Sunday, September 16, 2012

information overload

Urg, I've just fallen down the rabbit hole of nutritional information. I started looking at ASD and Leaky Gut, and realising that maybe Aloe Vera might just help Olivia a lot with this problem - but then I got into information on Omega 3 oils versus Omega 6, and where to find the good ones, how to avoid the bad ones, and our main immune system issues stem from the imbalance of 6 to 3...

 I do feel firmly convinced that we can solve all our physical problems and many of our mental ones as well, with diet - but it's such a complex thing, what's in everything, and what to balance with what, and how to get kids who don't want to eat anything but junk food to actually eat things that are good for them, and how to AFFORD the right things even before that... I find the whole thing so complex, and I just end up throwing crap at them and having ... bread myself, even though it makes me feel like crap and it makes me fat...

And my husband would live on white bread cheese sandwiches and never eat a fruit or vegetable and couldn't imagine not cooking with sunflower oil and would have no interest in this conversation. Not to mention his mother who insists on buying my son a chocolate bar every time she collects him... which is four days a week :(

Ahhhh shite.

Imagine if we could go to a shiny white Swiss clinic on an Alp, where they could completely reprogramme your body back to the beginning, and then send you away thin and healthy, with a diet plan that was easy to follow and your kids would now accept. That would be a good thing.

This article I just read suggested people with this condition who weren't breastfed should consider taking colostrum as a supplement - apparently ;Body builders have used it for years to allow them to over-train while closing the permeability of their brush border with the colostrum. It is that effective. Many people do not realize that exercise can open your gut to inflammation. It can. The reason why colostrum works so well is because it loaded in proline.' 


It amazes me some people are still choosing to deny their children breast milk. 

Ach. Maybe we should all just go back on it. I wish I hadn't stopped lactating. 

You're all laughing at me now - it all comes back to this! Anyway, breast milk not withstanding, I can't deal with nutritional info, it makes my head hurt, it makes me feel despairing before I've even started, even the positive, doable, amazing stuff, because it all piles up into such a huge mountain of unaffordable info. I used to spend about forty euro a week on organic veg... Can't do that any more. Nup. And they won't eat it even if I do... 

3 comments:

Ms. Moon said...

Don't believe everything you read. That's my advice.

Jo said...

I know it is, but then, my motto is more along the lines of, if there's lots of research and science and record of positive results, etc, then it's irresponible to ignore all that and poison your kids with frozen processed food every day.

Rhi@FlourChild said...

I've had the same info overload too! Been looking more and more in to quitting sugar, but I just don't think I could do it... Have you looked up "Nourishing Traditions" or Weston Price? Some crazy ideas, but also makes sense. Does my head in!
Big fat thriving baby is on the boob as I type, so at least I know one person in the family is well fed ;)