FOODS TO AVOID After three months you can return the starred (*) foods to your diet. Add one food every third day and see if your body reacts, ie., rapid heart beat, itching, bioat and gas, constipation, fatigue, or worsening of your MS symptoms. If so, keep these foods out of your diet for another three months and try again Animal protein Bacon (except turkey bacon without nitrates and hormones) Hotdogs (except chicken or turkey hotdog without nitrates and hormones) Processed and packaged meat Sausages (except chicken and turkey without added sugar, hormanes, and nitrates) Shellfish Tuna, canned Vegetables Mushrooms Potatoes* Dairy Cheeses, all including cottage and cream cheese Buttermilk Cow's milk Goat's milk and cheese(raw)" Ice cream Margarine Rice milk Sour cream. soy milk Yogurt Condiments Catsup Mayonnaise (unless made with apple cider vinegar) Mustard (unless made with apple cider vinegar) Pickles Relish Salad dressing (unless made with apple cider or rice vinegar, and sugar-free) Sauces with vinegars and sugar Soy sauce and tamari sauce Spices that contain y E sugar, or additives vinegars, all (except raw, unfiltered apple cider and unsweetened rice vinegar) Worcestershire sauceProcessed food (TV. dinner, etc.) Smoked, dried, pickled, or cured foods Boveragos Alcohol Caffeinated teas (except green tea) Coffee (caffeinated and decaffeinated) Fruit juices Sodas (diet and regular) Fruits Apricots* Bananas* Cherries* Cranberries Dried fruits (all apricots, dates, figs, raisins, cranberries, prunes, etc.) Guava* Grapes Juices (all sweetened or unsweetened) Nectarines* Oranges? Papayas* Peaches* Pears* Plunns* Persimmon" Pomegranates* Strawberries" Langerines* Sweeteners Agave nectar Artificial sweeteners (such as aspartame, Nutrasweet, maltitol, mannitol, saccharin, sorbitol, and sucralose (Splenda) Barley malt Brown rice syrup Corn syrup Dextrose Tructose, products sweetened with fruit juice Honey (raw* or pracessed). Raw honey can be used medicinally (See Energy Boosters, page 266). Maltodextrin Maple syrup Molasses Raw or evaporated cane juice crystals White sugarBeans and Legumes. Fermented soy products (miso, tempeh, etc.). Many people are allergic to all soy products, so it may be best to avoid them altogether. Peast Oils Canola oil (small amounts okay) Corn oil Cottonseed oil Partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils Peanut oil Soy oil Nuts and Seods Cashews" Peanuts, peanut butter Pistachios* Grains. Barley* Breads (except gluten dairy-, yeast-, and sugar-free) Cereals (except gluten, dairy-, and sugar-free) Corn (tortillas and polenta) Crackers (gluten and/or white flour) Kamut* Oats Pasta (except brown rice and quinoa) Pastries Rye* spelt* Tapioca White flours White rice Whole wheat™ Miscellaneous candy Chocolate coffee Coakies Donuts Fast food and fried foods Gelatin Gum (unless sweetened with stevia or xylitol) Lozenges/mints (unless sweetened with stevia or xylitol) Muffins Pastry Pizza