Diet and Health FAQ

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Question:
I thought it might be important that it is possible to control their colitis with diet. My wife has been doing so for the past six years and I have had a lot of experience during that time because of my website talking to people through email and on the phone about diet and how they can use it to control their colitis. The diet my wife uses is significantly different from the one in Elaine Gottschall's book, THE SPECIFIC CARBOHYDRATE DIET, and the one put out by the people who wrote THE CULINARY COUPLE'S CREATIVE COLITIS COOKBOOK . �(I think it's interesting that the cook/author of that cookbook is still taking medication to control his colitis while my wife is not.) Her diet is not for everyone. �It is difficult because initially you have to give up almost everything you're probably eating now. �But it does work. �Hundreds of people all over the U.S. and around the world are controlling their colitis without medication when they stay on the diet. If you're curious about the diet, it is available for free at the following website: http://members.aol.com/RickiHal/colitiscookbook.html To bring you up to date, my wife is doing great. �She has a flare every once in a while when she strays too far from the diet, but as of today and for almost all of the past six years she has been totally asymptomatic and has taken no medication whatsoever. �The reason she has not been completely flare-free is because she likes to experiment and try different things which sometimes causes her symptoms to reappear for a very short time. In contrast to the original diet on the website which you need to follow in the beginning to give your colon a chance to heal, she now eats all the chicken and fish she wants plus potatoes, rice, eggs, some dairy (including cheese, milk and sour cream) and some white wine now and then and a White Rye bread made by Food For Life. �For dessert she likes to eat a Rice Dream ice cream bar made from rice milk covered with carob or just plain Rice Dream Vanilla ice cream. But she still cannot eat any fruit, corn, tomatoes, peanuts, red wine or anything with wheat or sugar in it. My wife has also had great success using pure aloe vera juice as an ENEMA during a flare. �She found that putting a cup to a cup and a half of the aloe vera juice in an enema bag and using it at night directly in her colon before going to bed stopped the bleeding entirely within a week. If your bleeding is persistent, you might want to try the enemas also in the morning. �Twice a day may work faster when you have a bad flare. We heard a few years ago from a man in Colorado who was using the diet that he had cured (his word) himself completely of colitis using BAKING SODA ENEMAS. �My wife tried them and did not have the same result. �She thinks they lessened the flare but she eventually went back to the aloe vera enemas and they worked fine,�so some people may react differently. All the info on the baking soda enemas is at the following website: � www.lifeknox.com/colitis.html Or you can make them yourself. �The proportions are one TEASPOON of baking soda to one QUART of distilled water. �(This is important. �Do not use tap water. �Get distilled water from the drugstore.) Then warm the water to 100-103 degrees Fahrenheit (definitely NOT Centigrade). (You can warm the water in a microwave for about 30 seconds and use a jelly or candy thermometer to check the temperature. Please don't be upset when you see that I am also selling a cookbook on my website. �That is not the purpose of this message. �I created THE COLITIS COOKBOOK from the ingredients in the diet. �I believe it makes it easier to prepare food on the diet and stay on it when you use the cookbook. �But you do not need to buy it to use the diet. �All the information is there on the website for nothing including a sample recipe. �If you want to buy the cookbook, that's fine. �If not, that's fine, too. �Enjoy the diet as you see fit. THE COLITIS COOKBOOK has also been translated into German by a grateful person in Switzerland who used it to get better and wanted to make it available for others in German-speaking countries. �If someone needs a copy in German, they can contact me and I will send it to them free as an attached file to an email.

Answer:
What brand of aloe vera juice does your wife use? �Does she actually manage to retain a entire cup of liquid the whole night, or does she void it at some point? I think I had read a while back that baking soda enemas were extremely hazardous because it is easy to bring the body into a very dangerous alkaline state if too much baking soda is used. This causes death, if I remember correctly. Have you looked into the safety of baking soda enemas at all? Janice, all I know is what I told you. You can check out the website where the baking soda info is posted. My wife tried them and was fine except that they didn't seem to help with the flare very much. The guy from Colorado swore that his colitis was gone from using them. I've never heard anything about toxicity. It is great to hear about another person who has found health through a change in diet (regardless of what it is called and how it works). That sounds right, as I've read the same thing about over reliance on baking soda as an antacid.