The Body Doesn't Lie by Vicky Vlachonis

Author:Vicky Vlachonis [Vlachonis, Vicky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health & Fitness, Pain Management, Healing, Medical, Allied Health Services, Massage Therapy
ISBN: 9780062243669
Google: pG4pAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0062243640
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2014-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

Look again through your Food Diary to see if your mood significantly altered between one meal and the next. If so, make a note of what you ate that day. Is there a pattern? Do you notice any specific symptoms from the list above that seem to come and go, such as bloating in your face, or aching in your neck or wrists, or swollen fingers, with specific foods?

If you notice that a specific type of food causes a negative response like those listed above, remove that food from your diet for the Release stage (even if it’s in the Release Meal Plan), to test whether that food was causing the issue. For example, Virginia, a patient who was struggling with some extra pounds, really wanted to eat more vegetarian meals. But she found that whenever she ate mushrooms (a vegetarian staple), she felt off—her stomach would bloat and she would get a slight headache. Sure enough, when we did a full food sensitivity profile for her, we found that she had a sensitivity to mold—and mushrooms are a type of fungus. The problem was, her husband absolutely adored mushrooms; he wanted them for every meal. We tested her with various types of mushrooms and discovered that her reactivity was much more pronounced with certain kinds (including shiitake and portobello). Now Virginia eats those only very rarely; and, armed with this information, her husband now buys innocuous button mushrooms and modifies the way he prepares them.

When we get to the Radiate stage of the program, I’ll show you how to test your sensitivity to a certain food by reintroducing it on a day that you eat only foods you know your body absorbs readily. Combined with the full list of Radiate foods, this information will help you build an eating plan that will work to keep you healthy and inflammation-free for the rest of your life.

Now it’s time to begin your seven-day Release Meal Plan. Review the meal-by-meal breakdown in chapter 7 first and check out the shopping list in appendix C, to ensure that you have all the supplies necessary in the house. You may also want to rid your cupboards of unwanted supplies—those toxic sugars and starches you’ll be avoiding. Some people prefer to get started on the eating program right away, and then do their kitchen cleanse; others prefer to toss out all the garbage first, and then begin the program with a clean slate. I leave that choice up to you. We’ll begin here with the Liver Flush, the first element of the Release Meal Plan, but feel free to skip ahead a few pages, to the section titled “Release the Toxic Inflammatory Foods,” if cleansing your kitchen first feels more natural to you.

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