I've been trying to follow this type of diet for the past year or so with some success. I fell off it while traveling this summer and pulled this out the other day to try to get me back me on track with a healthy nutritional diet. It's not really a diet so to speak, more about food choices and how it affects your overall health.

The pyramid basically replicates much of what Dr. Hoosman proposed with his RSD diet in his RSD puzzles. A good common sense food guide that can be followed to a certain degree by those of us with RSD. I think the only questions I would have regarding this is the red wine and chocolate given that are stimulants that can trigger RSD depending on how sensitive one is.

I put this food pyramid up by my fridge in the kitchen to help remind me about what I need to do especially when I get the munchies. I can turn bad snacks into a whole meal if I'm not careful so this is a great reminder to take the carrot or apple over the processed food snacks.

Actually I'm trying like heck to eliminate all processed foods, including the ones from the health food stores because so many contain MSG disguised under other names in the ingredients. Watch out for things like hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolized protein, sodium caseinate, yeast extract...the list goes on. I'm also very suspicious of the term "Natural Flavoring" as an ingredient. MSG is a known excitotoxiin bad for the nervous system. I used to think it was only something added to Chinese food, boy was I wrong. I'm hard pressed to find a can of soup on the shelves that doesn't have it in some form or another. It's in everything processed and and I don't want it in my diet but I digress.

Since it focuses on anti-inflammatory dietary choices I thought it would be good to share with you all here.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02995...d-Pyramid.html

Hope you are all well tonight.

MsL

I was just telling my hubby about Dr H's diet this weekend and I thank you for putting up the pyramid link.

Mslday,

Dr Weil is a hero of mine.
I don't have his book any longer....... someone is using it...

But, his first book especially is incredible.
As you read it, you know that you're absorbing "common sense".

I recommend it to all!

pete
asb

This is a great post.

For people interesting in food content, you can also see an inflammatory index here:

www.nutritiondata.com

This website gives a huge amount of information about what is contained in foods.

I refer to if often!

Hi MsL,

Thank you for the great post. I've been working on anti-inflammatory diet and eat foods high in anti-oxidants. I've been reading Dr. Hooshmand's Puzzle List for 9-10 years. I almost went to Florida to see him. Dark Chocolate is good for us if it is from good product and produced appropriately. I distribute a dark chocolate that is caffeine free, diabetic friendly,high in pro biotics 70% Belgium Chocolate. My Dr. that just built 2 new clinics is going to put the product in both clinics. He has a dietary program in the clinics. He also put HBOT in both clinics.
Inflammation and Low Immune System go with RSD. Dr. H has information on both. There are about 140 questions and answers. It is very informative.
That you again for the good information. Healthy eating is imperative for our health. Your friend, loretta with soft hugs

Hi Loretta,

I'd love to be able to find a chocolate like that . I've never come a cross one that's caffeine free. Are you distributing it widely? What a great thing to do! Good luck with it.

Many thanks

MsL

This really is a terrific site. I quite like the IF (Inflammation Factor) Rating system. Thanks for sharing.

Warm wishes.

MsL