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Hey sweetie
Thanks so much for all your sweet words...Dalia is the dahlia flower in Hebrew! My Daddy named me :-)
My email address is dalia_yael@hotmail.com...don't know why I don't list it on the site..feel free to email me ANYTIME!!
I like to think I have a mountain of knowledge. I am passionate to death about naturopathy and also practise a method called Iridology where I read the iris of a persons eye and can tell there general constitution and health problems. It is extremely accurate and uninvasive. I am utterly inspired with all of it and am weeks away from my Iridology qualification...I am also about to begin studying to be a registered nutritionist,.. I am not too keen on classic/conventional nutrition but I want the qualification so I can fit my holistic nutrition beliefs into the main stream out there!
I would love to help you...
Why did I give up sugar? Well, I used to live on black coffee with loads of sugar, coca cola, cookies, chocolate and I saw an iridologist about my IBS in Israel when I was 21 and really suffering. That was the moment that changed my life. It was almost religious! He made me sob with relief that finally someone was listening to me..
He put me on a special diet that really minimised my IBS and he never mentioned sugar to me, but just told me to eat only what was on the list he gave me...and sugar wasn't on it. I was so desperate to try anything and I am a pretty disciplined person and saw it as a challenge. I haven't looked back. I am now 25. I have a little raw sugar these days, maybe 1 tspn in something every few days (like a carrot cake or hot almond milk)...
About the same time I started to give it up I began to read up about it...and I truly believe that sugar in the amounts it is eaten these days is a sheer utter poison. Sugar used to be used as a condiment, these days it is used as a food!! Sugar is the major cause of osteoporosis in our societies, diabetes type 2, it lowers the efficiency of your immune system by a huge percentage. Which is a vital factor for you Ruchie. I think everyone with IBS would do very well with going on a pure pure diet with no refined sugars. I have strong opinions about it , but I base my opinions on research and established fact, I am not simply some fanatic!!
As for my IBS...well, I tried Heathers way for about 6 months and it really hasn't helped much. So I recently decided to go back to naturopathic eating: and so far so very very good. It was soo scary for me because I have kind of become reliant on the white stuff to settle my tummy and naturopathy doesn't really believe in those kinds of foods...so there I was expecting a huggeee D outbreak...its taking time to get used to it but I feel much less foggy and fatigued...its very high fibre!:-) Much more nutritious.
Ruchie I would be delighted to help you eat as nutritiously as you can. I have never worked with someone with fibromylagia before, but I do know a lot about immunity boosting and the best thing you could do for yourself first would be to kick the sugar habit. I will hold your hand (in cyber space) the entire way! You will feel soooo good about yourself...I promise!
With love XXXX

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