Fear of food? Anyone who has healed from an intestinal disorder knows that the food you eat has a crucial impact on your health. For this reason, healing usually requires dietary changes and restrictions for a period of time.
Some health experts recommend following a specific or restricted diet for the rest of your life (such as Elaine Gottschall’s specific carbohydrate diet) because this diet helped heal symptoms and alleviate the original condition.
However, the process that facilitates healing is not necessarily a good regime for long-term health. Since healing often requires intensive measures to correct an imbalance, isn’t it just common sense that if you continue intensive treatment beyond midline, you will negatively imbalance your body in the other direction?
However, the problem is psychological. When we find a regime that makes us feel so much better, we are often afraid to give it up or change it. Likewise, when something has worked for us, we can become zealous evangelists, trying to get everyone else to experience the same benefits as us – forgetting that every body is different and every person can have very different deficiencies. A life-saving supplement for one person may be poison for another.
Then you need to look at the food and nutrition research that is being published almost daily – often by parties with a vested interest in food trends. When manufacturers had an insane surplus of soy byproducts, they created a buyer’s market for that surplus by touting soy as an amazing health food. No mention of the fact that it impairs thyroid function, inhibits mineral absorption and contains large amounts of estrogen! For virtually any food substance, I can find articles that are convincingly for or against the substance.
So ultimately I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s best to just look at the living evidence, like Dr. Weston A. Price did. When he found a village/tribe of people who were free of degenerative diseases and had a tooth decay rate of less than 1%, he studied what they ate. And took samples at home and analyzed them. I feel his research has resulted in the safest dietary guidelines and my family and I follow them. I’m a big believer in “Results Trump Reports.” You can provide me with all the scientific research, clinical trials, chemical analysis, rat studies, etc., but compared to showing me the long-term results of a large group of people, real life evidence always trumps it.
I encourage each and every one of you to read this amazing book by Steven Bratman MD, which details his remarkable journey through the twists and turns of the labyrinth of healthy eating, self-righteous eating, and spiritual flagellation through food:
“Twenty years ago, I was a passionate advocate for healing through food. Back then, I was a chef and organic farmer in a large community in upstate New York. Today, as a doctor practicing alternative medicine, I still almost always recommend nutritional improvements to my patients.”…continue reading…
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Jini Patel Thompson is an internationally recognized expert in natural healing for digestive diseases. She healed herself from widespread Crohn’s disease and has been medication and surgery free for over 25 years. Jini has appeared on numerous podcasts, TV and radio shows in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, giving people hope and vision on how to heal their colitis, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) using all-natural methods. Her books on natural healing of digestive diseases have been sold in over 80 countries worldwide. Jini is married and has three children, nine sheep, 11 horses, a cat and three dogs.
