Dear Family,
Some of you ask, “Why does this Diet take so friggin' long?” This is from the FAQs on Natasha Campbell-McBride's website gapsdiet.me:
“1. Why does it take so long to change the bacterial profile in the gut?
Dear Family,
Last week, I rhetorically asked the following questions: Why don't we all learn about Weston A. Price's research as soon as we can talk? And why don't we talk about the amazing health and societal differences he documented between Primitive and Modernized races? Why don't we talk about this with everyone we know, every DAY?!
One Alert Reader (as Dave Barry likes to say) offered some thoughtful answers:
This morning I was thinking:
1. When trying to affect gut flora, one is up against absolutely entrenched homeostasis.
2. Changing this, even in order to heal "mild" symptoms, takes a looooong time and a lot of faith, since as Natasha Campbell-McBride says, medical knowledge of the human gut "is in its infancy."
3. Dr. Campbell-McBride says that healing requires an average of 2-3 years of "hard work" while adhering strictly to the GAPS protocol.
Dear Family,
“'If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light,' Ma considered. 'We didn't lack for light when I was a girl, before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of.'
“'That's so,' said Pa. 'These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.'”
--“The Long Winter,” by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Jemmerisms:
Dear Family,
Jemmerisms:
Trying to open the kefir jar: “This lid is SO tight--it's frickin' JAMMED on!”
Standing outside on the boulder near the sandbox: “I'm the tip of the mountain! I'm gonna jump into the deep of the snow.”
Pondering the possibilities: “If I had extra arms, and cut off this [his head], I could carry it.”
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0560e/x0560e00.HTM
Here is fermentation advice aplenty...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-prot…
A good article for Current-Events-Challenged individuals such as myself, on the topic of the recent Egyptian Revolution.
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Dear Family,
“But I won't be no runaway
Cause I won't run
No, I won't be no runaway.”
--The National, “Runaway”
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Bennerisms:
It turns out that house pets need good nutrition, too.
Our friends recently got a puppy, who subsequently (on the day it received simultaneous de-worming medication and a vaccination) developed diarrhea that continued 24 hours per day for (too) many days in a row.
Dear Family,
I am reading “Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Foods,” by Cate Shanahan. Also, am continuing to read Weston Price. And I tell you, I am tired of the word “degenerate.”
I also am totally intrigued, and want to understand: what does it mean to be human and _healthy_? How does one do what we are, in the end, unofficially programmed to do: conceive and birth and raise healthy children?