As you all know, I’m doing a cleanse, although I don’t know if that’s the right word for it. I’m on the Healing Diet and I may stay on it long-term. What do I eat? Vegetables that don’t have sugar (so no potatoes, squash, carrots or peas), meat (excluding pork), nuts and eggs. I do make pancakes with coconut flour or almond flour as well. I use Stevia as a sweetener. I also use almond milk and coconut milk in baking.
My uncle lives on this diet and he used to have ulcerative colitis but does not anymore! He borrowed me a recipe book and a c.d. I have listened to the c.d. twice now and the 2nd time I took notes. I have learned SO much about how food affects the body. The speaker is a doctor who has been on this diet for 4 years and these are some of the things he said:
1. Change the meat you eat because the pesticides and antibiotics they use can cause heart disease, cancer and inflammation in the body. Every disease or condition is caused by inflammation in the body. When cows aren’t fed grass, the saturated fat gets molecularly changed.
2. Change the fat: man-made fats cause inflammation in the arteries: heart disease. They also cause inflammation in the cell: cancer, any disease that affects your nerves and muscles, and affects the brain which can cause depression. Vegetable oils turn into trans fat in the body because they don’t take to heat well. It takes 102 days for the body to get rid of the negative effects of bad oils.
Good fats: olive oil, coconut oil (is the best for handling heat), organic butter, avocados, olives, nuts, flaxseed
Bad fats: canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, safflower oil, margarine (they are all chemically altered)
3. Cut out the sugar and carbs: these cause insulin to spike and inflammation in the cells and actually take nutrients away from the body
-Every time you see the word hydrolyzed in the ingredients, it makes you want the food more (it’s addictive) and it’s an excitotoxin (which means it kills the cells) and it attacks the central nervous system.
-Anything that ends in “ose” (glucose, fructose) is sugar. Glucose makes your insulin spike, which ages you more quickly. Sugar combined with protein produces what is called “ages” (it’s an acronym but I forget what it stands for): brown spots on the skin and cataracts
-Coloring is poisonous and especially negatively affects children with A.D.D. and autism (ex. yellow no.5)
-Leptin follows insulin and tells your brain to burn fat for energy. If your body is using sugar instead of fat, the triglycerides (fat in the blood) stays there.
-Fat doesn’t make people fat, it’s the body’s inability to burn fat that makes people fat.
-The leptin receptors in the brain burn out from overload of sugar and leptin helps control all the hormones in the body and many degenerative diseases, fatigue, depression and sleep disorders are because of this problem.
-If you want to lose weight, you need to cut out all sugar, all grains and then 2-3 weeks after, increase the healthy fats. Your body needs those 2-3 weeks to change from being a sugar burner to a fat burner.
-When on this diet (I can testify to this), you don’t eat as much because when you receive proper nutrients, you feel full. Sugar makes you want to overeat because your brain is not receiving the message: I’m getting the proper nutrients so I need to stop eating now.
This last one I found super interesting:
-All of the food that God declared unclean in the Bible had the highest toxicity levels. God wanted His people to be the best in every area, including health.
So there’s your science and nutrition lesson for the week! ;)
There is a testimony of a lady who has MS and it is going away after starting the paleo diet (it’s more broad as it includes all fruit and vegetables) instead of taking drugs. Before starting it, she was in a wheelchair. 5 months into it and she is out of her wheelchair! She got another MRI done and the lesions in her brain have gotten smaller and are almost gone!
People who have fibromyalgia said their pain has massively decreased. People have said their eyesight has improved (I would LOVE that). Another man said he had chronic joint pain and that has gone away after only a few weeks. I could go on and on but I am convinced that clean eating is the key to preventing disease and also can help heal many diseases. Is there a time and a place for drugs? Absolutely. My friend’s husband who has Lyme Disease is being kept alive because of them. Do we way overuse medicine/drugs in our culture in general? Yes! Is it more work and more expensive to eat this way? Yes. Is it worth it? 1,000,000% YES! The improvements in my own body in the past 3 weeks after starting this diet and getting prayer (because none of this works without God’s grace):
-No more diarrhea
-My urine isn’t cloudy anymore
-My energy has returned (I had incredible exhaustion)
-My nerve problems have improved (not all the way gone but they will be!)
-My brain feels clear and sharper
-I have slept through the night a couple of times now (believing that will continue to improve as well).
I am SO thankful to God that He is restoring my health and has provided me with information and the tools I need to stay healthy. Will I ever cheat? Yes (please don’t be scared to invite us over for supper or dessert). I do hope and plan to stick to this diet as much as I possibly can, which is more difficult at Christmastime but that’s ok. I just wanted to fill you in on what I’ve been learning and what I am excited about!
Some people have theme parties…ya, Blake had 3 themes. Angry Birds cake, Thomas tablecloth and Cars plates.
We bought a ladder majorly on sale (before this we only had a 50-year-old small rickety wooden one) so that we (as in Jared) can change the light bulbs that are high up in our house and the pot lights outside
Since he doesn’t know how to put them together by himself, I spent an hour putting this together.
My baby who is exactly 2 1/2 years old tomorrow! 
Kiera after her bi-annual haircut
The wind made the snow look really cool in front of our house. We have had the coldest winter and the most snow since 1949 or something ridiculous like that. I hunt to find the beauty and this particular morning I found it like this.
You think with all this cold weather (often below –20) and being cooped inside I would have gotten these pictures posted sooner, but I’ve been busy with other things, particularly making things. Stain remover, laundry detergent, body butter, diaper cream, face cream, and bread are just some of the things I’ve made in the past few weeks. Speaking of making things, I gotta go start on supper, so I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week!
