Controlling Your Diet: How to Stay Well 167It may be possible, if the intolerance is mild, to rotate one grain
food each day (wheat, barley, rice, oats perhaps). Otherwise, you must
conform to the rules with regard to the starches or ‘filler’ row, as written.
One or two other points are worth commenting on. Potato is not,
of course a cereal, but it is a great substitute. Patients like a ‘filler’ food,
something that satisfies. Potato does this just as well as bread or oatmeal.
Potato flour is available commercially and can be used in the same way as
ordinary flour, though it doesn’t behave in the same manner when used for
cooking.
If we were allergic to cow’s milk, soya milk might be an acceptable
substitute. Of course, it must only be drunk on Day One, along with peas
and beans, also members of the family of legumes or pulses. Furthermore,
most soya milk preparations contain cane sugar, thus you would not be able
to eat this substance on any other day.
You will see that fruit juice from the appropriate source is used to
drink each day. In addition to this you could take a herb tea. Spring water is
acceptable at any time.
Avoid incompatible foods
It is important to stress that you should not include foods to which you
know you are intolerant. It is better to avoid these for a few months and
then test them in accordance with the instructions given in Chapter 12. If at
that time there is no reaction, you may then include that food in the rotation
scheme, making due allowance for food families.
Try to get organic foods if you can. Manufactured items are not
permitted because of adulteration; for example, a beef-burger may contain
not only beef, but soya, wheat (rusk), onion and several other items which
cut right across the rotation plan. Similarly, complex foods, such as cake,
are not allowed. You must eat only simple unprocessed items, bought fresh.
This in itself makes for an improvement in health.
Advice on how to considerably reduce your exposure
to pesticides in food comes from the Environmental
Working Group. They maintain that if you avoid the “dirty
dozen” pesticide contaminated fruits and vegetables you
can reduce your pesticide exposure by over 90%. Their
currently published lists of “clean” and “dirty” foods are
given in appendix D.