Article by Marie Cargill:
FOOD TIPS FOR SPECIFIC PROBLEMS
This article offers
dietary food tips for dealing with specific problems, such as arthritis,
constipation, bone loss and more. Sometimes, just changing what you eat can
make all the difference in the world!
Allergies:
Decrease protein to about 15% of daily food intake and replace animal protein
with vegetable or plant protein; eliminate all dairy; use organically grown
vegetables and fruits
Asthma:
Eliminate wheat, corn, soy, and sugar
Anemia:
Increase up-intake of red meat, dried beans and leafy greens for “heme” type;
for non-“heme” type, spinach, potatoes with skins, dried beans
Inflammations:
Eliminate polyunsaturated vegetable oil and partially hydrogenated oils;
instead use extra virgin olive oil and increase essential fatty acids
Irritable bowel syndrome:
Eliminate all dairy and increase dietary fiber such as grains, bran, fruits,
and vegetables
Kidney disease:
Eliminate poor quality protein but give good quality protein such as meats
from animals grown organically
Prostate problems:
Decrease intake of animal foods and saturated fats; add soy foods, cooked
tomatoes, olive oil, whole grains, nuts, seeds especially pumpkin
Diarrhea:
Avoid raw vegetables and fruit; fast or greatly reduce food intake for a
day; add back small meals such as chicken soup or stew.
Liver problems:
Limit fat and protein to under 20%
Heart disease:
Reduce animal meats and refined carbohydrates; increase intake of cabbage,
broccoli, kale, turnip, cauliflower, red and green vegetables, dried beans,
nuts, and seeds, oily fish and spirulina
Candida:
Eat green and yellow fruits and vegetables, oats and nuts
Eczema:
Increate essential fatty acids through fish, nuts, oats, seeds, and green
vegetables
Gallstones:
Keep fats down, use soy foods and calcium rich foods; cook with olive oil
High blood pressure:
Use soy and raw vegetables and fiber rich foods
Mouth ulcers:
Dark green leafy vegetables for zinc
Stroke:
Eat nuts, berries and other fruit for flavonoids
Cholesterol:
Lower it with barley, grapefruit, prunes, rice bran
Thyroid:
Hyper type - give whole grains and seeds
Hypo type - seaweeds
Diabetes:
Complex carbohydrates and food high in water soluble fiber such as apples,
oats, buckwheat, oatmeal, raw cabbage. Chinese cabbage, zucchini, avocados,
nuts, melons, mangoes, apricots, kiwi; use mono-unsaturated fats such as
olive oil.
Arthritis:
Eat fatty fish for omega-e fatty acids such as Atlantic mackerel, king mackerel,
Pacific herring, albacore tuna.
Constipation:
Fiber from mustard plant family such as broccoli, cabbage, mustard greens,
turnips, pumpkin, kale, cauliflower, collard greens
Bone loss:
Apples, pears, grapes, legumes and nuts for absorption of calcium through
boron; broccoli, kale, almonds and oatmeal for magnesium to remodel bone;
and kale, sardines with bones, salmon, good yogurt, mustard greens, tofu
for calcium intake.
For supplies and further information consult Marie Cargill.
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