The best cure for food allergies and intolerances is abstinence. If you suffer from allergies or food sensitivities, eliminate trigger foods for at least one to three months to get rid of allergic reactions. The most common trigger foods are the foods I mentioned earlier, milk, citrus fruits, chocolate, eggs, sugar, nightshade vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplant), soy, wheat, and corn. Intolerance reactions may include itchiness, hives, rapid heartbeat, fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, or canker sores.
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After a month, you can slowly begin adding trigger foods back into your diet. Your body will tell you if it likes them or not. If your body reacts, you know to stay away from those foods or to eat them in moderation only. Variety is another way to avoid allergic and intolerance reactions. There are plenty of choices in each food group to ensure you are not eating the same thing day after day. As the saying goes, "Eat a rainbow every day."
Water
As the eminent researcher F. Batmanghelidj stated: "We are a dehydrated society, and dehydration is the number-one stressor of the human body or any living matter."
How can you keep your body running smoothly when it's made up of 80 percent water and you drink fewer than eight cups of water a day? You can't. When you do, your "plumbing" gets backed up - your lymphatic system becomes sluggish, your kidneys become overstressed, your colon becomes constipated, and your liver and gallbladder become congested. Autotoxicity occurs as you reabsorb the toxins your body is unable to eliminate. These conditions set the stage for autoimmune diseases and cancer.
Sodas, coffee, iced tea, and fruit juices are not substitutes for water, for, as Batmanghelidj says: "Water by itself is the best natural diuretic. The human brain possesses about nine trillion nerve cells. Brain cells are said to be 85 percent water." This means that your body needs more water if you're to think and act rationally. As I said, the ideal amount to drink is one half of your body weight in ounces of purified or filtered water and herbal tea each day. So if you weigh 150 pounds, you need to drink 75 ounces or a little over nine, eight-ounce glasses of water daily.
To make this easier to do, drink six ounces - a little less than one cup - every waking hour until you go to sleep. If you notice that your urine is a dark in color, this indicates that you are dehydrated. Don't let yourself get to the point of feeling thirsty. Drinking more water can eliminate a number of symptoms, including headaches and pain in the body.
Distilled water is a good choice of drinking water, but it leaches minerals from the body. So if you drink it, make sure to take your vitamin and mineral supplements daily. Sparkling mineral water is also good, but only if it's natural and the carbonation has not been added to it. One of the only true natural sparkling mineral waters is Gerolsteiner from Germany.
The best way to ensure that you're getting purified water is to buy your own filtration system. I don't recommend most bottled waters because their manufacturers are not regulated and you don't really know what you're getting. If you do buy bottled water, look for a brand that states on the bottle how the water has been processed, such as through reverse osmosis. If this information is on the label, you have some assurance of the water's purity.
Herbal teas count as water, but because they're cleansing, you need to make sure to put minerals back in your body by taking your daily multivitamin.mineral supplement. Among the many therapeutically beneficial teas available are red clover, pau d'arco, rosemary, green tea (caffeinated or decaffeinated), chamomile, and mint. Another great hydrator for the body is fresh coconut water. You will also be obtaining additional water from eating fresh organic fruits and vegetables. To find out more, you can check out Diet For Candida Yeast.