Have you signed up for the Wise Traditions Conference yet? I hope you’ll go, it will be a great chance to get away, hang out with other Real Foodies, hear amazing speakers and learn a ton, eat food that tastes heavenly, and you don’t have to worry about it making you sick because it’s all REAL food. Besides, I’d love to meet you. The conference is less than a month away and time is getting tight, so go sign up!
- If you like Christian music at all, then you know who Matthew West is (I LOVE his stuff… “I’m a brand new man…” – that song makes me want to dance) – on my other blog I’ve just put up a sweet giveaway for all 4 of his albums, including a SIGNED copy of his newest one, Story of Your Life, along with an exclusive book highlighting the making of the album, featuring the stories, pictures, lyrics, etc. My other blog doesn’t have many readers yet (I only update there weekly or so), so if you go enter at Christianity101blog.com, you’ll have a very good chance to win!
- Sign up so you don’t miss BIG stuff coming soon here on the blog about school lunches, a topic that gets me riled up for sure. “Mrs. Q” retweeted something I wrote last week, so I found her blog where she writes about eating school lunches every day throughout 2010, “Just like the kids”: “Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project”. Talk about bravery.
- If you haven’t yet seen last week’s post, “Politically incorrect thoughts on breast cancer”, you’ll want to see what got the comment section buzzing like crazy over there.
- Recently TWO people I love have been diagnosed with autoimmune diseases and I’m convinced they could be healed with the GAPS Diet, but I’m not sure if they’ll go for it. Here’s an interesting article on this topic in the Huffington Post. I’d love to hear what any of you might know about this.
- You’ve got to read this one from Kristen about why the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund ROCKS.
- Jon & Cathy’s show this week included an interview with 6th grader Birke Baehr. I enjoyed this interview much more than the YouTube video that has been going around like wild fire because this was just off the cuff and more real. The interview with Birke starts 13 minutes into the show. (Here’s another interview between Jon & Cathy and my friend, Kimberly Hartke, that I’ve had in my inbox for a while now so I don’t forget to listen.)
- Hey, did you guys notice my new archive page? I’m working on de-cluttering my home page and making the site easier to navigate. I have a lot to do yet, but for now I’ve shortened my orange nav bar up above and added the archive page, which also still needs work. Hang with me!
Heather@Food Ponderings says
I should have mentioned that the class was an ART class for art majors.
Heather@Food Ponderings says
I forgot to mention just how little food my husband ate when he was on those drugs. He was already scrawny, and then to add the effect (he refuses to call them “side” effects) of a lack of appetite. Yikes!
Anyway, one of my husband’s favorite stories from college is how his professor asked who in the classroom had ADD or ADHD and 95% of the class raised their hands.
Michaelangelo on Ritalin? Can’t even imagine.
Barbara says
Lanise – not only do tendencies and eating habits run in families, but gut bacteria populations, too. In fact, people who live together tend to have the same gut flora, because they are shared through the environment.
WordVixen says
Kelly- I was really surprised that you weren’t familiar with Mrs. Q already since I found you through link hopping through her comment threads. 😀 There’s a commenter there (frogfarm) that periodically would post some awesome real food links- I don’t remember if you were a direct link, or if I found you through a long trail of links (happens a lot when I get interested in a new subject), but thanks to frogfarm, I found the WAPF site and a few others. In a very real way I owe my food conversion to Mrs. Q. 🙂
Heather- I’ve wondered about that connection myself. So called “normal” people only accomplish normal things, usually. Throughout history we have geniuses that created great inventions and art. Those with autism and ADD and other similar issues tend to be hyper focused on one thing or another, and usually see things differently than the rest of society. Doesn’t it make sense that those things may be tied together? I mean, what would have happened if they could have prescribed Ritalin for Michaelangelo?
Heather@Food Ponderings says
My husband was diagnosed with ADD when he was a kid, and had a succession of drugs, the last being Adderall. He quit Adderall in college because he hated the way it made him feel. I bet dietary changes, a la GAPS, would have been a lot better. Sometimes he takes gingko biloba to help him, as it increases blood to the brain, but he mostly just deals with it. I think it helps him wth his artwork, honestly.
Ray - Pure Spontaneity says
People with autoimmune disease should really check out Robb Wolf’s new book the Paleo Solution. Robb suffered from autoimmune disease (as well as his mother) and he completely reversed his autoimmune disease. Try robbwolf.com.
Soli says
That does make a lot of sense, though in my case I likely got it from my father and no one is alive now to tell me how the family ate then. (Recent Swedish immigrants at the time)
But also with boys, they’re BOYS. Energetic and always testing the limits of what they can and cannot do.
KitchenKop says
OK, I emailed Sally Fallon, and here’s her reply:
“I think tendencies run in families. Also, eating habits run in families!! And boys have an extra step in the development of their brains, fueled by testosterone, so more ways things can go wrong. Best, Sally”
If I’m able to meet and talk to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride next month at the conference, I’ll ask her about this to see what she has to say, too. 🙂
Kelly
KitchenKop says
Great question! I’m working on an answer for you… Hoping I’ll hear back from the person I asked.
Kel
Soli says
Lanise, I am curious to hear that answer too. I have a diagnosis of ADD (and depression) on the books, and was able to overcome the first half and a lot of the second through retraining my brain. I was also 19-20 at the time so it was easier to do on my own.
Lanise says
Here is another link to a Huff Post article that you may find interesting.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/5-steps-to-kill-hidden-ba_b_739213.html
It’s encouraging to find more mainstream media outlets talking more and more about these important nutrition issues instead of the same ol’ eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat blah, blah, blah and you’ll be the healthiest person alive.
What is discouraging is a visit I had to a Psychiatrist with my 6 year old son. It reinforced everything I hate about conventional medicine. He is having some major learning issues and shows some ADHD tendencies. I won’t go into all the details, but after a long internal battle with myself I decided to take him to see a Psychiatrist and get a “proper” diagnosis. What a joke. This was our first visit and he had no previous information about my son, nothing from me, schools, teachers, nothing. He talked to us for maybe 20 minutes and gave me a prescription for Adderall for him. He also asked me if I wanted something to help him sleep at night because I told him he has problems falling asleep. I could have taken my 2 year old in and said he had problems paying attention and I bet they would have given me a prescription. I was sick to my stomach when I left. I know I need to put him on the GAPS diet, but am scared to death to do it. I do have a question though for whoever wants to answer. If ADHD is caused by problems in the gut, than why does it appear to run in families (my husband was diagnosed with it and I have another son who shows some symptoms). Also, why do statistics show that more boys than girls have it?
Sorry for the novel, but I had to get that out. Thanks for all the great info your blog provides.
KitchenKop says
OK guys, I had this on my list to ask Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride last weekend at the conference but didn’t get a chance (I only spoke to her a short time), however I did ask a couple others who are knowledgeable about this stuff and here’s what they said (and it reminded me that I’d heard the same thing before from Dr. N.C-McB…)
Gut dysbiosis (microbial imbalances in the GI tract) is passed down from parent to child. My friend Sarah (Healthy Home Economist blog) said that all her siblings have symptoms except her and they say that she was “the lucky one” to NOT have problems. However, she knows that it’s because she was on the GAPS Diet in the past (back when she wanted to help her husband heal from digestive issues and food allergies, which he HAS – he’s all better and not allergic to anything) and also because she now eats only Real Food and limited grains.
As far as why do more boys have ADHD than girls, Sarah said they just may be more predisposed to it, similar to how girls are more predisposed to Pertussis for whatever reason, and ADHD may be found more predominantly on the Y chromosome.
That’s what I got and it makes sense to me, I hope it does to you, too and that it helps a little! I may turn all this into a post at some point, so it won’t be new to those of you who have read this, but oh well!
Kelly
KitchenKop says
Someone posted a link to this on my FB wall and it includes another theory as to why more boys have Autism than girls that I thought you might like to read:
https://grnally.com/MKohloff/blog/autism-why-more-boys-than-girls/