Diet is used as a tool to take a person from point A to point Z. Diet is adjunctive, but is the focal aspect of treatment. It allows the body to rest from chemicals that may be increasing the inflammatory response and decreasing immune function as a consequence. Each person will be guided through this very broadly presented dietary plan. This is a skeleton guide for people to have. Each individual will be guided through it through the work that is done for their asthma depending upon his or her experiences and circumstances in treatment.
At the end of treatment a person will be able to eat freely, but will hopefully have a better education on diet and the choices that are best for them for life!
Diet and warning for potential irritants in treatment
Meals should be ¼ protein, ¼ starch and 2/4s vegetables. Breakfast may be ½ protein ½ starch if vegetables are too difficult to consume for that meal.
When moving to the next stage of treatment, do not assume that each change will be tolerated, try one food at a time per day. If you are going to respond negatively, you will likely feel an exacerbation of your symptoms between ½ hour to 6 hours after consumption. These modifications are general. Specific guidance will be given for each individual’s needs.
List 1
Protein: most fresh red meats, including pork, lamb, fish, and fowl, eggs (NON OMEGA FED AND VEGETARIAN FED EGGS). Cheese should be withheld initially.
Vegetables: Broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, cucumbers, celery, yellow squash, zucchini (most tolerate this, but, try it, some do react to this one), green cabbage, red cabbage, Chinese cabbage.
Fats: Olive oil are best to use in salads at this point in treatment. Butter is fine and avocado oil is great for cooking. Canola oil is fine in ingredients of pre prepared food bought at the store.
Starch: potatoes, rice brown or basmati, white OK, but last choice. Bread: yeast and sugar free (spelt/kamut/rice preferably, rice cakes, rice crackers. Grains are often not well tolerated in patients at the early onset of treatment. If a grain is not tolerated, remove it from the diet, and try again after a period of abstinence approximating 4 weeks.
Spices: garlic powder that is pure without additives (eat cautiously, sometimes this is too strong for beginners), dried basil, salt (usually tolerated in most individuals). Salad dressing should be olive oil, dill, garlic powder (pure), basil.
Drinks: water, preferably spring, not distilled, low minerals.
List 2
All foods in list one, plus:
Protein: small amounts of provolone cheese, mozzarella cheese ( NOT the kind packed in water!)
Vegetables: asparagus, arugula, artichokes, cabbage (all kinds and colors), eggplant, endives, escarole, collard greens, chard, kale, brussel sprouts, spinach, zucchini, bell peppers (seem to affect some people, try different colors, reactions to the various colors of bell peppers varies greatly) avocado (technically a fruit), cooked onions in small quantities.
Fats: No change.
Starch: barley, rice pasta, limited amounts of wheat pasta, rice crackers.
Spices: pepper, cooked garlic, herbs one at a time to see if any bother you (however absolutely no ginger, cinnamon, wasabi, nutmeg, cardamom, or any other strong “spicy” herb.
Drinks: low mineral sparkling water, (high will not be well tolerated)
naturally decaffeinated or caffeinated coffee, green tea. These each must be tried individually and tested fro sensitivity.
List 3
Add:
Proteins: more “hard” mild cheeses, plain yoghurt. Milk may be included in recipes, but not be drunk as a drink.
Vegetables: tomatoes (homemade sauce can be made from this), carrots, all bell peppers, dandelion greens, green beans, spaghetti squash, bamboo shoots, kelp, turnip, okra, leeks, onions, radicchio, watercress, kohlrabi.
Fats: No change.
Starch: mung bean pasta, add more snack foods containing ingredients that are on this list.
Fruits: blueberries, grapefruit.
Spices: most spices.
Drinks: chamomile tea, black tea.
List 4
Add:
Proteins: no change.
Vegetables: sweet potatoes, yams, corn, beets, jicama, water chestnuts, all squashes ( including acorn, banana, butternut), peas.
Fats: Extra virgin olive oil may be used now.
Starch: some regular breads, including rye (try to stay away from ones with high sugar content), add more snack foods containing ingredients that are on this list such as pop corn, beans.
Fruits: oranges, tangerines, all berries, apples.
Spices: all spices, except added sugar. This should always be avoided as much as possible. If it is in a recipe at a regular meal it is fine, but avoid adding to food or having it in cakes, cookies, etc… healthy fruit sweetening substitutes may be implemented.
Drinks: earl grey tea.
List 5
Proteins: all proteins.
Vegetables: all vegetables, please limit soy.
Fats: All fats, try to focus on extra virgin olive oil as a way of maintaining good fats in your diet always.
Starch: all starches.
Fruits: all fruit.
Spices: all spices, except added sugar. This should always be avoided as much as possible. If it is in a recipe at a regular meal it is fine, but avoid adding to food or having as a food itself such as cakes, cookies, etc… healthy fruit sweetening substitutes may be implemented. There are numerous kinds of healthy alternatives already prepared with fruit as cakes, pies, cookies, bars, etc…
Drinks: all non-sugar non-alcohol drinks.
One must keep continued good health with maintaining
If you are flaring make sure you are NOT doing any of the following:
- Drinking tap or filtered water
- Having peroxide in your tooth paste, hair color, or any other products
- Undergoing some kind of treatment such as laser hair removal, whitening cream for your face, tooth whitening protocols, etc…
- Swallowing your “veggie” capsules
- Taking probiotics in loose powder form
- Taking the wrong supplement.
- Undergoing any medical treatments or taking any medication or supplements that you have not communicated. For examples are allergy shots may seem unimportant to mention, but is something that is very important to treatment.
- Having unprotected sexual activity, or using condoms lubricated with spermicides.
- Putting lotion on your body unless it is jojoba oil, olive oil, or Bomasense lotion. Putting antibacterial or anti-fungal creams on your body on a regular basis.
- Including anything in your diet that you are not supposed to be having at this point. This includes recreational drugs and alcohol.
- Not adhering to your diet.
- Advil is recommended for pain conditions but not more than twice per month as the overuse of NSAIDS may be one cause of chronic illness.
