Guest guest Posted January 13, 2001 Report Share Posted January 13, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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