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ME/CFS Nutrition - Avoid Junk

10/10/2017

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Ever since we were kids, we’ve been told by nutritionists to eat healthy food.  The various pyramids and food groups have come and gone but the message has been the same.  And there’s really no mystery to it.  Eat healthy food.  When I was struggling with ME/CFS, I paid attention to everything I ate once I understood the need to feed my recovering dis-eased body. 
                    
Our biggest road block to following this simple adage is discipline.  In our consumer driven economy, there’s a mega agricultural and food business that wants us to consume a lot of unhealthy cheap stuff that’s profitable.  And they have the market control to make it easy for us to acquire and eat their stuff and harder to get something different.  So the first challenge is to PLAN to eat healthy food.  This may sound simplistic but if I’m hungry and there isn’t anything healthy to eat, I go for the shelf with the packaged food.  And sometimes, even when I have healthy food in the house, I don’t feel like preparing it.  Make a salad?  Sometimes I’m just too tired.  So as simple as it sounds to eat healthy food, we have to work at it.  And when you’re struggling with ME/CFS, every ounce of energy is precious.  So you need to decide to allocate some of your limited supply of energy toward providing your body with the healthy food it needs to generate even more energy.  Once you look at it that way, it’s a cliché of win-win.

 
So what’s healthy food?  This is a personal decision in terms of what you know to be true about your metabolism.  In today’s culture, many people are vegetarian or vegan.  Some observe various restrictions in their diets that have made a huge difference in their health – gluten free, sugar free, etc.  Whether you need to be more or less restrictive can be a matter of experimentation or testing.  But whatever you do, as you work your way back to health, be sure to only put positive, healthy food into your system.  Don’t eat negative food – like soda and copious sweets - that your body will have to spend precious energy clearing and processing.  Plan to eat healthy food.  What are your strategies for eating healthy?  Please COMMENT on this blog or Send in your thoughts and I’ll post them with your permission.  You can use the Contact Form or send an email to Martha at DefeatCFS dot net.  And Guest Blogs are most welcome!

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Be Well Again,
Martha


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Tim Boland
10/10/2017 09:10:10 pm

Thank you Martha for your blog about healthy nutrition, I just read an article today about the growing problem of obesity not only in the US but in many nations now, and as I recall the statistic that 124 million children are, or will be, considered obese. It is also projected that if this continues, our health care system will have a difficult time keeping up because of the number of illnesses which can come from this.

Some 'experts' claim that being inactive is not that big a factor, that it is the food we consume, but I think both interact. As a very active boy who my mother would often say 'go outside and play!', probably so she could have some quiet time, but there was a recognition too in those days that being physically active as well as eating in a healthy way were paramount in feeling good, and having excellent health.

Like you, I have moved away from eating unhealthy things, and though my diet may be 'boring', I generally eat for dinner rice with several steamed vegetables and a little organic beef. I do have to remember to take my vitamins too, as I tend to have low levels of Vitamin D, which as I recall, tends to be fairly common for people with CFS and fibro.

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Martha
10/11/2017 08:49:29 am

I too struggle with remembering to take my vitamins. Not sure why this is the case. I have them on the counter right in front of me! I'll work on it. Thanks for the reminder Tim!

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Tim Boland
10/11/2017 07:31:39 pm

Thanks, Martha! I am happy my words are a reminder about vitamins. I notice when I put out a small plate and put my vitamins on that each day, it prompts me better to remember as they 'stand out' :)


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