Gardening with Rabbits
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My family has been like baymule. They live old and ate sugar. My brother and I ate sugar like no end. We were slim and my mother was slim. My parents were born in 1910 and 1915. I was born in the 1950s so my parents had us late in life and we ate a lot of fresh food, raised on raw milk and never vaccinated. I took excellent health for granted. In the late 1970s to early 1980s, I started drinking diet pop. I was not overweight, but thought it was a good idea because friends were drinking it. My brother never did drink diet pop. I started to gain weight like crazy. I never felt good, just falling apart. My dad died and we were eating canola oil at that time thinking that was healthy, but still eating margarine too. My dad was 75 when he died. I knew something was wrong. He had always been the one that was healthy in his family. His brother ended up living to be 90 and was the one that was overweight. I went to a doctor and had blood work done and checked out fine, nothing wrong. I finally went to a nutrition/chiropractor and he told me it was the food I was eating, sugar, pesticide in the food, white flour, etc. My hair was turning gray at 30. My brother was still young looking, thin and strong. I started to do what this doctor said. I had a pile of vitamins to take, no white stuff, eat brown rice, fresh food, stablize blood sugar in the morning. I started losing weight and my hair went back to normal. Over the years I started to get my weight back close to normal. I got married late in life and gained a lot of weigh when pregnant. I have 2 teenagers both thin and a thin husband. My kids have never been vaccinated and drank raw milk, but not from the beginning like I did. We use olive oil and butter. I eat less than they do, but still cannot lose. My brother eats like a horse and is thin. I always said sugar was not the problem because of the thin people in my life that eats sugar. I now think with me that something happened with the aspartame. I think I do have fatty liver. I just bought The Science of Skinny: Start Understanding Your Body's Chemistry--and Stop Dieting Forever and the cookbook that goes with it. The woman that wrote it is a chemist and she lost 100 pounds and tells how why we cannot lose weight and the artificial ingredients and sugar and things hurt us. She has food that she says we should include in our diet and it is the same food the nutrition doctor told me about. Coconut oil, flaxseed oil, sprouted bread, oat flour. I just need the cookbook to start. She does allow honey I think and raw cane sugar. She says to use milk thistle and dandelion supplement to help with the liver and I used to have pain over the liver area and that doctor had told me to use milk thistle and it does take the pain away. I have been having that off and on again. I am going to grow the most food I can in the garden and try to get my family switched to a healthier way of eating. I have changed a lot of things, but far, far, far from where we should be.
I did finally have to watch what I eat, but I keep my weight at a healthy level. I always ate more healthy foods than junk foods. So if I ate 1/2 of a pumpkin pie for lunch, it was ok because that was not the norm for me. 
I am glad you are on track to improve your life. Keep up the good work. 
