The information on the diet is freely available from Hallelujah acres
www.hacres.com/html/halldiet.html
Hallelujah Acres also has a nice little (free) email newsletter that I copy
the recipes from.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Hartman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Food chemicals in the brain? Play ball.


>Susan wrote...........Another friend told me to try the Hallelujah diet.
>After the two months I
>> was sticking with the diet, I saw the neurologist who said I looked like
I
>> did not have PD; incidentally, I felt better and had more energy.
>
>Susan...can you telll me more about the Hallelujah Diet...Joan Hartman
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>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Susan Trout <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:55 AM
>Subject: Food chemicals in the brain? Play ball.
>
>
>> OK, I'll play.
>>
>> There seems to be some truth to what you wrote.
>>
>> I'll start with the comments on ADD and hyperactivity since I have ADD,
PD
>> and am Bi polar; and all three are dopamine related. My 22 year old
>daughter
>> is severe ADD with hyperactivity, and my 13 year old son is ADHD (same
>> thing, different terms due to the year of diagnosis and term change.)
ADD
>> occurs both with or without hyperactivity. Hyperactivity also occurs
>> independent of ADD. Hyperactivity can be physical, mental, or both.
>Refined
>> sugar and some food additives have been shown to cause hyperactivity in
>50%
>> of ALL children regardless of ADD, ADHD, hyperactive, or "normal".
>>
>> What I have found that seems to cause negative changes in the PD is
>gluten.
>> I think there is a great need to read all drug (OTCs and Rxs) and food
>> labels, from ice cream to reduced fat cheese; anything that is a prepared
>> item that you do not create yourself. The MSG you mention is gluten
>related.
>> (More specifically it is the gliaden protein in the gluten in wheat,
oats,
>> barley, rye, and millet). Try eliminating these grains, and products made
>> from these grains from the diet.  Gluten can be found hiding in MSG, food
>> flavorings made with alcohol, natural flavorings, dextrin, maltodextrin
>> (unless the  product says it is made from corn), caramel coloring, malted
>> anything, hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), hydrolyzed plant protein
>> (HPP), modified food starch,  bread (unless it says "gluten free"),
pastas
>> (unless made from rice or corn),  communion wafers, gravy, distilled
>> vinegar, blue cheese , Roquefort, and so-called light foods. Gluten can
>show
>> up as  filler in laxatives, prescription medications, false tooth
>fixative,
>> mouthwash (alcohol) , head ache remedies, and vitamin tablets.
>>
>> A year ago a friend, who is very well positioned in a (non US, non
>Canadian)
>> pharmaceutical company and has regular contact with researchers, doctors,
>> scientists, and attends many symposia each year in Europe, Central, and
>> North America,  told me she heard that PD is thought to (somehow) be
>related
>> to mad cow disease; she thought is was said to be possibly through
>ingestion
>> of (infected/contaminated?) meat, people get PD. (She is a meat and dairy
>> user, too.)  I have read in either the Washington Times Weekly or the
>> Spotlight weekly within the last year, that mad cow disease has already
>been
>> in the US for some time, just it is being hushed. But, don't believe
>> everything you read, as the saying goes.
>>
>> Another friend told me to try the Hallelujah diet. After the two months I
>> was sticking with the diet, I saw the neurologist who said I looked like
I
>> did not have PD; incidentally, I felt better and had more energy.  I
>dropped
>> off the Hallelujah diet because of the squabbling it caused in my family.
>(I
>> have also kept the gluten out of my diet for 2 years now).  The
Hallelujah
>> diet is a drastic change from my husband's dictated standard diet. (We've
>> fought over diet for 25+ years. Hubby acts horrrrrrible if he doesn't get
>> his way where food is concerned.) At the next visit after I had been off
>the
>> diet my neuro said I needed more medication to free up my arm movement.
>> Anywise, I don't know if it was the diet change or "all in my head"
>because
>> I wanted it to work,  but I'm going to go back on the diet anywise.
>>
>> BTW: My neuro also told us avoid all exposure to toxins; to get rid of
all
>> toxins, fertilizers, and insecticides around our house. Take 3 times the
>US
>> RDA of vitamins, plus another 1000 mg of C, and  800 units of E each day.
>>
>> Off the food subject:
>> My cousins have maintained since these items were first marketed, that
the
>> electronic pest repel devices cause cancer and brain dis-function. Mom
>kept
>> one of those things in the book case behind my dad's chair, at his head
>> level, where he spent 16 hours a day setting. My dad died with cancer. I
>> have PD. Is there something to this idea of my cousins?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Lawley <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 4:51 PM
>> Subject: Food chemicals in the brain?
>>
>>
>> Hi all from Erika,
>> We talk a lot about a cure------ but, as in all health issues, could
>> prevention be an option worth looking at.
>> i.e. "what" it is, that gets into the brain that does the damage?
>>
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