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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Players: Cinderella and the Prince. Activists: The husband may activate the game on his own, or husband and wife may activate it together. Setting: Home. Aim: Husband appeals to wife’s fantasy about meeting a prince who would discover that she is a princess. Game Plan: One evening when he knows his wife “has no plans,” [...]
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Players: Hysterical wife and passive husband. Activist: Husband, with or without wife’s knowledge. Setting: Home or vacation retreat. Aim: Help husband overcome need for wife’s approval by learning to assert himself; stimulate wife’s sexuality by appealing to her unconscious fantasy. Game Plan: The couple can play this game together, or the husband can spring it [...]
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Players: Passive spouse and “psycho” spouse. Activist: Aggressive spouse, without the knowledge or cooperation of passive spouse. Setting: Bathroom. Aim: To enact the very fears that the passive spouse unconsciously harbors, and thereby shock him or her out of the passive mode. Game Plan: This game is a more radical maneuver and thus entails more [...]
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In the bedroom, he begins to make love to her in the way that he knows she likes best. Usually wives have told their husbands over and over what they like, but bored (i.e., angry) husbands usually do not listen, since their wives’ sexual preferences sound like more complaints or demands. All except the most [...]
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Likewise, social and organic diseases often have a psychological component that is somehow related to frustrated sexuality. Prisons hold individuals whose sexual drives have become twisted and whose aggressive drives have become stuck in the mode of trying to destroy the environment that has failed to meet their needs. Maladies such as cancer, heart disease, [...]
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