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About MeMy hobbies are yoga, reading books, eating healthy and trying to live simply and frugally. I get torn when I see the cheap prices of food at Sam's Club and Costco, but I end up really trying to hold out to buy mainly organic food for my family. It is expensive, but hopefully worth it. At least I have a Trader Joe's near my house. I stopped shopping at Whole Foods because of the expense and the fact that Trader Joe's and the local supermarkets are now stocking lots of organic foods. My neighbor calls Whole Foods "whole paycheck" because the prices are so high. A Few Favorite quotesOur ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. - Edward Bulwer Lytton A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties. - Martincau Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.- Demosthenes Recovering from a Connective Tissue DisorderEach morning I try to make a big pot of soup with organic meats, beans and vegetable in the crock pot. I let that simmer all day and snack on it when I'm hungry. I've found this really helps my fibromyalgia. When I was younger I thought I was eating healthy, but I think in hindsight I was eating too many carbs, not enough meat (for me) and not enough fat. I'm not against vegetarian diets. If they work for other people - that's great. But for me it just wasn't;t working out. Healthwise I hung in there until I had children. After having two children close together my health really went down hill. I think I was nutritionally depleted. If I had to do it over again I would have changed my diet and had my children at least four years apart to give my body time to recover. The kids were sick a lot, too, even though we were supposedly on a healthy, semi-vegetarian diet. I went to many doctors and found few if any answers. Eventually I was diagnosed with an inherited connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This diagnosis provided a reason for my many diverse symptoms, such as scoliosis, fibromyalgia, frozen shoulder, neck pain and TMJ (temporomandibular joint syndrome), but few solutions. Eventually I found a physical therapist who helped me a lot, and also found many answers on my own through my collection of alternative health books. The main things that helped me were yoga, changing my diet and trigger point therapy. Acid - Base BalanceOne of the most interesting lessons I learnd from my alternative health books was to monitor the acid - base balance of my body. It is interesting that this is something the average doctor doesn't seem to pay any attention to, yet there are many medical studies validating the need for humans to have a proper pH balance by eating more acid or alkaline forming foods as needed. I think The Paleodiet book by Loren Cordain is really interesting. Dr. Cordain advocates a caveman diet of mainly meat and vegetables. He doesn;t even think beans or tubers are good to eat. I'm not sure that would be the best diet for me because it is very high in meat. Dr. Cordain thinks this is okay because our ancestors ate a lot of meat. But our ancestors didn't sit at a desk typing all day for a living either. So even though I may have the same genes as a cave woman I sure don't have the same activity level. Read more about my thoughts on acid and alkaline foods.
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