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Meals That Heal Anti-Inflammatory Food System
Use these columns to guide your food selections away from those causing inflammation and toward those that heal.
Green Light,
Eat More!
Yellow Light,
Be Cautious!
Yellow Light foods cause inflammation if
you are sensitive to them or have preexisting inflammatory conditions.
Green Light foods are generally healing.
Eat Green Light foods liberally once
you’re certain that you have no allergy or
sensitivity to them.
Determine if Yellow Light foods heal or
hurt you by eliminating them completely
from your healing Live-It for 8 weeks.
After 8 weeks slowly reintroduce Yellow
Light foods, one-at-a-time, to record in,
and assess through, your Daily Live-It
Food Journal how your body reacts.
Red Light,
Eat Less!
Red Light foods and additives are highly
inflammatory.
Take steps, as quickly as you can, to
eliminate Red Light foods from your meal
plans, and kitchen, completely and
permanently.
Follow green healing food and yellow ‘caution’ food guidelines to replace red hurting foods.
Healing
Caution
Hurting
VEGETABLES
Enjoy, and Accelerate:
Enjoy fresh, ripe whole vegetables
raw, broiled, steamed, baked or
sautéed.
Check for sensitivity, then proceed:
Steer clear, GO to GREEN:
Corn is a common allergen, avoid it.
Substitute celery root, yam or sweet
ALL processed & fried vegetables
potato for white potato - they are not (corn chips, corn nuts, french fries,
nightshades and contain more fibre! fried eggplant, potato chips, tempura)
artichokes, celery, cucumber,
cruciferous vegetables (broccoli,
Substitute whole grains, like Job’s
Avoid old, sprouted or green
cabbage, kale, leafy greens, root
Tears, for corn.
potatoes, as these are exceptionally
vegetables, squash), sea vegetables Avoid popcorn right now because the
high in poisonous solanine.
(dulse, nori, wakame)
hard kernels are difficult to digest.
What to do :
What to do:
Avoid nightshade vegetables for 8 week
sensitivity assessment.
What to do:
Eat vegetables of different colours at each
meal as colours represent various nutrients Nightshades (eggplant, tomato, hot & sweet
and antioxidants (eg. chlorophyll in green peppers, white potato) have alkaloids that
Avoid ALL genetically modified (GM/GMO)
kale, beta-carotene in orange yams).
impact nerve-muscle, digestive function,
vegetables (eg. potatoes, tomatoes, corn,
and your joints.
IBD increases sensitivity to the high fibre
sugar beet).
content of sea vegetables. Eat dried (flaked
Alkaloids are especially high in unripe
or powdered) sea vegetables in moderation tomatoes, older potatoes and nightshade
to avoid intestinal inflammation.
leaves (i.e. tobacco) - smokers are more
susceptible to a sensitivity.