Since the medical establishment does not take me seriously I don't see why I should take them seriously on the topic of diet.
The other problem is that we basically have a very....obscure disease. Or rather, a complex of obscure diseases, some of which will respond better than others to diet. I think the diet won't work without antibiotic therapy. I think also there is more than one trigger for the disease.
Nobody's going to get any prestige from fixing us. And no drug company will ever profit.
Look at Type II Diabetes (adult onset) for comparison. Oh, the med-estab just falls all over themselves on that one. ERLWAE, as Rox says,
erlwae! erlwae! Eat Right Lose Weight And Exercise. What's the difference? There's enough of them seen that they wear their disease on their sleeves. And their thighs. They wouldn't give a rat's patootie if there were only a few hundred diabetics in this country. What if Mr. Average Physician only saw one type II diabetic a year and one year it's a chubby one and the next year not? Do you think he'd be able to figure out it was diet related?
Heck no!!!!
With my family history,they do test my blood sugar all the time, and they never find a thing wrong. Yet I have never been asked the $10 million dollar question...what are you doing that prevents you from developing the disease?
I looked at the risk factors when I was much younger and decided to go for the "healthier" lifestyle. Do I think every body can do this? No. You have to get pretty sick, and oddly enough, it helps to have bad role models sometimes. But some people mistake my lifestyle as a moral judgement of theirs, which I don't quite get, when they learn I do not drink alcohol or smoke. Oh geez, I can't do that crap with this body I'm stuck in.
If someone wants to compare family members, I have a smoking and drinking sister who is developing IBS but has not gone diabetic yet but has been warned by her doctor that she will eventually. She's also normal weight, like me. But I doubt that we are "sexy" enough for the medical establishment to be interested in as to why one of us has a piece of junk for a cervical spine and the other one has a cranky set of intestines. Ya know, gotta cure cancer and Sars and all that good stuff first.
I am just very happy I am sensitive enough to the sensations created by my body that I could tell there was a link between my food choices and my physical reactions before I found this site, I just could not make sense of it. I knew I reacted very poorly to sugar and fried foods. I suspect that most people on prescription strength quantities of NSAIDS are rendered oblivious to this. I also suspect there is a strong cultural bias against changing diet for a lot of people. I respect that. Your tastes for food are created at a very young age, in fact, they may be influenced by what your mother ate during pregnancy. The problem with doctors is that they are the survivors of the winnowing process that is our culture. Do you think there are many doctors that get sick on DOUGHNUTS? Have neck lock from a bag of french fries and a cheeseburger on a white bread bun? Since almost none of them have or ever will, why should any of them believe us? Doctors are, from their incredibly busy schedules, my guess, not exactly the poster children for healthy diets. They thrive in spite of them.
After all, they learn what they think from other doctors and the drug manufaturers, not us, and what they eat does not make them stiff or cause their eyes to inflame.
I have been pondering this quite a bit lately and sorry to ramble on for so long.
