October 2008

You know, it is hard no matter what your profession and what kind of income you bring in to make ends meet. For most of us anyway! Someone asked if you can get well without buying organic. And, I think the answer is a big YES! Of course, organic is best, but, not everyone can do that. I absolutely think you can get well without. But, I have a few tips. Here in LA there are lots of great healthfood stores. But, they are super expensive. SO, to save money for my family, I have found many of the organic goodies that I can buy in our big beautiful healthfood stores at the normal everyday people stores. I buy what I can there and OK maybe not EVERYTHING is organic. I try to do my best, make my best choices.

I don't know where this article was extracted from. Someone sent it to me, and I thought it was very well communicated. For the record, I did not write it! It's content begins discussing diabetes, but really, it is about autoimmune disorders and the challenges of our immune system in today's world. One could replace the word IC with many of the other diagnoses listed in this article:

So, I received a phone call the other day regarding the FDA finding lead in some of the children's vitamins on the market.  He had a long conversation with us reagarding this issue and that the FDA was not correct in their reporting. I was alarmed and upset. As upset as I was in the first place because one of the vitamins that was named was one I was giving  my family! I asked that he give me more to go on and more information that could help me clear up this confusion. So, perhaps what I posted weeks ago was not correct. Please read through this letter from him to us and click on the links he sent. Read through it. It makes a lot of sense to me. Here it is:

Feelings of inadequacy are common amongst the population of people with IC. Perhaps inadequacies even more-so with women having IC. This issue may interrupt one's ability to handle social stresses that come their way leaving them more vulnerable to the ill effects of stress.

I was reminded speaking to someone this week what a huge issue this is. In my opinion, this stems back to childhood, and the relationship that a child has with her mother. A mother's job is to nurture her child and to help create her feelings of self worth. If that feeling of self worth is not established from a young age, it may impact that person's entire lifetime of emotional and even physical health.