Re: Re: SOS - help with food

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Rose,

There are always choices you have to make, food-wise. The most important

thing is to reduce iodine in the diet, as it exacerbates Graves. Not using

iodized salt is a good beginning; watching your intake of other high-iodine

foods is also a help. Your body needs some--150 mcg. a day I think is the

figure--and you get that pretty easily just eating normally.

The farmers, when they milk the cows, use an iodine wash on the udders--so

I'm told--and that can increase iodine in the milk products. Personally I

eat yogurt daily, cheese frequently, and use milk and cream in cooking. I

think there are things that are worse triggers, and if you look at a list of

iodine-rich foods (do a google search you'll find it), you'll be surprised

how many are. Asparagus for example.

So we all make some choices, and for me, eating natural, organic food

whenever possible (including meats & dairy as well as veggies), limiting

somewhat (but not by any means altogether) seafood that is known to be high

in iodine, and just avoiding processed foods, is the choice I make. When I

go to the store I rarely buy anything in a package, and if I do I read

ingredient lists--the things I avoid most avidly are hydrogenated

shortening, any product with soy, anything with high-fructose corn syrup,

any artificial colorings, flavorings or sweeteners, and seaweed products.

For me, this works. But we're all different, for instance I think I haven't

had a soda since about 1964.

Terry

>

> Reply-To: graves_support

> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:03:45 -0000

> To: graves_support

> Subject: Re: SOS - help with food

>

> I am new at this may I ask whats wrong with dairy?

>

> Am I surpossed to watch what I eat?

>

> Rose

>

>

>

>

>> Hi , a small amount of dairy is fine for some of us - I know

> when I cut

>> out all dairy I found I really NEEDED my yogurt everyday to keep my

>> yeast/bacteria levels normal. And it is really hard to live

> without cheese,

>> isn't it? You just have to figure out what works for YOU and what

> doesn't -

>> we are all different when it comes to food.

>>

>> Here are some ideas:

>>

>> Breakfast:

>>

>> fruit/yogurt smoothie

>> yogurt and granola

>> yogurt/fruit/nuts

>> oatmeal with fruit and/or nuts

>> eggs and fruit, maybe a piece of toast if you aren't going to have

> much

>> bread/grains the rest of the day

>>

>> Lunch:

>>

>> Salads - maybe you can put your left-over protein from the night

> before on

>> it

>> sandwich if you didn't have grains already for breakfast (egg

> salad, chicken

>> salad, nut butter and jam, cucumber, tomato, whatever)

>> Leftovers from dinner the night before

>> Soup if it's low sodium - bean or lentil soups are high in protein

>>

>> Snacks:

>>

>> hard boiled egg

>> hummus and veggies

>> nuts

>> apples or pears and nut butter

>>

>>

>> Hope this helps, these are all things that helped me - but again

> we are all

>> different.

>>

>> Pam B.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

and if you look at a

> list of

> iodine-rich foods (do a google search you'll find it), you'll be

> surprised

> how many are. Asparagus for example.

Some of these foods are goitrogens and I think someone (Elaine M. and

others possibly) have said that the goitrogenic effect of these foods

outweigh the possible negatives. Also, many multivitamins will have 150

mcg. of iodine so we need to avoid a multi with iodine.

>. But we're all different, for instance I think I

> haven't

> had a soda since about 1964.

But then again, Terry, you have your cooking to look forward to.

Take care, Fay

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