FOOD SENSITIVITY: WHAT IS A ROTATION DIET?

Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 7:41 am

The principle of a rotation diet is to manage your diet formally, so that you only eat certain foods at given intervals. Its purpose is both to prevent and to cure. It helps prevent you developing new intolerances or allergies by keeping your diet varied and unrepetitive. It can help cure mild allergy or intolerance by reducing the load of a food in your diet, while still allowing you to eat it in moderation.

A rotation diet is usually planned on a four-day basis. You are allowed to eat a particular food on one day in the rotation, and not again until that day comes around once more. The foods that you tolerate are allocated to each of the days of the rotation and you stick to that system. So on Day One you have a list of foods from which you can choose what you will eat that day; on Day Two, you have your Day Two list, and so on.

A four-day basis is chosen because four days gives the body time to clear the food from the system, and most people are able to tolerate foods well at four-day intervals. You usually start out on a four-day rotation, keep to it strictly and then modify it to suit your own system, or way of life.

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