New Year New Plans

Time marches on with wings on his feet.  It has been one year since the doctors told Carl, my husband of 52+ years, that he has stage 4 cancer.  At that time he decided to NOT have chemo or radiation and to make a Bucket List & just go with the time he has left.  At that time I also changed his diet and continue to tweak it.  Carl has had an amazing year & continues to hold his own.

Some days he is tired & just sits other days he wants to go out to eat or just go for a ride.  He still mows our large yard most weeks, our son helps other times.  He attends church & Sunday School some week-ends and he watches Joel on TV every week.  He is living out his days the way he wants.

As far as his diet goes I have removed bread completely from his diet.  After his lung surgery he coughed, when he ate a meal.  After tweaking his & my diet several times I removed wheat, rice, corn and every other grain from our diet.  I have added rice back.  Carl stopped coughing when he eats.

Presently I am reading Forbidden Medicine by Ellen Brown and I have always been an advocate of Alternative medicine.  I believe that diet has sooooo much to do with our health.  As we continue the fight on our hands I will continue my search for health through proper food combining, food for the body and food for the spirit.  We trust our God to lead us in this search.  Many blessings+

Food From the Past-Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon-A Must Read

Soup is usually a winter delicate dish which is left bubbling all day then eaten three times & put in the fridge & forgotten.  Suddenly I find out that the broth helps digestion and can be used clear for breakfast, cooked with veggies to become a soup, or used to make gravy or sauces.  This broth is a medical miracle and every house in the world should have a pot simmering for good health.

My father was a grocer, butcher, and supermarket owner, he was a great cook and told me many times that the best cooks used the bones for broth.  Now I am finding out just how wonderful the broth from bones is and how many problems can be solved in our lives by drinking broth.

God has given us the ability to live healthy and energetic lives of service, and we must do everything in our power to do so.  This book is a treasure of information...I must go read now.+

Food & Cancer

Yes Parent Essential OilsYes Parent Essential OilsWow, what a difference three months makes.  My husband went through the testing again and received a bad report for the cancer he had surgery for in Aprill 2009.  The doctors told him that the cancer has attacked the bone in his right scapula.  He had suffered pain during December and had been told to take IBprophen.  The cancer had returned to his right lung...which makes his cancer stage 4.  So he invested in The Hidden Story of Cancer and we began to do what the aurthor suggests, which is supplementation and no carbs.  It would have been wonderful to have gotten this book a long time ago. 
Now, I should have prefaced this to say that we believe that only God knows how long we have to live.  Carl is trusting God to lead us in this phase of  his life.  In 1999 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and was advised after 7 biopsys that he should not wait for surgery.   He had 40 rounds of radiation. So he has been battleing cancer for 12 years and before that he figures that the high PSA was noticed in 1990.  In the scheme adds up to 21 years that we have lived with this ugly disease.of things my husband has had a wonderful, busy, full life.  Now he is going through his Bucket List and the things he has dreamed about are coming true.  We are Praising God for family and Faith every day.+

What about dairy?

This year is almost over and my husband and I have had all kinds of experiences and one has been learning to eat properly.  At our age you would think that open mouth insert food would be all that we needed, but no!  When my sweetie was diagnosed with acid reflux we had to find out IF there was a way to help him, without having to take a dangerous prescription drug for the remainder of his life.  We found Great Taste No Pain and immediately had a positive results and continue to be free of the symptoms of acid reflux...UNLESS we combine the wrong foods.

Now we are finding that dairy is a real problem.  As I wrote recently our first daughter has discovered that dairy is her Kryptonite, you remember what it did to Superman.  She is adamant that she absolutely collapses when she has even a tiny bite of dairy.  My sister has followed suite and is finding the same to be true, Kryptonite.  So I went off of all dairy for several days and then tried a tiny bite of yogurt ice cream....my throat began burning and I began to cough, Kryponite.  One day we ordered Mexican and I was sooooo careful and when the waiter brought the meal I had forgotten they put cheese all over it.  So I attempted to move the cheese off to one side and after eating part of the meal I began coughing.  This is a cough that I have suffered with for years.  Finding that if I do not eat certain foods I do not have a cough is wonderful.

Well, that brings us to the holidays.

Every dip is made with cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, yogurt or Parmesan.  The substitute is dairy-free soy, to which our daughter is also allergic.  Well, now how do we handle  our dips?  Most of our family loves Salsa, so we all make it.  If anyone has a holiday dip not made with dairy please let me know.  We will not let this stand in our way when celebrating...maybe we should concentrate more on the reason for the season.

Happy Birthday Jesus, thank you for coming to Earth.+
Have a safe trip as you travel+

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Holiday Eating

Holiday foods are always either a joy or a nightmare.  Since learning to properly combine foods the holidays have been easier than ever.  Thanksgiving is always turkey and cornbread dressing and cranberry sauce...this year I did not eat the dressing.  When our  second daughter wanted to bring the meal she included our food choices which was so sweet, and I just made a salad and the cranberries.  We had almost no digestive problems until she brought out the cheesecake and pumpkin pie, which her 13 yr.old daughter had made.  Delicious and we had waited long enough since eating that we had no difficulty.
 
Adding veggies to a meal can make life a lot easier because if I eat more veggies I eat less of the stuff that causes me problems.  Not eating bread with a meal is my husbands hardest meal choice.  He wants bread with every meal.  We are just changing our food traditions a little.  The best part of Thanksgiving besides being thankful (which I am every day), is turkey sandwiches on the day after the day.  Well, it is hard to do unless we use Boca burgers or Gardenburgers, just not the same.
   
  Every day I become more accepting of  eating properly..no protein with starch.  When we have pancakes we may have potatoes but no bacaon, which my husband questions every time, sometimes I add veggies to the potatoes.  When I serve baked potato, either white or sweet, I serve a salad and a vegetable.  Rice I serve with veggies, beans I serve with rice and then sometimes I just do bacon and eggs with a few veggies. 
Attempting to give up dairy is another story for another day.  Our oldest daughter recently gave up dairy & she is so excited.  She feels soooo much better and she has lost weight, and she looks wonderful.

Until next time..watch those food combinations and feel better.+ 

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Favorite Foods

Years ago my father-in-law lived with my husband and I for several months, we had our first baby and Pops had had a stroke.  My father-in-law had been raised in Ohio on a farm and he LOVED potatoes.  I was the daughter of a grocery man-butcher and had always been overweight and I never ate potatoes nor did I cook them.  Pops craved potatoes daily.  He would beg for me to prepare potatoes...it was comical. Our four children were raised on few potatoes, we ate lots of fruit and vegetables but not potatoes.  Our youngest would order a baked potato with a side order of french fries when we ate out.

Now, since we started properly food combining my husband now CRAVES potatoes.  He loves hash browns, & Greek salad with potato salad and he can eat them everyday.  We continue to enjoy lots of vegetables and we eat salads daily and we are adding beans and grains just not with protein.  We still enjoy hamburgers we just make a big salad with everything our hamburger would have on it.  We add mayo & mustard, pickles, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, avocado, mushrooms.....um now I'm hungry.  We do not have the fries or onion rings that in the past we would have enjoyed.  We have those later in the day.  Delicious.

Reworking our menus has been difficult mostly because of our ages.  Years of eating in our parents home, then having our own homes we eat much as our parents and our spouses parents, trying to find our own values of eating.  Then we find out everything we have done has been just a click off....wow change is hard.
Except, if we are not flexible we will not make it.  Variety is not necessary, according to my husband.  He likes the same thing everyday.....I want something different.  After all the years we can agree easily.

Food combing is a plan that can be taught in schools, educating our children could change health care.  The children would be healthier,  parents would be healthier, teachers would be healthier.  Little children usually eat one food at a time.  Macaroni & cheese, spaghetti no meat only sauce, fruit, these are the foods most children want to eat.  We just need to watch their sugar intake in juices, drinks, colored milk, have them drink more water.  Snacks should be  fresh fruit.  We kept boxes of fresh fruit in our kitchen when the children were at home.  Our children could eat as much fruit as they wanted.  Our children were high energy and happy. "Food is our friend",  said Bruce, from Finding Nemo.
 Try proper food combining you'll like.      
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Enjoying Proper Food Combining

Enjoying food is one of the mysteries of life.  If we meet friends, it is to eat.  If we go to a ball game, swim meet, concert, we look for available food.  The exeption to this, we have found, is that, once you begin to properly combine foods you do not want a beef hamburger, pork hot dog, or the acid reflux that would come with each one of these combos especially if you have french fries or onion rings.  Try to find a garden burger or veggie burger at a game try to find a salad with something more than wilted lettuce and limp carrots.  Subway is one place we can still enjoy and some grocery stores are stocking more veggie type foods.  Eating more raw fruit is helping and we did that years ago.  We also love dried fruit mixed with nuts.  
                                 My husband is sold out on this plan because his stomach is no longer a problem during sleep, he does not take the RX the doctor told him he would always need, the remainder of his life.  He enjoys his bread with his starch meals and he uses celery or carrot sticks for push bread with his protein meals.  Our weight has gone down slowly but surely and we have more energy every day.


My thinking is that if we took this plan to schools and actually got the cafeterias to use it...the obesity in our children would drop.  My children were raised on fruit, fruit,nuts, the school nurse tormented them because they ate different.  They had energy and they were happy.  Would that not be exciting to see schools with happy, energetic (not hyperactive) kids.  If we watched the high fructose corn syrup that is in almost everything, we would be amazed at what we could eleminate from our diets.  Limiting some of our favs but we could go back to good foods...like fruit and veggies.  My heart is satisfied because this week my blood work was PERFECT.