Elimination diet

The elimination diet is a concept that has become popular in recent years, it is closely related to bioindividuality and holistic nutrition, because it seeks to adapt a style of eating that distinguishes between the particularities of each person, taking into account their differences, tolerance to food, state of your body and metabolism.

Taking into account the importance of this topic, we will make a basic summary of some of the particularities that distinguish the elimination diet, so that you can use it as a resource when adapting your eating style.

Concept

The elimination diet, as a concept, refers to the technique used in order to discard those foods that may be hostile to our body and those that can actually enhance the results of our diet.

It is a kind of experiment that consists of discarding certain foods from our daily meals, in order to observe how our body behaves during the absence of these foods.

Usefulness

The elimination diet has a wide range of utilities, whenever it is necessary to know the effects of a food on our body we can make use of it. An example of this could be, to know if a certain product is causing the increase of our weight, to know if a food favors or not our gastritis, if something we eat is causing our poor digestion or lack of sleep, among many others.

You can use the elimination diet to rule out allergies, since in many occasions we have a very varied diet and it can be complex to know which specific food is causing a certain reaction in our body.

Another very common use of the elimination diet is associated with diabetics, who need to have a strict control over their glucose levels in the body. For this purpose, by using a glucometer we can measure the impact on glucose of eliminating a certain food from our daily meals.

The elimination diet can be used for numerous experiments, since the average human being ingests a very varied amount of food and sometimes these foods are usually processed or of very poor quality, which allows us to learn about the effects of each of these in our body.

How is it done?

To carry out an elimination diet, the first thing to do is to choose those foods on which we want to check. Remember that this period will function as a kind of study that will try to provide us with data on the quality of what we eat, so that we can determine whether or not they are suitable for our body.

Once we have selected these foods, we will proceed to suspend their consumption for a period of approximately 20 days, we can make use of an agenda to measure the results of this suspension.

It is important that apart from suspending the consumption of these foods, you do not make drastic changes in your eating style, which could alter the results we are looking for. An example of this could be that we suspend a food because we believe that it is causing an uncontrolled increase of glucose in the body, but we start eating new foods rich in sugar, since the result will be biased.

After those 20 days you will begin to include again the foods that you have suspended, in this way the result will be much more noticeable, since if there are considerable changes from the elimination until we add them again, we will have certainty of what causes that food in our body.