fruits
Apricots Grapes Pear
Avocado Kiwi Persimmon
Blackberries Mango Pineapple
Blueberries Nectarines Plums
Cranberries Olives Pomegranate
Currants Papaya Raspberries
Figs Peach
Dried Fruits
Currants Dates Figs
Pineapple Prunes Raisins
STOMACH IRRITANTS:
1. Hot pepper (black or red), and spices (ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg).
2. Vinegar and anything made with vinegar (pickles, mayonnaise, catsup, mustard, etc.)
3. Foods having a fermenting, putrefying, or rotting phase in processing, such as sauerkraut, cheese, soy sauce, and similar products.
4. Baking soda, baking powder products, all commercial crackers, cookies, doughnuts, and other bakery products.
5. Caffeine (coffee, tea, colas), nicotine, theobromine (chocolate).
6. Drinking with meals. Digestion and stomach emptying are both delayed. Beverages, soups, juices, and milks should all be avoided. Stagnation in the stomach is one of the commonest causes of ulcers and gastritis. Further, milk contains much lactose, the milk sugar that produces fermentation and production of irritating toxic chemicals. Milk is the cause of more food sensitivity than any other food item.
7. Late evening meals.
8. Eating too much. Most people could get by very well with one-half to two-thirds less than they presently consume.
9. Chewing too little. Eating too fast. Bites too large; use one-third forkfuls or one-third spoonfuls.
10. Foods rich with refined sugar, refined oils, vitamin and mineral preparations, or concentrated proteins such as heavy meat substitutes and dried milk products. The more concentrated the food, the more likely to irritate the stomach.
11. Eating fruits and vegetables at the same meal. Foods that contain combinations of milk and eggs, milk and sugar, or eggs and sugar.
12. Unripe or overripe fruit.
13. Foods that are taken while they are too hot or too cold.
14. Crowding meals closer together than five hours.
For more information contact:
Uchee Pines Lifestyle Center
30 Uchee Pines Road #75
Seale, Alabama 36875
Tel. 334-855-4764
www.ucheepines.org
NUTRITION
1. See "Elimination and Challenge Food Sensitivity Diet" list, at the end of this article, for list of "Foods Allowed" and for list of "Foods to Avoid."
2. Read labels in stores for foods to avoid.
3. Omit foods listed in the "Stomach Irritants" list at the end of this article.
4. Remove all foods "to avoid" from your diet, plus others that you suspect are problems. Omit these for 6 weeks at least and up to 6 months. (Be sure to omit them until all or most of your symptoms are gone). If all of your symptoms are gone or much improved in 6 weeks, start adding one food back into your diet every 4 days. Do not add food items back more frequently. Take rice, for example: I return it to my diet. I may have it on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. If symptoms return or intensify, 1. I omit rice again. 2. I place it on my list of suspected problem foods. 3. I add no new food until my symptoms resolve or settle down again. In some cases, one meal of a "returned" food item will be offensive enough to trigger symptoms. In other cases 3-4 days of it are required to produce warning signs and symptoms. As to which foods to add back first; this is up to you. Pray for guidance.
If you are underweight, add back the higher caloric foods such as nuts, seeds, tubers, and legumes. But remember always to eat even good foods in reasonable portions. Remember to use nuts, seeds, spreads, gravies, sauces, and butter sparingly. Remember to eat vegetables freely. Don’t eat tubers, legumes, olives, and avocadoes freely. These, like grains, should be taken moderately. Grains are cereals, breads, and pastas. It would be a good idea to add wheat back into your diet. If wheat is tolerated well, try honey on your wheat. If these are tolerated well, try bread made of wheat flour, water, yeast, and honey (and salt if desired). If the yeast is tolerated well then bread is an acceptable item for you. Remember to eat fruit generously. However, don’t eat dried fruit or fruit juices generously. These should be taken sparingly because they are easily overeaten and because they are more concentrated than raw.
5. When reintroducing corn; remember corn meal, corn oil, corn grits, corn in kernel form, corn syrup, corn sugar, and corn starch. Watch labels so you don’t use these products until you are purposely reintroducing corn to determine if it is acceptable as a food item for you.
6. If you lose weight rapidly while on only the foods listed in the “Foods Allowed” list of the "Elimination and Challenge Food Sensitivity Diet" list, use olives, avocadoes, winter squashes, and the permissible grains, thickeners, and dried fruits regularly for calories.
7. Occasionally, people will continue to have serious problems even on this diet. If so, your symptoms may be caused by (a) some of the foods listed on the allowed list or (b) non-food items in your life.
8. Shop at health food stores and produce markets.
9. Cook at home. Experiment.
10. Use these anti-oxidants at mealtime:
400 i.u. Vitamin E daily
200/mcg Selenium daily
500 mg Vitamin C daily—Non citrus source! Take at a different time from other supplements.
Quercetin 2 caps (500 mg total) daily (if it contains Vitamin C, omit the C above). Available from Twinlabs (health food stores)
Twinlabs’ "Allergy Fighters" contain all the above anti-oxidants in 1 capsule, but there is the disadvantage of having the vitamin C with the selenium. Absorption of selenium may be impaired. The dosage is 2 capsules twice a day.
11. One level teaspoon of powdered activated charcoal at mealtimes may help also.
12. If you determine that you have no citrus allergy, eat the white part of the skin each day.
13. Once you have established a list of food items that especially give you trouble or that you suspect are causing problems, avoid these items. Now, in a year or so if you want to challenge your body with these items, do so one at a time, 1 per week. It could be that months of careful health reform will prove to have strengthened your constitution to the point that you can have items that once offended you.
14. Animal products—meat, milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt, butter, or commercial products are not good foods. They should be reintroduced and used rarely if at all. They may not produce unacceptable symptoms overtly but they are bound to produce disease of one nature or another.
WATER
1. 6-8 cups daily and not at meal times.
2. May drink 2 cups Echinacea tea daily as immune system stimulant.
3. Nettles may be used as a tea (1 cup) or capsules (2) as needed for nasal congestion and mucous.
4. Do not use fluid foods at meals generally. These include soups, juices, and beverages. Now, some may use a light 3rd meal in the evening. If so, a grain beverage and grains or a glass of juice a bowel of soup or a large slice of melon may be acceptable and enjoyable.
5. Daily bath is essential.
SUNSHINE
A 20-60 minutes sunbath daily would be healthful. Expose at least face and arms.
TEMPERANCE
1. Alcohol, cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, cigarettes, coffee, tea, chocolate, other sources of caffeine, overeating, eating junk foods or rich foods, secretive eating, other substance abuses, and impure thoughts and practices, etc., are to be left behind “forgetting those things which are behind.”
2. God will help you; expect temptations to assail you. But look away; run away. Look at Him; run to Him. The Holy Spirit will supply power once we say no!
3. It is impossible for us to do many of these things listed on these pages in our own strength. Like leopards, we cannot change our spots. But “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
AIR
1. Pure air in bedrooms and workplace, summer and winter (no cigarette smoke).
2. Avoid dust, molds, mildewy areas, smog, pets (cats, dogs, and birds).
3. Deep breathing exercises.
REST
1. Regularity, routine, and regimentation with some flexibility.
2. Schedule mealtimes, sleep time, worship and prayer, and devotional time.
3. Simplicity, back to basics.
4. Enter into the blessings of the weekly 7th day Biblical Sabbath.
TRUST IN DIVINE POWER
1. Pursue a relationship with Jesus Christ
2. Rededicate your life to Him.
3. Pray through the day. He's your unseen friend.
4. Keep your joys, your wants, your sorrows, your cares, and your fears before God. You cannot burden Him; you cannot weary Him. He who numbers the hairs of your head is not indifferent to the wants of His children.
5. Every soul is as fully known to Jesus as if he were the only one for whom the Saviour died. The distress of every heart touches His heart. Each cry for aid reaches His ear. He came to call all men unto Himself. He bids them "follow me" and His Spirit moves upon their hearts to draw them to come to Him.
6. Read Alone with God from Pacific Press Publishers. Written by Matilda E. Andross (1961).
7. Read Allergies Made Simple by Doctors Thrash, Uchee Pines Institute.
ELIMINATION AND CHALLENGE FOOD SENSITIVITY DIET
FOODS TO AVOID:
Dairy products* Wheat Bananas
Chocolate Oatmeal Seeds
Colas Onion Lettuce
Coffee Yeast Garlic
Tea Cane sugar Nuts (all kinds)
Eggs Legumes (beans, peas) Pork
Citrus fruits and juices Beef Beer (all alcoholic beverages)
Artificial colors Fish Strawberries
Apples Rice
Corn (cornstarch, corn products)
Cinnamon (irritating substances, spices)
Nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, tobacco)
* responsible for over 60% of all food allergies
FOODS ALLOWED:
Grains
Amaranth Buckwheat Millet
Quinoa
Thickeners
Tapioca Cassava root Arrowroot
Herbs
Basil Dill Sage
Bay leaf Parsley Thyme
Vegetables
Artichoke Cauliflower Pumpkins
Asparagus Celery Rhubarb
Avocado Collards Rutabaga
Broccoli Cucumber Spinach
Beets Honeydew Brussels sprouts
Kale Sweet potatoes Cabbage
Melons Swiss chard Cantaloupe
Okra Turnips Carrots
Parsnips Watermelon
Squash (acorn, zucchini, butternut, hubbard, summer)
Fruits
Apricots Grapes Pear
Avocado Kiwi Persimmon
Blackberries Mango Pineapple
Blueberries Nectarines Plums
Cranberries Olives Pomegranate
Currants Papaya Raspberries
Figs Peach
Dried Fruits
Currants Dates Figs
Pineapple Prunes Raisins
STOMACH IRRITANTS:
1. Hot pepper (black or red), and spices (ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg).
2. Vinegar and anything made with vinegar (pickles, mayonnaise, catsup, mustard, etc.)
3. Foods having a fermenting, putrefying, or rotting phase in processing, such as sauerkraut, cheese, soy sauce, and similar products.
4. Baking soda, baking powder products, all commercial crackers, cookies, doughnuts, and other bakery products.
5. Caffeine (coffee, tea, colas), nicotine, theobromine (chocolate).
6. Drinking with meals. Digestion and stomach emptying are both delayed. Beverages, soups, juices, and milks should all be avoided. Stagnation in the stomach is one of the commonest causes of ulcers and gastritis. Further, milk contains much lactose, the milk sugar that produces fermentation and production of irritating toxic chemicals. Milk is the cause of more food sensitivity than any other food item.
7. Late evening meals.
8. Eating too much. Most people could get by very well with one-half to two-thirds less than they presently consume.
9. Chewing too little. Eating too fast. Bites too large; use one-third forkfuls or one-third spoonfuls.
10. Foods rich with refined sugar, refined oils, vitamin and mineral preparations, or concentrated proteins such as heavy meat substitutes and dried milk products. The more concentrated the food, the more likely to irritate the stomach.
11. Eating fruits and vegetables at the same meal. Foods that contain combinations of milk and eggs, milk and sugar, or eggs and sugar.
12. Unripe or overripe fruit.
13. Foods that are taken while they are too hot or too cold.
14. Crowding meals closer together than five hours.
For more information contact:
Uchee Pines Lifestyle Center
30 Uchee Pines Road #75
Seale, Alabama 36875
Tel. 334-855-4764
www.ucheepines.org
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