Goat cheeses and sheep cheeses are available from good delicatessan shops, and healthfood shops. You can also buy them by post. See remarks above on cross-reactivity. Soya-based ‘cheese’ spreads are available in some healthfood shops. Tofu is a more traditional soya product that can act as a substitute for soft cheese. See remarks above about [...]
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Timing is all-important here, as birthdays, Christmas, weddings, family get-togethers and holidays cause immense problems. Ideally, you should plan things so that the diet falls in a quiet period, or postpone celebrations until afterwards. This does not matter quite so much during Stage 1 of the diet, when you can break the rules for one [...]
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The endorphins are all peptides – short chains made up of amino acids. Proteins also consist of amino acid chains (see p23), but in proteins the chains are much longer. When foods are broken down in the gut, the proteins are split into shorter lengths – in other words, into peptides. By chance, some of [...]
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An important part of the treatment of candidiasis is to avoid sugary foods, and other refined carbohydrates (white flour, white bread etc) which can quickly be broken down into sugar once they reach the gut. The idea is simply to starve the Candida in the gut, by denying it sugar. If you are on the [...]
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Susan was reasonably well as a child, apart from frequent colds and chest infections. At the age of 21, however, she suffered a bad bout of diarrhoea when travelling abroad. Although she recovery from this, her bowels never really returned to normal. A mild form of diarrhoea stayed with her so that she needed to [...]
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