Tracking Down Additional Food Intolerances

The father of Medicine, Hippocrates, said, “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” This discussion contains information found by some members to be helpful for controlling the symptoms of microscopic colitis, by diet alone, or in conjunction with certain medications.

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Tracking Down Additional Food Intolerances

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Hi All,

If you're trying to control your symptoms by diet, and you're still not in remission, even though you feel that you've eliminated every suspicious food that you can think of, chances are, even though you've eliminated the first few items in this list, you're still eating some of the other 14 foods discussed in this article by Dr. Fine. Maybe one of these is the problem, and you might try fine tuning your diet, by eliminating it for a few days, to see if there's any improvement. Please read his discussion, though, before proceeding to eliminate any of these from your diet. If you also have the symptoms of fibromyalgia, please be sure to carefully read the last paragraph of his article.

http://www.finerhealth.com/Lecture/sld006.html

They are:

Gluten (wheat, rye, barley, oats)
Cow's milk (all dairy products)
Soy
Dietary yeast
Corn, (and possibly other grains)
Beef
Pork
Eggs
Peanuts (and possibly other legumes)
Nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, chilies)
Tree nuts
High protein diet/foods/bars
Oxalate containing foods (see this site): http://www.branwen.com/rowan/oxalate.htm

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Post by Matthew »

This list of foods along with Dr. Fine’s lectures , lots of other reading , and finally after many twists and turns, making the decision to quit trying to find gluten free substitutes for what I used to eat but simply eating “real food” in other words fruits, vegetables, nuts and natural meat and fish have made a remarkable change in my health.

For those looking for a basic primer for this new life style I feel many members would recommend Loren Cordain’s book “The Paleo Diet”

A great place to begin. It would have been so much simpler if i had known where to start.

http://www.thepaleodiet.com/""

Thanks Wayne, for the reminder of where I started and a moment to reflect on how far I have come along with so many others.

Matthew
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