Conclusion:
What I can provide, though, after 12 months alone in the diet-industry wilderness, is a strategy for finding what does work for you—my own take on what is commonly referred to as an elimination diet. You'll have to keep a diary of everything you eat and how it makes you feel, but it won't take a full year—more like two months.
The first two weeks will be the hardest. Eliminate prepared foods, coffee, dairy, nightshades, wheat, soy, alcohol, corn, eggs, processed grains, processed anything else, added sugar, and all but the most organic, free-range, grass-fed of meats. Relax; this leaves you with a lot of options. You'll find most of them in the produce section. Mix in the occasional serving of fish, turkey, or buffalo, drink herbal tea, discover spelt bread, and learn to cook quinoa. You'll get through.
After that, start methodically experimenting, one at a time, with foods you eliminated and see what happens over the next 72 hours. Did that omelet make you feel nauseated? Any skin issues after tomatoes? Did meat make you feel better? You see where this is going. After two months, you'll have a functioning idea of foods that work for you and ones that work against you. If you can, see your doctor and ask for blood tests at the beginning and end of your two months.
To reach that conclusion John Bradley tried each of 8 diets for 4 weeks in a one year period. Take the time to view the detailed version of the chart outlining his results. I think its a nice example of a graphic presentation -- pretty with a lot to say.
One nice thing: Bradley is healthy by most measures. I like studies that look at healthy people rather than diseased populations (like the broad U.S. population) for guidance.
There is a meta-message here: we need to experiment on ourselves. Unfortunately, most of us have health plans that make this kind of analysis hard or impossible.
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