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May 2009 
On Food allergies
Posted on Feb 8th, 2009
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pookietooth
pookietooth
http://www.galexisspirit.com/messages/pdf/message_08.pdf
Does this mean my reactions are based on guilt and messages about food, as well as emotional eating? Very Interesting.
Does this mean my reactions are based on guilt and messages about food, as well as emotional eating? Very Interesting.
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i didn’t read the article. but if something is toxic to your body, it doesn’t necessarily mean the reaction is psychosomatic. i had enough of people telling me my pain, that turned out to be endometriosis, was all in my head. and maybe some people really are healthy enough that they can drink clorox and not be adversely effected by it, doesn’t mean i want to try it myself. ;-)
all i can do is pay attention to how my body reacts when i ingest certain things, and avoid the ones that make me feel bad. maybe, just maybe, everyone reacts to some degree to some foods or others. maybe it’s just that some of us are paying more attention to what our bodies are trying to tell us? hmmmm…..
The examples she gave weren’t really about food allergies, they were about people who had eliminated foods because they thought that they were bad – you know, like vegans or frutarians (don’t know how to spell). I have friends who avoid a lot of foods because they have been told that they are unhealthy – cooked foods, or animal products, or pork, etc. – not because of how they make them feel, but because they have been convinced by some expert that those foods are toxic. “Cooked food has been denatured, half the protein has been destroyed, it’s devoid of enzymes and puts a huge burden on your pancreas” and “people who eat animal products have a higher rate of cancer, heart disease, etc.” That kind of stuff.
I do have one friend who swears since she quit eating cooked foods, all of her health problems have cleared up – her back pain, her rosacea, her headaces, mood problems. And that everyone she knows who has gone to a raw diet finds that when they eat cooked foods they feel sick. But I also notice even though that the main reason she went on the raw vegan diet was to lose weight, she hasn’t lost much. But she still says that she’s better off. Maybe it’s that $300 vitamix and the $200 excalibur dehydrator she bought.
I had a blood allergy test that said my only highly allergic foods were almonds and eggs, both of which I was eating a lot of at the time. I don’t think those tests are very good.
My reaction to wheat seems to have gone away for whatever reason – I no longer get chest pains when eating it – but I still don’t eat it. I don’t think comparing it to chlorox is that helpful though. I do think gluten is hard digest, as is casein, but I don’t think that means everyone is allergic to it or intolerant to it any more than peanuts being highly allergenic means that everyone is allergic to them. My reaction to peanuts totally depends on my hormones – if I’m premenstrual, they will trigger a migraine, but if I’m not, I can eat a ton of them and nothing. Isn’t that strange? Unsoaked beans always give me gas (even lentils and split peas). But I have friends who can eat split pea soup without soaking the peas at all and have no problems.
T. Colin Cambell compares CLA (a fatty acid) from dairy to bug spray as to how it prevents cancer, but that’s because he thinks of animal products as toxic. Are they? He says so and he’s got a PhD from a fancy school. Bleh. Not sure where I’m going with this, what I meant to say was that reactions to food can be changed – I have friends who have found this to be true for them – but I don’t know if that’s always possible in all situations. NAET (allergy elimination) works for some people some of the time, but not everyone.
oh, it’s real strange, that article is. i find it hard to imagine that someone would cause their own body to have such horrible reaction, based only upon what some expert said about something. but there are always those people who like the attention, and will say or do whatever it takes to get it. so maybe… i don’t know. would your body give you crippling migraines (for example) without a really good reason? certainly stress contributes, everything is connected. but if you know good and well that a certain food causes a certain reaction, it is always best to avoid eating it. don’t need an expert to tell you that.
oh, reading more of it, i think i’ve seen this somewhere before.
about the only part of it with which i don’t disagree is this bit at the very end:
What your body wants, your body will then dictate to you. It may say, “No, I don’t think I want that macaroni and cheese. I think that salad will feel better. I’d much rather have that salad.” Your body will choose for you. It will choose what makes it sing. Then, rather than having to override it with your judgments, you can listen to your body’s natural wisdom.
that was my experience as well. but i had to get to a certain level of physical health before my body stopped screaming and i could hear what it was trying to say. for me, that was eliminating gluten. once the worst problem was taken care of, the other problems became easier to recognize and deal with.