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Controlling Your Diet:
How to Stay WellS
uccess with the Elimination Diet plan may mean that you are restored
to health for the first time in many years, or possibly for the first time
ever, at least so far as your memory serves.
Staying well is another proposition altogether for some. This isn’t
meant to be discouraging, and I would like to make it quite clear that
the overwhelming majority of people should remain in optimum health
provided all that has been set down in these pages is taken to heart and
applied in life. Yet I know from experience that some of you are going to
have renewed difficulties, and it would be wrong to not try to help with that
situation also.
What not to do
I am assuming that you carried out all the procedures correctly, felt better
and continued to avoid those foods which demonstrably made you ill. If
your deterioration took place quite soon after reintroducing ‘safe’ foods,
then the chances are that one or more items have slipped through the net
and back into your eating pattern which shouldn’t have. Return to the full
elimination diet and see if that corrects it; if it does, then re-test foods
slowly and more thoroughly. The rest of this chapter may not necessarily
apply to you.