Guest guest Posted June 20, 2003 Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 I never was a vegetarian of any stripe. You know, vegetarianism always struck me as being pretty complicated. I guess the early 70s was the time period when I became aware of such things. But I was living at home or just a simple college student during that decade. I never felt like I knew enough about it to eat that way and stay healthy. Then in the late 80s/early 90s I read Ron Schmid's book, " Traditional Food Is Your Best Medicine. " Reading about Dr. Price's research in that book convinced me that eating didn't have to be that hard to be healthy. Also, he consistently found that cultures that avoided all animal-source foods were less healthy than those who included it. I resisted eating a largely carb diet until the late 90s. Then after I had my baby and went back to work, I put on weight like I was still pregnant. But that was when I worked in vending in the mornings and res life (dorms and cafeterias) in the afternoons. You can't help but eat in those environments! It wasn't until after I read Sally Fallon's article in a sample copy of Acres USA that I became aware of WAPF. After reading their articles for a few weeks, I made the plunge and switched to whole milk (can't get raw cow's milk here...yet). And I started making it my aim to include some foods containing cholesterol in each meal. LOL! > >>>>>I didn't know that a person could be just wheat intolerant...you > taught me something! I also have a hard time cooking meat as I was > vegan before this too. > > ----->you must be like the 10th person on this forum who's mentioned they > were formerly a vegan over the past several months. is anyone on this list > NOT a former vegan?? lol. but seriously...anyone? (*i'm* not, but i *am* a > former " semi " veg - ok, well, actually a former > lacto-ovo-pesco-polo-insecto-synthetico-GMOco- " vegetarian " ;-) > > Suze Fisher > Lapdog Design, Inc. > Web Design & Development > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg/ > mailto:s.fisher22@v... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2003 Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 Suze- >right, but try to come up with an alternative explanation as to why >those who've been eating wheat for the shortest period of time have a much >higher incidence of the genes associated with gluten intolerance... To get back to my previous analogy, this is like dunking the entire human race under water for some amount of time until a percentage of people die and then saying the problem is a water intolerance gene and therefore drowning is a genetic disorder. Sure, genes are involved, but that's just part of the picture. Different people, by dint of different levels of training, nutrition, health, and other environmental factors, and yes, genes, will be able to hold their breath for different amounts of time. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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