Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 In a message dated 8/3/2004 2:28:40 PM Mountain Daylight Time, kat965@... writes: > Does any one have any experience with this diet? I had a patient in > my office last week that was seen by an allergist and tested positive > for many foods. The allergist gave her a " rotation diet " to follow to > control her allergies. I am not all to up on food alergies as I > really specialize in bariatrics, lipids and diabetes - so any > assistance would help. > Does a person live their whole life on this diet? Any tips on > incorporating weight loss and lipid management into this lifestyle? > Is there any science that backs this up? Where can I read more on it. > > Thanks > > Kathleen I'm just too busy to do you justice with this, but, yes, rotation diets are valid with food allergies/sensitivities. When/if people that have gut dysfunction/allergies consume the same foods daily, they increase the risk of new allergies/sensitivities coming up. (It's important to address underlying inflammation/gut permiability as well.) Also, many allergies/sensitivities are dose related, thus, limiting consumption via a rotation diet keeps allergens reduced. Do they follow for life? Depends on the patient, severity of symptoms, gut healing that may take place later. . . For some, yes, for others, no. . . or they do a 'modified' rotation. . . For wt loss/lipid mgmt. . . you'd just make 'choices' that would fit here. I've found that many of our clients actually lose weight without really trying once they get off 'reactive' foods. Jan Jan Patenaude, RD Director, Medical Nutrition Signet Diagnostic Corp. www.nowleap.com 1- (toll free) Fax: (best to call first) DineRight4@... or Jan@... Disease Management Programs for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Migraine caused by Food Sensitivity IMPORTANT - This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, you are hereby notified that we do not consent to any reading, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and telephone ( toll free) and destroy the transmitted information. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Kathleen, There are 2 different rotation diets. One is what we used to call the Allergy Elimination diet with a twist. It is a plan that provides foods least known to be allergenic in a trial for 3 weeks then CIO (Common irritants omitted) with foods repeated every third day pending reaction. Basic plan is lamb, rice, spinach. pears, pear juice, canned peaches, carrots, occasionally lemonade. I haven't used this for years then a month ago met a very sensitive lady who needed a modification of this approach. I guess what comes around goes around! Check out an old diet manual if you have one Another rotation diet is the weight loss " Rotation Diet " by Katahan, PhD. Originally published in 1986, this plan is built on the Vanderbilt Weight Management Program. The author participated in this program himself. Essentially, this program alternates calorie levels (rotates) 600 x 3 days, 900 x 3-4 days, 1200x 7 days, then repeats for women! Higher calorie levels are used for men. There is some info on line with lots of info for candidia relief using an elimination diet. Hope this helps! Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Does any one have any experience with this diet? I had a patient in my office last week that was seen by an allergist and tested positive for many foods. The allergist gave her a " rotation diet " to follow to control her allergies. I am not all to up on food alergies as I really specialize in bariatrics, lipids and diabetes - so any assistance would help. Does a person live their whole life on this diet? Any tips on incorporating weight loss and lipid management into this lifestyle? Is there any science that backs this up? Where can I read more on it. Thanks Kathleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Hi Anne and all, I just finished co-authoring a book on food allergies. It's my understanding that rotation diets and elimination diets are distinct approaches. Elimination diets are typically used for diagnosis of food sensitivity, while rotation diets attempt to manipulate the diet to separate biologically related foods from day to day. We included a chapter on elimination diets (both selective and " few foods " approach like you described), but didn't recommend rotation diets for many reasons. Anyway, after reading your and Jan's answers, I am becoming concerned because I certainly wouldn't want to discourage a plan that works for some people. Unfortunately, I could not find studies that demonstrated effectiveness of rotation diets. Any further info on the validity/effectiveness of rotation (not elimination) diets would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Best, Dina Dina Aronson, MS, RD Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Consultant nutrawiz@... www.nutrawiz.com Message: 9 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 17:20:27 EDT From: NutriNutRD@... Subject: Re: Rotation Diet Kathleen, There are 2 different rotation diets. One is what we used to call the Allergy Elimination diet with a twist. It is a plan that provides foods least known to be allergenic in a trial for 3 weeks then CIO (Common irritants omitted) with foods repeated every third day pending reaction. Basic plan is lamb, rice, spinach. pears, pear juice, canned peaches, carrots, occasionally lemonade. I haven't used this for years then a month ago met a very sensitive lady who needed a modification of this approach. I guess what comes around goes around! Check out an old diet manual if you have one Another rotation diet is the weight loss " Rotation Diet " by Katahan, PhD. Originally published in 1986, this plan is built on the Vanderbilt Weight Management Program. The author participated in this program himself. Essentially, this program alternates calorie levels (rotates) 600 x 3 days, 900 x 3-4 days, 1200x 7 days, then repeats for women! Higher calorie levels are used for men. There is some info on line with lots of info for candidia relief using an elimination diet. Hope this helps! Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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