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PreservingThePast
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 Posted - 04/25/2010 : 10:00:22
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I know I began a topic about my dietary changes to try to improve my health and posted that I had seen extremely favorable changes almost immediately. I know I had also commented on MSG in that one topic and the topic about the Mahattma rice.
Well, this is going to continue and sort of combine those two together with the following information:
I made the dietary changes not quite four weeks ago. We went to the coin show in Sarasota, Florida on Saturday and to reward my husband for his kindness and patience in driving me to all these shows, sitting around bored, etc I told him that if he really wanted to eat an early supper out at an Amish restaurant in the Sarasota area that I would do so too. We had packed along food for the entire day into night but I felt this was something he would enjoy. And, I felt I might encounter less offensive food additives, etc in this type of restaurant so it would be a good place to try for the first time in several weeks eating food that's not allowed on the inflammation diet. Just call me "Human Guinea Pig"! Or would that be "Human Lab Mouse"??? 
We did an internet search and learned there are now several of these restaurants in the Sarasota area. We had taken my dad and our son down there about 18 - 20 years ago as my dad had lived most of his life in Amish country in NE Ohio and we wanted our son to experience this type of culture through one of their restaurants down here.
We found one through the internet search yesterday that sounded the best so I told him I had medication along if I got sick (bathroom, etc) for the long drive home. I can't remember being able to eat out for years that I wasn't sick soon after eating in a restaurant. Sorry about the gory/graphic details but the stuff put in our food can make us sick, and as I hadn't been able to connect the dots until recently, these things can happen and we make all sorts of excuses why it is happening without really knowing the reason and perhaps this sort of reaction is happening to many of you without your even knowing the whys and wherefores.
Anyway, we went to the restaurant for an early supper before our long drive home. There was a very long line of people waiting to be seated but we were taken to a table right away since there were only two of us and they had a small table for two just waiting.
The food tasted delicious and I ate foods that are NO-NOs on the inflammation diet. Not sure if there was any MSG in the food or not. I felt OK coming home. Didn't have any flare-ups of pain and no need for an urgent bathroom stop.  In fact, I didn't feel bad at all last night and was thinking perhaps I don't need to stay on these dietary changes as it definitely is difficult if you need to be away from home and it can sure put a damper on enjoying day trips. I was WRONG!!!
There is definitely something in the inflammation diet that works for me. Perhaps it might help some of you too that have inflammation issues.
I woke up this morning with my sinuses so stuffed/clogged up that I was breathing through my mouth when I awakened. I haven't had to do that since a few days into the dietary changes. At my supper late yesterday afternoon, I had grain products, sugar and dairy products that I am aware of eating. Perhaps other foods in the restricted column that I can't think of at the moment. I also woke this morning with a slight headache but hopefully that will soon pass and by adhering to the dietary changes starting again this morning, the sinuses will clear quickly (I hope, I hope, I hope!!!) to where I can breathe unimpeded again.
So, for any of you that suffer from inflammation, be it in your joints or even your sinuses, check with your doctor to see if they have objections to your doing the inflammation diet. It's definitely healthy foods that you eat and I am walking proof that it does bring about dramatic favorable changes and it does it quickly. Unfortunately, the flare-up of the sinus inflammation came about quickly too following just one meal of eating foods that can cause inflammation. Perhaps further down the road of having my body detoxed and clean from these inflaming foods, I might be able to tolerate eating out one meal here and there with no symptom flare-ups at all.
Now, the real test will be this afternoon into tomorrow when we have a strong storm system moving through our area. If I can make it through without my joints feeling as if they will explode, I will be quite happy. I jokingly told my husband on our drive home last night when we were hearing about the breakout of tornadoes in the southern Gulf states and that the system would be moving through Central Florida Sunday/Monday that I certainly hadn't planned very wisely for my first time eating foods not allowed on the dietary change. 
So, the above information gives you more food for thought for any of you considering starting your food prep or perhaps now needing to alter what you have already prepped for the future. For many of us, there definitely is a cause/effect on our health due to the foods we put into our bodies--and I don't just mean gaining weight due to unhealthy eating choices.
Good Luck to any of you choosing to change what you eat for improvement of your health!
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 04/25/2010 : 12:15:58
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| You are so correct that proper diet makes a world of difference in how you feel. My wife and I went on an alkalizing diet just over a week ago and we have both lost weight (mostly water) and we both feel & look so much better. I thought I was on a good diet prior to that but now I know better. |
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arturomccoy
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 00:17:17
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| Yes, but there are proper way on getting on diet. Some diet processes can cause harm to us. There's no problem on being fat as long as you are healthy and not feeling wrong about it. |
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smartinson
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 00:35:27
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| You are so right AL, if your body is acidic, you will not feel good. Do you use the saliva strips. Would love to know what diet you are on or things you are eating or not eating. I have been on gluten free, msg free and find I have lost weight without effort and am feeling so much better. Good luck with the alkalizing diet. |
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PreservingThePast
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 Posted - 04/26/2010 : 10:31:05
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Originally posted by arturomccoy
Yes, but there are proper way on getting on diet. Some diet processes can cause harm to us. There's no problem on being fat as long as you are healthy and not feeling wrong about it.
Arturo...I didn't really go on what I, or most people, would call a "diet". I made dietary changes to remove foods that are causing my body harm via inflammation and/or other ways. I also am removing to the best of my ability all forms of MSG, preservatives, etc.
Except for avoiding the grains and legumes and dairy that some people might consider nutritious, everything else that I have eliminated is stuff that really isn't good for anyone anyway, like sugar for example.
IF I lose some weight, then I will be happy about that as I can stand to shed some pounds. BUT, that was not my primary goal when making these dietary changes. It was to see if the inflammation that was causing my body excruciating daily pain might be lessened by avoiding foods that are known to cause inflammation in some/many people.
The goal in avoiding MSG and preservatives was to see if that could positively impact the Multiple Sclerosis type symptoms that I have been experiencing now for some time, enough so that my doctor had me undergo an MRI to rule out MS. However, the test results were inconclusive and I have no desire to undergo further tests at this time. So, I figure this is a last ditch effort on my part to make sure I am doing everything I possibly can to eat the healthiest I can to see if these neurological symptoms can be reversed or not. I would love for my balance to improve, for my vision to no longer double on me so that I could safely drive again. I would love for the tingling/numbness/pins and needles sensations/"feeling like an electrical current is running up and down my neck and back" to go away, but I can live with these. I would love for the extreme fatigue to exit my life forever and for the problems I have with heat intolerance to leave, as well. I would also be extremely happy if my fine motor skills would cease to deteriorate and would actually improve and perhaps the difficulties I had begun to have with thinking/remembering/and organizing my thoughts might not get worse either. These are just some of the neurological symptoms I have been experiencing.
So, as you can see, I have a lot more at stake here than just dieting to lose weight. This is a dietary change for healthier living and hopefully some improvement with these neurological symptoms I am having as well as the inflammation my body was experiencing.
Being able to see almost immediate relief (relief but not completely gone) within less than 48 hours from the fibromyalgia pain, relief from my sinus pain/pressure/inflammation within a few days and waking up on DAY FOUR without a headache for the first time in too many years to accurately remember is sheer Heaven on Earth!!!
I am eating the healthiest that I have in years and hopefully it isn't too late for my body to thank me for this change so I continue to feel better and better.
Good Luck to any and all that are also undergoing dietary changes to positively impact their lives! 
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PreservingThePast
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 10:37:12
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Originally posted by smartinson
You are so right AL, if your body is acidic, you will not feel good. Do you use the saliva strips. Would love to know what diet you are on or things you are eating or not eating. I have been on gluten free, msg free and find I have lost weight without effort and am feeling so much better. Good luck with the alkalizing diet.
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 10:48:12
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I haven't bought PH test strips yet for two reasons. The fist is that few drug stores sell them anymore so you need to go to a pet store (aquarium use) to find them. Also one's PH can shift through out the day due to stress as well as diet. I will eventually get them especially if I feel I may be going too alkaline, but for now I'm doing all I can do to obtain an alkalizing body.
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Lemon Thrower
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 10:50:41
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please post more details of the anti-inflammation diet and the alkalizing diet.
i made a big improvement in my health by eliiminating MSG. I also stopped drinking sodas and any artificial sweetener. Aspartame is really bad for you. If i do drink a soda, its full calorie root beer. |
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PreservingThePast
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 11:00:30
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Originally posted by PreservingThePast
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I woke up this morning with my sinuses so stuffed/clogged up that I was breathing through my mouth when I awakened. I haven't had to do that since a few days into the dietary changes. At my supper late yesterday afternoon, I had grain products, sugar and dairy products that I am aware of eating. Perhaps other foods in the restricted column that I can't think of at the moment. I also woke this morning with a slight headache but hopefully that will soon pass and by adhering to the dietary changes starting again this morning, the sinuses will clear quickly (I hope, I hope, I hope!!!) to where I can breathe unimpeded again.
Now, the real test will be this afternoon into tomorrow when we have a strong storm system moving through our area. If I can make it through without my joints feeling as if they will explode, I will be quite happy. I jokingly told my husband on our drive home last night when we were hearing about the breakout of tornadoes in the southern Gulf states and that the system would be moving through Central Florida Sunday/Monday that I certainly hadn't planned very wisely for my first time eating foods not allowed on the dietary change. ...
Good Luck to any of you choosing to change what you eat for improvement of your health!
I can report this morning that the severe storms that moved through our area beginning yesterday afternoon and continued into the wee hours of this morning caused me no extreme pain as they normally would have. My joints never felt as if they would literally explode, and that is how they would normally feel during any sort of barometric change and especially around a strong storm system. Last summer when a strong hurricane was developing all the way down around Cuba (I'm in Central Florida) I could feel the change in my body/joints and told my husband the storm was strengthening. A couple of hours later the TV weather indicated that the storm had strengthened. Duh...that was old news to me and my aching body.
Now, I am going to have to follow the weather more closely as it seems I no longer have my body for a weather station.
AND, I can also say that my sinus inflammation has cleared completely back up after just the flare-up overnight Saturday into Sunday from the early supper I ate on Saturday. No congestion at all this morning once again. It's so nice to be able to wake up without the pain and pressure of sinus and without a headache and to not have the painful joints around a storm!!! Now with all that said, I do still have some minor aches and pains in my body but these are tolerable to the point that I can live with these and hopefully they too will lessen as I continue these dietary changes.
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PreservingThePast
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 11:39:03
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Originally posted by Lemon Thrower
please post more details of the anti-inflammation diet and the alkalizing diet.
i made a big improvement in my health by eliiminating MSG. I also stopped drinking sodas and any artificial sweetener. Aspartame is really bad for you. If i do drink a soda, its full calorie root beer.
Lemon Thrower...good for you in eliminate Aspartame! That stuff is bad news. I had always known I couldn't tolerate it or even going back further to earlier sugar substitutes. They always made me very ill.
Lemon Thrower...this is part of a post that I made in another topic in this same part of the forum:
The inflammation diet that I was sent strongly advised elimination of the following foods:
All grains and grain products, including white bread, whole wheat bread, pasta, cereal, pretzels, crackers, and any other product made with grains or flours from grains, which includes most desserts and packaged snacks.
Partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) found in margarine, deep fried foods (French fries, etc.) and most all packaged foods. [I won't name the candy, but I was shocked when I discovered this one a couple of years ago in a favorite candy of mine that I loved because of its chewy texture. This one is the HUGE avoidance that the friend of mine told me to do a couple of years ago as she found great relief from her polymyalgia (I think that is the right name and spelling.) She had it worse off than our fibromyalgia pain and was crippled to the point that the only way she and her husband could take a vacation was in an RV so she could rest often. Now, she can walk circles around me and then some. I should have listened more carefully to everything she tried to tell me. Again, my stubborn nature had to interfere and this caused me more damage to my health.]
Corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and foods made with these oils such as mayonnaise, tartar sauce, margarine, salad dressings, and many packaged foods.
Soda, dairy, soy, and sugar.
Meat and eggs from grain-fed animals. This one is difficult for most to do on a consistent basis, so do your best. Lean cuts of meat may be the best choice for non-grass fed animal products. I know this one may be causing me the little pain I am still feeling but since I can't drive to find a source PLUS we are limited in our food budget and am trying to do the best I can without bankrupting us I am making sure that I am having a smaller, much smaller serving of the meat. I think the eggs I am eating are the worst offender in this area, but I can't afford to get the non-grain fed eggs, if I could even find them. Others of you may not be quite as sensitive.
Foods to eat:
All fruits and vegetables (except be careful of any spray that could have been used on these that can contain MSG--please see the MSG sites I have posted before). Eat fruit raw and vegetables raw or lightly cooked. Red and Sweet Potatoes are acceptable as long as they are consumed with a protein, such as eggs, fish, meat or fowl.
Fresh fish
Meat, chicken, eggs from grass-fed animals
Wild game (YUCK--sorry I can NOT do this one!!!)
Nuts: raw almonds, cashews, walnuts, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts (BUT, please make note of what Dogtor J has to say that just 6 - 7 nuts a day are all you need for their nutritional content.)
Spices (sea salt is recommended, I am using canning salt right now but may make the switch when we need more to see if I can detect even further benefits) AGAIN, make sure there isn't any hidden MSG in these if you use packaged spices. Sometimes it is trial and error and that is why the food diary is so important. If you encounter a flare-up, then back off all new spices/foods you tried for at least three days then introduce them just one at a time.
Oils and fats: It is best to use organic oils as they can otherwise concentrate pesticides. Use organic extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil. Butter is also a healthy choice and the best butter comes from grass fed cows. [This one I am currently investigating the possibility that it could have brought on immediate chronic fatigue in me on Sunday after eating one food at lunch cooked with butter, and two foods at supper cooked with butter. Of course, the brand of butter I bought could contain MSG even though it doesn't say it on the label.] {Thank goodness I had already begun using a small amount of coconut oil to cook a vegetable or two in as I had read that there is something in coconut oil that can benefit portions of the brain especially in people that have degenerative neurological health issues. AND, I would experience strong urges to consume coconut--of course, I was doing it wrong by eating packaged that contained sugar so I figured there was something in it I needed.)
Salad dressing: use extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar or lemon juice (I KNOW for sure from what I have read not to use bottled of this as there is MSG) and allowed spices
Drink water--plenty of water. I am also drinking some fruit juice that I found I can tolerate. I am drinking some weak regular iced tea but need to get that gone as well. They do recommend organic green tea but my husband can't consume green tea due to a medication he is on as it will interfere with the correct function of that medication.
It also says dark chocolate is allowed but I have NOT yet found a source that doesn't list words that could be MSG. So, I have been satisfying my urge for a sweet by taking a tiny, tiny amount of raw local honey and putting it in a small bowl in the freezer for just a few minutes. When I take it out to eat it the cold has given it a temporary consistency of taffy so it satisfies my sweet urge as well as the urge to have something chewy.
Here is a link I discovered just the other night on Dogtor J's site:
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It is an extremely long read, but the more I read the more I understood and I continued reading it all and then I could put things together with health issues from my past to present and health issues of deceased family members.
THEN, I explored his site some more and discovered a link he had about eating according to your blood type. My cousin had mentioned this to me and I had not had time to pursue looking into it, plus I thought how could that be??? Well when I found the brief mention about it and the two foods that O blood type should avoid being dairy and wheat I had to retrieve my jaw from the floor where it had landed as I read that. Then yesterday I had the opportunity to visit a local theme park while my husband worked and I was chatting with a musician friend about my dietary changes and how improved my health was since making these changes. He told me that his wife was using the eat according to your blood type method and I told him of my reaction when I read just those two foods to avoid. He said he, his wife and kids are all feeling so much better.
Maybe there really is more to the expression: We are what we eat!
Regarding the beans. They are naturally high in glutamates and/or aspartates.
Foods rich in glutamate and aspartate:
3) Beans: Soy, Pinto, lima, black, navy, and lentils
This above info I copied from this web site:
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This web page really goes into how these foods affect a person.
In the inflammation diet that I had received the printed copy of from a friend, later on in the information it states (paraphrasing some info as I disagree with it due to my Biblical beliefs):
...for the (omit time-line due to my beliefs) years that humans (paraphrased) have populated the earth, the following foods were NEVER consumed: grains, pasta, cereal, soy, beans, dairy, refined sugar, partially hydrogenated fats, and seed oils (such as corn, safflower, cottonseed, sunflower, canola, and soybean oil.)
I did NOT paraphrase any of the foods it listed as not acceptable to our bodies.
Lemon Thrower, good luck with your healthy dietary changes. If you have time explore more in this section of the forum as I have either started a topic or posted in a topic about MSG, inflammation foods, etc.
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PreservingThePast
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 11:44:17
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Lemon Thrower...Sorry, I am not familiar with the alkalizing diet and will leave that to Ardent Listener.
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 12:41:14
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I did a quick google search and I noticed this......... As it states, it is a very limited explanation but may serve as an introduction. I don't agree with all if its information though........ A.L.
The Acid Alkaline Diet - The Basics of Beginning an Alkaline Lifestyle
Each and every person living in the UK is facing a myriad of health and lifestyle challenges every day.
We are constantly being fed new information about what is healthy and what is unhealthy while thousands of us try to deal with problems ranging from obesity to fatigue to life threatening diseases.
The alkalarian approach to diet offers a simple, basic understanding of what causes the body to become ‘out of balance’. Through what has become the typical Western diet largely based around meat, dairy, sugars, alcohol, saturated fats and caffeine, millions of us have created a hostile, acidic environment within our bodies.
What is the pH Balance?
The pH level of our internal fluids affects every living cell in our bodies and the effect that over-acidification can have upon the health of our bodies is immense, with a chronically over acidic pH creating an extremely negative environment which affects all cellular functions from the beatings of the heart to the neural workings of the brain.
When our pH level is unbalanced, almost any area of our bodies can be negatively affected creating results such as cancer, heart disease, obesity, weight problems, allergies, fatigue and premature aging as well as problems with our nervous system, cardiovascular system and muscles.
Acid Alkaline Diet: Where to Start?
To begin an alkaline diet it is important to start consuming alkalising foods and drinks while eliminating acidifying foods and drinks from your diet. As a rough guide you should try to include some of the following:
Foods that Alkalise (alkalize):
Vegetables:
Spinach, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, celery, cucumber, lettuce, courgette, cabbage, greens, swede, squash (summer, butternut, yellow etc), peppers, chili, tomato, onion, garlic, chickpeas, pinto beans, kidney beans, spring onion, root ginger
Salads:
Lettuce, spinach, celery, cucumber, nuts (aside from peanuts and cashews), seeds, avocado, carrots etc.
Herbs & Spices:
Basil, parsley, mint, coriander, ginger, cumin etc.
Essential Fats:
Flax/Linseed, Evening Primrose, Olive Oil, Avocado Oil or an oil blend such as Udo' Choice
Fruits:
ONLY - Lemons, Lime, Grapefruit, Watermelon, Tomato, Avocado - all other fruits to be used quite sparingly
Grasses:
Wheat, barley, kamut, lemon, shave etc.
Sprouts:
Alfalfa, mung bean, broccoli, radish, wheat, lentil, fenugreek etc.
Dips and Sauces:
Pesto, hummus, tahini, guacamole etc.
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Foods that Acidify:
- Sugar
- Dairy Products
- Meat (aside from occasional coldwater fish)
- Caffeine
- Tobacco
- Wheat (aside from sprouts or wheatgrass)
- Fruit (apart from those mentioned above)
- 'Bad' fats (saturated, trans fatty acids, hydrogenated)
- Junk/ Processed foods
- Fizzy drinks
- Peanuts and Cashews
- Pasta and White Rice
- Condiments
The most effective way to reverse the trend of over-acidification and to create a more harmonious acid alkaline balance is to ‘cleanse’ the body of toxins and rapidly create an alkaline environment in which the body can heal itself. Cleansing and beginning an alkaline diet is a natural, holistic method of healing in which the body detoxifies itself and regenerates healthy vibrant cells, effectively becoming more alkaline and less acid.
Cleansing can put an individual one year ahead in the healing process!
This is a very brief outline of the most important principles of an alkaline diet. We highly recommend you read both The pH Miracle and Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill to gain a full understanding of how to create an alkaline diet.
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You may notice some similarities to the diet that PerservingThePast posted.
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Lemon Thrower
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 15:13:10
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my wife cooks exclusively with olive oil or coconut oil. food tastes very good. we went to johnny rockets yesterday. they use some sort of crap oil for their french fries there. we both felt ill after eating it.
sea salt is great but expensive. its very flavorful. i don't think they add anything to it. |
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PreservingThePast
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 15:26:40
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Originally posted by Lemon Thrower
my wife cooks exclusively with olive oil or coconut oil. food tastes very good. we went to johnny rockets yesterday. they use some sort of crap oil for their french fries there. we both felt ill after eating it.
sea salt is great but expensive. its very flavorful. i don't think they add anything to it.
I had tried canning salt first since that was an option discussed on the MSG board I had found. Then, I just switched to Sea Salt and I didn't believe it to be that expensive. Picked it up at Wal-mart in the regular salt/spice area. Since we will use such a tiny amount of it, the box will last a very long time. Same brand of salt at the health food store was expensive.
I was surprised, pleasantly, that I liked the taste of some vegetables cooked in the coconut oil. And, when I say cooked, I mean lightly sauteed, not fried. Red skinned potatoes with onion, cabbage, soft fried (non-breaded) okra, etc. For a northern born girl raised in the south, I truly love southern veggies. And, I used to cook them the southern way--bacon or ham hocks or a bit of country ham for seasoning. The vegetable I dreaded trying to eat the most on my dietary change was collard greens. I cooked them in a little water with just a tiny bit of salt. No oil for seasoning at all. They actually tasted good. Of course, they were frozen, not canned as there is MSG stuff in most canned foods.
Also, you mentioned eating the French fries and feeling ill. There could possibly have been some sort of seasoning put on them that contains MSG, as well as the oil they were cooked in which we all know isn't healthy for us.
Sounds like you are well on your way to good, healthy eating--a great life-style change!
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smartinson
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Posted - 04/26/2010 : 23:56:31
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Thanks Ardent Listener for the info.
I have been reading all the informative post here and everything is very helpful and interesting. Many years ago my sister was very sick and had an over abundance of yeast in her body that she could not get rid of. Nothing she did or nothing doctors did helped her. She was given a book and tape on acid and alkaline in the body and was given the saliva strips. It was basically what Ardent Listener has posted. She pretty much still eats the same but still has the abundance of yeast. Diflucen (the antibotic) helped with her brain fog periods but never got rid of the yeast.
Sugar is a no no for her or anyone for that matter. Meats really makes her feel bad and extremely tired but in small amounts, it satisfies her need for protein. She has passed on what she learns that helps her. Vegetables, fruit and small amounts of lean meat really are the best. I will try to find out the name of the book.
After visiting the chiropractor and him telling me to go gluten free for awhile and see if it helped, I have lost unwanted weight (now 15 lbs), my joints and muscles do not scream back at me when I use them and my Restless Legs are much better. After reading lots of information the past few weeks, it seems that there is very little out there that is good for you. NO GLUTEN, NO MSG, NO DAIRY, NO SUGAR, NO ACIDIC FOODS, NO PROCESSED FOOD, NO CANDY, NO COKES, NO COFFEE, and on and on. But it is worth NOT HURTING, NO HEAD ACHES, NO BLOTTING OR GAS (excuse me), NO INDIGESTION, NO FALLING ASLEEP AFTER EVER MEAL, MORE ENERGY AND AFTER MANY YEARS NO RESTLESS LEGS. Our bodies tell us whether it is good for us or not but we don't listen. One thing that I noticed was I did not have a need to continually snack on something. The MSG in food causes the WANT MORE FOOD FEELING. I crave celery, onions, cucumbers instead of candy, cokes and junk. If I need a little sweet in something (lemonade, limeage), Agave Nectar is what takes the place of sugar. Very low glycemic index so doesn't affect the blood sugar highs and low like sugar.
Good luck to everyone on their diets and changes in eating habits. It has truly helped me and all the information that has been shared here has helped with my changes. EAT HEALTHY, FEEL HEALTHY AND BE HEALTHY! |
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Posted - 04/29/2010 : 04:22:39
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The problem with the food supply is most of it is processed and it is really hard to avoid it in your diet and over the long run dangerous for us. It contains way too much pure fructose, saturated fat and salt and little fiber. Another problem is there are plenty of people out there who think they are eating healthy really are far from it. It wouldn't surprise me if it is intended to be like this way so there is always a guaranteed supply of sick people to support our medical economy roughly 20% of our GDP.
I am sure people here already know the medical reasons why saturated fat and salt in their diet are not good for them and that very few people maintain a 1:2 ratio of Na/K.
What people don't know is sugar is only half bad since it it contains one glucose and one fructose molecule
The biochemical pathway for glucose has virtually no negative long term effects on your system however the biochemical pathway for fructose is metabolized similarly to alcohol in your liver. It explains why cultures who consumes white rice with a high GI like Japan has a 7 year longer life span than in the US.
High fructose corn syrup is a much worse ingredient than sugar and is a component in almost every processed food.
As for obesity today much of it is eating too fast, portion control and the lack of exercise which curbs hunger. For example a dinner: the main course should be not much larger than a deck of cards and the rest should contain fresh/frozen veggies.
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2010 : 15:47:03
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With these dietary changes, food isn't packaged nice and neat with the nutritional contents listed anymore.
Found this web site that is easy to navigate and easy to find all nutritional content of real, whole foods.
You must be logged in to see this link.
The various charts for each food you search will have a drop down box sometimes so that even more information can be obtained. This is especially helpful if you are wanting to know the glutamate or aspartate value of a particular fruit, veggie, meat, etc.
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