Where does one find this diet? All of us could stand to feel better. Is it a
diet book or what, Nita

Joan Hartman wrote:

> 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?
> >