crazy docs...was welcome Mary (and watch out for crazy mel!)

[Guest guest]

**another warning...I seem to be quite snarky today. I

have been rather ill and was just deserted by my ex

boyfriend because he didn't want to get sick...please

don't mind me!!**

 

The blood type diet book is from what I can tell a big

ol' propaganda crock. There was a huge debate someone

last year on one of the groups, communities ect. I

belong to. I like to be in large groups like this one

to get lots of opinions...

But anyway...there really wasn't any tangible research

that I could tell.

I have an alternative type chiropractor who keeps

trying to push these herbal things on me, but they are

in geletain capsules. I try to tell him I will not

touch that stuff but he always says " it's no big deal "

I have also been told repeatedly by people that

doctors get little to no nutrional training and they

go more on personal beleifs than science there. I

can't tell you for sure but my GP and my endometriosis

specialist advocate this type o being a vegan. I am

actually SUPPOSED to be on an endometriosis diet but I

am lazy and can't seem to pay $8 for a loaf of rice

bread. I still eat wheat, and soy, and sugar and

occasionally caffeene. But the other stuff it says to

eliminate I already had...the meat, dairy, eggs...that

is the stuff all my current doctors tell me is bad for

me.

Now my old doc. from my childhood missed a lot of

things, dropped a lot of balls, and now I suffer for

it. I am thankful to have a great doctor now, but it

doesn't change how sick I will always get due to that

old doctor (who lost his license due to mistreatment

of a number of patients!)

I am mostly sensitive to cleaning products ect as well

but I also find things in foods that irritate me. I am

a high school teacher and the stuff they clean the

floors with KILLS!

I have always taken my lunches with me...so I don't

know what to say there. Even as a kid I brought my

lunch to school. I love bringing salads, couscous

dishes, leftover soups, stews, rice dishes ect. to

work with me cause then the kids flip out at how good

it looks. Then I get to tell them there is no animals

in it and they flip out more! Two years ago I got the

kids hooked on some veggie wraps from " The Garden of

Vegan " (refried beans, sunflower sprouts and seeds,

alfalfa sprouts, salsa, grated beets and carrots and

sometimes I add spinach too!) and now every time we

are on a trip where we bring lunch they all pay me $1

per wrap! I am so cool!

 

**Anyhoo - like I said above. I am quite snarky and

scattered today , but I am also very bored so I am

talkative. Let me know if I step over any lines today

folks!**

 

~Mel

 

--- " Mary R. Frank " <mrfrank wrote:

 

> What irks me so much is that both the EI doc and the

> chiropractor are on

> the " alternative " end of things. I agree that we

> have to listen to our

> bodies. In any case, I'm a veg because of how I

> feel about animals, and

> that isn't going to change after 30 years. I

> haven't read the book on

> blood types, so I don't even know how much research

> there is behind the

> belief that type O's should eat meat.

>

> I have eaten lots of organic for years. The farm I

> to is

> organic (not certified). My chemical sensitivity is

> mostly to perfumes

> and cleaning supplies. Because I work at a

> university, I encounter way

> too much of both, but I have been somewhat

> accommodated by having a

> private office with air filter. For a number of

> years I had to wear a

> mask when I left my office, but I've recovered

> enough that I don't often

> have to wear the mask.

>

> Yes, organics is best, but it is too easy to eat

> fast food for lunch,

> given that I hate to bring my lunch and my work

> building is right next

> to the student union, where they have tons of fast

> food. At least I eat

> healthy for breakfast and supper.

>

> mrf

>

> Melissa Hill wrote:

>

> > Hello!

> >

> > **Warning...I hate narrowminded doctors. A lot of

> my

> > problems would have been avoided if I had listened

> to

> > my body instead of doctors as a child, teen and

> young

> > adult.**

> >

> > I am o neg. and I am actually allergic to all

> animal

> > products. they make me extremely sick and have my

> > whole life. I was also told I had the " wrong blood

> > type " to be veggie let alone vegan, but I know

> what my

> > body tells me.

> >

> >

> >

> >

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

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