typo: have them *stop chewing the fence.
I see you have mentioned allergies, no surprise from the other things that you eat, especially dairy and cereal.
Wheat and dairy are THE two worse offenders causing allergies. Meat is laden with antibiotics, grown hormones and other chemicals that you don't want in your body.
Apples have a skin so they do not absorb the pesticides. Genetically modified corn is better for you since it requires fewer pesticides (at the very least it is no different from regular corn). Milk is not bad for you and peanuts are fine if you are not allergic. Grains and meat are also healthy to consume in moderation.If he has Chronic Cryptic Tonsillitis then no amount of diet change will cure the problem. Salt water gargling may help alleviate some symptoms but it won't cure the problem. Your analogy is bad because the damage is already done. Fixing the cause won't fix the problem.
J.R. wrote:
miserable,frustrated,clueless wrote:We thought that my tonsils were really infected and so I had them removed (turns out they were infected and full of bacteria), but here I am a month later with a sore throat and painful, swollen lymph node. Ran through it today and felt horrible...
The tonsils are your body's first line of defence. It makes no sense to remove them. It's like if pit bulls are chewing through your back fence and ripping holes in the wood. Do you report the dogs and have them chewing the fence, or do you take the fence down. Well if you take the fence down, the next thing is that they'll be coming into your house. It's the same thing with your tonsils. I'd look at the meat and cereals to see the cause of the swelling and bacteria. It didn't come from bananas.
When your diet is good then the swelling will go down.
You didn't have any dental work recently did you? If so, that could be another major reason, along with the ones already mentioned.
Sorry, I made a typo in my previous post. The d-alpha vitamin is actually vitamin "E", not vitamin "C". Vitamin C is ascorbic acid, as another poster said.
It's tough to make nutritional decisions like these. Fruits and vegetables everyone pretty much agrees on. I've thought about cutting dairy in the past, but a daily glass of chocolate milk for recovery and a yogurt for the good bacteria can't do too much damage, can it?
Lean meat is a great source of protein and nutrients, as is seafood. Grains are different...they don't do too much and make up way too much of the average American diet, but a piece of wheat bread here, a little cereal there, some rice and beans, etc. doesn't seem too harmful either. Grains are also a tough thing to cut out of any diet.