starting up an HFI blog

[esmee]

tikitavi--your linked worked fine to take me to the interview. what i was trying to say, but did not succeed in making myself clear, is that i could not find the main home page for colomists blog on her blog page, which would take me to all her posts, but charlie has provided the main link. thank you both.

colormist--i would love it if you could post here each time you post a new blog, so we know it is there.

[esmee]

einterview!

Thank you fred for sharing and thank you colormist for posting.

[colormist]

Yes, I will definitely start posting an update here when I update my blog. I didn't want to seem a narcissist by updating here and presuming everyone wanted to read the blog.

Fred was particularly helpful with the blog. He previewed it and let me know that it wasn't working in IE and let me know a few edits that I should make.

I loved all the pictures he sent. He sent me way more than what I used. I tried to only include the photos that correlated to his age in his story.

[colormist]

A couple new silly articles. Sometimes I think I should take more of a reporter-like stance to my blog, then I realize would run out of things to write about in a day.

fructose-free.tumblr.com/

[tikitavi]

Haha, love 'em! You made me laugh out loud!

[colormist]

Wrote about my experience getting genetic testing done (which is also on this site, but lacking a few notes). Lots of the questions the doctors ask are difficult to answer. If you have HFI, you don't have a basis for "normal". Is it normal to feel sick after eating sugar? I've seen lots of TV shows and movies where kids eat so much candy, they get sick. That's how I feel, so that must be normal.

Doctors also seem to think that if you survived being a baby, then clearly you do not have HFI. That says a lot for the opinion doctors have about parents out there. I guess no parent is smart enough to listen to what their baby is telling them and no baby ever resists eating something they don't like.

[esmee]

Great post!

[colormist]

I added some google analytics today so I can see where the traffic is coming from. I'm pretty sure it's mostly you guys, but I like to see if anyone else is coming across it from elsewhere.

[susan]

Thanks for having the mental energy to write the blog. I am making plans to have my blood test. I plan to go through my allergist as he, at least, was familiar with HFI.

Regarding the origins of HFI...I have wondered also...
I thought perhaps it could have originated in the far north. People in the far north survive on meats and dairy....reindeer, fish, milks from their animals. I have heard of individuals who have never even tasted a fruit. It made some sense to me, that a mutation could happen and no one would even notice.

Recently, I read something about high incidence of HFI in Switzerland. This makes some sense to me also in that my German grandmother's linage can be traced back to the historical German Rhine river regions...which is in parts of Switzerland. Anyway....I think it is interesting.
Susan

[colormist]

Susan,
I think the far-north is our best guess for origins, definitely. Everything I remember from my conversations with my geneticist to the research I've been doing trying to write up blogs has indicated that's where the doctors presume it originates as well. I mentioned "arctic circle" in my blog because of Tolan's website (I think). He mentioned it being more common in northern European countries (he said names and I'll looked up their geographic location in relevance to the arctic circle). They're all either inside of the circle or just barely outside of it. I'm sure it all hones down to one specific location.

After all, why would one need to waste development of a liver function if it's never used?

EDIT: Made a pizza last night. It was awesome. I posted the recipe and photo on my blog.

[tikitavi]

Great blog posts again, Colormist!! I especially love the latest one about ignoring the dietitians, food pyramid, etc.

Your pizza looks great!

I agree with what you and Susan were saying about the far North. I'd be interested in the regions you mentioned, Colormist! My ancestors are from the T2 haplogroup, and from the Ukraine/Poland, as far back as my great-grandparents. I don't know any farther back.

[colormist]

This is the only page I recall (http://www.bu.edu/aldolase/HFI/incidence/index.html) but I'm pretty sure there were others. I've looked at so many articles over the past couple weeks.

[susan]

I flipped though the pages of the blog and enjoyed it.

I looked at the pizza...okay?... so it is a pizza.
What's the big deal?

Wait !

A pizza that looks exactly like the concoctions I have made for myself !

We are not alone....afterall.
"Happy Amusement" for myself.
Susan

[colormist]

Mmmm pesto pizza. I really need to learn how to make my own pesto sauce. There don't seem to be any decent suppliers in my new hometown.

In other news, I updated the blog with an Pinterest collection I was working on today. If you'd like to help me add things, I'd appreciate the help (but you have to have a Pinterest account!) Or you can post your suggestions here.

pinterest.com/colormist/fructose-free-diet/

[esmee]

wow, colormist, what a great idea! i have never heard of Pinterest, but it is perfect for this kind of application. There is something powerful about seeing pictures of the foods.

I don't recall seeing a picture of white rice in your collection, but I may have missed it.

[colormist]

I just added it! I was thinking last night that I had missed it.

EDIT: Man, do not look at this wall if you're hungry. I'm salivating and now must go make lunch.

[esmee]

Also, what about celery and collard greens?

[tikitavi]

Interesting! I'd never heard of Pinterest before!

[colormist]

Last I heard, celery still has a little bit higher than safe amount of fructose in it. I do eat it on occasion, but not very much. I wasn't sure to include it.

As for collard greens, I hate them so much I didn't even think about them. They seriously gross me out and I've only ever had them once (ten years ago). I'll do more research on them.

I also haven't included a lot of fish because I get sick from it. I'm not sure if it's just me. Maybe I'll baby step my way into the land of aquatic food.

[ukbill]

Regarding celery. I can eat it raw but not cooked when it seems to go very sweet.

So maybe its not safe after all, well it is a stalk of a plant.. I have to remove all stalks from cabbage leaves before i can risk eating any.

I have found for any recipe that calls for Celery I use a tiny amount of Celery seeds and the meal is spot on!

The seeds are massively powerful celery scent so I only need to use a very few. One 15g tub lasts me 6 or 8 months!

They are great in Baked Trout and I put them on sardines on toast for a snack too