A few updates to PP&RS
I’ve made a few updates to the plant poisons and rotten stuff website. These include minor changes to the natural toxins page, and the addition of three more pages: amine content of selected foods, a quick reference for reactions guide, and a guide to minimising amines in food.
Update: now even more pages… a gluten and casein responders page, and an advice for super-responders page. Phew.
The minimising amines in food page is looong overdue. Every single person I know who has done the failsafe diet has made major mistakes on this – myself included – particularly with supermarket and/or vacuum-packed meat and storing meat in the fridge. It is a major issue that people can’t get their heads around, and I suspect it is why many people fail with failsafe. Unless you follow the guidelines on this page, you are unlikely to clear up your chronic symptoms. The problem is that amines usually have a very slow, subtle build-up in people that result in pain or behavioural reactions, but people rarely notice single reactions to amines, so short challenges never seem to do anything.
In addition, I’ve created a Plant Poisons and Rotten Stuff Community. It’s currently a community of one, and I’m not expecting the floodgates to open any time soon. When members sign up they get a profile page where they can put information about themselves, they can add their own blog posts, chat in the forum, join specialist groups where they can get advice (I’ve created a few for things like asthma, eczema, genetics, super-responders, fibromyalgia, autism, ADHD, newbies, weight loss, etc, etc). This community has nothing to do with the FailsafeNT group and isn’t affiliated with the Food Intolerance Network. I imagine there will be whistling wind and tumbleweed for a while, but I thought it was worth a punt. I thought the member’s blogs feature would be useful for people who want to keep food diaries. People tend to try to use forums as diaries and I’ve concluded it just doesn’t work. Half the time when I’m trying to help people I have no idea what they’re eating and it takes three days worth of messages to figure out when they’re making an obvious mistake. From now on I’ll stick to helping people who blog their food and symptoms diary instead of taking random stabs in the dark.
I’ve also set up a Plant Poisons and Rotten Stuff Wiki. I’m hoping I can help people understand food intolerance concepts by putting them in a wiki format. There’s hardly anything there yet. Just something on contamination paranoia – an amusing and frustrating phenomenon I see on internet forums all of the time!
I’m also putting together a del.icio.us page with food chemical intolerance links. It’s a little messy at the moment, but I need to put it somewhere, it’s too big to go down the side of my blog anymore.
Sorry I haven’t published/replied to messages for a while. I’m actually busy writing (fiction!) at the moment. I’ll get around to it sooner or later.
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