This is an e-mail response I got from the recent blog I did on Why type 2 diabetes has increased 50% in 30 years... What we eat can have big effects on our health...
I would love to get other testimonials from any of you out there that have them.
http://cwiechert.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-type-2-diabetes-has-increased-50.html
Hi Christopher,
I just wanted to let you know that this was an extremely timely blog, especially since our doctor made an interesting remark about my husband's health during his physical last week.
He told him that he has never seen a person as sick as my husband make such a dramatic turnaround in his asthma to the point that he is now considered cured. 20 years ago, he was so sick that his doctors had told me to prepare to be a widow. They warned me that if he caught a cold, he would end up with pneumonia and die because his lungs were in such bad shape.
At that time, he was taking an every other day dose of 60mg. of prednisone to keep him breathing. When asthmatics are in such condition, it is usually a last resort and there is no improvement. Period. Such a huge dose causes the adrenal glands to shrink and quit producing adrenaline altogether. When I was able to pinpoint corn and hfcs in particular as the cause of his asthma, we made radical changes to his diet and were able to reduce his prednisone intake to 0mg.
Of course, it took several years to accomplish this, requiring eliminating every prepackaged food on the grocery shelves. Nowadays, dextrose (corn-based) is found in practically everything, including salt. We eat organic food, kosher or sea salt, and cook everything from scratch. His health isn't great because of allergies and gout, but it's so much better than it was and he is still alive and functional.
I am encouraging my doctor to do some writing for the medical journals since he specializes in bariatric patients and has noticed that some of his patients admit to drinking 5 or 6 2-liter bottles of soda daily. Because it doesn't inform the brain of satiation, it actually causes hunger messages to be sent and encourages overeating.
Keep up the good work and try to get out the word about corn. It hides under many names: starch, modified food starch, xanthan gum, zein, glucose, dextrose, and of course, fructose.
When is the medical profession going to get the message that corn is not only an unrecognized and potent food allergy but it also one that the government is actively subsidizing and pushing on the American people?
We had an enormous fight in the ER years ago when a doctor ordered Aminophyllin in dextrose for an IV to combat a severe asthma attack. He refused to believe us that it would kill my husband, and then had a horrible time trying to resuscitate him when he himself started the IV and immediately sent him into anaphyllactic shock. Since then, I've learned to be very assertive and loud when it comes to protecting him from ignorance and bullheadedness.
Anyway, thanks for what you do. It's been a stressful year, but we're surviving and looking forward to life improvements.
V M
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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