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Guidance for patients undertaking particular treatments: patient information sheets

Basic Healing Diet
(Low-stress nutient-rich diet)

Avoid All Do eat / drink:
  • Processed / refined foods
  • Sugar
  • White flour products
  • Alcohol
  • Tea and coffee
  • Cola and soft drinks
  • Chocolate
  • Colourings, flavourings, preservatives, flavour enhances, artificial sweeteners and other chemical food additives
  • Known allergens

Eat less

  • Fats and oils, especially
    - Saturated fats (animal fats, processed tropical fats)
    - Refined oils (most mass-market oils)
    - Hydrogenated oils (margarines, shortenings)
    - Cooked oils, fried foods
  • Meat (free-range, organic meat is best)
  • Dairy products (organic milk / cheese are best)
  • Eggs (free-range, organic eggs are best)
  • Salt
  • Fresh,unprocessed foods (organic where possible)
  • A wide variety of foods
  • Fresh fruit
  • Fresh vegetables (raw, steamed, juiced)
  • Whole grains
  • Brown rice
  • Whole Grain breads
  • Wholemeal pasta
  • Soya products e.g. tofu, soya milk
  • Pulses (peas, beans, lentils)
  • Nuts and seeds
  • Garlic, ginger, freah herbs, spices
  • Fish
  • Low-fat live yoghurt
  • Unrefined, cold-pressed oils
    • extra virgin olive oil for cooking
    • sunflower seed oil / flax seed oil for salad dressing or added to hot vegetable or grain dishes
  • Filtered mineral or spring water
  • Herb teas
  • Fresh vegetable juices (e.g carrot, beetroot)
  • Fresh fruit juices (in moderation)

Last updated 11/04/08

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Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is really only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.

We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.

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