Dear Meredith,
I knew that name sounded familiar. I just finished reading your
inaugural letter in the M2M; enjoyed it a lot. My sister Eileen is an
artist too, and I was born in Boston (moved away at age 7).
Sugarwise (and we're talking all natural fruit sugar here, not
Ward's Dr. Pepper), the first thing I noticed was difficulty digesting
concentrated protein foods, first bee pollen, then nuts/seeds. Stools
became mushy and chronic flatulence developed. I then became vitamin
B-12 depleted. If you decide to catch up on some of the M2M back issues,
the whole saga is in there, starting with my debut issue, #8.
If you want to cut down and don't want to start with a fast (the
best way), then try eating non-sweet fruit like cukes or celery or
lettuce first before your sweet fruit. I know this sounds like backwards
food combining, but it worked for me (except when the fruit was melon).
Also, every time you eat fruit, follow it with something slow-digesting
like nuts, seeds, or grains (I prefer them soaked overnight and rinsed).
Raw milk cheese (I assume you mean cow's milk?) would just be
trading heart disease/atherosclerosis for pancreatitis, hyper-/
hypo-glycemia. Paavo Airola, who wrote the health diet book "Are You
Confused?" and other health books was himself confused. He died at age
68 of a stroke brought on by regular consumption of raw goat's milk
cheese, which is less lethal than raw cow's milk cheese.
Yeah, I used to take liquid lecithin. It comes from soybeans.
It goes rancid quickly, and if you keep it in the fridge, it solidifies
and becomes impossible to pour. If I were to want lecithin nowadays for
some reason or another, I'd just buy some soybeans, soak them overnight,
rinse and eat. A very cheap and fresher way to get lecithin.
Bland rutabaga? Interesting. My farm-fresh organic (biodynamic)
rutabagas are kind of strong-tasting, sort of like radishes.
Tongue eruptions are often a symptom of detox. They should go
away eventually (or faster if you fast; that's why it's called fasting!).
I no longer longer use toothpaste. What other animal does? It's
just another commercial scam. I hope your toothpaste does not contain
fluoride!
I haven't looked for the G.I. on the Web yet, but I'll bet you
could find it yourself by training a search engine on "glycemic index".
Let me know what you find. There's also a chart in M2M#18 p64 of some
foods.
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