Ken Stuart wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:47:54 -0600, Katrina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Take a read,
> >you'll find it interesting, some of the "bad" foods for sensitive people
> >are those prescribed by the paleo diet (veg, fruit, etc.):
> >
> >http://www.eklhad.net/adhd.html
>
> That page is frightening.

Yeah, it is, because that's about where I was Jan and Feb of
this year.  I was sick all the time with lots of various
things.  Had tried what seemed to be just about everything.
Then one person suggested celiac.  I eliminated wheat and
felt better, for a while.  Then the rice substitutes were
making me sick, so I ruled them out.  Then found it was beef
as well.  Seemed for a while there that every thing I
eliminated from my diet somehow made me just that much more
sensitive to something I hadn't yet cut.  I was, at that
point, desperate for about any help.  I was eating my own
version of what you could call a Neolithic diet :)  I was
trying to eat like my Ancestors, the Cherokee BEFORE contact
with the Europeans: no "white stuff" like grains and
potatoes.  But I was still eating corn and beans and squash
as well as paleo ok foods and dairy.  I was a bit better but
still having troubles.  In March I found paleo.

I have done very well on paleo foods, and am staying fairly
strict.  I got off a bit while on my trip but I at least
learned from the experience and can make plans to counter
the adverse things for the next trip in Oct.  I also treated
for candidia and added some supplements recommended by my
holistic doc for repairing damaged gut (like fresh cabbage
juice).  And I have learned that it is far too early, if
indeed it will ever be time, to try adding back some foods
:)

But that time of fear and frustration is not that far behind
me and reading this article made it live again.  You look
and look and beg for help and you get hi carb advice, or
come to the office for allergy shots twice a week and we
don't treat food allergies so just eliminate foods that
bother you, and the ever popular :Here, take this pill.  And
maybe you do feel a bit better for a while and maybe not;
and then it seems you're sicker than ever.  And you feel the
time slipping, slipping away.  The article mentions over and
over the passing of another week of childhood.  Adults feel
this too!

Aside from my mistakes - ahem, learning experiences - I am
doing so much better in these four short months that I will
never go back.  The price of being like everyone else is
just too high.  I hope that someday those children can
understand and make their own choice.  It's got to be
terrible not to understand why you don't have cookies and
milk with all the other kids and not to be able yet to make
the choice yourself...

We, the paleo eaters, have been given a great gift of
understanding.  I have read lately where some when asked
make light of the diet plan.  When folk ask me what I've
been doing to lose so much weight and suddenly get to
healthy looking, I tell them straight up.  After all, the
person asking may just be someone who is lost in that fog
and looking for a lighthouse.

Sorry, folks, I'll put the soapbox away now.
--
   Elisi Tsayonah, AniWodi, ghigau,
   St Francis River Band of Cherokee