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| ISBN-13: | 9781496941688 |
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| Publisher: | AuthorHouse |
| Publication date: | 09/24/2014 |
| Pages: | 108 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.22(d) |
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Wok & Go
From Yo-Yo Fat To Healthy Slim
By Frances Wood-Parker
AuthorHouse
Copyright © 2014 Frances Wood-ParkerAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4969-4168-8
CHAPTER 1
MY PERSONAL TRANSITION
I began my journey from yo-yo fat to healthy slim in 2007 when I was first diagnosed with My cological Syndrome (a systemic yeast/mold/ fungal infection). Dr. Craig Reese, my primary care doctor, gave me a paper with printing on both sides. It is in alignment with Drs. Hyman and Perlmutter's dietary recommendations, but slightly more restrictive.
The other side of the page informed me that Mycological Syndrome is another name for a combination of yeast, mold, and fungus infections. When the entire body is affected, they are referred to as being systemic. My symptoms were environmental and food allergies, asthma, anxiety, backaches, bloating, brain fog, chronic fatigue, constipation, digestive problems, headaches, joint pain, recurrent bacterial infections, colds, and flu.
The only time I was aware of this type infection was many years ago when I had a vaginal yeast infection where I cured the symptoms of it with the use of a topical over-the-counter drug, Monostat. However, Dr. Reese told me that whenever anyone has a vaginal yeast infection, they also have a systemic one.
He informed me that antibiotics, steroids, birth control pills, and parasitic infection cause Mycological Syndrome. I had taken all three prescription drugs at one time or another throughout my life. I had also been diagnosed with parasitic infections several times during the ten years prior to 2007.
If you would like to read his article on the subject, go to the internet site:
www.drcraigreese.com/InfoLetters/Yeast.html
The website for his practice is:
www.drcraigreese.com
In 2007 I did not have a female yeast infection. I had a systemic one that was found after the blood work results were revealed. My symptoms were all of the previously mentioned.
I strictly adhered to the Yeast Diet and my weight came off effortlessly, even without a formal exercise program. Because I had more mental acuity, physical energy, and less pain than I had had in years, I assumed that the yeast was being healed by diet and pharmaceutical-grade food supplements alone. However, I was still using steroid nasal spray to control my Allergic Rhino and Asthmatic symptoms. Since the spray was topical it never occurred to me that it would harm me in any way. I did not realize that Allergic Rhino is Mycological Syndrome on the lining of sinus cavities. I did not share with Dr. Reese the fact that I was using steroid nasal spray twice a day, and had done so for the past twenty-four years. Unknowingly I was fueling the Mycological Syndrome in my sinus cavities in the worst way possible. I equate it with throwing gasoline onto an open fire. I was also unaware of any danger because the steroid nasal spray controlled the symptoms of Allergic Rhino and Asthma so completely.
I was feeling much better, losing weight, and went on for five years thinking I had been completely healed. I decided to commit to a lifestyle change with my new eating program as there were so many great benefits. I had no idea what a good decision that would be five years later.
In the autumn of 2011, I sought professional help to release past trauma from my body that was causing spontaneous panic attacks. Dr. Marilyn Adler referred me to an excellent trauma-release therapist, Dr. Pie Frey, both doctors located in Boulder, who used a technique called "Brain Spotting." This is a technique similar to Eye Movement Therapy (EMT). It was one of the most subtle, yet powerful, experiences of my life. This particular therapy gives all the control of the trauma-release process to the patient. After several sessions, I was literally heating up the room with the release of trauma my body had stored over the years.
February 23, 2012 during one session, out of my eyes popped red, itchy spots. They covered my eye lids, eye brows, forehead, and eventually my skull. The next day the red, itchy spots were diagnosed as Mycological Syndrome. My body had stored trauma which physiologically manifested as yeast! I later learned, energetically speaking, that yeast is all about emotions. I'll say! I now know that the daily use of steroid nasal spray for so many years was most likely the reason why the emotional trauma took on this physical form. I kept telling myself that because the nasal spray was topical, it was harmless. That ignorant lie cost me big time. Thus began one of the worst physically challenging ordeals of my life.
The location was bad enough, but the itch was indescribable. For the next thirteen months I almost lost my mind topically treating the itch caused by this infection. I came to learn that Mycological Syndrome has an intelligence of its own. In order to subdue the red, hot, and itchy symptoms, topical applications needed to be changed frequently because the infection becomes resistant to them all eventually.
Thirteen months after being treated internally and externally, I was infection free. In March 2013 several days after the itching stopped, my husband became very ill. Even though I had only three or four days free from the itch, I was grateful it stopped because I spent the next six months spending my waking hours caring for him; essentially living two lives at the same time. Thankfully he recovered to a point where he became mostly independent, but he still required our home to be installed with handicap accessories.
In the autumn of 2013 while I was having my yearly dermatological checkup, the doctor noticed I had a slightly red rash over my eyebrows. He said it was Dermatitis. He gave me a sample prescription for a steroid cream and told me to use it for only three days and the rash would be healed. Unthinkingly and stupidly I used it for one application; then stopped because of a gut feeling. By December 2013 the Mycological Syndrome came back with a vengeance. My eyebrows (where I had applied the steroid cream) were hit worse than the first time in February 2012. By September 1, 2014 I still had waves of redness and itchiness, but they were mild and the infection was mostly gone.
There are times in all of our lives when we have regrets over the choices we make; those regrets come in the form of hindsight which is always 20/20. Other times when we look back on past choices, we are filled with gratitude and rejoice in them. This was a time when I couldn't have been more grateful for making the Yeast Diet a lifestyle change in 2007. Had I started eating products containing yeast and sugar (the substances which feed Mycological Syndrome) after I was healed the first time in 2007-2008, I can't imagine the horrible shape I would have been in five years later in 2012.
During my childhood and for the first fifty-five years of my life I was given frequent doses of antibiotics, usually to kill bacterial infections in both my sinus cavities and lungs. As a very young child I was given a penicillin injection (an antibiotic made from mold) almost every time my mother took me to the pediatrician. I had my first asthmatic attack at age five in 1952 when my allergy to cats revealed itself. I continued to develop allergies to everything in my outdoor environment throughout my childhood. At age sixteen, my pediatrician sent me to an allergy specialist. After being skin-tested, he prescribed allergy shots, three times a week for two years. They did little to improve my symptoms.
In 1967, at age twenty my ex-husband and I moved from Dallas, Texas to Boulder, Colorado. All my allergy and asthmatic symptoms disappeared. Many years later I discovered the reason for this was that I was mostly allergic to ragweed, pollen and dust mites which did not exist above 5,000 feet in altitude. I was divorced in 1975 and in 1979 when I moved to San Diego, California my allergies appeared once again. I was prescribed a steroid nasal spray so I could breathe more easily. I used it for a while but stopped.
Nine years later in 1988, my present husband and I were living in Los Angeles because of his job. I became very ill with a bacterial infection in my sinus cavities and lungs. Asthma became a problem as well. My doctor took a CAT-Scan of my head and told me I had a growth on the lining of my sinus cavities, but he didn't know what it was exactly. After he diagnosed me with Allergic Rhino (the growth) and Sinusitis (the bacterial infection), he explained that the Allergic Rhino creates a very moist environment which is a perfect one for bacterial infections to grow and thrive. It was not known then that the growth to which my doctor was referring was Mycological Syndrome. It was also not commonly known in 1988 that antibiotics and steroids are two of the root causes of this syndrome.
To control the allergic symptoms in my nose, he prescribed a steroid nasal spray. To kill the bacterial infection I was prescribed antibiotics. I was to irrigate with salt water five times a day, followed by an application of the nasal spray. It took me three years to be free from the recurring bacterial infection, Sinusitis. I went through every antibiotic on the market, becoming allergic to one brand, then switched to another. I can no longer take any brand of antibiotic without breaking out in red blisters all over my body. However, I still irrigate with salt water once, sometimes twice a day. I would recommend this practice to anyone. I use a Nasaline (syringe-type) adult nasal irrigator and the recommended Nasaline salt packets stirred into highly filtered water. Since I have been healed of this syndrome, the irrigation alone takes care of any nasal congestion I might have. I no longer have Asthma, Allergic Rhino, or Sinusitis since I have been healed of Mycological Syndrome, the root cause of those disorders.
What at first appeared to be an overwhelmingly, negative situation, eventually became a blessing in disguise. My life-long goal has been to have a slim and healthy body. To achieve this goal I went on one low-calorie, low-fat, diet after another only to become fat and sick. My lifelong goal was finally reached because I adhered to an eating regimen that was created to aid the healing of Mycological Syndrome. Hopefully this syndrome will not recur as I do not use steroids or antibiotics (topical or internal) to create future infections, and I do not eat sugar or yeast in any form to feed it.
Now that I am comfortable with my body size, energy level, and health, I live every day in gratitude. This way of eating has allowed me to break my addiction to sugar. I have no head hunger or cravings for any food. By eliminating sugar from my diet, I have reversed the onset of Type II Diabetes. I have as much energy and mental acuity as I had in my forties. Because of my body size, I no longer feel invisible to others in this society because of having an overweight body. I've learned the hard way that 'nothing tastes as good as being thin and healthy feels.'
CHAPTER 2AMERICA'S OBESITY EPIDEMIC
WHEN DID IT BEGIN?
If one observes the body sizes of people in movies and film clips taken during the first half of the 20th century, it quickly becomes obvious how thin the vast majority of Americans were before the 1950s. I was a child during that decade. I was not a fat baby. When I was in kindergarten until I reached the second grade in 1954, I was thin as was everyone around me including men, women, and other children. I would see an occasional over-weight person, but they were in the vast minority. When I asked my parents what made a person fat, the answer was either 'Diabetes' or 'Hereditary Glandular Disorder,' both of which were not the person's fault.
Today there is a rapidly spreading epidemic of obesity in this country, the likes of which has never been seen in human history. It affects women, men, and children alike. It is a phenomenon that crosses over all barriers including gender, race, culture, age, socioeconomic class, and religion. Since we live in a culture which is, and has been for most of my life, obsessed with losing weight, why are so many Americans overweight? Theoretically, we should be a country filled with thin people.
During the first half of the 20th century listening to the radio was the center of American homes and family life. Pictures of that era depict families gathered together in their living rooms to listen to the radio. The children were usually sitting or lying on the floor, close to it. Women sat while doing some type of needle or yarn work. The men thumbed through a magazine or a newspaper. There was no food present in the room. No one was eating while listening to the radio. People spent their leisure time reading books, playing tennis, golfing, riding bicycles, playing table games, or participating in various other activities. Children played games with each other during their time away from school and homework. These games were not like the video or computer games children play today. They were board games like Monopoly and card games like Go Fish. Recreational activities and interaction with others were how people entertained themselves after a hard-day's work. There was no television to watch, no reason to eat anything after the completion of a meal, and the over-consumption of non-nutritive food was non-existent.
During those days, food was eaten for survival, not recreation. Cakes, pies, and desserts were served only on special occasions, not daily. They were made from scratch with non-GMO flour and cane sugar; not prepared in some factory, filled with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), preservatives, then packaged, and distributed. After those special-occasion dinners were finished, the dessert was served at the end of the meal and eaten at the dining room table. If ice cream was served at a picnic, it was usually homemade and created in a manual ice cream machine which required the laborious effort of cranking the handle for quite some time. There were ice cream parlors, cafes, and soda fountains where people went to eat ice cream and other sweet treats, but only occasionally; certainly not daily. Generally speaking, vanilla was the flavor and one scoop was the serving. Not only was the consumption of ice cream and other sweet foods an infrequent event, one had to take time and make an effort by leaving the home in order to obtain them. Candy bars as we know them today did not exist.
The Great Depression of the 1930s was a time during which people were literally starving in this country. Many could not afford to purchase any food, clothes, or the bare necessities. The lines in front of the soup kitchens were long and many people in those lines looked emaciated. Even those families who were not in those lines were still doing without many foodstuffs and other items. As a nation we had almost twelve years of real sacrifice as a run-up to World War II which began on December 7, 1941.
During the war, food was massively rationed in the then forty-eight United States. Foods rationed were sugar, bacon, butter, meat, tea, jam, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cheese, eggs, lard, milk, canned fruit, and dried fruit. Fresh vegetables and fruit were not rationed, but supplies were limited. Most foodstuffs were sent to our soldiers in Europe and the South Pacific who were fighting for our freedom and way of life. The Hershey bars that did exist, along with other nonperishable foodstuffs, were dropped by parachute over the countries we liberated. Our soldiers were given those same items to hand out to the starving survivors they encountered as the war ended. There were few, if any Hershey bars to be found here at home. I don't believe most people living in this country today truly understand the enormous sacrifice made by the generation of Americans who won the freedom some now take for granted. Every American citizen sacrificed in one way or another during World War II.
HOW DID IT BEGIN?
By the time the war ended in August 1945 the vast majority of Americans had been through fifteen straight years of doing without many foodstuffs. Naturally, those who survived these years were ready to treat themselves to anything and everything once forbidden and now available. In 1951 when I was four years old, Hershey bars were not only plentiful, but affordable even to a child's weekly allowance. During the 1950s, candy manufacturers went into high-gear creating many different varieties of these new sweet treats, mass produced them, and widely distributed them. Every candy bar produced was sweetened with cane sugar; most were covered with chocolate. As soon as a new candy bar was available, it appeared in most grocery stores, gas stations, drug stores, and convenience stores.
At the same time, boxed cake mixes, packaged ready-to-eat cookies, a variety of canned goods, and other prepackaged fast foods were beginning to appear in grocery stores. Even though my mother was a full-time homemaker, she hated to cook. Anything prepackaged and ready to heat-and-serve was a godsend in her mind. Instead of having to wash, chop, and cook fresh vegetables, she was now able to open a can, heat the contents and serve them on a plate. Her favorite vegetables were canned green beans, which she boiled for thirty minutes before serving. The only salad I knew as a child was a square of some flavor Jello on top of an iceberg lettuce leaf, topped with a dollop of Miracle Whip. Many women who had worked outside the home during the war continued to do so after the war ended. They certainly had good reason to consider ready-to-eat food a needed time saver. Nutrition was not a widely studied subject. All varieties of food that once were rationed and now available were considered to be luxury items.
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Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION, vii,CHAPTER 1 MY PERSONAL TRANSITION, 1,
CHAPTER 2 AMERICA'S OBESITY EPIDEMIC, 8,
CHAPTER 3 GETTING STARTED, 22,
CHAPTER 4 FOOD FOR THOUGHT, 30,
CHAPTER 5 FOOD PREPARATION, 43,
CHAPTER 6,
RECIPES, 53,
VEGETABLES, 53,
CHICKEN, 60,
BEEF, 65,
PORK, 72,
MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES, 75,
DESSERT, 78,