I guess I have no clue what dietary experiment you are doing, so I am curious. I can eat NOTHING in the nightshade family any longer. Peppers have always been a problem and eggplant had to go in my 30s. Potatoes have been off for awhile and I don't care because I have never liked them much. To know that they are at the top of the glycemic index is just another reason to hate them. Tomatoes --- could never tolerate them raw but I have always liked them cooked so I do miss that. The acid has killed my stomach in the past and the fact that I can't eat wheat has made pizza and pasta a thing of the past.
Unlike you, I can't manage the fibro without animal protein and dairy doesn't provide that although I eat dairy constantly and would be very unhappy to become glucose intolerant like my mother, brother and oldest child are.
When I was having the most fatigue I finally found that cutting sugar and eating meat were requisite. I can't remember how long I'd been vegetarian at that point but I do know I got a lot better about a year after I went back to eating animals :-(
I would hate to have a problem with nightshades. I'm already horribly allergic to casein, and lactose intolerant, and I don't tolerate eggs very well, either (neither the yolks nor the whites). A problem with nightshades would mean that I'd have to avoid nearly everything else, and tomatoes and bell peppers are basically two of my staple foods. :(
I more or less can't live without onions, garlic, tomatoes, lentils, chick peas, and meat, which is sounding like a pretty good soup, actually. :)
It does sound like a good soup! (no on the tomatoes..... :-( )
I know you have that problem with casein and lactose; didn't know about the eggs. But you don't have fibromyalgia and D'G and I both do. I think the nightshades and vegetarianism may be problematic for those of us who inhabit the fibro-fog. Also, for those of us with genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, potatoes are a bad food choice.
Actually, if you couldn't eat nightshades, you'd still have flesh protein, legumes, nuts, fruits, most roots and green veggies. That isn't bad.
But you don't have fibromyalgia and D'G and I both do.
As do I.
I think the nightshades and vegetarianism may be problematic for those of us who inhabit the fibro-fog.
Nightshades have no effect on me that I can tell, I just hate most of them except potatoes. (To the point where stewed tomatoes my mom forced me to eat once came right back up while I was still at the table.)
Meat consumption has no effect on my fog level, but if I go without animal protein more than a day and a half or so, I get horrible headaches. I'm sympathetic to vegetarians, but I was clearly never meant to be one.
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Unlike you, I can't manage the fibro without animal protein and dairy doesn't provide that although I eat dairy constantly and would be very unhappy to become glucose intolerant like my mother, brother and oldest child are.
When I was having the most fatigue I finally found that cutting sugar and eating meat were requisite. I can't remember how long I'd been vegetarian at that point but I do know I got a lot better about a year after I went back to eating animals :-(
Nightshades are just nasty.
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I more or less can't live without onions, garlic, tomatoes, lentils, chick peas, and meat, which is sounding like a pretty good soup, actually. :)
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I know you have that problem with casein and lactose; didn't know about the eggs. But you don't have fibromyalgia and D'G and I both do. I think the nightshades and vegetarianism may be problematic for those of us who inhabit the fibro-fog. Also, for those of us with genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, potatoes are a bad food choice.
Actually, if you couldn't eat nightshades, you'd still have flesh protein, legumes, nuts, fruits, most roots and green veggies. That isn't bad.
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As do I.
I think the nightshades and vegetarianism may be problematic for those of us who inhabit the fibro-fog.
Nightshades have no effect on me that I can tell, I just hate most of them except potatoes. (To the point where stewed tomatoes my mom forced me to eat once came right back up while I was still at the table.)
Meat consumption has no effect on my fog level, but if I go without animal protein more than a day and a half or so, I get horrible headaches. I'm sympathetic to vegetarians, but I was clearly never meant to be one.