Wired from a burger & soda...

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Hi,

     That's interesting...I don't know if this is true for other people,

but I've found that stuff with " corn products " (corn syrup, oil,

HFCS, corn syrup " solids " and so on---UNLESS IT'S ORGANIC--

gives me weird and not always predictable reactions, some of

which are like you described.  (I wondered for YEARS why, after

eating certain foods I'd have a LOT of trouble sleeping--weird

aches and odd sensations that kept me from resting, feeling

" wired " , just as you described.  I've also had the " restless legs "

thing going--feels like BUGS are inside your legs and not possible

at all to relax!

 

     Since finding that, most of the time, vegetarian eating DOES

lessen these weird experiences, I have stayed mostly, but not

always, with that kind of dietary choice.  It's not been foolproof,

however.  There are " vegetarian " foods (mostly are the

meat-substitute foods) which contain non-organic corn products

and sometimes I get those reactions (less often) from non-organic

soy foods. 

 

    Ya gotta figure, for your case it probably was something in the

burgers or the beef.  They grow corn with TONS of pesticides on it

and feed lots of antibiotics and hormones to the cattle along with that

pesticide-laden corn.  It's gotta have an effect on what's in the animal's

body...and consuming the animal, you consume the same things it

was fed.  One more reason to NOT eat the meat, IMHO.

 

     I do sleep better now.  I attribute mainly to eating vegetarian foods

and avoiding meat in the diet. Some people like you probably are more

sensitive to additives and what's in the foods...Thank you for sharing

your experience.  It's helped me understand a few questions I've had

from my food experiences.  Something like an " Aha! " moment. 

Thanks, and I am so glad you are  a survivor of ovarian cancer!  That is

wonderful!  I pray you will have many more healthy and happy years

ahead of you!

 

Blessings!

--Laura B., in Illinois

 

PS: That soda may have had caffiene...and some folks are very sensitive

to that.  It also (unless it was " diet " ) probably had a ton of " high fructose

corn syrup " to sweeten it.  Nasty stuff!  Diet sweeteners aren't supposed

to be healthy, but the corn syrup that sweetens most " regular "  soft drinks

is, IMHO, NOT a good thing to be consuming on a regular basis!  It would

have " wired " me up just to drink the soda, let alone the burger!  :->    

  

 

 

However, after some years of this I was

curious to have a quarter pounder with

a soda.  OMG.  I was wired.  And my breasts

hurt (I guess it was the hormones in the

meat).  I had a hard time sleeping that

night.