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Look, when it comes to health, nobody’s perfect. But what’s our goal here? To improve your health, and to keep you young and active. So let’s say your overall digestive health ranks a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10; you don’t have to get to a 10 to live better. An 8 would make your insides feel as if they’re getting a Swedish massage. And you’ll live longer and better because of it. If you’re bothered, nagged, or even just mildly irritated by occasional rumblings in your gut, one of the best things you can do for your health is play mad scientist for a couple weeks. We don’t know about you, but we always loved science lab. Mix and match ingredients, and you’ll come up with the coolest concoctions that are customized to the needs of your body.
Since food has so much of an influence on our digestion, it stands to reason that you can change the way you live and feel by figuring out the foods that are causing you trouble. Since there are so many foods to choose from, the best way to experiment is through the food-elimination test (no, you won’t be looking in the toilet again). In this test, you completely eliminate one group of foods for about three days in a row. During that time, you should take notes about how you feel with regard to energy levels, fatigue, and digestive regularity. Take notes when you go off foods and—just as important—how you feel when you reintroduce them into your diet. That way, you’ll be in tune to those things that make you feel worse once you start eating them again. Here’s the order of groups of food we’d suggest you eliminate from your diet at different times, just for two or three days:
wheat products
dairy products
protein
carbohydrates (including sugar)
fat
artificial colors

When you eliminate a group from your diet, you’ll notice different things about the way you feel. For instance, you may have more energy when you eliminate the aging fats (saturated and trans) from your diet, and that’ll help you stick to a diet low in saturated fat because you’ll notice—and like—the changes. It’s all about awareness—being in tune to which foods make you feel crummy and which make you want to sprint to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. This three-day elimination plan is an especially good test because you may be able to identify subtle food allergies through this method. While some food allergies may be as obvious as a botched hair transplant, others may not be so clear. Low-grade food allergies can make you feel as if you have a touch of the flu—with a runny nose and headache. Through this experiment, you can help make a diagnosis and avoid some of the foods that make you feel less well. Best of all, this experiment trains you to do something that’s good not only for your digestive system but for your overall health and youth. It teaches you to eat smaller meals by restricting some of the usual foods that you would toss in your mouth by habit. And that’s good for everyone.

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