Quantcast Massage NYC Pain Freedom - #1 Food Sensitivity / Food Intolerance
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Text Box: Volume 5 Issue 6, July 2007
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Text Box: Freedom From Pain

Text Box: arthritis, however, it wasn’t until I kept a food diary that I realized I was sensitive to citrus. The days I had citrus juices (organic at that) were the days my knees were on fire by the evening. It took me 3 painful months to figure this out. OUCH!
 
Good News: you don’t have to spend 3 excruciating months to find out whether your pain is food related! You can short cut the process to measly 14 days!              
 
Keeping a food diary will help you to uncover hidden food sensitivities. Pen and paper are all you need to get started. The minimum information for each entry of your daily diary should contain the following:
 
1 –Time of Day
2 – Food / beverage description
3 – Symptom severity level at the time of the entry
 
The pain/symptom severity is on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the least severe and 10 is the most severe. For the most accurate assessment, each entry should be written down immediately. 
Follow the Elimination phase for 2 weeks. 
 

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Text Box: All the creams, pills, cortisone shots in the world won’t help you in the long run, if food sensitivity is at the root of your pain. I found this out for myself. After I adopted a healthier diet, I did find some relief from my

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Text Box: 1) Only eat the items on this list for 14 days.
2) Keep track of your symptoms in your food diary. 
 

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MEAT: 
- Turkey, duck, lamb (fresh or frozen not ground, not cold cuts)
- Wild cold-water fish: Alaskan salmon, tuna, mackerel, halibut 
 
  VEGETABLE:
- dark green leafy vegetables (arrugala, collard, greens, kale, beet, dandelion or mustard greens, lettuces, spinach)
à yams, sweet potatoes, peas, parsnips, rutabaga, turnips
à Asparagus, okra 
à green or yellow squash (many varieties: zucchini, acorn, pumpkin etcetera)
à onion, garlic, scallion, cucumber, celery, string beans 
à cruciferous vegetables: broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower
 
GRAIN:
Rice, Quinoa 
 
Miscellaneous:
Sea salt, vegetable oils (olive, grapeseed, flax, coconut, avocado); Beverages (spring, mineral, distilled water)             
 
LET ME KNOW YOUR FINDINGS!