kRadLakPok
Hi
I am heading your way myself. I have recently gone low salicylate, but have not had much improvement so it looks like sulphur and oxylates may also be an issue.
My next step looked like eating 4 foods for a month and I don`t like the sound of that.
So my thoughts have been regarding the macrobiotic diet which I have been on a few times to much benefit. The healing diet is much stricter than the normal one and it is suggested to eat organic short grain brown rice alone for 10 days, pressure cooked for an hour in 3x the usual amount of water and well chewed. Of course then we must consider the arsenic problem.
I have been looking into this and found the following:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...inorganic-arsenic-rice-consumption-brown-rice
Choose California. Of the domestic rices tested by Consumer Reports, California rices had lower levels of arsenic than those in other states. FDA rice results also indicated that some U.S. rice had lower levels of arsenic, but the data it released to the public did not specify states of origin.
There are ways to reduce arsenic including washing the rice well.
STUDY IN ABERDEEN
The researchers from the University of Aberdeen, UK, bought different brands and varieties of rice milk, including
organic, non-organic and flavoured, from local supermarkets. They also made 'home-made' rice milk, from rice grown in different parts of the world, with a commercially-available machine.
They showed that of four brands of commercial rice milk tested, all exceeded the EU total arsenic standard of 10 µg l-1 - some by as much as three times. Eighty per cent of
samples also failed to meet the US standard of 10 µg l-1 inorganic arsenic.
Of the samples of 'home-made' rice milk made by the researchers, all met US standards and only one failed to meet EU standards.
It is questionable, the researchers say, if rice milk counts as a water substitute - where it would be regulated by these directives - or as a food. But they believe that in this case the distinction between the two should not be made. "Whether rice milk is a food or a
drink is a moot point," the researchers say in the paper. ".if rice milk is a dietary constituent on a regular basis, then chronic arsenic exposure, at levels deemed unsafe under the EU water drinking directive, will occur."
The authors also note that currently no maximum permissible concentration (MPC) for arsenic in food has been set by the Commission of European Communities - meaning arsenic levels in food are effectively unregulated in Europe and elsewhere. "Given that arsenic in its inorganic form . is a chronic human carcinogen, it is surprising that MPCs have not been set for this element," they say.
References
Meharg et al,
J. Environ. Monit., 2008,
DOI:
10.1039/b800981c
*Note that the home made rice milk was ok.
As I have high levels of arsenic too, this is important to me. I am going to go ahead with the diet. It has a good record of healing people from serious illness and I think that the benefits may overcome any negative aspects. It certainly made a huge difference to me when I tried it before (but did not stick to it as it is hard to do at first)
