Subject: Friend with Colitis

> A very dear friend of mine suffers from Colitis, bad digestive problems
> and blood sugar problems.

What is it - too low or too high bloodsugar? It sounds as if it were too low
with that diet.

It also sounds as if your friend has a tendency to go to very hard regims -
only water and then raw vegetables. Perhaps she has been doing this before
and never been on a more normal diet? Do you know about that? Does she think
herself that her health is getting worse or do you think so?

> convincing to change her diet, especially to include meat and a lot of the
> things we eat on the Paleo diet.

Tell your friend that the dietary needs for humans developed over more than
300.000 (more than 1 million years) generations when we lived in the middle
of Africa. Archaelogists and biologists have tested living sites and
remnants of these humans show that they lived on fish, shellfish, meat,
eggs, insects, larves, fruit, leaves, edible roots, nuts. They ate a lot of
animal protein and thereby animal fat. We also know for sure that humans
have been using fire for cooking for about 140.000 years and this is long
enough time and sufficient amount of generations for  our genes to be
adapted to cooking and what more, to need cooking. It is only 300
generations since we started growing cereals and that is not enough time to
adapt to eating it. Not even peoples who have been agrigultural for 10.000
years are adapted to cereals and those that have lived with agriculture for
perhaps 2 or 5 or 10 generations are really badly off.

 Are there any
> good websites etc...?

This is a good site I think www.blackwomenshealth.com
and this one: www.lifeservices.com/cordain.html
and yet another:
http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview2c.shtml
and the last for now anyway: http://www.tbkfitness.org/TBKdiet.html

One very important thing is that a starving person should never be given
vitamins, especially not anything to boost hem/ironlevels. Bacteria love it
and that's probably why the body lowers its bloodiron levels when someone is
weakened or has an infection/inflammation of some sort. When patients with
tuberculosis were given iron to get better their infection got worse and
when famished people get iron they develop infections. It is food your
friend needs but not too fast.
Good luck to both of you
Eva