Posts Tagged ‘ diet ’

I’ll be concluding the 5-part series on beliefs soon, but I wanted to take today to address a question I received via email. The question comes from (I’ll call her) Penelope, the wife of a patient of Ann Boroch (Ann healed herself of MS many years ago and now works as a naturopath, helping...
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Bread is everywhere, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Muffins and donuts and candy are everywhere but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you. Trans fats, partially hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, refined sugar, or sugar-substitute chemicals are in nearly everything, but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you. When I was...
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I talk about food a lot on this blog. The importance of a healthy diet, the benefits of discipline, and the ramifications of straying. Today I came across a blog of a nutritional counselor who spoke of a book called Integrative Nutrition by Joshua Rosenthal. Rosenthal offers a very interesting point that deepens and...
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I’ve been packing for days. Each day, I box up some of my possessions and my daughter’s possessions and add them to the tower in the corner of my living room. My life is methodically being packaged into a pause. On Wednesday, the boxes will be picked up and put in storage, where they...
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Leafy greens. The phrase haunts me. I know that if I want to be healthy, my diet should consist of as much as 70% organic leafy greens. This is commonly agreed upon advice according to well-educated nutritionists, anti-aging doctors, naturopaths, and the like. But I don’t like leafy greens. So I don’t eat them...
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As far as I’m concerned, art is meant to be hung on walls, not digested. That’s why I spent the last ten years working as a professional photographer and not a chef. I had been quite happily avoiding kitchens my entire life…until I was diagnosed with MS. That’s when I learned that my recovery...
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I remember when I was a child, and naive. I thought if foods were in our supermarkets and served in our restaurants, it must mean they were okay to eat. I remember understanding that an apple might be a better choice than a bag of chips, but I didn’t understand that the bag of...
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It was July of 2007 and I was waiting for the most important results of my life. I had had my first MRI two days before I was scheduled to leave town for a training in California with Dr. Joseph Riggio. The results I was awaiting  would either confirm or not that I had...
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I watched the documentary Food, Inc. a few days ago with great interest. As some of you may know, I treat my illness primarily with diet and supplements, so food has become a major issue in my life these past few years. A funny thing happened when I stopped eating gluten, dairy, wheat, and...
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Yesterday I had an appointment with my neurologist, who I’ll refer to from here forward as Dr. N. This was my second appointment with him. My first was a month earlier, when I explained that I had been treating my MS with diet and supplements alone, and LDN beginning in March of 2009, and...
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