So now we need to know which specific foods can wreak such havoc on us, right? The shortlist of foods you may want to eliminate or at least reduce to prevent overload is: food dyes, tomatoes, apples, peanuts, bananas, oranges, cocoa, red grapes, colored fruits and milk.
The highly phenolic/salicylate foods and ingredients that can be in anything from foods to cleaning and art supplies and they are: synthetic/artificial colors and flavors, CHA, BHT, TBHQ (all related to petroleum), natural flavoring, natural coloring (these ingredients are in just about everything processed, and I mean everything!), almonds, apples, apricots, berries (all), plums, prunes, tangerines, cider and cider vinegar, wine and wine vinegar (grapes), oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate). Other items to consider are perfumes and fragrances, nitrites and nitrates, monosodium glutamate (MSG), hydrolized vegetable protein, sulfites, benzoates and corn syrup.
Is your head spinning yet? How do you avoid these things, since they are in everything? It's easy, begin to read ingredients for everything you buy. Yes, it's daunting at first, but just like anything else repetitive, it does become second nature. The first few times you go shopping, ok maybe the first few dozen times, ha ha ha, it's hard and it takes forever, so make sure you have a full afternoon free! But comfort and ease comes with time. Initially, the menu for someone avoiding all these things (and more) is very limited, but that is ok. Over time you expand and broaden your options. We are still in the learning phase, but it's quickly become second nature for me to flip a bottle and look for ingredients. Everyone could benefit from avoiding dyes, artificials and preservatives, because if you don't already have a problem with these ingredients, they are SURE to do damage with increased intake. The bottom line is, eat natural whole foods, eat with variety (repetition of any food can cause sensitivity to it and/or an overload of chemicals), and buy organic whenever you can.
4 comments:
What a great blog! I'm sure this information will help a lot of people!
Yes wonderful post!!!!! This is what changed our daughters AND our families lives.
Thank you! Since writing this post, we have actually been able to remove our son's phenol sensitivities through a treatment called BioVeda Bax3000. It is referenced in my blog. The treatments included PAGES and pages of different phenols (days and days of treatments) and ever since then, he's had NO reaction!
this is the biggest problem I have with my daughter right now, as it is I took away all grains and I did take away all high phenol foods, high oxalates. How do I know when I can start reintroducing the some foods? shes been on this doet for about two months now.
Post a Comment