Garden variety headaches

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Thanks Elchanan for the link to the UK link for raw foods.

 

Also thanks for your help on the headache - I had indeed eaten some avocado

and some quinoa and pumpkin seeds - only a little but they were there and a

tiny bit of shop bought (cooked)salad dressing.

 

So much to learn - how do I learn which fruits are acidic - is it just the

citrus varieties? HELP!!??

 

Is it ok to eat oranges and citrus but only after apples and such like -

what are the best alkaline fruits - are figs and dried apricots alkaline. Is

pineapple acid? Melon is alkaline I think?

Sorry - it all came out in a rush!

Love Lynne

 

Message: 11

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:01:41 -0800

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RE: " Garden variety " headaches

Lynne writes:

Hello everyone - I am about 95% raw at present for the last few days and

enjoying it very much - but I juiced quite a lot of oranges yesterday - got

a lot cheaply and wanted to use them - plus I ate quite a bit of fresh

pineapple (lovely!) and today I got up with a headache and i think it was

too much sugar even though it was naturally produced.

I was diagnosed back in 1980 as being hypoglycaemic by an alternative

medical practitioner

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A typical, run-of-the-mill headache arises when the body constricts blood

flow through the brain for a period of time.

Most commonly, this occurs when the body is trying to remove some toxic

material. To protect the brain, the body reduces the surface area of the

blood vessels themselves until the toxin has passed.

Lynne, all the foods you suggested are very acidic. When you douse your

system in acid, the acid must be removed promptly, if the body can (has the

energy and other resources to) do so.

Also, did you eat ANY high-fat foods (avocado, nuts, seeds, nut butter, oil)

or any cooked food at all within 4-8 hours prior to eating the oranges

and/or pineapple? If so, you likely experienced a food combining problem in

addition to short-term hyperacidity.

In other words, this is not a " blood sugar problem, " and it probably never

was.

Therefore, two things:

1. Emphasize the sweet fruits, get those into your system ahead of lots of

acid fruits each day.

2. Eat greens.

In other words, alkalize, give your body lots of the most alkalizing

material you can, within the normal bounds of healthy portions for you.

PS Almost all " blood sugar problems " actually are caused by something

occurring before the blood sugar is observably off. Since virtually all

medical practice, allopathic and alternative, seeks and responds to

symptoms, the actual causes of conditions are rarely even sought, much less

identified or addressed.

This is definitely the case with the various " blood sugar " diagnoses

available for sale from allopathic and alternative practitioners alike --

hyper/hypoglycemia, insulin resistance (that's a newer diagnostic code

available for sale, at least in the US), diabetes type 2, chronic fatigue

syndrome, Candida, etc. In general, as I wrote in a previous post, these

conditions arise from elevated blood fat