Introduction to the Rotation Diet

By Cindy Chung

The purpose of a Rotation Diet is to prevent the development of new allergies and intolerances to foods. Often people find that if they avoid the foods to which they are allergic or intolerant, they experience a great improvement in their health initially but can then start to feel unwell again. This is because they have become allergic or intolerant to something else in the meantime - often a substitute food, which they have eaten too frequently. For example, it is common for someone to replace cow's milk with soy milk, only to find they then develop an intolerance to soy. In addition, a Rotation Diet can also reduce existing food allergies and intolerances, as it allows the body to process each food properly. Hence, it is a way for many people to overcome their intolerances and, for those with multiple food allergies and intolerances, it can often mean they can include more items in their diet than they may otherwise be able to do.

Over average, it takes three days for a meal to pass through the human digestive system and to be processed by the body, so to be safe, the diet is based on a four-day plan. For example, if you were to eat wheat on Monday, you would then not have it again until Thursday.

With the exception of the grass family, when foods are rotated, it is the whole food family to which the particular food belongs that is rotated. This is important because people can cross-react to the "relatives" of a food to which they are intolerant. For instance, if you are intolerant to onions, you may suspect leeks, garlic, chives, and possibly asparagus.

You will need to avoid foods that you know cause reactions. You may also find that as your body clears, small sensitivities that had previously been masked may appear. In this case, you will need to avoid these as well.

However, if you have multiple allergies or intolerances and therefore have a very limited diet, you may have to eat some of the foods that cause the least reactions. If so, it is best to limit these to just once in the particular day. Or, you may find you can tolerate some foods if eaten less frequently - once in eight days, for example.

As the weeks go by and you feel your health improving, you could try to introduce a suspect food into your diet plan. It may very well be that as your body clears, so do your allergies and food intolerances. It is likely then that foods to which you previously reacted may no longer cause you any problems. If this is so, you can simple incorporate the food into your Rotation Diet. As long as you continue to rotate those foods, you should find that they remain safe foods for you.

This diet, therefore, may seem slightly tricky at first, but the benefits are numerous and long-lasting. It is possible to recover your health from an allergy or food-intolerance problem, and a Rotation Diet should prove to be an important part of such a recovery.

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