WHAT WE EAT MAY BE TRIGGERS TO BRAIN FOG!

[inga]

I hear ya...the sicker I get, the harder it is.....I don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen most days.  This summer, my canning and freezing will include ready to fix meals....not just jar after jar of tomatoes.  I am fixing the chili, the spaghetti sauce, the salsas so they are ready to go...I plan on doing frozen meals too.

I think you can find some fairly healthy things in the freezer section of the grocery....it may not be all organic, but some of it is pretty good.  You can also dedicate ONE day to fixing a weeks worth or more of food....and above all....make people help!  I am darn dangerous to myself with a knife.  I drop everything, too.  I have to have help....so, I complain until I get it.  (I am a joy to live with, lol.)

You must take good care of yourself while you can!

[Epson]

Bernice,

If you went into a resterante kitchen and saw what I have seen, you wouldn't eat out any more.  I cook almost every day, that way I know the food and the prepairers hands were washed and nothing fell on the floor   If the restroom has a sign on the wall that says employee must wash their hands my appetite is lost.

[Bernice]

Epson, There you go! I am a picky eater, most times have to force myself to eat at all so I can't think about none of that. I try to go to place where I can watch them preparing, have been known to walk out if it's not clean.

My son reminds me of this often, but because I am the worst cook ever I have to depend on eating out. I am a nervous wreck when cooking, have had too many house fires! If anything distracts me  like the phone, bathroom, tv, ANYTHING I will forget Im cookin. This is an area brain fog really kicks in dangerously, plus it scares my family the thought of me turning on a stove, they do not trust me, I don't trust me.  I am about to the point of even turning that thing on. Not to mention my food is uneatable!

I have to eat out, unless someone in family cooks or someone else is here to remind me I have something on the stove. Sometimes I really want to cook, I wish I was better at it.

[louise]

Epson I have been a hairstylist for 30 years. I know several hundred stylist never has anyone I know had bladder cancer. I have clients I have been coloring for years and did plenty of perms in the eighties . Never have I had a client with bladder cancer. Where did you get that info? I get color on my skin every day and never has it caused an infection. I know some people can have an allergic reaction but in my 30 years I have only known 1 person that was allergic to hair color. I do work with 4 other stylist who have autoimmune disorders none of them have sjogrens. But I have wondered about this relation . I would like too know what percent of stylist have autoimmune disorders.

[beej]

Hmmm, I heard a radio program on NPR this very afternoon about two men who spent a year testing all kinds of toxins and substances on themselves, in regular household and personal goods, and just doing normal things a person would do around the house.  The difference is in how they recorded behaviors and were meticulous about what items they were using and how.  And then they had lots of chemical analysis all through the process.  They said that each day a person in the US may come in contact with 150 or more chemicals, many of which are still unknown as to the effects on the body.  I believe decades will be needed before there is enough "evidence" that all this environmental pollution and chemicals are actually causing direct harm.  Most studies are unable to rule out lots of things because there are too many variables and the tests are not to the level that is or will be needed.

[Bernice]

Beej,

That sucks!