Post by CJSculpts on Dec 27, 2009 18:31:34 GMT -5
OKay, so I have been babbling on for hours already but please bear with me, my brain has been exploding with questions for weeks now.
I have noticed in reading some of the posts that there does seem to be some correlation between delayed exposure and severity of symptoms. I am wondering how true this is.
I personally had a very healthy diet as a child. My favorite foods were broccoli, lima beans, and cheese. I was repulsed by anything overly sweet like pears and wasn't particular "sugar crazy" like most children. I have grown to love the taste of a high quality pear but still cannot stand anything that I would describe as cloying such as sake. When having the sweet vs. salty debate over the years, I always said both but now that I think about it, anything sweet that I really liked also had a salty component or was actually tangy. (Pixie Stix, Sweet Tarts, etc.) We rarely had sodas or probably much of anything with HFCS. As I got older, my exposure to all of these foods increased and so did my symptoms. The first obvious association with a food to a symptom was iceberg lettuce. I suddenly stopped eating salads because I would feel sick to my stomach. I then narrowed it down to salad bars ( I had been eating salad every day for lunch at school). and then realized that it was iceberg lettuce. Everyone thought that I was crazy because we all think of iceberg as being the mildest thing like white bread. Next came college. I decided to try to eat even healthier and started eating whole wheat bread for the first time in my life. Then I began to question why I was practically passing out asleep every day after lunch. Finally narrowed it down to the whole wheat bread, again with "no possible explanation." Of course, this was the nineties when it became fashionable for high-end restaurants to serve rustic whole wheat bread. I used to joke with my dates that they needn't bother with alcohol, they could just slip me a piece of bread if they wanted to knock me out.
In an earlier post, I brought up my father. It suddenly hit me that he NEVER ate vegetables and the only fruit that I can remember him eating was grapefruit! We used to tease him about acting like a little boy or asserting his manliness when he isisted that he could eat whatever he wanted. Hmmmmm... Unfortunately, he passed away in '05 so we cannot test him. He did start to eat some salads topped with salsa and a few other things in his final years. I now wonder how many of his symptoms that were chalked up to secondary issues from him leukemia were actual fructose related!?!?!
Funny thing is he would be the first to say that this was all crazy if he were still alive. Silly daddy!
His mother also has some interesting health and mood issues but passed away when I was very young and my family doesn't like to connect the dots so I am not familiar with them.
I noticed that someone said in another post that her doc had asked if her parents were second cousins & that Colormist said that some of her relatives were closely related. It kind of made me think. My relatives (3 grandparents and the parents of the fourth) ALL came from the same small town near Kiev. I always thought that it was cool that the grandparents managed to land in Philly and couple up and then have my parents who met in high-school and coupled up and then had me. Now I am just going to have to add it to the list of things that make me say, "Hmmmmmm..."!!
I have noticed in reading some of the posts that there does seem to be some correlation between delayed exposure and severity of symptoms. I am wondering how true this is.
I personally had a very healthy diet as a child. My favorite foods were broccoli, lima beans, and cheese. I was repulsed by anything overly sweet like pears and wasn't particular "sugar crazy" like most children. I have grown to love the taste of a high quality pear but still cannot stand anything that I would describe as cloying such as sake. When having the sweet vs. salty debate over the years, I always said both but now that I think about it, anything sweet that I really liked also had a salty component or was actually tangy. (Pixie Stix, Sweet Tarts, etc.) We rarely had sodas or probably much of anything with HFCS. As I got older, my exposure to all of these foods increased and so did my symptoms. The first obvious association with a food to a symptom was iceberg lettuce. I suddenly stopped eating salads because I would feel sick to my stomach. I then narrowed it down to salad bars ( I had been eating salad every day for lunch at school). and then realized that it was iceberg lettuce. Everyone thought that I was crazy because we all think of iceberg as being the mildest thing like white bread. Next came college. I decided to try to eat even healthier and started eating whole wheat bread for the first time in my life. Then I began to question why I was practically passing out asleep every day after lunch. Finally narrowed it down to the whole wheat bread, again with "no possible explanation." Of course, this was the nineties when it became fashionable for high-end restaurants to serve rustic whole wheat bread. I used to joke with my dates that they needn't bother with alcohol, they could just slip me a piece of bread if they wanted to knock me out.
In an earlier post, I brought up my father. It suddenly hit me that he NEVER ate vegetables and the only fruit that I can remember him eating was grapefruit! We used to tease him about acting like a little boy or asserting his manliness when he isisted that he could eat whatever he wanted. Hmmmmm... Unfortunately, he passed away in '05 so we cannot test him. He did start to eat some salads topped with salsa and a few other things in his final years. I now wonder how many of his symptoms that were chalked up to secondary issues from him leukemia were actual fructose related!?!?!
Funny thing is he would be the first to say that this was all crazy if he were still alive. Silly daddy!His mother also has some interesting health and mood issues but passed away when I was very young and my family doesn't like to connect the dots so I am not familiar with them.
I noticed that someone said in another post that her doc had asked if her parents were second cousins & that Colormist said that some of her relatives were closely related. It kind of made me think. My relatives (3 grandparents and the parents of the fourth) ALL came from the same small town near Kiev. I always thought that it was cool that the grandparents managed to land in Philly and couple up and then have my parents who met in high-school and coupled up and then had me. Now I am just going to have to add it to the list of things that make me say, "Hmmmmmm..."!!
