Food Rotation - Eating Variety Foods

Some people eat food in rotation, to keep pre-existing food sensitivity from returning, or getting worse. Rotation helps in experimentation and provides you the range of nutrients that cannot be supplied otherwise by eating same category of edibles all week. People generalize this rotation policy to all their foods to get adequate supply of carbohydrates, proteins, fat, vitamins and minerals. For instance if they eat potatoes on Monday, they won't eat them again until Thursday or Friday.  Furthermore, if the patient has had trouble with potatoes in the past, he might not eat anything from that food group the next day.  Thus the potato "family" is only eaten every other day.  He might eat potatoes on Monday, green peppers on Wednesday, and potatoes again on Friday.  This is called a "rotation diet", and it is often combined with other dietary restrictions.

Rotation is needed especially if you are allergic to some particular substance. Obviously the plants that are closely related will share more proteins, and are likely to trigger the same reactions in a sensitive or allergic individual.  If you already know you react to wheat, you have to be especially careful of oats and rye, and (to a lesser extent) corn and rice. In other words, you wouldn't bother to rotate your foods if you hadn't already discovered a problem.  Thus you are eliminating certain foods or chemicals, and rotating the remaining items, just to be safe.  This prevents new sensitivities from developing, because the same foods are not eaten day after day. 

If you were novice to rotation diet or hadn’t heard about it, then don’t worry, you do not have to follow a strict rotation schedule.  Just try to make a casual effort to serve different meats and grains on different days, but this is not a strict rotation diet.  Your modest efforts at rotation will be sufficient, at least for your family.

Let us take Americans for instance, they eat only a few foods, and they eat them all the time.  Examine your own menu -- you probably eat wheat and dairy every day -- almost every meal.  With so many delicious foods available, from all around the world, we owe it to ourselves to introduce more variety in our diets.  Rigorous rotation is probably not necessary, but variety is indeed the spice of life and for some, it is the key to good health. .  You'll never guess which foods belong together, so don't try.  Any book on nutrition, available from your health food store, will list the food groups in an appendix.

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