Anyone cut out Dairy, Sugar, Wheat and Pork from diet?

silverboot

I have had health problems for several years now. Bouncing from one specialist to the other. I recently was referred to a naturopath that has help a lot of people in my area with natural remedies. I went to see him 6 weeks ago and he instructed me to take specific vitamins and natural pills he prescribed. I saw great improvement in 1 week. I saw him again last week for a follow up and he now instructed me to cut out all dairy, sugar, wheat, pork, coffee and alcohol from my diet for 4 weeks and wants to see me again before I change my diet again.

Well let me tell you this, I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't stuck to this %100, but I feel great in just 1 week. I have more energy in the mornings. (I have never been a morning person) I have also lost about 5 lbs of bloating and water. I have to admit it is extremely hard to stick to it because of the time it takes to prepare all my meals compared to grabbing something on the way to work. But, the results are too good to switch back to the way I was eating.

Anyone else cut out these foods or don't eat them to start with and feel fanatastic?

drmerc

I doubt anyone has done that before, it's cray cray

imfivebyfive

I used to have digestive/bloating issues. I cut out wheat, gluten, dairy (except for eggs), and sugar and have not had any issues since.

So yeah, I would say it works.

Chief_Rocka

I have a recipe for a planko and cheese crusted pork chop in a sweet white wine sauce if you're interested

Tw1zzler

I have a recipe for a planko and cheese crusted pork chop in a sweet white wine sauce if you're interested

I'm interested.

WendyTerry420

Hell no. Those are four of my favorite things.

MB_Positif

I have a recipe for a planko and cheese crusted pork chop in a sweet white wine sauce if you're interested

I'm interested.

Me too. Please post.

bcattoes

Those are a lot of things to cut out all at once. Most likely you have an intollerance to one of those things. Dairy and wheat are pretty common. You likely could have gotten the same results by just cutting the food to which you are intollerant. Cutting one food at a time would have made it easier to identify which it was, but if this is working for you and you can sustain it long term, then good for you.

ItsCasey

I've cut out wheat, not because I think it's some weight-loss miracle to do so, but because I learned I could live without it, and it freed up more calories for delicious dead beast. I still eat dairy, sugar, and, obviously, pork.

I tend to avoid "doctors" who advocate giving up huge categories of food like they have just discovered gold. It's only natural that someone with inflammation or who is overweight or perhaps lactose intolerant would feel better if they cut out wheat, sugar, and dairy. I think most of the benefit is psychological. The quack said you would feel better if you gave up x, y, and z, so you did, and you think you feel better. He'll keep telling you to cut stuff out, and you'll keep doing it, and eventually, the only thing you'll be able to eat is berries, and then you'll swear that people are healthiest when they eat only berries.

LaLouve_RK

Cut totally? No.... Never.
i plan my meals in consequence. It's hard since I am a big cheese addict! But it can be done!

CoderGal

I have a recipe for a planko and cheese crusted pork chop in a sweet white wine sauce if you're interested

I'm interested.

Me too. Please post.

mmm me to! Yes, please post for the benefit of everyone else.

CoachReddy

it's not cray cray.

i've cut dairy out almost entirely (have pizza like, once a month)

I'm working on the sugar thing (mostly from fruits), and dropping wheat is also incredibly beneficial, as most of us have a minor wheat intolerance.

Don't know why the pork... vs any other meat... but otherwise it sounds really logical to me. I'm currently reading Thrive, which is a vegan nutrition plan designed for athletes, and it's just plain incredible. cutting out things that humans have trouble digesting (like all the above) can streamline your body and systems like you wouldn't believe.

Congrats and good luck!

lisavirani

I cut all of those out at once before and it was fantastic. I felt great, I lost weight, and I was eating great food. That was a few months back. I have recently added dairy back in and SMALL amounts of wheat. I still feel good. It was a good cleanse though to eliminate those things. Not saying everyone should or everyone can, I mean, that is a LOT to eliminate, especially all at once.

Acg67

I have had health problems for several years now. Bouncing from one specialist to the other. I recently was referred to a naturopath that has help a lot of people in my area with natural remedies. I went to see him 6 weeks ago and he instructed me to take specific vitamins and natural pills he prescribed. I saw great improvement in 1 week. I saw him again last week for a follow up and he now instructed me to cut out all dairy, sugar, wheat, pork, coffee and alcohol from my diet for 4 weeks and wants to see me again before I change my diet again.

Unfortunately, naturopathy is a hodge-podge of mostly unscientific treatment modalities based on vitalism and other prescientific notions of disease. As a result, typical naturopaths are more than happy in essence to “pick one from column A and one from column B” when it comes to pseudoscience, mixing and matching treatments including traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, herbalism, Ayurvedic medicine, applied kinesiology, anthroposophical medicine, reflexology, craniosacral therapy, Bowen Technique, and pretty much any other form of unscientific or prescientific medicine that you can imagine. Despite their affinity for non-science-based medical systems, naturopaths crave the imprimatur of science. As a result, they desperately try to represent what they do as being science-based, and they’ve even set up research institutes, much like the departments, divisions, and institutes devoted to “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) that have cropped up on the campuses of legitimate medical schools and academic medical centers like so many weeds poking through the cracks in the edifice of science-based medicine. Naturopaths also really, really don’t like it when they encounter criticism that their “discipline” is not science-based. Indeed, the president of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Carl Hangee-Bauer, ND, LAc (he’s an acupuncturist, too!), wrote a revealing post on the official AANP blog entitled Science and Naturopathic Medicine.

Science. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/naturopathy-and-science/

NinjaJinja

No and I wouldn't either unless I had an intolerance. You likely are intolerant to only one of those (as someone said, dairy and wheat are common). My friend has celiac's and whenever she accidentally glutenates herself she experiences a drastic drop in energy. And it's hard enough for her to cut out gluten. I can't imagine cutting out dairy and sugar and pork (pork?? really??) - there would hardly be anything left for me to eat!

Kind of like, how the hell does a vegan cut out carbs? What's left for them to eat?

Chief_Rocka

as most of us have a minor wheat intolerance.

Do you have any evidence of this?

CoachReddy

as most of us have a minor wheat intolerance.

Do you have any evidence of this?

http://io9.com/5968164/why-you-should-probably-stop-eating-wheat

The problem, however, is in how it's metabolized. According to Alessio Fasano, the Medical Director for The University of Maryland's Center for Celiac Research, no one can properly digest gluten.

"We do not have the enzymes to break it down," he said in a recent interview with TenderFoodie. "It all depends upon how well our intestinal walls close after we ingest it and how our immune system reacts to it." His concern is that the gluten protein, which is abundant in the endosperm of barley, rye, and wheat kernels, is setting off an aberrant immune response.

teasdino

Glad you are feeling great.
Jac

Acg67

as most of us have a minor wheat intolerance.

Do you have any evidence of this?

http://io9.com/5968164/why-you-should-probably-stop-eating-wheat

The problem, however, is in how it's metabolized. According to Alessio Fasano, the Medical Director for The University of Maryland's Center for Celiac Research, no one can properly digest gluten.

"We do not have the enzymes to break it down," he said in a recent interview with TenderFoodie. "It all depends upon how well our intestinal walls close after we ingest it and how our immune system reacts to it." His concern is that the gluten protein, which is abundant in the endosperm of barley, rye, and wheat kernels, is setting off an aberrant immune response.

Solid evidence

RobynLB

I don't eat wheat, dairy, corn, certain fruits, and certain veggies. This is so restrictive as it is, that I've thought about cutting out other foods to ease my continuing stomach woes, but I just don't know what I will be able to eat. Is pork an issue for some people? I was vegitarian for years, and I've begun eating meat again, and I have noticed that my stomach problems seem to flare up from eating pork, but I thought I was just imagining things.

CoachReddy

Solid evidence

once in a blue moon.