Asthma Cure Foods

2012 Asthma Cure Foods, w/ dieting portions (3 months)

Per day:

Meat to carb ratio 65:35, no more than 24 oz per day

Fish 12-14 oz

Butter 3 tbs per day, heavy cream 2 tbs per day, nut butter (except peanut butter) 2 tbs

Nuts and seeds: 1 oz per day (about 20)

Dark green vegetables:  5 loosely packed cups (includes celery, peppers, cucumbers, radishes)

4 olives   1/2 avocado per day

Once per week (different days)

Other (starchy) vegetables: 1/4 cup cooked per week (sweet potatoes, onions, artichokes, butternut and acorn squash, parsnips

Grains: non-wheat pasta/bread ½ cup per week (no wheat or corn)

Legumes: ½ cup cooked

Never (for three months):

White potatoes, peanuts, pistachios, tomatoes, carrots, peas, corn, fermented items, pickles, cheese, mushrooms, tea/coffee (for exposure to mold), sugar of any kind, or fruit.

Drinking water email from a friend...

Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body:

2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs

1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

Water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a CharlieHorse.

Wheat avoidance diet/lifestyle

Just started Wheat Belly Diet – lost four pounds since Sunday 8/2/12.

While avoiding toxic GMO modern wheat will eat meat, rice, beans, lentils, chickpeas, some potato and sweet potatoes, and gluten-free grains like quinoa, millet, and oats (you can buy G-free oats). Also, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Bought alternate flours at Ocean State Job Lot.  Also, will try Einkorn pasta. Einkorn is an ancient wheat grain. Bought rice pasta at trader Joe's...Ted says he will not try it already. Have to be very diligent weeding out anything with wheat or corn in it--and high fructose corn syrup. Now have stevia sugar substitute.

It is helping to weigh myself most mornings...it's an encouragement.

Will also check out this book (better documentation):

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health 

Gary Taubes
The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories: 1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. 2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being. 3. Sugars--sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specifically--are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels the fructose they contain overloads the liver. 4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times. 5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior. 6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller. 7. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat it makes us hungry. 8. We get fat because of an imbalance--a disequilibrium--in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance. 9. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel. 10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity. 11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be. This book is backed with solid research by a respected scientist-reporter on concrete, tangible things we can do to improve our health.