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Foods to Avoid for Those with Chronic Pains*

February 23rd, 2010

Potatoes the common potato sources include baked, mashed, scalloped, chips, fries, knishes, pierogies, plus potato water in breads, biscuts, matzo, soups and stews and vodka.  Beware that potato is also included in these ingrediants: hydrolyzed vegetable protein, modified vegetable protein (MVP), or modified food starch hidden in packaged meats, cold cuts and seafoods and other processed foods.  Sweet potatoes are O.K. (a different family).

Tomatoes and their sauces ( like barbecue and brown sauces), seasonings, condiments like ketchup and steak sauce, prepared meats (like meatloaf), baked beans, gravies, and salad dressings containing them.

Peppers include red, green, orange, yellow, jalapeno, chili, cayenne, curry, pimentos, and paprika. Thes are hidden in salads, cold cuts, pastas, sausage and deli meats, olives, tabasco, worcestershire, steak sauce, coloring on nuts and fish, seasoning mixes, crackers, dips and spreads; black and white pepper are O.K.

“Spices” If the word “spices” or “natural flavorings” appear in the ingredient list, I cannot have it.  These are hidden sources and nearly always in commercial salad dressings, mayonnaise, mustard, condiments, sauces, prepared (frozen) entrees, and soups; they could contain paprika, crushed red pepper, ground red pepper, cayenne, chili, curry; All other specified spices are O.K. (like black pepper (again not in the same family), garlic, ginger, basil, rosemary and more).

Also avoid eggplant and tabacco, as well as soy products, since monsanto is genetically modifying 80% of the soy with the petunia gene (a nightshade).

What’s Left?

Flaxseed & olive oils, vegetables, including sweet potatoes (a different botanical family) and many other spices like black pepper (again not in the same family), garlic, ginger, basil, rosemary and more.  All fresh unprocessed meats, fowl and seafoods, wines and fruits, nuts, beans, cheeses, grains and herbs are not in the “nightshade family”.

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Nutrition Basics – What to Work on Daily

February 9th, 2010
  1. Reduce refined foods until there are no more in the house, then do not re-stock. Refined: anything processed, white, “enriched,” etc.
  2. Increase organic fruits and veggies, whole grains.
  3. Decrease anything that comes from animals to one meal a day. Not simply meat or beef but fowl and fish: if it had a face it’s an animal.
  4. Make a green smoothie once a day: 1/3 fruit, your choice; 2/3 green, your choice.
  5. Have nuts, seeds, avocados, olive oil, flax seed oil, fish oil daily in diet.
  6. Reduce tea, coffee, junk juice, smoking, toxic chemicals in environment.
  7. Increase pure spring water, reverse osmosis water (can be sweetened with fresh lemon juice & Stevia/Agave).
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