NEW BOOK STORE

One of the things we found tricky was knowing how to cook & what to cook when we tried to detox & change our diet.

At the time we managed to find two pretty hopeless cook books.

One very loosely based their diet on the book of Daniel in the bible and claimed all kinds of false truths about what God said we should eat based on a few out of context bible verses. But there were a couple of good recipes in it that kept us from starving, and the other was okay but basically just used substitute ingredients in well known recipes (this is a good skill to learn but you can teach yourself).

So we basically taught ourselves to cook with whole foods and invented our own recipes. None of which are really good enough to publish.

Recently we've looked again and in 6 years there has been a proliferation of good cook books published on the subject.

So we've just added a book store to our side bar. At the moment it includes only recipe books we would recommend but we plan to include encouraging or helpful books for sufferers of CFS.

There are some great books about cooking for anti Candida diets, food allergies, Specific Carbohydrate Diet, IBS, Chron's Disease, Coeliac Disease, Colitis. Some are specific for kids & families others are just general. Check it out

Maybe this is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.....(part 4 Becoming Alternative Weirdos)

At this point we decided to become proactive - Lauren started reading, reading, reading. We went to our first Naturopath we listened to tapes/CDs & watched videos/DVDs and went to seminars about health. We decided that we already knew what would happen if we didn’t do anything besides listen to GPs and Specialists.

Strangely enough it was at this point of research that we discovered Lauren also had diagnosable Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We were surprised because Lauren’s symptoms were manageable with our slower lifestyle at the time and compared to Craig’s were nothing to complain about so she had never sought medical help. We found out by doing a questionnaire, like the one on the CFIDS Association of America website.

So what did we have to lose? We became alternative health “weirdos” and we started to see results. We got rid of all chemicals in the house, our food, our personal care products. We changed our diet cutting out sugar, yeast, lactose and gluten. We went as raw as we could and we started taking supplements.

Lauren’s results were much faster than Craig’s understandably. But Craig’s return to work this time was a lot faster and more permanent.