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ALCAT – The Good and the Bad

By swollenmystery On March 5, 2010 · 4 Comments

It’s been about 8 months now since I first got my ALCAT test results. After 6 months I decided to start introducing some of the foods on my severley to moderately intolerant list back into my diet. The results have been less than stellar. My first big introduction was malt. I figured malt would be great to try since it gave me several foods to choose, one being all purpose flour, which I had been craving for quite some time. It’s just not the same eating pizza or trying to make bread with all whole wheat flour. Every once in awhile it’s nice to bite into a warm, glutenous hunk of fresh baked ciabatta or a mouth watering sweet roll from Texas Roadhouse. Beginning by consuming almost two loaves of fresh baked breads and topping that off with malted milkshakes and a beer later that evening may have been a little excessive, but this was after 6 whole months of resisting every temptation. Both my knees did swell up considerably a few days afterward, but I’m still unconvinced that this wasn’t just a part of my normal cycle of flare-ups. All through the 6 month period, my knees have flared regularly, leaning mostly to the higher side of inflammation most days. And during those 6 months I’ve been religious about not eating anything from my severe and moderate list of intolerant food ingredients. I even stayed mostly away from the yellow foods in the mild category. The ALCAT [...]

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Changing Breakfast Habits

By swollenmystery On December 18, 2009 · Add Comment

Reading through a post on Marion Nestle’s “Food Politics” blog this morning got me thinking about my breakfast habits. As usual, Nestle makes some great points about corporate marketing and the content of sugary cereals advertised to kids. As a kid myself once upon a time, I grew up in a household of five, including dad, mom, a brother and sister. We all loved to eat cereal. Limited to healthier selections some of the time, we did, like most households get to have some of those delicious, sugary cereals too. My favorites included FrankenBerry (the original strawberry flavored oat formula before they changed it and made it taste like plastic), Lucky Charms, Peanut Butter, Cap’n Crunch and Fruity Pebbles. After graduating from college and assuming some sort of responsibility with my own health, I decided not to eat any of these sugar-filled meals for breakfast anymore. I’ve not had any of the previously mentioned cereals now for quite a few years and do feel much healthier for it. However, that doesn’t mean I gave up cereal for breakfast. Aside from the occasional eggs with whole wheat toast, cereal has always been my backup. As I near the 6 month mark of my elimination/rotation diet, I look back and realize I’ve only eaten processed cereal a few times… so few that I can count the number of times on both hands. Granted, the only cereal I’ve consumed has been Kashi’s “Cinnamon Harvest” which follows my strict ingredient disciplines, but it [...]

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Ah.. The Wonderful Sweet Potato

By swollenmystery On October 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

A few days ago, I decided to try making sweet potato chips for the first time. All it took were a few passes on the mandolin, a quick tossing with extra virgin olive oil, laying them all out side by side on a cookie sheet, and a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Fantastic! The hardest part is waiting the 30-40 minutes for them to get nice and crispy in the oven (about 400 degrees). It’s amazing how this super food has kept me in such good spirits throughout this 6 month elimination diet. Honestly I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t eat sweet potatoes. There’s something magical about a potato that you can cook so many ways and yet it tastes different every time. My wife and I have been enjoying these tasty orange miracles as cut into strips and broiled as fries, chopped in little chunks and roasted, whipped and mashed, cooked in the microwave or baked in the oven whole. I’ve learned that when you have to restrict yourself to specific foods, you still have plenty of options when it comes time to prepare. Next it’s sweet potato pie or perhaps a dessert!

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Maybe We Should All Cook A Little More

By swollenmystery On September 15, 2009 · Add Comment

This morning I stumbled across the article, We Don’t Need a Food Revolution, We Just Need to Learn How to Cook, by Dan Barber. He talks about using our resources more wisely and not so hastily throwing out food that is perfectly edible. In some cases, food can be quite appetizing if only cooked correctly. Fortunately I grew up in a household where my mother would cook nightly meals for the 5 of us and some days liver was just “on the menu” no matter how much we couldn’t stand the sight of it. Today it’s so easy to go out to a restaurant or grab a frozen boxed meal from the grocery store instead of sitting down each week to do a little planning. Rather than a nation that has forgotten how to cook, I think we might consider ourselves a nation that has become lazy. I fell into this category as soon as college surrounded my every waking moment. Pizza and tacos were far too convenient when I spent almost every waking minute of the day studying or finishing up projects until 4 in the morning. It wasn’t until after landing my first job that I branched out and started to really cook. A box of macaroni and cheese and a pot on the stove were all I needed to survive through those luxurious days in my first real apartment. Oh, I did get crazy sometimes and buy a bag of frozen, pre-seasoned, cook in the microwave, [...]

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I'm a freelance web designer with a background in graphic design. I'm also a part-time nutrition student. When I'm not creating or designing, I'm studying nutrition. When I'm not doing either of those I'm usually eating or talking about food. I've been interested in health and fitness for a long time but it wasn't until I became seriously ill with a mysterious chronic autoimmune condition in my early 30s that I realized how intricate and complex the human body is.

Along my journey to healing from chronic illness and Lyme disease, I discovered that eating healthier has improved my life the most. This blog is not just a journal of my progress but is also intended to help anyone that might be suffering from an autoimmune illness. My goal is to learn how to support the body's natural healing process holistically so that it has the resources to fight off illness the way it was designed. As I learn more every day, I write about my journey here at Diagnosis Unsolved. Read more about how all this started and my story here.
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