I know this is going to sound a little drastic.. but bare with me on this one, and maybe you should try it for yourself (sorry about the long post but i promise its going to be interesting, and im not preaching about not eating meat, cuz i love me some meat!)
There are things in this world that we shouldn't eat. Society has been eating pork and potatoes for a VERY long time, and growing up on them in Michigan was fine, I felt fine and grew up fine, I was a bit of a heavy kid and so was my husband James. I didn't think anything of it really, until I was 18 years old, living in North Carolina weighing almost 300lbs. At 18 years old. I decided this was absolutely horrible for me to have done this to myself, for me not to have cared what went into my body, so me and James did some research to get ourselves healthier. James has Fibromyalgia, Bipolar, MS, and Gastroenteritis. I constantly had stomach problems, sharp pains, that I was too scared to go get diagnosed.
He read up that pork may cause Gastroenteritis, so he stopped eating it, and he realized that he was losing a little weight, and his stomach problems were getting a little better too. I stopped drinking pop/coke (whichever you call it) and I lost 50lbs just by doing that, not joking. Completely cutting it out of my diet. Also, I stopped eating pork and realized that my stomach problems have also decreased drastically. So with our stomach problems getting better, we went to dinner with his mother and we had pork for dinner. Within 30 minutes me and James both were severely sick, vomiting and running to the bathroom every 15 minutes it seemed. We thought maybe it wasn't cooked right, so we had it again, we cooked it ourselves to make sure it was done, and the same thing happened. Within 30 minutes we were back to being severely sick. Yersiniosis is a disease caused form bacteria found in pork, is mostly overlooked as a bad stomach ache, or appendicitis. So reading about that, we don't eat pork anymore. People who do eat a lot of pork don't have as severe side effects as we did, but they will often get stomach cramps and things like that. We just don't eat pork anymore, or rarely eat any red meats but still have our steak!
We started eating very healthy and growing our own veggies and fruits, which we currently still do. Being on a tort form, I have a Tortoise, my dear lil man Ted. (attached pic) and we like to grow things that we all can eat, like radishes, James loves them and Ted loves the tops. We go through a lot of potatoes and I WAS feeding Ted the potato leaves... until i did some reading up. Potato is part of the Nightshade family, or Solanaceae. Most species in that family are poisonous, not only for torts or animals, but for people too. The potato has glycoalkaloids which is poisonous to humans and animals, and in high quantities can sometimes be fatal (certain ones, not all). Being poisoned by potatoes.. the side effects are often misdiagnosed by doctors to be gastroenteritis, which a lot of people have. Because people eat SO MANY potatoes on a daily basis, the side effects are minimal, same as pork, to almost non existent, but because every body reacts differently some people would react differently. I always heard that the green part of the potato is poisonous and will kill you if you eat it. I always thought that was a joke, well it's not THAT bad, but it can make you sick. The green part of the actual potato and the stems and the leaves hold 80% of Solanine (which are the glycoalkaloids) Potatoes are screened to see how much Solanine they contain before they are shipped out as produce, and if they have under a certain amount, it is O.K. for them to be consumed.
I think everybody grew up on potatoes, you can make almost ANYTHING out of a freakin' potato, so of course people are going to eat the crap out of it, I know my family did. Same with pork, Everybody eats it, so nobody really notices the side effects.. but if yous top for a while, and start eating it again.. you can really notice it.
I'm not preaching or anything, just sharing some thoughts, I've told my friends and family but they dont seem to want to try just to see.. If i could show one person the same thing as me and James are going through, then i would be happy knowing I helped ONE person, So I'm going to share it here..
Again sorry this was so long, but its something really dramatic that changed our lives, helped our stomach problems, and now mine are completely gone. Just giving some insight, if anybody has any thoughts/opinions/suggestions/ or anything really, just post!
oh and heres Ted.. haha
There are things in this world that we shouldn't eat. Society has been eating pork and potatoes for a VERY long time, and growing up on them in Michigan was fine, I felt fine and grew up fine, I was a bit of a heavy kid and so was my husband James. I didn't think anything of it really, until I was 18 years old, living in North Carolina weighing almost 300lbs. At 18 years old. I decided this was absolutely horrible for me to have done this to myself, for me not to have cared what went into my body, so me and James did some research to get ourselves healthier. James has Fibromyalgia, Bipolar, MS, and Gastroenteritis. I constantly had stomach problems, sharp pains, that I was too scared to go get diagnosed.
He read up that pork may cause Gastroenteritis, so he stopped eating it, and he realized that he was losing a little weight, and his stomach problems were getting a little better too. I stopped drinking pop/coke (whichever you call it) and I lost 50lbs just by doing that, not joking. Completely cutting it out of my diet. Also, I stopped eating pork and realized that my stomach problems have also decreased drastically. So with our stomach problems getting better, we went to dinner with his mother and we had pork for dinner. Within 30 minutes me and James both were severely sick, vomiting and running to the bathroom every 15 minutes it seemed. We thought maybe it wasn't cooked right, so we had it again, we cooked it ourselves to make sure it was done, and the same thing happened. Within 30 minutes we were back to being severely sick. Yersiniosis is a disease caused form bacteria found in pork, is mostly overlooked as a bad stomach ache, or appendicitis. So reading about that, we don't eat pork anymore. People who do eat a lot of pork don't have as severe side effects as we did, but they will often get stomach cramps and things like that. We just don't eat pork anymore, or rarely eat any red meats but still have our steak!
We started eating very healthy and growing our own veggies and fruits, which we currently still do. Being on a tort form, I have a Tortoise, my dear lil man Ted. (attached pic) and we like to grow things that we all can eat, like radishes, James loves them and Ted loves the tops. We go through a lot of potatoes and I WAS feeding Ted the potato leaves... until i did some reading up. Potato is part of the Nightshade family, or Solanaceae. Most species in that family are poisonous, not only for torts or animals, but for people too. The potato has glycoalkaloids which is poisonous to humans and animals, and in high quantities can sometimes be fatal (certain ones, not all). Being poisoned by potatoes.. the side effects are often misdiagnosed by doctors to be gastroenteritis, which a lot of people have. Because people eat SO MANY potatoes on a daily basis, the side effects are minimal, same as pork, to almost non existent, but because every body reacts differently some people would react differently. I always heard that the green part of the potato is poisonous and will kill you if you eat it. I always thought that was a joke, well it's not THAT bad, but it can make you sick. The green part of the actual potato and the stems and the leaves hold 80% of Solanine (which are the glycoalkaloids) Potatoes are screened to see how much Solanine they contain before they are shipped out as produce, and if they have under a certain amount, it is O.K. for them to be consumed.
I think everybody grew up on potatoes, you can make almost ANYTHING out of a freakin' potato, so of course people are going to eat the crap out of it, I know my family did. Same with pork, Everybody eats it, so nobody really notices the side effects.. but if yous top for a while, and start eating it again.. you can really notice it.
I'm not preaching or anything, just sharing some thoughts, I've told my friends and family but they dont seem to want to try just to see.. If i could show one person the same thing as me and James are going through, then i would be happy knowing I helped ONE person, So I'm going to share it here..
Again sorry this was so long, but its something really dramatic that changed our lives, helped our stomach problems, and now mine are completely gone. Just giving some insight, if anybody has any thoughts/opinions/suggestions/ or anything really, just post!
oh and heres Ted.. haha
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