Talk given to psychiatrists group We are all familiar with people feeling like picking a fight, dancing on the table, or crying into a drink, as being due to alcohol. What I propose is that there is an equally wide range of mood changes which result from a different group of substances in food - in a particular, that is, susceptible, subgroup of the population. Furthermore, just as it is possible for alcohol use to interact with depression or any other psychiatric disorder, it is also … [Read more...]
You are a foodie when investigating diet
In fact being a foodie helps you manage your diet! Yes, you have your lists of allowed foods but even in those lists there are words such as “fresh” or “mild” or “just ripe”. How do you decide what they mean? I have listened to food sensitive people describe how they feel about food for years. They say things like “I wouldn’t use cake mixes, the smell would give you a headache!” or “The food in the fridge is off!” or children say “I won’t eat that: it smells yuk!”. They are showing us that … [Read more...]
Commercial Foods List
Click here to download free Commercial Foods List as a printable PDF. … [Read more...]
Getting to your own baseline diet is hard
There is a lot of talk about testing foods, but how do you get to an intake of foods that you can feel are safe to test from? If you are very sensitive it is hard! You are right it is about threshold. That reminds you of the great cartoon of a person feeling “fragile” and another feeling “robust” at the beginning of Chapter 3 in Tolerating Troublesome Foods: “Tolerance can change for many reasons”. This book can be a great support to you as you work out what matters to you. All the … [Read more...]
A good new year’s resolution
Managing your diet better is a good New Year’s resolution. Have your symptoms been bothering you? Do you have a plan to really control them better? Here are some easy ways to achieve what you want. Have you cut out some foods, and then a few more, but not had good enough results? This might be the time to take yourself through the diet detective process. You can add information about food reactions you know in yourself, and reactions in your family, to the Baseline Diet in my book: Are … [Read more...]
The known unknowns of food sensitivity
Food sensitivity is complex. There are known knows and and probably unknown unknowns! Can we cope with what looks complex in science. I presented a talk on this topic on ABC radio on 3rd Dec 2017. See http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/food-sensitivity-and-the-known-unknowns/9185042 You can see I do have some optimism the future. … [Read more...]
Diet for Candida
I am often asked what is the right diet for Candida infection? It is important to know that candida is a yeast but not the yeast we use in breadmaking. It is a completely different type of yeast that grows the little white stuff that can be seen where the infection is visible, such as when it infects the mouth. Yeast for bread is a different shape. Both these yeasts belong to the biological family of fungi, so that is why anti-fungal medicines can be used successfully against for candida, or any … [Read more...]