Liver Book and Fruit Diet

[Guest guest]

I too bought the Liver Cleansing Diet Book, but did not find it very useful,

I cannot really eat a lot of the things that she recommends, most of those

foods bother me more, as it seems that my gallbladder is too congested at

the moment to process them. I also emailed Dr. Cabot about some of the

problems I am experiencing with the gallblader and others, and she

recommended her other book 'The Lower Bowel Cleansing Diet', I think it was

called or something similar.

Anyway, thanks to Dale for recommending the book, as it might have helped

many others. I just read it for information purposes and the information is

good to know, even though I cannot put it to use at this time, maybe when I

finally get to healthy gallbladder state. I am an avid reader and

information gatherer so I would try anything that makes sense to me at least

once to see if it works for me.

Also there was a lot of talk on this list about the fruit diet, is this diet

just fruits eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner? What type of fruits,

could someone give me an example of the types of fruit eaten for this diet?

Can a person get all the vitamins and minerals and nutrition needed from

this type of diet? Most of the research I have done says that an all fruit

diet is not recommend permanently. I cannot eat oranges and grapefruits

daily as they give me joint pain so I avoid these, and only eat grapefruit

occasionally and of course the juice for the flushes. I do notice that when

I have a gallbladder attack of pain, I can only eat fruit, of which I have

fresh and canned fruit everyday when I am in pain and unable to eat my usual

foods, buy I only eat them for 3 days to a week at most. I must say that

the fruits keeps me going at these times, so I can go about my usual daily

routine of going to work etc., but I do not see myself being on an all

fruit diet for the rest of my life as that would be unrealistic for me, as I

know myself and what I can tolerate. The fruits I can have are pears,

peaches, pineapple and apricots, these I only eat from canned, and for

fresh, I have mostly kiwi and grapes and occasionally apple, as I do not

like apples much as for some reason I get stomach pain when I eat them,

(acid?), I notice this with the juice as well, especially apple cider juice.

These fruits mentioned seem to agree me the best. I get a lot of help and

information and hope from reading the emails on this list and I do hope

that someone gets some help from reading my emails as well. As we are all

here to help each other and to share what works for us in the hopes that it

may help someone else in dire need of help and have nowhere else to turn

other than this list to overcome these gallbladder problems we all have. We

are all built differently and one diet does not help everyone, this I have

come to experience for myself by trial and error.