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LIFETIME ARTHRITIS RELIEF SYSTEM: FREEING FROM ARTHRITIS-CAUSING SUBSTANCESFor your self-testing to be as accurate as possible, you must first rid your body of (or greatly reduce) the residue of all the arthritis-provoking food offenders you have been eating during the past few months. In most instances these will be the same foods that you have been eating for many years. Clearing your system of clinically important residues of the specific food allergens that have been causing chronic or recurrent arthritic reactions in your joints and muscles will result in certain bodily changes. These internal changes will make it possible for you to provoke acute flare-ups of your chronic arthritis by means of a series of self-administered Rinkel deliberate food (feeding) tests (DFTs) that are of great diagnostic value.Dr. Herbert Rinkel, one of the pioneering allergists whose many research findings helped establish the field of clinical ecology, observed that if an allergenic food causing chronic symptoms is eliminated from the diet for a period of time ranging from four to twelve days or longer (up to eighteen to twenty-one days in some individuals), a patient will become highly sensitive (hyperreactive) to that food during the elimination period after the fourth day and will remain so up to two or three weeks thereafter. When it is reintroduced to the diet during the hyperreactive state, it will cause an acute, diagnostically important flare-up of the familiar chronic symptoms that were previously caused by the offending food.During the process of digestion the foods you eat are broken down into their basic chemical components, which may be used immediately, may be stored in cells throughout your body, and/or may remain in the blood or the extracellular fluid that surrounds body cells. Clinical experience has shown that it usually takes four to five days or longer for the body’s natural biochemical processes (metabolism) to break down or excrete the unused or unneeded fractions of those stored, food-derived basic chemicals, either removing them from the system or bringing them well below the allergic threshold level.The Food Elimination Diet accomplishes its objective because, as we clinical ecologists have found, a group of commonly eaten foods – which are included in almost every diet – are among the most important causes of the many kinds of internal allergic disorders.The most frequently identified food offenders – the most often consumed, illness-causing foods – are: wheat and other members of the grass family such as corn, oats, rye, rice, and cane sugar. The other major offenders are milk, eggs, beef, yeast, soy, chicken, pork, apples, green beans, oranges, bananas, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, peanuts, coffee, tea, and chocolate (cocoa).By having you follow a diet that omits all the aforementioned foods and consists of only those foods that are not eaten as often, you are much less likely to have the allergic joint and muscle reactions of arthritis. Reactions will be even less likely if these uncommon foods are eaten in a carefully planned rotation (rotary) diet that prevents a reaction-evoking buildup of any potential dietary offender in your system.In order to prevent any error on your part, let us review the basic principles of this stage of your self-help program. You will start by eliminating those common foods to which you may be allergic because they have been eaten too frequently for many years. In addition, you will also eliminate all or most of the other possible illness evoking foods, because of your personal food habits and your observations regarding their known or suspected effects on your health. The Food Elimination Diet automatically eliminates many active, probable, and potential arthritis-evoking allergens.The dietary rotation of less frequently consumed foods rapidly frees the system of the residual effects of previous meals that contained the more frequently ingested foods that were, in all probability, causing allergic joint reactions.It is possible for you to get away with it for a while by eating in an unplanned manner. However, avoid an unnecessary waste of time and effort – and possible disappointment – by carefully following a rotary diversified diet that eliminates or at least greatly reduces the possibility of poor or fair results that often come from easily preventable cumulative reactions. The buildup of illness-evoking components present in arthritis-causing foods is controlled by ingesting potential offenders on a schedule that permits the body to recover from the initial presymptom effects of a given food before it is eaten again. You must eat the uncommon foods in a well-planned rotation that preserves your existing tolerance to these foods (and also prevents the symptoms that would have come from the ingestion of common food offenders) by employing the Rinkel Rotary Diversified Diet technique.All you have to do is eat three different, unspiced, unfavored (except for the use of sea salt) single-food meals each day, with a different food at every meal. The foods eaten each day should be carefully selected and arranged from different food families in a way that prevents the buildup of a family-specific substance that may be present in the different members of a closely related group of foods. Cumulative reactions of this type are usually avoided by alternate-day spacing of exposures to food-family members like orange and grapefruit, carrot and celery, apple and pear, and so on. The five-, six-, or seven-day cycle of every rotation diet should be repeated several times with each new selection of foods, making it possible for you to record and recheck your observations of the reproducible effects of individual foods. The foods are eaten in a controlled manner, following a period of avoidance that unmasks food addiction and provokes familiar symptoms that clearly demonstrate the casual relationship of these dietary factors in your arthritis (as well as any other allergy-related health problems you may have).*17/295/5*
FALSE REMEDIES FOR ARTHRITIS: A CONTRIBUTION FROM FRANCEAnother European physician, a Frenchman named Ambroise Pare, was also intensely interested in arthritis. And he shared some of the views of his contemporary, Paracelsus.Both believed that the body of an arthritic needed special help from the liver. Since they were of the yellow and black bile school, they felt that the liver must remain unobstructed to prevent defects in the uric acid metabolism.Ambroise Pare was perfectly right about the liver being important. But on his next idea, Ambroise Pare” was dead wrong.Pare was of the opinion that colour-complex is also responsible for arthritis. A dark-complexioned person, he said, was a born arthritic. That is ridiculous! Red-heads, blondes, or albinos have an equal chance of becoming arthritic. The bloodstreams and digestive juices in people with dark complexions work in precisely the same manner— in regard to fats and oils—as those of people with light colouring.Haemorrhoidal BleedingIn many countries, many centuries ago, haemorrhoidal bleeding was considered a cure. It was an attempt to rid the body of all noxious abdominal fluids.Today if we were to induce haemorrhoids to prevent arthritis, it would be a useless crime.They did Their BestShould we condemn all counter-irritation measures?We know that counter-irritation does not improve the quality of the bloodstream from the point of view of blood chemistry. But ancient physicians did obtain relief from some diseases by ridding the body of its detrimental fluids. And, even today, an arthritic coming into a hospital is thoroughly checked for excessive red blood cells and haemoglobin—rather than for “fullness of blood” as the ancients called it.*56\146\2*