Hi Heather,
you are a great lady, and I respect where you are coming from because you do understand how people feel. I appreciate that there really are people who are allergic to dairy, and I appreciate that some people make the decision to go vegetarian. It is a choice. I understand that some people with eczema have an allergy to gluten and that they must knock out gluten products from their diet.
Personally, I am not vegetarian. I will never go vegetarian because I believe that meat is a necessary part of the diet. However, with the price of meat these days I check the prices carefully. We eat a lot of chicken, turkey and fish instead of the red meats most of the time. However, I still love a roast lamb and will buy one whenever the price is right. Besides, my dog loves roast lamb, and one of my previous cats (Garfield) used to know when the roast lamb was cooking
and he used to love getting the leftovers too.
I believe that a diet should always be balanced. If there is a problem with a certain food then of course it should be eliminated from the diet. That is why I do not eat any foods that contain tomato products. Like you, when it came to milk, I discovered that these products were making me queasy. I had to completely eliminate them from my diet.
Since I do not have irritable bowel syndrome I do not see the connection with diet. My view of my back condition happens to be that it was started because of certain injuries to my back. To support my theory I have the evidence that my remaining sister and my mother both have arthritis in the back. This finding is consistent with the car accident in 1959 and the likelihood that we were thrown from the car. I have the additional problem of the fracture in my coccyx when I was 22.
Thank you again for being such a wonderful and supportive lady. Yes, I do hope when I get to the dietician again that I will be put back on the road and will be able to abandon those bad habits that I keep developing
Maggie
