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Nutrition for Hay Fever Dietary Principles:
* Maintain a moderately low fat diet; men should eat no more than 12% of their total calories in fat, women no more than 22%.
* Avoid sugar
* Eat lots of high complex carbohydrates.
* Maintain a diet that is 12%-15% protein, and cut down on foods high in arachidonic acid (red meats and dairy products.)
* Go on alkaline juice fasts, about 3 days at a time (every 3-7 days), followed by a vegetarian diet.
* Elimination/rotation diet
Therapeutic Foods:
Foods high in flavonoids and carotenoids: dark, green leafy vegetables, deep yellow and orange vegetables; silicon foods: garlic, nettles, ginger, onion, bamboo shoots, cabbage, beets, beet tops, carrots, and yams
Fresh Juices: (Try each one until you find a juice that benefits you.)
Beet top tea Nettle tea Carrot and spinach Horseradish and lemon Carrot, celery, and parsley Carrot, beet, and cucumber
Foods to Avoid:
Any food that produces an intolerance, especially dairy products, wheat, eggs, citrus fruits, chocolate, shellfish, cheese, bananas, peanuts, citrus, and food colorings
Specific Supplements:
Vitamin A - 50,000 I.U. a day for the acute phase, then reduce to 25,000 I.U. a day
Vitamin B-complex - 150 mg. a day
Vitamin C - Take as high a dose as possible; diarrhea will signal that you have exceeded your tolerance level; then simply drop back to the level where you were before the diarrhea began.
Vitamin E - 200 I.U. to start, then increase slowly to 600 I.U.
Bioflavonoids - 2 grams 3 x day
Chelated Zinc - 30 mg. a day
Chelated Copper - 5 mg. a day
B5 - 1-2 grams a day
B6 - 100 mg. 3 x day
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