Food as Medicine?

I just finished listening to a conference call where a woman chronicled how she reversed her three-decade long bout with psoriasis just by changing her diet.

Psoriasis is a "systemic inflammatory" disease that affects the skin. Systemic refers to the fact that it occurs throughout the whole body, and Inflammatory refers to the fact that it causes symptoms such as swelling, redness, pain, and increased temperature.

Other systemic inflammatory diseases are Rheumatoid arthritis, Chrohn's, and Lupus.

Changes in diet can safely result in 85-90% reversal rates on such inflammatory diseases in as little as six months but requires time, persistence, and patience.

It's common that people who suffer from these problems have some sort of food allergy and sensitivity.

Keys to using diet as a form of medicine includes the following points:

• eat a plant based diet
• avoid refined flour, sugar, and artificial ingredients
• avoiding Gluten (refined flours and grains) has been linked specifically with skin disorders such as psoriasis
• in addition to a diet rich in plant based fruit and vegetables, other top health foods include:

1. hummus
2. berries
3. organic vinagrettes
4. gluten free hot cereal
5. mixed nuts
6. organic vegetable juice

If you or anyone you know have any of these issues and are interested in dynamic food sensitivity testing, please contact me at dr.agoodman@yahoo.com.