Re: another interesting story

[Guest guest]

Yep! Inflammation in the body from wrong foods. One by one my friends are

having their children diagnosed with gluten intolerance...it is a gut epidemic

and so many people think of it as just an allergy rather than a symptom of

something much larger!

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> A lady at the jewelry store told me about a woman whose finger joint was

swollen and she came in to get her ring re-sized. The she said- " the woman

stopped eating wheat and the swelling went down " .

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> It just makes me wonder how many people could benefit from changing their

diet...

>

> PJ

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[Guest guest]

My good friend came down with a wicked case of fibromyalgia after she had her

first baby. The docs were throwing all kinds of meds at her. Turned out it was a

gluten-intolerance!!!

-Joanna

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> Yep! Inflammation in the body from wrong foods. One by one my friends are

having their children diagnosed with gluten intolerance...it is a gut epidemic

and so many people think of it as just an allergy rather than a symptom of

something much larger!

> PJ

[Guest guest]

I had knuckle swelling even as a child. And amen and amen to the fact that so

much of the world has these symptoms ... but I've gotten quieter and quieter

about it 'cause most folks don't want to hear it... especially family! They

MAY - or they may NOT get interested before they die... and that's da truth!!!

Artful Carol

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> > A lady at the jewelry store told me about a woman whose finger joint was

swollen and she came in to get her ring re-sized. The she said- " the woman

stopped eating wheat and the swelling went down " .

> > It just makes me wonder how many people could benefit from changing their

diet...

> >

> > PJ

[Guest guest]

After my 3rd child was born I developed Psoriatic Arthritis - severe pain and

swelling in every joint in my body. I chose to do food allergy testing instead

of taking the horrible medications they wanted to give me (methotrexate and

plaquinil) and it turned out that I was reacting to gluten, dairy, soy and eggs.

I've been gluten free and soy free ever since, avoided dairy and eggs for 10

years and can eat small amounts of dairy and unlimited eggs now. All joint pain

went away and hasn't come back.

Liz

[Guest guest]

One of my aunt's good friends died last year from cancer. She had been sick (not from cancer) for a long time. Many years. Before she died she was told she was allergic to wheat and that if that would have been found out a long time ago she wouldn't have been facing death. So sad. UC-C 12/09SCD 1/10Daily, CLO, Magnesium, bromelain, acidophilus Mom of 2 crazy monkeys :-)

Yep! Inflammation in the body from wrong foods. One by one my friends are having their children diagnosed with gluten intolerance...it is a gut epidemic and so many people think of it as just an allergy rather than a symptom of something much larger!

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> A lady at the jewelry store told me about a woman whose finger joint was swollen and she came in to get her ring re-sized. The she said- "the woman stopped eating wheat and the swelling went down".

>

> It just makes me wonder how many people could benefit from changing their diet...

>

> PJ

>

[Guest guest]

The more I read, the more I become convinced that grains, and wheat in

particular, are not really good for anyone. Of course, us

especially. This sort of story is really really sad, that poor

woman.

One of my aunt's good friends died last year from cancer. She had

been sick (not from cancer) for a long time. Many years. Before she died

she was told she was allergic to wheat and that if that would have been

found out a long time ago she wouldn't have been facing death. So sad.

[Guest guest]

I can agree with " for us, " at least right now, but can't agree with " for

anyone. " It's just empirically false. Most people eat grains and never get any

IBD. You can argue that a lot of them have other, possibly grain-related,

problems, but consider the research of Weston Price, who, in his travels in the

1930s, found many isolated groups around the world in consistently excellent

health. A number of them had grains as a big part of their diet.

One point Price made was that poor nutrition (in particular, diets based on

processed foods) dramatically worsened the health of the next generation.

Iterate this over several generations, with modern medicine to prop them up as

it tears them down, and you get a lot of living people in truly awful states of

health: low-functioning autism, for instance, in which both the mind and the

body are crippled in large part by a poorly functioning digestive system.

If I cannot tolerate a food that has fed large numbers of healthy people

throughout history, as is the case, I should look for the problem in my health,

not in the food. That's what I'm doing with the SCD, and I don't intend to stop

looking and stop healing myself until I can eat all foods once again. If what I

am doing cannot complete that healing (and the SCD, I am certain, still has

plenty of healing power to show me) I will keep looking.

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> The more I read, the more I become convinced that grains, and wheat

> in particular, are not really good for anyone. Of course, us

> especially. This sort of story is really really sad, that poor woman.

>

>

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> One of my aunt's good friends died last year from cancer. She had

> been sick (not from cancer) for a long time. Many years. Before she

> died she was told she was allergic to wheat and that if that would

> have been found out a long time ago she wouldn't have been facing

> death. So sad.

>

>

[Guest guest]

That's interesting, . I am a big WAPF chick, but I am reading more and

more negative press on grains. The whole paleo movement, Dr. Mercola...it will

be interesting to see where it goes in the next few years. I gotta say, I don't

really miss grains. But I sure could go for a sweet potato!

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> > The more I read, the more I become convinced that grains, and wheat

> > in particular, are not really good for anyone. Of course, us

> > especially. This sort of story is really really sad, that poor woman.

> >

> >

> >

> > One of my aunt's good friends died last year from cancer. She had

> > been sick (not from cancer) for a long time. Many years. Before she

> > died she was told she was allergic to wheat and that if that would

> > have been found out a long time ago she wouldn't have been facing

> > death. So sad.

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Y'all are probably aware that Price... and I'm really not up on all this... Is

it still called the Price-POTTENGER Foundation? A lot of folks may not be aware

of the seminal study done in the 40s and 50s called " Pottenger's Cats " in which

generation upon generation of cats were fed sub-optimal diets. The progeny got

sicker and sicker, more misshapen and more misshapen. When Pottenger intervened

with optimal nutrition for the felines it took SEVERAL generations for the cats

to regain good health and form. HIS take-away, 60 yrs. ago!: The American diet

was getting worse and worse and it looked like we were headed the way of his

cats!

http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=228

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Pottenger,_Jr.

Blessings,

Artful Carol

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> That's interesting, . I am a big WAPF chick, but I am reading more and

more negative press on grains. The whole paleo movement, Dr. Mercola...it will

be interesting to see where it goes in the next few years. I gotta say, I don't

really miss grains. But I sure could go for a sweet potato! .