Why I do not eat ... like everybody else! RED MEAT, PORC, DAIRY PRODUCTS, WHEAT AND TOMATOES

bastognarde red-meat bulls It all started in early 2006, when I was diagnosed with an explosive wheat intolerance. I had to stop stuffing my face with masses of pasta, white bread ... and even my beloved lasagna. While it was a difficult period to change my food habits, it was also an eye-opener as to WHAT food we ARE actually eating, and its (so many times lack of) nutritional value.

The word "diet" is very much mal-used. Originally it was meant as "a way to eat". Today many define it as "losing weight" alternatively, or both: "starving". Such negative words! I devised my own way to eat, with the most positive attitude. A combination of a number of diets out there, customized to *my* body, and how *I* feel. I have never felt better in my whole life! Sacrifices? Of course!

I avoid red meat

environment	Apparantly they argue this back and forth: The more red meat we eat, the more world starvation. Connection? Crops are used more to feed animals than people. Surf here and here. Another aspect is that since cattle has been industrialized, by FARTing, I repeat, by FARTING ... they give out 35-40 % of all methane emitted by society. This in addition to 9 % of all carbon dioxide and TWO THIRDS of all nitrogen dioxide (reference).
animal health	This goes not only for red meat, but obviously for all animal transports. We are talking about big bucks here for the meat industry. When it comes to heaps of money, humanity is always at risk of taking second place. Also, I object to the fact that cattle these days, instead of being allowed to do their casual grazing in the fields as in the good old days, are served a different kind of feed based on corn and soya ... which does not go well with their tummies. So, hear this, with their CHRONIC tummy problems they spend their lives f-a-r-t-ing, I repeat they FART all their lives (reference). And what that farting does to the environment, read above section.
human health	Mad Cow's disease. It won't go away with cooking. I ask you, which money-hungry idiot was it that came up with the revolting idea of feeding live cattle with dead cattle? And then the antibiotics and hormones that are given to cattle when growing, and which can linger on in the meat: that is a chapter of its own.
female health	Last, but not least: regular consumption of red meat increases the risk of endometriosis by 80-100 PERCENT! It grew fairly silently in my body over decades, the pain masked by what seemed to be normal menstruation pain. I was eventually operated on for extensive endometriosis shortly before Xmas 2008. Full blood circulation to my legs has been achieved, and I don't have to sedate myself any longer because of pain in connection with my period. I avoid red meat to the maximum because I don't want it all to grow back!
I avoid red meat to the maximum, but not completely. Every once in a while I treat myself to a visit to the best meat restaurant in town: Le Grillardin, or the Chawarma dish at L'Express ... mmmmmm ... with sauce à l'ail ... mmm.

I avoid porc

I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE BACON! The best breakfast ever: Fried eggs with bacon and sausages ... with mashed potatoes ..... I hate you even more now ...
toxicity	A highly toxic food additive by name of sodium nitrate "is added to virtually all ham products" (reference). I don't want that in my body!
blood group diet	Eat Right For Your Type: I love this book! Revolutionary! And it works! This is what Dr. d'Adamo says about porc for ALL blood groups. This food should be taken off the market, or changed the way it is handled. As it is in its current state, it's BAD, BAD, BAD.
female health	Just as little as I want toxic additives in my body, sodium nitrate also triggers endometriosis (reference). Again, I don't want it back!

I avoid dairy products

The authors of Skinny Bitch finally made me give up dairy products without a bad conscience. So many people think that you need to keep up your intake of these products, to get your daily quota of calcium. No, no, no. It's the money-hungry industry talking again!
animal health	Cows work the same way as human females do: to produce milk we need to have a baby. So, to keep cows producing milk to sell to humans, they need to have a calf, after another, after another, after another. Hmmm ... The industrialized milking procedure is not the most sensitive either. And just as with the meat industry: the antibiotics, the hormones. No thank you!
human health	To digest the sugar in dairy (lactose) we need lactase (an enzyme). "Between the ages of 18 months and 4 years, we lose 90 to 95 percent of this enzyme. The undigested lactose and the acidic nature of pasteurized milk encourage the growth of bacteria in our intestines. All this contributes to a greater risk of cancer because cancer cells thrive in acidic conditions." Also, research has shown that where dairy products is not digested at an adult age, the quota of humans developing osteoporosis is minimal. Now THAT is thought-provoking! And there is more! Read the book! Google the Net!
female health	Fertility clinics all over the world recommend that you stay off dairy products if you want to try to get pregnant. And, it is suspected of being another trigger of endometriosis as well. I don't want THAT back!

I get sick from wheat

I have probably been wheat intolerance (NOT allergic) all my life, but not bad enough for any doctors to react. Or me, for that matter. Everybody seems to have tummy problems in the hectic, ever-escalating information society of today. Then, in 2005, I got into long-distance mountainbiking, and I started eating masses of white bread, pasta, (more) lasagna (than before) ... and I developed back ache. Back ache? Surely, that was due to the increased biking? No, I felt *better* after having been up on my bike. Doctors were at a loss. Their confusion increased in paralel with my back ache. Eventually, when I was on strong enough painkillers to knock off an ox ... and my ability to work ... I was crying on a daily basis. To cheer myself up I tried to look ahead, and decided to talk to a nutritionist, learn more about food, so that once I was ok again, I was ready to start a new training life.

The nutritionist took one hard look at my symptoms and my food. And then she said "I think you are intolerant to wheat." HUH?

Within two weeks my back pain was gone. And I entered a new lifestyle.

I get sick from tomatoes

A year after having cracked the wheat intolerance situation, my main symptom returned: extreme back ache. What the hell? I had not been out to a restaurant for ages, nor had I had any prefabricated food (in both cases wheat is often added, if nothing else than for texture). All food I had had I had prepared myself, from scratch, with full control of the ingredients. I was at a loss. Then a colleague placed Eat Right For Your Type in my hands and I checked my blood group, and there it was, black on white: for blood group B, tomatoes damage the lining of the intestines . The same thing wheat does! Same symptom!

At the time I was in a raw vegetarian frenzy, having increased my intake of tomatoes. I stopped this, and within a couple of days my back ache was gone.

This impressed me so much that I started reading the book in detail, and I thought "Why not try for a month, see how I feel?". And I have kept eating according to Dr. d'Adamo since.