HEALTH CONSCIOUS

Being health conscious is something we all should be aware of, each and every day. Whether we have MS or not. It is amazing how much illness there is in the world, and how our bad eating habits help contribute to that affect.
We need to make choices that affect our well being - conscious choices. For body, mind and spirit
Making choices in the foods we put in our body makes a difference. Someone once said it this way: If you eat fat, greasy foods, you become a fat, greasy dude! If you put doctor stuff in your brain, you become a Doctor, if you put teacher stuff in your brain, you become a teacher, and so on. If you put junk in your mind, that's what you become. If you continually put junk in your body, well, we are less than healthy, right?

Dr. Weil's books on Spontaneous Healing and 8 weeks to Optimum Health are good reading, and a great guide in how to change our eating and living habits.

The Swank Diet, (lots of interest in this one), is very similar to what I did upon my return from Germany. In addition to the "Calcium/Magnesium" treatments prescribed by Dr. Nieper, he also recommended a rigid diet. The diet forbids eating red meat of any kind; all dairy products; all white flours and it's derivatives Dr. Nieper carried it out further by advising against the use of a Microwave oven; no chlorides, fluorides no colas of any kind, especially Coke; no carbonated drinks; nothing out of aluminum cans; not to cook in aluminum; no deodorants containing alum.

The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book by Roy Laver Swank, MD, Ph.d. and Barbara Brewer Dugan, is published by Doubleday. If your bookstore doesn't carry it, ask them to order it for you.

I have personally tried a strict vegetarian diet, along with the other suggestions by Dr. Nieper, and must admit that I certainly felt better during that time. I went off the diet, eating hamburgers, cheeses, fried foods, etc., and found quite a difference in the way I felt.
I certainly don't suggest being totally rigid in your diet, because we all need to reward ourselves when we have done a job well. I believe it is important to follow the saying "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" and enjoy the hospitality of friends and family.

I developed this new philosophy: "EAT RIGHT, DIE ANYWAY", and that helps me to not be so rigid. Especially when one is invited out for dinner and they serve items not necessarily good for me....well I eat it anyway, and never mention to them that I am following a rigid diet. Then I just avoid those items for the next several weeks.

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