RE: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: Newbie 4S and asthma

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gave me a website with great recipes for Gaps diet. It is http://www.grainfreefoodie.blogspot.com

You have to keep clicking on "Older Posts" to see all of them.

I'm not sure if the cauliflower one was on there, but I just took a bag of frozen cauliflower and boiled it on the stove top with water until it was very mashable--not hard at all, and then added butter and milk and salt and pepper and beat it with my beater.

Good luck!

Kath

[Norton AntiSpam] Re: Newbie 4S and asthma

I'm probably risking getting kicked out of this group because you're getting sick of hearing it, but believe it or not, the Gaps diet is used to treat asthma. Asthma is believed by proponents of nutritional therapies to be related to allergies, ADHD, and autism. I'm putting my daughter on GAPS this summer to try to heal her asthma and allergies.Problems with the bacteria in the gut and sinuses are addressed by Gaps, and conditions such as chronic sinus infections, ear infections, eczema, and various gi disorders can be cured. >> I (and my family) have been suffering from my 4S for years. I didn't know it had a name and, until reading round the subject a bit recently, thought it was just me. I'm very sensitive to unexpected, repetitious or (to me) intrusive high frequency noises...much the same as people here post (rustling bags, smacking and popping lips, chewing, clinking crockery etc). I become very tense, agitated, irritated and often angry (I keep it inside most of the time). I'll leave the room at the earliest possibility or avoid company when I know it's going to happen.> > I have read about the possible OCD and ADHD links but the more I think about it the less convinced I am. It's certainly true that the noise intrusions are a social handicap but the suggestion that they stem from sensory motor integration issues seems a bit a long shot.> > I know that I have excellent hearing (I joke that it's the last of my senses unaffected by gradual aging...I'm 49). And I hear everything all the time and this is part of the way that I `see the world' so at any time I'm aware of the ticking of clocks, where any of my family are I the house, outside noises like, birds, cars,) the tap of keyboard etc etc. It's all part of the broad background picture. This seems like pretty good sensory integration to me. The issue is the extraneous noise that intrudes on this picture. Its as if someone is running an interference pattern that makes the important sound information unreadable. For me it's the same experience as having someone shine a bright torch in your face when you are trying to see in the dark.> > As for other posters here, some people and situations cause me greater problems than others. I'm generally sensitive to sound but I'm also a teacher (I occasionally tell the children that I'm allergic to noise!) and the classroom, playground and staffroom noise are rich sound environments that rarely affect me. It is when things are generally quiet that the high frequency noises become unbearable. The few people who cause me greatest anxiety also seem to be totally unaware of the sounds that they make. So I wonder if it is me that has the sensory motor integration problem.> > Of course it's easy to suggest that if others can put up with it why can't I. My wife thinks that we all have the natural capacity to block out or screen unwanted sounds. I don't believe this though - why would nature endanger an individual by allowing sounds to be ignored.> > I do know that others are disturbed slightly by the sounds that bother me but can put up with it - but then they may not be scanning the other background noise as I do and may not be hearing them at all.> > I have also been checking out another possible causal link. I'm asthmatic (fortunately not an active sufferer since late teens) and I remembered reading that asthmatics have better high frequency hearing than non-sufferers. Looking it up again now, I read that the usual range of hearing is up to 20 KHZ but that asthmatics may hear sounds up to 30KHZ. > > So - if you've managed to stay with me this long...anyone else out there with 4S and asthma?>