What to Do if the Diet Succeeds 125otherwise you will quickly become ill again. That ‘something’ is usually
favorite foods eaten to excess. Such foods will in fact be reintroduced for
testing last of all.
The correct thing to do is to start with what are probably harmless
foods. Each new substance is tested carefully for safety, and those that
cause symptoms must be rejected. Also, you must discontinue tests until the
reaction has cleared up. This may be very inconvenient, so if you are in a
hurry, that is all the more reason to proceed slowly. Milk and wheat (bread)
are the most missed foods and, not by chance, they are in general the worst
allergens. It is better to start with items such as chicken and rice first. These
are rather less likely to provoke illness, and so there is more probability of
expanding your diet without ill-effect.
Warning
The symptoms experienced when testing a food can be quite severe. It is
unlikely that you will come to any actual harm but at times you may need
courage and determination to go through with this procedure. It always
comes as a surprise to patients when they realize what a bad effect a food
causes, yet they had eaten it every day formerly without even suspecting it.
This is because of the unblocking of the masking phenomenon. If you eat
a food often enough, it will be permanently within your bowel. It is already
in your body when you eat it again, so logically there is no reason for a
response. Your body has learned to cope with the offending substance: it
has adapted.
But when your bowel is completely emptied of that food you now
have no protection and when you try to reintroduce it you will be hit with
the full force of the negative reaction. Familiar symptoms will return with a
vengeance. The correct thing to do, obviously, is to discontinue eating that
food: the unpleasant reaction will disappear as soon as your bowel is once
again cleared of it. This may take a few days. During that time you cannot test
any new food. You are stalled!
You will see at once the wisdom of leaving the ‘probables’ (likely
troublemakers) until last.
How to test a food
There is no infallible way of testing foods. The procedure given below is
about as accurate as you can get and is a combination of methods pioneered