Argh – A Rant

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You have been warned. I am in a ranting mood, so if you are looking for encouragement, I suggest skipping this post. 🙂

What’s my issue? Besides the dog that won’t quit its barking??? Moms who are unwilling to even try diet modification to see if eating a real, whole food diet can help their child’s health issues. Over and over I have moms come and chat with me about their child’s allergies because they know that we have allergy issues which have mostly subsided thanks be to God and with diet modifications.

Everyone wants to know how we healed. Well, there’s the God thing and then there’s the food thing.

Whenever I share that we basically eat a real, whole food diet of meats, vegetables, fruits & nuts and good fats, people are shocked and horrified. What? No rice? We are Asians, you know? No bread? Then what do you eat for breakfast? No soy? How can??? (That’s Singlish for how could you?)

Now, I don’t expect many to go the whole hog like us coz not many are as desperate as we were to heal ourselves without steroids and antihistamines. So I would say, just eliminate the usual culprits – wheat and dairy.

Nope. No go. Telling moms with young children not to give them milk is akin to telling them to starve their child. Seriously! The milk industry has done an excellent job in brainwashing generations of people into thinking that milk is THE perfect food, without which all of us will suffer osteoporosis and malnutrition. Hey! I didn’t even ask that you eliminate soy and sugar. Just wheat and diary.

And then they throw in the clincher – the doctor says that the illness (whatever the illness is) is not diet related. Hmm…And has the doctor read enough? Or has he only read what the Big Pharma wants him to read?

And so, the child keeps on popping pills/slapping on steroid creams/spraying nasal steroids that don’t work or they require stronger and stronger meds in order for the meds to “work”. And when their child feels better, they celebrate by giving the child milk and cookies/pizza type of food. Really? Really????

It is so, so, so frustrating to talk to these moms! Can’t you at least try???

Look, as I had written about in Diet Affects Our Well-Being, I KNOW it is a pain in the you-know-where to not just eat what you want especially when you are a child. And I know that the reprieve from allergies may not even come soon – hey the longer you have been eating toxic stuff and popping pills, the more toxins your body has to first remove and then repair. I had read before that the you need to allow at least one month for every year you have been afflicted to heal!

But it is a temporary situation. Unless you or your child feel so good on a real food diet that that becomes a lifestyle change. Once the child is better, you can slowly introduce the foods back. Some foods however, may be off limits for a longer time or may never be allowed back.

Please!!! The amounts of meds fed to your child for months and months is not good!!! Steroids have a rebound effect. There is such a thing as topical steroid addiction and if one can get addicted to topical steroids I am sure one can get addicted to nasal steroid sprays. And it is not just steroids, any medication taken on a long term basis is bad for the liver which has to process and break down the toxins to be passed out of the body.

Yes I know that some people have no choice but most of us do! If we cannot eliminate all meds we are taking, we can at least cut down the amount taken or the dosage prescribed. Try diet modification at least for 4 – 6 weeks. Then assess. But you have to be strict. No cheating allowed! It is only 4-6 weeks.

Go read up on GAPS, on eating Paleo (ignore the caveman part. We didn’t evolve from monkeys or cavemen and grains were there from Man’s beginning.) and the Whole 30 Programme. Arm yourself with knowledge and then pray and ask God to reveal what to do. Don’t toss diet modification aside just coz you may have to work a little harder to make it work. For the sake of your child, please???

Ahhh! End of rant. 😀

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