I frequently run into people in the health world who are all gung-ho over the blood type diet. This is a diet that divides people on the basis of their blood type - O, A, B, and AB. This diet was developed by naturopathic physician Peter J. D'Adamo, N.D. and popularized in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type. … [Read more...]
Healing Patiently, E-Book Review
Healing Patiently: Healing Your Gut Without Losing Your Mind is a new e-book out in the health world written by Chloe Breczinski, a health blogger at How We Flourish. The focus of her book is working your way successfully through the GAPS diet, a diet my oldest daughter was on a few years ago. … [Read more...]
Low Carb, High Fat Diet for Diabetes and Cancer
Recently my family has delved into yet another diet in our house, the low carb, high fat diet to deal with my husband's pre-diabetes. As his mother is dying from complications of diabetes, it is quite motivating to bring those blood sugars down into a range that will not do damage in the body. Another name … [Read more...]
When You Have Lost Your Cooking Equilibrium
Have you lost your cooking equilibrium because of significant change that you have had to make to the diet you cook and eat? Do you flounder around wondering what to cook and what not to cook? I have been there and still kind of am there because of some dietary changes we have made in the last years in our … [Read more...]
Six Tips to Managing Costs on a Special Diet
Cooking everything from scratch is time consuming. We dealt with that in another article. It can also be expensive if you have to be low carb and high protein or looking for organic foods. In this article I want to share some of the time saving tips I have learned over the past few years as we have gone … [Read more...]
Time Management for Special Diets
Let's face it, eating a special diet, whether it is GAPS, AIP, LCHF, or something else means mostly cooking from scratch and it can take a lot of time. In my house I have several diets to navigate. My husband is low carb/high fat to deal with his prediabetes, my oldest dd is gluten free and dairy free, and my … [Read more...]