Walt,
While I love Beth's book she gives no indication of what foods different individuals are best adapted to. She tends to lean toward the conventional advise of a 'light' diet that is rich in complex carbohydrates and low in fat. The inference is that it is appropriate for everyone.
I guess that I'm getting tired of seeing so many sick vegetarians. The classic profile is female, health conscious, well educated and well informed. Well the information that they are getting are causing them to get worse.
We know more now. We can offer something better.
A light diet (even if it is a whole foods diet) can make matters worse for the 15% of men and some 50% of women that have inherited a metabolism that requires something else. We've already seen the disasterous results of eating a heavy diet when inherited metabolism requires light fare. Why is it so hard to accept the converse?
While the benefit of a whole foods diet is powerful -- a whole foods diet that gives consideration to metabolic identity is MUCH more so.
Bob
In Reply to: Re: aloe gel, l-glutamine posted by Robert McFerran on January 05, 1998 at 15:47:44:
Dear Bob,
NO ONE approach has all the answers--something we both preach. That is another reason why knowledge is the only thing that will save anyone.
The main thing I think we will both agree on is that the Standard American Diet is terrible for nearly everyone. That is why nearly any diet other than the standard will help most anyone at least for a while. One of the reasons we see so many "sick vegetarians" is that nearly ANY change from the standard American diet will produce temporary benefits. Once one sees results they are loath to change anything--even when continuing the diet does not continue to produce the original results.
Am I making sense?
Walt
In Reply to: Re: aloe gel, l-glutamine posted by Walt Stoll on January 06, 1998 at 10:47:24:
Walt,
You ALWAYS make good sense!
Anyone going to a whole foods diet will feel much better.
Anyone eating a whole foods diet and avoiding major food allergens will feel even better.
Anyone eating a whole foods diet, avoiding major food allergens and eating more foods that are appropriate for their metabolic type will feel the best.
I want folks to have information that will allow them to feel the best. I also want them to know the strong logic behind it.
Bob
Hello,
I have read your book, and I already eat vegan (no animal products). I was wondering what foods you eat a lot of, because sugar and processors are in nearly everything. I eat much better than most people, but I have a hard time being strictly organic or non-sugar. Man, shopping at typical grocery stores is nearly imposiible, not to mention conveniences or fast food. Just wondering what a health expert eats.
Thanks,
David
In Reply to: Dr. Stoll's diet posted by david on January 22, 1998 at 12:07:28:
David,
You are so right about the grocery store!
You need to get a copy of Beth Loiselle's book THE HEALING POWER OF WHOLE FOODS. Everything you need to know is in there. Go to Dr. Stoll's home page and click on his article entitled "How to be Healthy." It is a most amazing and valuable book.
Jim
In Reply to: Dr. Stoll's diet posted by david on January 22, 1998 at 12:07:28:
Dear David,
Your experiences & comments take me back to my own when I first decided to try this for myself. Looking back, I am sort of amazed that I was willing to try it. However, if I had not, I would have missed the most important experience of my life.
My first grocery trip took me about 2 hours (it usually took me about 15 minutes--door to door) & I left the store grinding my teeth & muttering unmentionables under my breath. MY way around this was to only eat brown rice topped with steamed, chopped, mixed, frozen vegies (with herbs & spices I quickly learned to use appropriately) for about a year. This assured me that I was perfect in eliminating refined carbos and that I was geting a pretty healthy diet at the same time.
After a year I began to cautiously add other stuff little by little. However, by THAT time, I knew well how to avoid adding refined carbos to my diet and had lost my taste for meat. SO, for many years, I maintained my refusal to eat anything that was refined. Of course, my family & friends thought I was at least eccentric even though they were fascinated at how healthy I was while they continued catching colds, etc., etc. Many of them actually changed their diets just because of my example. When I see them now, 25+ years later, the first thing they say is: "Thanks for changing my life!"
It IS a lot of work--and frustrating--but it is worth it in the end. The more you learn, the easier it becomes. Once I learned that the tinest trace of refined carbos will keep cravings & withdrawal symptoms going (sometimes worse than before) everything became easy. This is why I do not recommend trying it without Beth Loiselle's book.
Thanks for the note. Nearly everyone I have seen try this had your identical experiences.
Walt