The Sensitive Seven Elimination Diet

This approach is probably the most popular of the various elimination diets I recommend, because it’s not terribly difficult and it’s usually quite effective. It is very similar to the Limited Elimination Diet, but it’s more strict. Instead of eliminating just wheat, milk, sugar and any food you eat every day, you eliminate all of the Sensitive Seven most commonly reactive foods: wheat, milk, sugar, soya, peanuts, corn, and eggs. You also eliminate any food that you eat every day.

In addition, many patients eliminate oats, yeast, and chocolate, because reactions to them are common. Some patients also eliminate oranges (especially young people, who tend to be more reactive to this fruit).

Like all of the elimination diets I place patients on, this one consists of at least one week of sensitive food avoidance, followed by the reintroduction of foods one at a time. For details on exactly how to enact the elimination diet process, review the information on it in the preceding section (the Limited Elimination Diet).

As you can see, eliminating the Sensitive Seven foods will mean significantly reducing the amount of processed food you eat. This is good! Reducing the number of processed foods you eat is one of the smartest things you’ll ever do. Some processed foods are healthy, but most of them aren’t. For the most part, processed foods are fattening, reactive, and low in nutrients. They’re usually loaded with extra fat, extra sugar, high-calorie fillers, and chemicals.

Processed foods tend to trigger allergic addiction, because they almost always contain at least one of the Sensitive Seven foods, and often several. A package of pre-cooked noodles with sauce, for example, might contain peanut oil, corn syrup, wheat bran, milk whey, egg solids, soya protein, and sugar. Furthermore, it might also contain MSG and a number of other allergenic chemicals that enter the body as indigestible macromolecules. The packet of noodles may look harmless and sound healthy: Tow fat! High fibre! Vitamin enriched!’ But it’s a veritable time bomb of reactive foods. It will almost certainly touch off food cravings in the majority of all reactive people. They’ll eat it, enjoy it, and then be hypoglycemic and hungry again in just a few hours — and not know why. They’ll crave something like milk-laden, sugary ice cream, or a whole wheat roll or bagel with butter. But to keep from feeling guilty, they’ll probably eat low fatice cream or spread low fatmargarine on their bagel. Almost immediately, though, they will begin to feel bloated with false fat and will soon add another layer of adipose tissue. And they will ask themselves’What went wrong? I ate a low-fat, high-fibre, low-calorie dinner and a healthy snack! Why am I fatter?’

The alternative to processed foods, of course, are unprocessed, whole foods: fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, poultry, nuts, rice, beans, and any number of other wholesome, real, non-reactive foods. These are the foods that will make you slim and healthy.

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