Diet and Nutrition Therapy:
Keeping Healthy Thru
Types Of Alternative Medicine

Diet and nutrition therapy is based on the principle of eating a variety of good healthy foods. In this way your body can assemble enough nutrients to use for daily use plus have an ample reserve left to use for any exposure to your allergenic triggers. Many different programs are available for specific conditions through the different types of alternative medicine but often people pick and choose different options just based on their own likes and dislikes.

One of the most widely used programs is called the rotation diet. The basic principle here is to eat any food you prefer from any food group but it is limited to once every 4 days only. By adhering to this plan, you will automatically reduce your chances of the onset of an allergy plus you are supplying your body with a continuous stream of a variety of foods.

By eating from any food group you desire on a 4 day cycle, this means you may not eat that same type of product again until after the fourth day. This form of diet and nutrition therapy also recommends you add a wide variety of low allergenic foods such as fruits (exclude citrus fruits if you are sensitive) and vegetables, seeds and nuts and non-dairy protein products. Also low allergenic grains are very important.

One of the most important reasons for this variety is because many people get trapped in the same diet routine and never figure out that their sensitivity is because of the foods they have currently been eating. Because of the delayed onset of symptoms from the time they eat the food to up to possibly 48-60 hours later when symptoms develop, the two are just never put together as the troublesome source. Therefore by using the diversified rotation diet, your body is constantly being given an assortment of foods on an on-going basis.

Allergy/Addiction Syndrome

Next, it seems totally ridiculous but often what we are allergic to is what our body craves more of. When you eat a food and start experiencing discomfort from hours to days later, the first thing most people will do is reach for one of their favorites, called comfort food. After eating your favorite, your spirits lift and you feel much more satisfied. But now hours to days later, this was the item your immune system was having trouble processing so your symptoms increase again. You eat again. The cycle continues.

Many people do get trapped in this cycle, not even realizing why or what is happening. You have ended up using your "comfort food" as the remedy for your illness when that food is the reason for the illness. Unknowingly, for you, your body is craving the food that is also making it sick.

Obviously a diet and nutrition therapy program can greatly enrich your present and future health. Once the problem has been disclosed, a treatment plan has been outlined, this is predominantly an at-home care program. By monitoring what you eat, when you eat, often you can include most of your likes under your new personalized program.

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