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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 [log in to unmask] ----- 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? >