Food Allergies & Sensitivities
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COMMON ALLERGIES

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(Healthy Eating Habits & Suggested Supplements)

SUGGESTED EATING HABITS -

To free yourself from food allergies

 What is health? It's the ability to quickly rebalance the body, thereby maintaining harmony, or homeostasis. The body's delicate mineral balance controls digestive enzymes and the full breakdown of foods. Support this balance by practicing these suggested good habits, and you will soon be able to handle and prevent food sensitivities.
  • Resist Overeating: You'll deplete your digestive enzymes before you finish that platter of pasta.
  • Don't eat too much of a good thing in one sitting: It's no coincidence that our favorite foods are also the ones we become sensitive to. If you love popcorn and eat a huge mound all at once, you exhaust the specific enzymes your body needs to digest it.
  • Bad doesn't go with good: Refined sugar rapidly depletes minerals and digestive enzymes. Indulge in deserts made with unrefined sugar or incorporate a sweet vegetable like sweet potatoes into your meal.
  • Eat your foods RAW!: Foods like fruits, vegetables and raw milk cheese, for example: Raw foods especially sprouts, avocados, bananas, and mangoes are packed with digestive enzymes that cooking rapidly destroys. These enzymes aid digestion by taking the burden off the body to produce all of its own enzymes.
  • Variety is the spice of life: Don't eat the same foods day in and day out. Try a new and exotic fruit like a cherimoya. Repetitive eating habits don't give the body a chance to recover from a food sensitivity.
  • Don't try to digest when you are down: Anger and stress interfere with digestion. Get calm before sitting down to eat.
  • Chew, chew, chew: You can keep your digestion going like a train if you respect your saliva's role in starting the process. It's especially important to chew bread and pasta well - because starches digest primarily in the mouth.
  • Don't drink and digest: Drink liquids between meals, not during them, to avoid diluting digestive juices. If you have to drink, try drinking at least 15 minutes before a meal.
  • Eat your foods whole: Remember refined foods have been stripped of the minerals digestion depends on.
  • Strengthen the body's immunity: Use super foods, herbs, supplements, and adequate rest and exercise to keep body defense strong.
  • Heat hurts foods: Fried foods, boxed processed foods, and even pasteurized milk are chemically altered and lack enzymes the body needs to digest them.
  • Support your stomach: Many people don't secrete enough hydrochloric acid (HCL) for digestion. See the section on Supplements for more information.
  • Avoid aspirin and ibuprofen: For example, ibuprofen, the widely prescribed anti-inflammatory actually inflames and damages intestinal walls, setting the stage for leaky gut syndrome.
  • Fiber is your friend! Eat high-fiber, low-fat foods for a healthy bowel and better digestion. 

SUPPLEMENTS FOR ALLERGIES
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  • Multi-vitamins & minerals: Supplements make sure you get all the nutritional co-factors vital for digesting foods. Take minerals at night before going to bed.
  • Hydrochloric Acid (With pepsin): As the body ages, it produces less HCL and pepsin which are vital for thorough digestion. Don't make the mistake of taking antacids - indigestion is actually caused by too little stomach acid, not too much! Start with 1 HCL tablet (300mg to 600mg) with a meal. If your stomach feels fine increase to 2 tablets. If you feel burning, decrease the doses. Continued burning is a sign the body does not need HCL.
  • Digestive enzymes: Take a full-spectrum enzyme capsule after meals for thorough digestion.
  • Vitamin B complex: Helps reduce stress and restores muscle tone in the gastrointestinal tract.
  • Beta carotene and vitamin C with bioflavonoids: Antioxidants build immunity. Ester-C is a gentle form of vitamin C that can be easier on the stomach.
  • Essential fatty acids: Oils like evening primrose and flax help boost prostaglandin levels, the body's natural anti-inflammatory allies.
  • Quercetin: A natural antihistamine which can help relieve reactions to certain foods, pollens, and other allergens by decreasing inflammation. Food sources include red and yellow onions, red grapes, broccoli, Italian yellow squash. For best results eat 1/2 raw onion per day.
  • Siberian ginseng: Tackles stress and helps build immunity.

    • Glutamine: Take this amino acid between meals. Look for a combination formula which contains co-factors for best absorption. Glutamine helps fuel the growth and healing of intestinal cells, reduces inflammation, provides antioxidant protection and normalizes the entire digestive tract.
  • Probiotics: Probiotics like acidophilus and bifidus help restore a balance of friendly bacteria to the body's digestive tract aiding in digestion. Look for probiotics in the refrigerated case foods including live yogurt, kefir and miso.
  • Healing herbs: For the body's mucous membranes, aloe Vera juice or gel is a powerful healer. Look for formulas high in the active ingredient muccopolyssaccharides (MPS) in liquid form or in dry capsule herbal combinations.
  • Powerful anti-inflammatory spices: ginger and turmeric have strong anti-inflammatory properties and especially for arthritis sufferers, are safe alternatives to the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs which cause major side effects; sip ginger or turmeric through the day; cook with fresh ginger or turmeric; or take 2 capsules of the powered forms 3 times daily. Another one is cayenne pepper as well as chili pepper and their active ingredient capsaicin.
 

SOURCES: Allergy-Free Cooking by Eileen R. Yoder, PhD; The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health & Rebuilding Your Immunity by Donna Gates; Don't Drink Your Milk by Frank Oski, M.D.; Delicious Magazine; The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hewken; The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies, Food. Your Miracle Medicine by Jean Carper; Good Health in a Toxic World by Sara Shannon; Optimal Wellness, Ralph Golan, M.D.; Prescription for Nutritional Healing by James and Phyllis Balch; Secrets of Natural Food Healing with Food by Nancy Appleton; Your Body Knows Best by Anne Louise Gittleman; Your Health and Your Home by Nina Anderson and Albert Benoist.

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