My current diet

[Oscar]

How does being raw affect her diabetes? What about butter; is that good in her situation? She'll fight me on that one as she 'doesn't want to get fat'.

I've been telling her to cut out milk/bread; is that not a high priority for someone with these issues?

Should she be looking at low G.I. foods? Cut starches/carbs?

Eating appetite enhancing, addictive substances make you want to eat more, making it more difficult to keep the meals small (aside from other detrimental effects obviously). She could eat butter as fat, in any case butter is far more healthy than margarine and such. Of course everything helps if you look from a health perspective, but changing meal size and frequency, plus fat presence in food, is most important when looking specifically at diabetes.

[Mr. PC]

OK, I've been thinking because EVOO is expensive, if I'm cooking for my mom (or myself when I eat cooked food), is virgin OO ok instead of EVOO, or even non virgin OO? I figure since it's being cooked anyway, why would it matter whether or not it's virgin. It would still be significantly better than say, canola oil, sunflower oil, etc.

[Oscar]

If you're cooking the oil, then saturated is better than non-saturated, so coconut oil > olive oil, and non-virgin (mixed) OO > virgin OO.

[Mr. PC]

Non virgin OO is better than virgin OO for cooking? I don't understand that at all, shouldn't the cooking simply de-flower the non-virgin?

[Oscar]

Saturated oils/fats are more stable in their bonds than unsaturated ones, when looking at creation of trans-fats.

[Mr. PC]

Ok, so non-virgin OO is Saturated; is that because of the heat introduced? By mixed do you mean OO mixed with other oils? (like vegetable)

[Mr. PC]

Also, on a separate note, yesterday I was in class and suddenly felt nauseous, I looked at my OJ with OO and it seemed disgusting; I couldn't sip it at all. I went and lied down for an hour then felt better. I ate an avocado with banana soaked in OO and my body was ok with that, but repulsed by the juice still. This morning I felt ok, drank a little juice, went down to the city where I had a seminar, and bought this fruit-shake thing (I thought it was going to be real fruit but when I peered into the room where he was making it it turned out to be syrups + white sugar and coconut milk. When I drank it, first of all I got brain freeze because it was so cold (hadn't had that in a long time), and then my stomach pains came back and I had to have a bowel movement. My stomach also was moving, like it had a little worm thing or something moving in it. I'm thinking it may be a virus although in my imagination it felt like a parasite (I have no idea what a parasite would feel like). It seems that every time I'd sip the 'fruit shake' my stomach would hurt more. Not like heartburn; completely different.
Is it possible I have a parasite? Or most likely a virus? What should I do, stop eating? Eat fats but no sugars? I assume starches will break down into sugars and feed the parasite still.
Oh, it also hurts if I move in such a way that uses my stomach muscle, almost like having a cramp or pulled muscle.

[Oscar]

Ok, so non-virgin OO is Saturated; is that because of the heat introduced? By mixed do you mean OO mixed with other oils? (like vegetable)

Sorry, I wasn't clear... Basically using coconut oil, butter, lard (containing more saturated fat vs unsaturated) is better when cooking than any kind of olive oil.

[RRM]

I looked at my OJ with OO and it seemed disgusting; I couldn't sip it at all.

Maybe there was a bad orange in it (some are black in the middle)
Your body may react repulsed by everything seemingly similar as the source (the orange).
That response will fade away with time (if no other bad orange is consumed)
Maybe you can stay away from oranges etc for a few days and then reintroduce them into your diet.

Is it possible I have a parasite? Or most likely a virus?

A parasite is unlikely, a virus is possible, but as your body specifically responds to oranges etc,
its likely some kind of food poisoning.

[Mr. PC]

The orange repulsion was only for that night, it was gone the next day (I drank the leftover juice from the night before in the morning), although I would still get stomach pain upon eating sugar, even if I put white sugar on my munch food, or avocado. It's been getting gradually better although sometimes when I've had sugar it will act up slightly, and do the girgly thing where I can feel it move. I'm wondering if it could be candida; I may have never completely gotten rid of it. When I had it before I took all the anti-fungal the doctor prescribed, plus more, and was eating low starch, and preferring fats and mono-saturates a little at a time. I don't know what I could have possibly done better to get rid of it, but I still have this feeling that may be it. I should probably go in for blood work but same old - have work/school every day of the week, and doctors don't do evenings/weekends.

But sorry for the confusion, I'm not responding specifically to oranges.

[RRM]

All i can say is: keep listening to your body,
and adjust your diet accordingly, and keep experimenting.

[Mr. PC]

Ok, so I've been using the Huron to juice my oranges for some time now; it works well and gives dry pulp, with a little pulp in the juice, but that's ok because it helps the OO mix in with it. Sometimes I'll add half a banana for flavor and to help the OO mix, and I usually use an apple, because alternating apple slice - orange slice gives me dryer pulp, so I imagine it's juicing more efficiently.
Of course I have to use seedless oranges (or de-seed them myself which is a pain).
I'm wondering, maybe I should've started another thread for this (couldn't find one in the search) but, what are the different methods people use to cut their oranges up? I've been cutting the peel off with a serrated knife, then cutting the orange into slices; depending on the peel I might peel it by hand but most oranges here don't peel well that way. Maybe someone has a really effective method?

[Mr. PC]

Oh also, I cut my thumb about a week ago, cutting oranges (which sparked the cutting efficiency thought), and it's still not healed. Sometimes it's a little tingly, but that's somewhat normal for my hand to go numb, not usually in my thumb but my hands will do weird things because of the nerve problems.
My mom says I'm not healing fast enough because of lack of iron, but egg-yolks have 7mcg of iron, and I eat 6 a day. Is there any nutrient that would cause a person not to heal quickly? (I've had it bandaged 90% of the time btw). Yesterday I noticed it was slightly yellowish compared to the other, which looked pinker.
Oh, and I've been getting my eggs from a friend who raises them herself, so they're more ethical, better fed etc. Except they don't taste as good as the store-bought freerun/omega 3 eggs. The shells are weaker, and I don't like that you have to wash the poo off them (although that last point can be tolerated if they really are better). What do you think?

[overkees]

You should try some coconut oil on it, and honey. It will be healed in no time. Trust me, been there done that.

[RRM]

what are the different methods people use to cut their oranges up?

I think that anyone else will use a citrus juicer to juice oranges, as that is much easier.