] Raw Food for Health? and Chemical Sensitivity.

May 11, 2005

sheri,

I'm sorry about your allergies. :-(

I have asthma so I'm allergic to stuff like perfume

and animal dander, toxic chemicals like bleach.

Thankfully, I'm not allergic to the outdoors. I feel

though that being raw has helped my allergies since

I'm using my inhaler hardly at all now. I do get

wheezy in church though when the old ladies hug up on

me bc they wear tons of perfume. Instead of reaching

for the puffer though I do deep breathing and that

helps.

I have a lot of raw books. My faves are:

Hooked on Raw

Raw Family

Conscious Eating

Nature's First Law

Raw Knowledge

Raw Knowledge II

Living on Live Foods (book and DVD)

As far as feeling faint, I've definitely had those

periods. I'm no expert, but I do think it's part of

the process of cleaning out the body. I was lucky in

that when I went raw, I wasn't working at the time so

I could spend the day in bed or read. I got to really

focus on healing for Dec. and Jan. and that really

helped the whole healing/transition process.

I felt the same way you do about the medical

community. They put me on all these drugs which had

horrible side effects and they didn't even help. They

would just take my money, write out a script and send

me away. I was desperately ill, so I just plunged into

the juice fast, then all-raw after that. I just

chucked all my drugs in the trash (I don't recommend

this, but I did it anyway). It wasn't easy, but I'm so

glad I did it bc now I feel FANTASTIC. My husband is

totally amazed bc believe it or not sometimes my

breathing was so labored and painful I thought I was

going to die and we were actually talking about making

arrangements, stuff like that, just in case.

When I would wheeze, instead of reaching for the drugs

I would do yogic breathing exercises and lie on the

couch with a hot compress against my chest to loosen

up the phlegm. I drank a ton of hot tea, that helped

too. I would meditate, focusing on my breathing so

that I could " make peace " with my lungs even though

they were giving me pain. I basically spent a month

like this, unable to walk across the house without

getting winded. Spent most of my time on the couch and

in the bathroom, doing enemas, in the kitchen,

prepearing the juices. It's kind of wild to think

about now bc it wasn't that long ago yet it feels like

another lifetime. Didn't mean for this to be so long.

I hope you find the answers you're looking for in

terms of regaining your health, whether it's in going

raw or some other method of natural healing.

swing

--- sheriljay <sheri wrote:

> Swing,

> Were/Are you chemically sensitive? I am severly so

> and house bound

> as exposure to any chemicals causes a terrible life

> threatening

> reaction. I am half way to being a raw foodist but

> find I get really

> weak and faint as I move towards being totally raw.

> Did you go

> through this? I am determined to get better and

> reclaim my life but

> don't feel that the medical community is going to be

> able to help me

> get there. I think raw food may be my only hope.

> Also any recomendations of good raw cookbooks would

> be appreciated. I

> have 12 steps to raw so far.

> Sheri

>

May 12, 2005

Thanks Swing,

Your story is inspiring. I feel like going raw is what my body needs

to heal. But when I feel so faint and weak (and starving) I wonder if

I'm doing the right thing. So now I realize it is my body healing and

I should go with it. So you are saying you more or less spent 2

months resting and detoxing when you started this and then the

weakness went away. I can handle that. Right now with the air

pollution so bad I'm more or less stuck in bed all the time anyways as

it's affecting my lungs and just wiping me out. Thanks for the raw

food cookbook ideas.

Sheri

PS I'm not working either right now as I was fired for being disabled.

Need to get able so I can work again:)

May 12, 2005

It could also mean you are not getting enough food.. have you used

nutridiary.com to follow what you eat.. I found this feeling of dizziness and

weakness to also be me not ingesting enough food for me.. Since I have used

nutridiary.com.. I have felt much better and do not feel many of the detox

symtoms... I was surprised ...when I thought I was eating way too much food for

a days time.. I found that I was only getting half what I should be gettting...

sheriljay <sheri wrote:Thanks Swing,