Celiac's Disease or Gluten Intolerance

This is a quick overview of what Celiac disease is. There are so many symptoms and so many variations of the disease. One person may have several symptoms while someone else may have none. One person may have weight gain while another has weight loss. One may have diarrhea while another has constipation. Celiac disease is becoming more prevalent in our society as more foods our processed with grains. Although corn is not listed as grain below many Celiacs substitute their wheat for corn and continue having the same problems they have with wheat. In my opinion and it has been studied and documented, corn is not healthy. Corn is not the corn our grandparents were raised on. Most corn in the U.S. comes from GMO (made in the lab) it contains high concentrations of toxins. The way the corn is stored has increased micotoxins (poisons from fungus that can not be killed with heat). These micotoxins cause a wide range of health problems from heart disease, skin disorders, diabetes, to so many more.

There is a fairly quick, free simple test to test for gluten intolerance, Celiac disease. All you need to do is go off gluten for 2 weeks. Then add gluten foods back into your diet. How do you feel off of the gluten and how do you feel when you eat gluten? Feel bad when you it gluten? The simple treatment is don't eat gluten if it makes you feel bad! Check out the symptoms below, does it sound like you?

Most people who realize they are gluten intolerant have not been told by a doctor they have found out through simple elimination of foods they eat. Doctors are not trained in Nutrition, unfortunately (not including emergency doctors) the doctors training is merely matching the drug to the symptom not curing the cause.

Overview Celiac disease is an autoimmunedisease in which the lining of the small intestine is damaged from eating gluten and other proteins found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. Symptoms The symptoms of celiac disease can vary significantly from person to person. This is part of the reason the diagnosis is frequently delayed. For example, one person may have constipation, a second may have diarrhea, and a third may have no irregularity in stools. A partial listing of gastrointestinal symptoms: Abdominal pain Abdominal distention, bloating, gas, indigestion Constipation Decreased appetite (may also be increased or unchanged) Diarrhea, chronic or occasional Lactose intolerance (common upon diagnosis, usually goes away following treatment) Nausea and vomiting Stools that float, are foul smelling, bloody, or “fatty” Unexplained weight loss (although people can be overweight or of normal weight upon diagnosis) A partial listing of nonintestinal symptoms: Anemia (low blood count) Bone and joint pain Bone disease (osteoporosis, kyphoscoliosis, fracture) Breathlessness (due to anemia) Bruising easily Dental enamel defects and discoloration Depression Fatigue Growth delay in children Hair loss Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) Irritability and behavioral changes Malnutrition Mouth ulcers Muscle cramps Nosebleed Seizures Short stature, unexplained Skin disorders (dermatitis herpetiformis) Swelling, general or abdominal Vitamin or mineral deficiency, single or multiple nutrient (for example, iron, folate, vitamin K) Treatment You must follow a lifelong gluten-free diet. This allows the intestinal villi to heal. Eliminate foods, beverages, and medications that contain wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. You must read food and medication labels carefully to look for hidden sources of these grains.

"Safer" Nail Polishes

DID YOU KNOW?
Many major nail care brands use FORMALDEHYDE, TOLUENE and DBP in their polish formulations. These chemicals are highly carcinogenic, cause birth defects, respiratory disease, and a host of other serious illnesses. The United States FDA does not monitor the use of these chemicals in cosmetics! Consumers are often completely in the dark about what they are buying and might never know about the hazardous ingredients they are using.


Hers' a list recommended by www.greenupgrader.com 
~Zoya
~American Appeal
~Butter London 

Alhtough these are safer they are still to be used sparingly while pregnant. 

Why I chose Trinity

After years of suffering with weight gain, allergies, sinus infections and the other little aches and pains that I thought were all just a part of life something within me said there has got to be a better way. This can't be normal. Maybe the accepted normal of today's society, it sure was normal according to the doctors. Their words of wisdom: your just getting older, you just got whats going around, less calories more exercise. Well I guess God had a different plan for me. Scott was attending college traditionally (on campus) and non traditionally (online) and I wanted  a degree of my own. Well I had no interest in any of the college courses offered here in Ga.(no offense) so I did a internet search. I typed in the search engine this little phrase. "Lord help me find a college" I received this webpage first: Trinity College of Natural Health so I checked it out. Good program, something I would be interested in , totally online and budget friendly. Okay God you have my attention! Well here I am a college graduate with a Certification in Nutritional Counseling, 1 class away from a Master Herbalist degree, 1 class from being a  Certified Health Specialist and 8 classes and a dissertation away from my Doctrine. What will I do with my new found knowledge?-I don't know but God does! I do know that sickness is no longer a part of my life and that's well worth all the time and money we have put into my education.

The Walletectomy

In the Journal of American Medicine, Dr. Lutz. A physician at St. Mary’s hospital, Passaic, New Jersey tells the tale of a 52 yr old male. The male’s complaint was pain on his lower back left side –near the sciatic nerve. The diagnosis from the first doctor was a herniated disc. Upon examination by Dr. Lutz, a neurological examiner, he found that the man complained the pain was most severe when driving his car, especially on long business trips. Dr. Lutz asked to see the man’s wallet, in which he carried it in his back left pocket. The wallet was 1 ½ thick filled with credit cards. The pain was immediately and completely removed when Dr. Lutz performed what he calls the “Walletectomy”.
Back pocket sciatica is primarily a man’s disorder but it has a female counterpart “ponderous purse-disease” - a condition that results from carrying an overloaded shoulder bag. In the New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Engel points out that the constant contraction of the shoulder muscle and neck muscles from carrying a heavy purse can lead to pain, tenderness, muscle spasms which can lead to severe problems.
In our culture a man’s ego lives in his wallet-credit cards, currency, and the like. A woman’s ego is manifested in the contents of her purse. Dr. Lutz has shown the male ego becomes a “pain in the buttock” and the female ego a “pain in the neck”.
This so funny but so typical of what our medical system has become - they are so quick to perform elaborate expensive needless test when there is such a simple fix.

Why did I choose the grain&sugar free lifestyle?

One word you need to remember when you think of grains is Mycotoxin or POISON.
The following documentation is from one of my favorite sites: www.knowthecause.com
It is very well documented that fungi are parasites of man. They should not be inside the human body, but they have several portals of entry, including the skin, the lungs and even the food we eat! Certain fungi make a poisonous substance known as a “mycotoxin.” Mycotoxins are involved in human diseases, including but not limited to liver cancer. Avoidance is imperative, but once mycotoxin producing fungi are inside the human body, your doctor may offer a two fold approach to eliminating them; killing them with prescriptive or natural antifungals and starving them, but cutting off their primary food supply. Fungi, like many people, crave carbohydrates! That may be why so many people manifest with so many symptoms and diseases, yet doctors cannot accurately diagnose them. A fungal disease may be diagnosed as chronic sinusitis or high cholesterol, yet few physicians understand the fungus link to those health problems. Prescriptive medications control them, but never address the cause. Know that fungi must have carbohydrates in order to thrive inside your body. Perhaps starving fungus would reverse the symptoms that contribute to so many health problems we Americans suffer from!

I myself, after consuming grains, have suffered from an array of symptoms from asthma like symptoms: not being able to catch my breath, frequent coughing, skin conditions, digestive problems, and frequent sinus and bronchial infections. I have been off all grains except rice for about 8 yrs. I have not been affected with any of the above symptoms since. I have recently added potatoes and rice to the list I will eat sparingly , as these too can feed fungus.
Did you know that the leading food for toxic contamination is Corn followed closely by WHEAT? Of course it is the cheapest food that we can buy and is in absolutely everything. No wonder we are such a sick nation. As my loving husband likes to remind me "would you rather spend our money at the Grocery store at the doctor's office"? .
I choose the grocery store! I love cooking and cook all our meals - I like knowing I am in control of what foods go into our bodies and I like being able to adapt old favorites into grain free/gluten free variations.

Can It Your making me Crazy~

I could just pull my hair out trying to find the healthiest foods. My goodness (not the word I really want to use but...) I eat fresh they say NO! you have to buy organic. I buy Organic they say you NO! you have to buy locally grown because of the jet fuel being leached into your food when it is flown to Georgia from California. They say buy canned or frozen because fresh foods have no nutritional value because they lose nutrients on the shelfs but canned and frozen are processed just as soon as they are harvested and the nutrients are captured within. Now by "goodness" they are saying NO! don't eat frozen or canned they are in bags or cans lined BPA that can cause all sort of birth defects, heart problems and Diabetes.

Okay I know that the best foods are homegrown organically and home processed the same day you harvest in good old Mason Jars-Oh NO what about the lids- are the lids BPA free, Aluminum free!! I guess for now I will stick with as much organic foods as I can find and afford, and give equal opportunity to fresh, canned and frozen. Maybe I can trick em'