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You could try recipes from the paleo or Whole30 crowd, they are whole food based and don’t use any refined sugars or grains.
If you haven’t had dairy in three years or more, I wouldn’t go straight in to drinking milk again. Try cultured dairy products like kefir or yogurt in small amounts until you find you can eat them or not
Don’t fear fat, it’s vital to brain health and organ function.
I follow the principles outlined in this book. They discuss eating a wide range of whole food using traditional preparation methods to improve overall health and digestion
Best wishes
A great cookbook that uses these exact principles is Nourishing Traditions: The cookbook the challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats.”
My coworker felt the exact same way. He was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease as well, about 3 years ago. He then discovered Nourishing Traditions, a book that taught him how to eat for the health of his body. He follows the thoughts and recipes in this book exactly and has not had an issue with his Crohn's flairing up for almost the entirety of those three years after the switch. It took about 6-8 weeks before he noticed it really benefiting him, but he hasn't gone back and says that as long as he is on this diet, he will never have to worry about medication and complications again.
I hope this can help you too. Goodluck!
Check out this book. It is an amazing beginner's resource for anyone trying to improve their relationship to food and food sources/traditions. It is also a great portal to other tomes of information.
These products have a lot of highly processed products in them, including and especially soy-based proteins and vegetable oils, both of which are highly indigestible and unhealthy. I would not recommend anyone trying to be more healthy eat these products or any processed foods in fact.
Check out this book. It is an amazing beginner's resource for anyone trying to improve their relationship to food and food sources/traditions. It is also a great portal to other tomes of information.
So, in summary, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig were right all along. My wife switched us to this kind of thing 10 years ago, things like:
- Soaking to increase nutrient absorption.
- Using basic ingredients.
- Plenty of fermented stuff (you should try real ketchup some day! Easy to make too).
- Plenty of good fats (butter, olive oil, coconut oil, etc).
- Raw milk and raw cheese (ooohhh - that will probably get a rise out of people).
- No Trans Fats or HFCS (that was quite controversial back then).
- No MSG - or the dozens of things that do the same thing.
- .. and the list goes on.
I thought for sure I would get fat. Nope, not even close (a strong workout ethic helps, though).
The only thing left on their "Bad List" that has not come true yet is Soy. I give it no more than 10 years, though, before Soy becomes just as bad as Trans Fats.
p.s. - Yes, yes, I know that the Fallon folks can be a tad "extreme", but unlike nutritionists they are willing to change their opinion based on evidence ;-)
I would suggest reading Sally Fallons book on nutrition called "nourishing traditions" which is for adult amd bigger kids (you can find this pdf on google) and her book called "nourishing traditions book of baby and child care".
Also dm these 2 women on instagram they have some of best practical health advice that doesnt parrot mainstream nutrition which is highly flawed and can lead you down the wrong path for health. They also give advice for birthing and how to make it less painful.
https://instagram.com/nutrition.elements?utm_medium=copy_link
Hey OP, you may be interested in this: Weston A. Price Foundation. They are into the traditional food prep, and I like a lot of their recipes/food tips. There's a cookbook by their current head honcho here that I really enjoy a lot of recipes from (traditional sourdough bread, fermented ketchup and pickles, and more). Keep your skeptical hat on, though. They promote all sorts of pseudoscience and rank stupidity in with some actually sensible ideas, and some bloggers who use this style of eating also are involved in quackery like homeopathy and anti-vaccination. You have to have a good bullshit tolerance to get to the best stuff. Use your brains.
Were you ever fully checked for celiac disease when you were still eating gluten? I'm a celiac and you sounds just like me, except you're male, younger and likely in better shape...
I would recommend trying either Cream of Buckwheat by Pocono or some kasha as an alternative hot cereal. Are you doing any coconut milk? I would recommend it over dairy since you have intolerance. Get unsweetened stuff or make your own and have it with the hot cereal or Bob's Red Mill Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal that's gluten-free.
With either of these, you might do well to learn to soak your grains a lá Nourishing Traditions. Traditionally, grains were soaked in an acidic medium - water with vinegar or kefir/yogurt added - to break down the anti-nutrients and make them more digestible. So for hot cereal for breakfast, you'd want to put it in a bowl with some water and yogurt (you may find coconut kefir or almond milk yogurt) to soak the night before and then cook it in the AM, or maybe even a 24 hour cycle where you start tomorrow's breakfast soaking the morning before. This page recommends 7 hours for buckwheat and 12 to 24 hours for oats. With your gut profile plus your desire to have some carbs in your diet, checking out Nourishing Traditions or the GAPS diet may have some tips for you too as far as healing/helping your gut but I'm not as familiar with it. The SCD or Specific Carb Diet is also really helpful for IBS or the newer version of that is the low-FODMAPs diet. I have learned how much of what foods I can tolerate within that framework with large input from paleo and nourishing traditions. Lately I've been able to add in some yogurt which is great because I really need to assist my gut flora... it's a looong story.
1) Get this book, from your local library, if you don’t already have it.
It’s not strictly “paleo,” just old-fashioned real food stuff (June Cleaver style); there are TONS of great recipes in there that mesh well with the paleo/primal thing, and many lend themselves well to making large quantities.
You can skip the “breads,” “legumes,” and “desserts” chapters. :)
I suggest flipping though it, and having your kids pick out some things they’d like to try and make. And then have them help you make it! In the process, they’ll learn the basics of cooking, and you get to exploit them for free labor!
2) Also, and I know this might sound weird on a Paleo forum, but I also like many of Any Phyo’s raw vegan recipes. If you check out one of her books, she has some really great nut- and fruit- based alternatives to sweets and desserts!!! Fantastic nut-based alternatives to breakfast cereal, too (I use real milk, though).
I think there are some recipes like that in Nourishing Traditions, but I'd have to check to be sure.
A book I can't recommend enough (though with some caveats) is Nourishing Traditions. It gives you something of a baseline to begin to understand some facts about what actually is good for you and gives you loads of ideas on how to eat in a healthy, economizing way (the author is pretty consistent about having uses for nearly everything you make -- and the byproducts). It's also kind of fun making some of the ingredients that get used in a plethora of dishes you'll make.
It also gives you the ability to start to parse some of the folk wisdom you've heard all your life -- stuff that a scientifically-minded peson (rather rightfully without any additional knowledge) dismisses as old, magical thinking. But stuff which upon examination sometimes makes enormous sense as "wisdom" received through generations and generations of iterative testing (and relatively stable environments conducive to -- say -- figuring out practical ways to get iodine into your diet when you live in a mountaineous region, far from the sea).
My main caveat about the book, though, is that she cites seemingly literally every study she can find that supports her basic premise (that you should eat "whole" foods prepared with specific care instructions and only from a certain class of foods). I think the premise is sound but that some of the studies she cites (and so some of her evidence) is not. The variable nature of statistical science (see regression toward the mean) assures us that some statistically significant results are aberations. In my mind, some of what she cites is certainly an aberation. Oh, and she's really, really excited about some stuff that science has seemingly proved to be total BS, by now (e.g. MSG as a neurotoxin).
Like I said, though: In my mind, her basic notion of what is healthy is right. And even when she's wrong ("MSG is neurotoxic"), she's often right (MSG is a good marker for heavily synthetic and unnutritious food, on an ingredient list)
A good companion to that is Mark's Daily Apple, which is a Primal/Paleo eating/lifestyle site, but which I think has a lot of worthwhile information whether or not you decide to go on a "Primal" diet. At the least, you'll begin to understand what actually is in some of the food you eat and be able to make more informed decisions about it.
This article about bread gives you some clues as to what you should be eating, as well, IMO.
I think ultimately that diet is something people simply have to spend time learning about in the modern world -- that in traditional societies, people (generally or often) lived in stable situations and could, through slight variation and trial and error, oftentimes chance upon some very health habits. We simply don't live in a place and time in which received knowledge is sufficient (or even easily passed on) and in which coherent rules of thumb fail can even emerge -- unless we understand some of the science (principles) behind them.
> You make me think of the French who are known for snacking all day on small portions of very rich foods, and somehow are not fat, instead are healthy.
Oh, and as another example of perhaps skewed cultural values, we in the West or America (or whatever it is) often think of skinniness as necessary and sufficient condition for considering someone healthy. What that is, though, is a rather superficial aspect of health and one whose sole focus on belies some rather backwards thinking. Here, we're more focused on tricking people into thinking we're healthy (on that visceral, biological level that judging people as attractive entails) than on actually being healthy. I think that being fit and reasonably not-too-fat are logical outcomes of living healthfully but that if your focus is on the outward manifestations of health rather than actually being healthy, you're doing it wrong.
Sorry. Wall o'text.
This is just plain wrong. http://www.thepaleodiet.com/ and http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/ are 2 examples.
Also look at this book : http://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Traditions-
Challenges-Politically-Dictocrats/dp/0967089735
What the FDA is telling us is all wrong. Tons of research to show this. Won't get into long winded argument on this now, but modern food processing and grain based diets are killing us.
I suggest you try going vegan. Try it for two weeks and see how you feel. If all is well, try again for another two weeks and keep going if you are finding yourself healthy. Keep re-assessing every month or so to see if your new diet is providing you health while also helping your conscience. You may have the type of digestive system that thrives on a plant-based diet.
One thing that the pro-vegan movement believes is that ALL digestive systems work the same. That you "just need to get used to it" (eating vegan). I'm not 100% up on the microbiome research, but I bet (if they haven't already) that they will start pointing out who is best suited to switch to vegan and who is best to stick to animal protein.
I've known lots of vegans who basically starved themselves over time. Their value system/ethics was so powerful, that they overrided their body's needs. And they were not absorbing/digesting the nutrition from their vegan diet enough to fully thrive. They got sick more easily, felt weak, tired all the time, lost unhealthy amounts of weight, etc. Not right away, mind you, but over the course of 5-20 years. Those who switched back to including some animal protein in their diet felt a renewal of vitality and gained a bit of weight.
I *do* believe that eating vegan is possible. I just think it takes a certain constitution for it to work. If people find out more about how their own particular digestive system works, they could make healthier decisions for themselves.
The issue of animal cruelty in our food system is a very real and valid one. If you decide to improve the quality and ethics of your meat, seek out a small farmer who raises, slaughters and butchers the animals ethically (yes, this is possible) and you will find a difference. One difference of course will be in the price, it will be much more expensive. As recent as 100 years ago, meat used to be very expensive. People tended to raise their own animals or simply didn't eat a lot of meat. It has become (through industrial farming practices) extremely cheap and sadly largely at the cost of the well-being of the animals involved. Don't eat this stuff if you can avoid it. To keep the cost down, simply eat less meat and supplement with plant protein (I suggest a "real food" like tempeh, which is not a frankenfood like much of the plant protein convenience foods.) I don't mean only eating 2-3oz of animal protein a day, but wolfing down an 18oz steak is generally way way overboard.
Perhaps 90% of animals products sold in grocery stores will then be off your menu, because they were derived from industrial-style farming/ranching, which tends to be where most of the cruelty happens. Meat labeled as "organic" or "pastured" is not perfect, but it does tend to provide better living conditions for the animals. Organic is a regulated word, so you're better off with that. Pastured can mean whatever what someone thinks it means -- however, if it truly is pastured, then it will be better meat than most organic. If you want some inspiration for why pastured meat is better, a popular book on the subject is, Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon.
When stuff like this happens, it's due to their mental models of the world not being able to explain what is happening to them. Over time most people evolve coping mechanisms, however in your father's case he seems to be unable to do so by himself.
The alcohol is just a means for numbing the pain - someone else in his position may have chosen to do drugs. You need to look deeper than the alcohol abuse. When you talk to your father, try and stay off the subject of alcohol altogether and try and get him to talk about his real concerns, and why he feels the way he does. Since he is the type that likes to stay busy, try and get him started right away on some project at home (say, a vegetable garden - assuming you're someplace warm with no snow).
As the economy starts to head south again later this year, stories like your father's will unfortunately become all too common.
P.S. I was curious about his weight loss program for diabetes. Did it involve consuming lowfat or nonfat foods for an extended period? Saturated fats play a very important role in brain function, so a dietary imbalance caused by inadequate fat in the diet could have contributed to the problem. Check out the book Nourishing Traditions.
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