Comments on: How to Find Local Food http://gnowfglins.com/2009/07/13/how-to-find-local-food/ Enjoying "God's Natural, Organic, Whole Foods, Grown Locally, In Season" Fri, 25 May 2012 00:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mel http://gnowfglins.com/2009/07/13/how-to-find-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-23360 Mel Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:38:11 +0000 http://gnowfglins.com/?p=3343#comment-23360 Wardeh, thank you SO much for your response. The information was very helpful. I have some raw sheep cheese. I am going to do the sensitivity test tonight as described in the GAPS diet. My SIL is also getting me some raw milk and cream which I will use to make kefir this weekend. I will try small amounts and see how I do. I am very, very hopeful. If it doesn't go, I know I can try again later. One question I have for you: does your son still have a problem with eggs? I developed an egg allergy from the SCD, eating so many of them. I get a stomach ache eating them plain, but not in baked goods. An allergist online explained that the heat denatures the protein making it tolerable for some people. I am hopeful that I will be able to bake with them at some point. Your recipe you posted sounds amazing. Can't wait to make it for the kids! Wardeh, thank you SO much for your response. The information was very helpful. I have some raw sheep cheese. I am going to do the sensitivity test tonight as described in the GAPS diet. My SIL is also getting me some raw milk and cream which I will use to make kefir this weekend. I will try small amounts and see how I do. I am very, very hopeful. If it doesn’t go, I know I can try again later.

One question I have for you: does your son still have a problem with eggs? I developed an egg allergy from the SCD, eating so many of them. I get a stomach ache eating them plain, but not in baked goods. An allergist online explained that the heat denatures the protein making it tolerable for some people. I am hopeful that I will be able to bake with them at some point.

Your recipe you posted sounds amazing. Can’t wait to make it for the kids!

]]> By: Wardeh http://gnowfglins.com/2009/07/13/how-to-find-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-23333 Wardeh Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:21:52 +0000 http://gnowfglins.com/?p=3343#comment-23333 Mel - Hello! Thanks for sharing your story. You have really had a tough time of it. I can't advise you as to what you should do, but I can offer some suggestions. Really, these are just the thoughts I would have if one of my family members were experiencing similar troubles. I am not a doctor or nutritionist, so please understand that my thoughts should just be added into the pool of things to consider and possibly tossed out. :) First, regarding dairy. Have you tried raw dairy or raw cultured dairy foods to know for sure whether dairy is a problem? That would be important information for your upcoming decisions. Same thing for sprouted or soaked or sourdough grains. I'm not sure it would be stepping back just to try a small amount of some of these foods, in isolation (avoid giving your body an onslaught). Your reaction(s) or lack of reaction could tell you quite a bit! Have you heard of the GAPS diet? http://gapsdiet.com/ It is a gut-healing diet, using traditional foods like in NT, but with restrictions to allow for gut healing. It sounds to me like you are on a gut-healing diet of your own making. If you do challenge the raw or cultured dairy, or sprouted/soaked/sourdough grains, and you have a reaction, I don't think this means you will never be able to have them. Rather, it would be my opinion (for what it's worth) that you need more time to heal. In that case, you would want to space out your challenges at intervals of perhaps 6 months or more. You're doing really well, making progress and that should give you hope! Please keep in touch! I think the part of NT that you should focus on is taking a good cod liver oil daily, along with butter and cream from animals feasting on rapidly growing green grass. There is good cod liver oil here: http://www.building-health.com/green-pasture-products-m-4.html Mel – Hello! Thanks for sharing your story. You have really had a tough time of it. I can’t advise you as to what you should do, but I can offer some suggestions. Really, these are just the thoughts I would have if one of my family members were experiencing similar troubles. I am not a doctor or nutritionist, so please understand that my thoughts should just be added into the pool of things to consider and possibly tossed out. :)

First, regarding dairy. Have you tried raw dairy or raw cultured dairy foods to know for sure whether dairy is a problem? That would be important information for your upcoming decisions. Same thing for sprouted or soaked or sourdough grains.

I’m not sure it would be stepping back just to try a small amount of some of these foods, in isolation (avoid giving your body an onslaught). Your reaction(s) or lack of reaction could tell you quite a bit!

Have you heard of the GAPS diet? http://gapsdiet.com/ It is a gut-healing diet, using traditional foods like in NT, but with restrictions to allow for gut healing. It sounds to me like you are on a gut-healing diet of your own making.

If you do challenge the raw or cultured dairy, or sprouted/soaked/sourdough grains, and you have a reaction, I don’t think this means you will never be able to have them. Rather, it would be my opinion (for what it’s worth) that you need more time to heal. In that case, you would want to space out your challenges at intervals of perhaps 6 months or more.

You’re doing really well, making progress and that should give you hope! Please keep in touch!

I think the part of NT that you should focus on is taking a good cod liver oil daily, along with butter and cream from animals feasting on rapidly growing green grass. There is good cod liver oil here: http://www.building-health.com/green-pasture-products-m-4.html

]]> By: Wardeh http://gnowfglins.com/2009/07/13/how-to-find-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-23328 Wardeh Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:24:31 +0000 http://gnowfglins.com/?p=3343#comment-23328 Mom - Sally Fallon Morell is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. :) Mom – Sally Fallon Morell is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. :)

]]> By: Mel http://gnowfglins.com/2009/07/13/how-to-find-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-23326 Mel Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:24:39 +0000 http://gnowfglins.com/?p=3343#comment-23326 I am so thrilled to find this site. I was diagnosed with UC at age 17. In my 30s I started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and was very healthy with only some intermittent problems for 7.5 years. Most recently I have had a terrible flare with severe heartburn (which I think led to esophagitis), some GI troubles (although that's less of a problem) and worst of all for me, MS symptoms (my mom has MS, diabetes, seizures, allergies and hasn't changed her diet). Right now I am on a meat and low-carb veggies diet and I am getting better, thank God. Through elimination dieting I determined that ANY sugar made my symptoms worse, not just the grains and processed sugar I'd eliminated on the SCD. I just got Nourishing Traditions for the second time today and I am wondering what to do. I feel pretty certain I have a problem with dairy. I know I can't handle wheat or corn. Should I stay on meat and low-carb veggies (I had some sauerkraut which was awesome) for six months before I try experimenting with soaking, sprouting, and fermenting or trying raw dairy? NT doesn't seem to address this. I guess I don't know if these latter foods would help me or hurt me at this point and I don't want to take any steps backward. I've been miserable! Nice to meet you and looking forward to keeping up with your blog. .-= Mel´s last blog post... <a href="http://wonderwomen.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/babies-not-birds-and-bees.html" rel="nofollow">Babies, Not Birds and Bees</a> =-. I am so thrilled to find this site. I was diagnosed with UC at age 17. In my 30s I started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and was very healthy with only some intermittent problems for 7.5 years. Most recently I have had a terrible flare with severe heartburn (which I think led to esophagitis), some GI troubles (although that’s less of a problem) and worst of all for me, MS symptoms (my mom has MS, diabetes, seizures, allergies and hasn’t changed her diet).

Right now I am on a meat and low-carb veggies diet and I am getting better, thank God. Through elimination dieting I determined that ANY sugar made my symptoms worse, not just the grains and processed sugar I’d eliminated on the SCD. I just got Nourishing Traditions for the second time today and I am wondering what to do. I feel pretty certain I have a problem with dairy. I know I can’t handle wheat or corn. Should I stay on meat and low-carb veggies (I had some sauerkraut which was awesome) for six months before I try experimenting with soaking, sprouting, and fermenting or trying raw dairy? NT doesn’t seem to address this.

I guess I don’t know if these latter foods would help me or hurt me at this point and I don’t want to take any steps backward. I’ve been miserable! Nice to meet you and looking forward to keeping up with your blog.
.-= Mel´s last blog post… Babies, Not Birds and Bees =-.

]]> By: Martha Bisharat http://gnowfglins.com/2009/07/13/how-to-find-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-23325 Martha Bisharat Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:12:43 +0000 http://gnowfglins.com/?p=3343#comment-23325 Great ideas and research! Thanks, Wardeh! I looked up the Weston Price Foundation local chapter info. The closest chapter to us is Missoula. I'm sure you did know that Sally Fallon Morell is associated with the Weston Price Foundation, although I can't remember the connection at the moment. Love, Mom Great ideas and research! Thanks, Wardeh! I looked up the Weston Price Foundation local chapter info. The closest chapter to us is Missoula. I’m sure you did know that Sally Fallon Morell is associated with the Weston Price Foundation, although I can’t remember the connection at the moment. Love, Mom

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