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Nutrition for Peptic Ulcers Dietary Principles:
* Small, frequent meals are the best tolerated.
* Maintain a low protein diet.
* Go on a short alkaline fast for 2 days.
* Elimination/rotation diet
* Maintain a high fiber diet to delay gastric emptying.
Therapeutic Foods:
Pureed lima beans, steamed carrots, rice gruel, barley water, okra, goat's milk, potato broth, coconut milk, carob, parsnips (steamed and mashed), dates and whole raw milk, pumpkin, squash, okra, tapioca, barley water, fig, kale, and slippery elm gruel
Fresh Juices: (Try each one until you find a juice that benefits you.)
Celery with a little sweet cream Spinach and grapefruit 1/4 cup raw potato juice (on an empty stomach, 20 to 30 minutes before breakfast) Cabbage Carrot and spinach Carrot, beet, and cucumber
Foods, Medications and Behaviors to Avoid:
Any food that causes an intolerance, especially milk, pepper, chili, hot, spicy, fried, fatty, acid-producing, or stimulating foods; sugar and sweets, coffee, teas and colas containing caffeine, or alcohol; aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, antacids, smoking, and stress
Specific Supplements:
Lecithin - 1 gram 5 x day
Cabbage (raw juice) - 1 liter a day (or use the amino acid glutamine)
Zinc picolinate - 90 mg. a day
Copper - 5 mg. a day
Vitamin A - 25,000 I.U. a day
Vitamin C - l gram (buffered) 3 x day
Essential fatty acids - 1 to 2 Tbsp. safflower oil OR 4 to 6 capsules of black current oil
Bismuth citrate salts - Take as directed.
B12 and activated Vitamin D - if on cimetidine (Tagamet)
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