When in Rome, Berlin, Santiago or Katmandu… and other hot and shady areas, follow these simple methods to avoid ending up with traveller’s diarrhea and other nasty bugs: support healthy bacteria in your gut by eating soured milk or soy products as locals do. The more good bacteria, the less bad’ns will cause trouble. Alleviate likelihood of obtaining a parasite by dousing food with lime, lemon, cider vinegar and drinking bitter teas like barberry. Eat pumpkin seeds, garlic and onions which have natural anti parasitic potential. Avoid buffering stomach acid with Tums and other antacids, as the acid will help protect the body from many parasites and infections.
To recover from a parasite see diet below
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Anti-Parasite Diet
EAT
Meat includes medium well and well-cooked (NOT Raw or Rare) fish, lamb, chicken, turkey, eggs, seafood. Never rare hamburger that is not trustworthy.
Most all land and ocean vegetables (including immune mushrooms like reishi, shitake, maitake, osha)
Raw and cooked garlic and onions
Low gluten Grains: Millet, quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat; (later on- brown rice and for those without allergic reaction- corn (especially blue corn) products, rice cakes, sprouted (non-flour) grain breads (i.e. Ezekiel Bread)
Non-sweet fruits: lemons, limes, cranberries (later on grapefruit may be included), pineapple and papaya for their proteinaceous enzymes
Selected dairy products: Butter, ghee, natural/plain yogurt, kefir, authentic sour cream, goats milk, limited farmer cheese, white cheeses)
Oils: (organic, unrefined, expeller-pressed) fish, olive, canola, pumpkin, sunflower, safflower, flax, lecithin, grape seed
Nuts and Seeds: almonds (soaked is best), almond butter, sunflower, pumpkin, caraway, flax
Sweetners: Stevia, maple syrup. Blackstrap molasses, agave nectar,
Misc.: Legumes (limited if digestion is poor), tofu, tempeh, cider vinegar rice milk, hemp milk, almond milk, soymilk, garlic, ginger, apple cider vinegar, herbs, good quality seed butters, sauces and dips from allowed ingredients
Teas: barberry, dandelion, wormwood, black walnut etc.
AVOID
Unpasteurized Foods
Raw or Rare meat or fish
All sweet fruits and sugars (fruit juices, dried, canned or frozen fruits, high fructose corn syrup, honey, fancy molasses, brown sugar, rice syrup, fructose, sucrose, cane sugar, Asulfame, Nutra-Sweet, Aspartame, Saccarin, Sweet ‘n Low)
Alcohol, soda pop, diet drinks, MSG, citric acid, junk food in general, refined sugary cereals, white mushrooms, peanuts, distilled vinegar, nuts and nut butters (except raw almonds, which are alkaline)
Avoid greasy fried foods, starchy grains with high *gluten content,
Poor quality oils, and prepared salad dressings, condiments, bakers and brewer’s yeast.
Avoid, tomatoes (overuse), eggplant, green bell peppers and brown skin white potatoes (too high in gluten).
*FOODS WITH HIGH GLUTEN: selected wheat, kamut, spelt and rye breads, flour products, grains and pastas (All create too much gluten in the body which in turn creates natural sugars that again, feed the parasites.)
