Baby Suzie had allergies diagnosed and was given help to manage her diet. But Suzie still had reflux. She was still waking often through the night, had tummy pain, constipation, was irritable, and was not gaining weight. When the Low Chemical diet was added to her diet all of these symptoms reduced and she looked like a different girl with more colour in her now-happy face.Food chemical sensitivity “aggravates the underlying disorder in susceptible people”. The important idea here is that one of … [Read more...]
Why liked foods can be tested
There are the foods you don’t like anyway, and there are foods you really like and don’t think cause your symptoms. Why is investigating diet complicated? Lydia decided to test just half a glass of her favourite good quality red wine every night for a week. And she tolerated it. But she got gut pain with a cask wine. What we now know that we didn’t forty years ago is that food-sensitivity symptoms are due to the cumulative effect of many foods. And what is more important is that liked foods … [Read more...]
There is a downside to investigating your diet.
There is a downside to investigating your diet. Favourite foods have to be excluded, you have cravings when first on the diet, many other important people, even some your relations, and maybe even your doctor, may not be supportive. You just feel like going bust and eating lots of off-diet foods. Remember that liked foods do not usually cause your symptoms to happen quickly. There is a pleasant lag time, but then symptoms hit during the night or next day. And you have cravings and you wish it … [Read more...]
Mood the role of diet
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...]