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| utes and 90 minutes after the meal ends. Always take your pulse sitting up, except when you first wake. |
| Keep a food journal for two or three days, noting everything you eat at each meal and the day's pulse rates. Some connections may be obvious at once. If your pulse jumps from 65 beats per minute just before breakfast to 85 beats per minute after, something in the French toast may not agree with you. One woman discovered that her pulse raced every morning, just after she got out of bed. After three days of record keeping, she realized that the problem was her toothpaste. When she changed brands, her chronic migraine headaches disappeared. |
| You can use the pulse test to check individual foods and narrow your findings to a single offender. Dr. Coca recommended checking the pulse at half-hour intervals, but my experiments suggest that most reactions are apparent within five minutes. |
| Learning your food sensitivities is one thing; working around them is something else, especially if your strongest reactions are to wheat and dairy products. Wheat and milk are everywhere. Your health food store is an important source of cookbooks, nonwheat flours, dairy-free ice creams and cheeses, nonwheat pastas and milk substitutes. No, these foods don't taste like the real thing, but if you can't have the real thing, they're worth trying. Because of increased demand and competition, the substitute foods market is still improving, and it's growing fast. Even supermarkets are beginning to carry substitute products. Shopping for restricted diets is still a challenge, but it's not the lonely task it was 20 years ago. |
| Eat More Raw Food |
| Raw foods contain nutrients and enzymes that are destroyed by cooking. The human digestive tract is designed to process a diet consisting of a wide variety of foods, much of it raw and unprocessed. |
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