Guest guest Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Margaret, I encourage you to explore all this with someone who can help. There is no reason (other than your own beliefs and choices) for you to live the rest of your life with all these " sensitivities " . Elchanan _____ Margaret Gamez Saturday, September 01, 2007 7:46 PM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: Too much fruit? Some of us do have sensitivities to certain fruit and vegetables. One of the most common sensitivities is to citrus and citrus-y fruit, such as lemons, oranges, and tomatoes. These fruit/vegetables can cause all sorts of unpleasant reactions, from itching to migraines (in those prone to migraines) If you are eating non-organic (no judgment, just advising you), you should wash carefully and peel the fruit or vegetable. Who knows what chemicals might be on the skin of the fruit or vegetables. Even organic fruit and vegetables can cause reactions... Always wash very carefully. If you can, soak the vegetables in a vegetable cleaner, or clorox (if you don't like this idea, don't do it, but clorox is one of the best removers of " stuff " from the skins of vegetables and fruit. Just soak for 10 mins. then rinse well to remove any traces of the clorox. I am, myself, recovering from an itch fest brought on by eating too many tomatoes (I love them, but I am sensitive them). I have received a lot of tomatoes from my CSA, and I had been drinking tomato juice made from @3 tomatoes plus other vegetables at least twice a day, and eating whole tomatoes AND having tomato sauce on my dinner food. I finally realized what the source of my agony was and stopped the juice. I hope this helps Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Elchanan wrote: > I encourage you to explore all this with someone who can help. > There is no reason (other than your own beliefs and choices) > for you to live the rest of your life with all these " sensitivities " . In your great wisdom, you have neglected the line where I said that I had discovered the problem, eliminated it, and was now free of trouble. Apparently you are unaware that there are a number of humans who are born with digestive difficulties, sensitivities, or out and out allergies. " Born with " is the ruling phrase here. We could starve these folks, and they still would not be able to eat certain things. I do happen to actually be " someone who can help " . I actually do happe to have training in nutritional healing and naturopathic medicine. I do not parade my training because that is not my purpose on this list. I do, however, have the training, and I have the background to speak knowledgeably. Kindly forgive me if it irks me when someone chooses, in a public forum, to attempt to ridicule my ability to successfully diagnose and heal an issue in order to attempt to establish himself as an authority. Whether you are aware or it or not, the physical biological fact does exist that, in humans, the aging process includes a reduction in digestive enzymes. This, too, can lead to digestive difficulties. Perhaps you may be aware of the " purple pill " advertisements. Such pills are allopathic stop-gap remedies for a normal physical situation – people eat things which do not agree with them anymore (of course, we should first explore the possibility that these people might simply be eating unwise combinations of foods, however, once that possibility has been eliminated, we must look at the likelihood that these people are no longer easily able to digest certain foods and should either slow down their intake of such foods or else eliminate them entirely from their diets. There is nothing wrong or shameful about coming to such a point, and such should not be intimated. It is simply a natural fact of life and aging.) Suggesting to a person of a certain age that she or he must be doing something wrong when the most likely situation is that the physical body is doing what it does naturally can be very damaging. At the very least, it is very rude and uncaring, aside from the fact that it is more than likely to be *ignorant*. A body which has run its course will eventually begin to shut down. As far as I know, none of us are designed to be immortal (yeah, yeah, I know the concept that many have that we should live forever, however, to date, nobody has ever done it, so hush). We can keep the physical body going for quite some time by right living and right eating, but, sooner or later, the body is going to do what it does (or else, next, you are going to tell me that menopause was a figment of my imagination and was not necessary) Kindly stop attacking people's belief systems, when you know little or nothing about them and do not have sufficient background to be speaking as an authority. There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving opinions, or offering suggestions based on your own studies, but, when you do need to be careful what you say in a public forum, as people will understand what they think they have heard, which may or may not have been what you thought you said. I believe it was the founder of NLP who said " The meaning of the communication is the message that is received. " The only way we can hope to control the message that is received is to be extremely circumspect and conscious as to what we say and how we say it. Blessings Margaret > > Margaret Gamez > Saturday, September 01, 2007 7:46 PM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Re: Too much fruit? > > > Some of us do have sensitivities to certain fruit and vegetables. > One of the most common sensitivities is to citrus and citrus-y > fruit, such as lemons, oranges, and tomatoes. These > fruit/vegetables can cause all sorts of unpleasant reactions, from > itching to migraines (in those prone to migraines) > > If you are eating non-organic (no judgment, just advising you), you > should wash carefully and peel the fruit or vegetable. Who knows > what chemicals might be on the skin of the fruit or vegetables. > > Even organic fruit and vegetables can cause reactions... Always wash > very carefully. If you can, soak the vegetables in a vegetable cleaner, or > clorox (if you don't like this idea, don't do it, but clorox is one of the > best removers of " stuff " from the skins of vegetables and fruit. Just soak > for 10 mins. then rinse well to remove any traces of the clorox. > > I am, myself, recovering from an itch fest brought on by eating too many > tomatoes (I love them, but I am sensitive them). I have received a lot of > tomatoes from my CSA, and I had been drinking tomato juice made from > @3 tomatoes plus other vegetables at least twice a day, and eating whole > tomatoes AND having tomato sauce on my dinner food. I finally realized > what the source of my agony was and stopped the juice. I hope this helps > Margaret > > Margaret Gamez > Saturday, September 01, 2007 7:46 PM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Re: Too much fruit? > > > Some of us do have sensitivities to certain fruit and vegetables. > One of the most common sensitivities is to citrus and citrus-y > fruit, such as lemons, oranges, and tomatoes. These > fruit/vegetables can cause all sorts of unpleasant reactions, from > itching to migraines (in those prone to migraines) > > If you are eating non-organic (no judgment, just advising you), you > should wash carefully and peel the fruit or vegetable. Who knows > what chemicals might be on the skin of the fruit or vegetables. > > Even organic fruit and vegetables can cause reactions... Always wash very > carefully. If you can, soak the vegetables in a vegetable cleaner, or > clorox (if you don't like this idea, don't do it, but clorox is one of the > best removers of " stuff " from the skins of vegetables and fruit. Just soak > for 10 mins. then rinse well to remove any traces of the clorox. > > I am, myself, recovering from an itch fest brought on by eating too many > tomatoes (I love them, but I am sensitive them). I have received a lot of > tomatoes from my CSA, and I had been drinking tomato juice made from @3 > tomatoes plus other vegetables at least twice a day, and eating whole > tomatoes AND having tomato sauce on my dinner food. I finally realized what > the source of my agony was and stopped the juice. I hope this helps > > Margaret > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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