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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 >[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? >> >