Is Sugar In Fruit Bad For You?

Hello lovelies! when I first started my Reactive Hypoglycemia journey this was a question I had wondered. The endocrine specialist said I was prediabetic so this was the reason it could have possibly triggered Reactive Hypoglycemia in me. However since following the principles of the Diabetes Method and ensuring that all the foods were low and medium (or green and orange) on the glycemic index that were wholefoods and low in fat. I have noticed I’ve been able to improve my insulin sensitivity my last Ha1c was normal. I have been able to up my intake of carbs (carbohydrates) and I’ve had less frequent RH events so while I’m not prediabetic I still have RH however the RH events are less frequent and not as severe as they were.

I don’t seem to have a problem with the amount of fruit and vegetables I eat provided I don’t add fat or refined sugar to them and reducing the amount of processed food has also helped me ♥️

Intractable Epilepsy

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Stress, Illness and the Immune System – Simply Psychology

Hello my lovelies I was inspired to write about stress and how illness can impact on the immune system. This is one of the links I thought you lovely lot might like to see.. ♥️

https://www.simplypsychology.org/stress-immune.html

What Happens When Your Immune System Gets Stressed Out?

Oyster Mushrooms Roast

Hello lovelies I thought I’d share this with you lovely people I recently discovered that Oyster mushrooms are low fodmap very delicious and very nutrient dense? Such as oyster mushrooms are great for boosting the immune system…

The ladies Jane and Anne Esselstyn are cooking with the guest appearance of their sister/daughter in law Pollys recipe of Oyster Mushroom Roast.

They are a source of fungi and other beneficial properties for boosting the immune system. ❤️

Water & Hydration Information & How To Get Enough…

Hello my lovelies do you drink or consume enough fluids to keep hydrated? Me ? I mostly stay hydrated with mainly water and the occasional glass of plant milk. However, I find it very difficult to drink enough when I’m unwell with a RH attack.

I thought this chart would be useful to assess at a glance to see how hydrated you are. As for the amount of fluids you need daily it always been a greyish area for me. As I’ve read differing amounts.

There are various factors that need to be considered. The amount you drink, the type of foods you eat that contains a certain amount of water too. the signs to show you’re dehydrated.

The benefits of drinking enough water are touted as being good for you let’s go into some of these benefits and the signs you may need to drink more.

The obvious sign primarily is a dry mouth and feeling thirsty. However the colour of your urine is also a sign. Naturally it should be a pale yellow colour anything darker is a sure sign of dehydration.

As I said depending on where you are the average amount seems to vary.. As women need less water than men do. It can depend on how active you are aswell.

I found a calculation on Net Doctor UK in which you divide your weight by 30 and the answer is how much you need daily. Their example states “For example if you weigh 60 kgs then you need 2 litres of fluids per day”

Finally for me if I were to spread my drinks over the day having 5 210ml glasses I would get my quota of water I have a glass after each meal or before then a glass upon waking and one before bed usually around supper time ❤️

https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-eating/a36000012/how-much-water-should-drink/

Mung Bean Sprouts Fact, Health Benefits & Nutritional Value – Perfect Activity For Children With No Garden…

Hello lovelies looking through my camera roll I forgot about these.. These beanshoots were sprouted from our cupboard we used a bpa free tub and lined with seed germinating fabric. I guess it varies depending on where you keep them. Ours were ready for harvesting in about a week..

These need to be watered gently but the perfect activity for anyone with children. Especially with half term coming up and they taste so much better than shop bought beanshoots.

They are surprisingly nutrient dense. They are packed with vitamins and minerals such as vitamins A several B vitamins, C, D, E & K aswell as Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, and Manganese.

Lastly with a glycemic index of 25 (GI) and a glycemic load of 4 (GL) per 28 grams or 1oz of beanshoots it is an ideal food choice for people living with blood disorders such as Reactive Hypoglycemia Prediabetes Gestational Diabetes and all types of Diabetes..❤️ ☘️

https://www.greenmungbeans.com/health-benefits/

Bean Sprouts Health Benefits & Blog

Hello my lovelies I’ve been busy with reading and watching Educational and nutritional studies and information. Aswell as trying to stabilise my glucose levels during the evening so it doesn’t wake me up during the night.

What complicates matters is that I live with several different health conditions where the symptoms of the symptoms overlap. Illness and hormonal changes such as the peri and menopause can trigger Reactive Hypoglycemia (RH) symptoms.

Anyhow we wanted to include a wider variety of food to our diet and beans is something we don’t eat regularly as some cause IBS symptoms.

Mr Vegan had been craving some beanshoots so I looked them up and up came organic mung beans.

When sprouted they’re useful for salads stir-fry soups sandwiches and a good source of vitamins B2 C and K. In addition they contain copper and Iron with adequate levels of Folate.

So we bought some online via amazon and got them delivered the next day.

They are surprising easy to germinate and grow in a tub lined with an appropriate material for lining and helping the seed germinate whilst staying damp. This method has worked supremely well and would be a great activity for children at home. Or children in an educational setting.

These are from our third crop and harvest of mung beans grown in a pot. So you don’t need a garden. All you need is a spare container with a lid suitable for layering a single bed of mung beans.

Then ensure they are watered muslin cloth can also be used I’ve read. There are various methods of how to sprout mung beans available online. ❤️

https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/mung-bean-sprouts/

Watch “Taking Vitamin D Supplements? Important Information! Watch This First” on YouTube

Hello my lovelies, it’s a Soulful Saturday afternoon as I write this deciding whether I should publish this today or tomorrow.. Anyways hello again darlings depending on where you live in the world and how close you are to the equator. You may or may not need Vitamin D supplements.

The personal irony for me is that for the years before I went vegan. I was severely low in vitamin D. At the time I was eating animals. I mainly ate chicken fish (had to not resemble a fish in order for me to eat it-I was seriously in denial and uneducated) and lamb. I was a very active runner practiced yoga weekly and 6 days per week gym member. I thought I had a healthy balanced diet.

I was pescatarian then vegetarian before transitioning to plant based and vegan. Yet when I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism I was vegan and at the same time they’d checked my vit D B12 Iron and Folate levels. All were in normal ranges which was great to hear.

You would think that the reduction of all animal produce would have left me with deficiencies right?!

You could also be forgiven for thinking that the reason I was deficient in vitamin D is because I went vegan and the deficiency occurred from the time I stopped consuming animal with dairy products.

If that was the case then you could say that other deficiencies such as B12 which is usually found in animal products would be likely in the near future due to purely not consuming animal produce?

However I had a blood test after becoming vegan and the vitamin D had returned to normal levels. I was also fine with good levels of B12. I wasn’t taking B12 supplements at the time as I didn’t know about B12 and it can be an issue.

B12 is one of the most common vitamin deficiencies affecting everyone not just people living a vegan lifestyle. Vitamin B12 is abit complex to explain. The simple science is that B12 is a form of bacteria commonly found in the soil on vegetables and other plant based foods grown in soil.

The reason behind B12 being found in animals? Depending on how the animal is farmed some animals will eat the plants grown in soil containing B12. Others are injected with B12 supplements as part of an animal health protocol which will also receive antibiotics due to conditions of those animals. They may be factory farmed and therefore may not have access to outside or a patch of grass. Or an area suitable for a humane kinder environment instead for factory farming.

I personally prefer to take the animal out of the equation and consume plant milks and other produce fortified or grown organically with soil containing B12.

We also grow our own fruit all types of 1avegetables including root vegetables, leafy greens such as spinach lettuces and Kale aswell as other salad vegetables with peas and various herbs.

Lastly, this year we’ve bought (and luckily been given!) some new foods to add to our regular foods that we grow coming soon… ❤️

Techniques & Concepts To Help Symptoms Of Reactive Hypoglycemia 1

I’ve been trying to stabilise my glucose levels using several techniques that are proven to be effective in determine which trigger foods causes a reaction.

This includes the elimination protocol. This is either taking out one food or drink at a time. Then see if my symptoms improves. I usually only drink water so I can be assured nothing else will cause a problem in regarding beverages.

I occasionally drink fresh (from the whole fruit) juice if my blood sugar is low to bring it up fast, but have postponed this for now.

Other factors I’m considering are testing my glucose levels more frequently when I experience symptoms. I’ll explain why this is especially important soon.. The reintroduction of foods that are low to medium on the glycemic index. Again introducing one food at a time.

Then waiting for a period of time to see if anything causes any adverse symptoms. I also consider that I follow the 15 minute rule when my blood sugar is low and that it usually improves symptoms when successfully treated.

Finally, I’ve found from experience and the doctor saying when the symptoms are noticeable to test the blood more often. It’s been useful to test more because you firstly know that Reactive Hypoglycemia generally happens after eating.

For everyone it’s different but since I’ve begun eliminating trigger foods I’ve noticed a difference with my blood glucose levels stabilising and the RH attacks are becoming less frequent and less violent intensity.. I also seem to be having less dangerous spikes..

So we will see how this continues I’ve found I can eat Kale which is great. As its a great alternative for spring greens or cabbage. I used to love spring greens and cabbage but they’re trigger foods ❤️

The Cleanliness Of Others Stereotypes Situations & Covid – A Discussion…

Hello lovelies I was listening to the radio today and the subject was about how you find a property you’re just moving in to. How clean this property was and things that people found. I wasn’t paying much attention to all of the stories but enough to make me think of my own experience of this..

The last time I moved into a flat I’d leased for 6 months. I wanted to be near the buses to commute to work and be near my parents. My mum had a major stroke she wasn’t expected to survive so she needed extra support.. Luckily she proved them wrong..

Two of my grown daughters came along to help me move in and clean up. Well let me just say this for those of you new to the page.

I’m a mix of Romani and Welsh Romani what society refer to as a Gypsy. Prt of our culture and upbringing is to keep a clean home.

So I’ve always prided myself for keeping for the most part a clean and tidy home. This flat was in abit of a state a rotten mattress had been dumped in the room.

There was a stained carpet ripped that was pulled up and dumped it seemed in the living room, as the same coloured was found in the bedroom.

The landlord apologised and said he’d collect that and the mattress so I dragged it down with one of the girls while the other was in the kitchen..

Until I heard a shout if eerrgh eeeewwww you dirty dirty minger.. I called out hesitantly if all was OK as she was in the kitchen cleaning the kitchen cupboard with a bleach mixture and antibacterial spray with plenty of clothes scourers.

She just said you won’t believe this Mum and repeated how disgusted she was..

There was my lovely daughter up to her arms in hot water and cleaning sprays and said look on top of the cupboard.. Written in not very large writing “Kaz was ere” well I suddenly found out what coloured hair Kaz had.

Also why my daughter was so disgusted there on top neatly displayed were curly red public hair. Immediately plucking a kitchen towel from my pocket disposed of it like you normally do with something nasty.

Suffice to say I couldn’t eat there although I never found any further nasty surprises like that. I certainly knew the irony because some of the false narratives about Romani Gypsies is that we’re dirty and unclean aswell as being cruel to animals.

Cleaning the home daily (that means washing sweeping scrubbing hoovering and steaming the floors and kitchen worktops the bathroom.

Damp dusting and polishing all other surfaces daily.. We wash our crockery clothes differently to non Romani people. We only allow certain people to drink/eat from certain crockery and not crockery we would use for ourselves. Our animals are cherished and we ensure that our homes are free from germs and dirt. This is part of our culture and upbringing we were raised to know how to take good care of yourself your home husband and your family. That means cleaning up is as natural as breathing to a Romani Gypsy. So take it from me it is not true.

As my dear mum used to say there’s good and bad is everyone no matter who and what you are. But it ws always stressed to us to keep a clean home and keep to the customs. Which I’m happy to as its not much different from cleaning a nursery setting for young children.

You have to ensure that everything is not just clean and tidy with floors hoovered and mopped. It’s making sure every toy is washed sanitised then left to dry. To ensure there’s no dangerous germs lurking as child tend to explore with their little eager mouths and hands. Just as I do when I clean my home just like my mum and her siblings did aswell.

I’m vegan and I stopped eating meat in my 20s because I like animals and didn’t want anyone to kill them on my behalf. Although I naively thought at the time that dairy was OK, as no animal was being harmed.. Before I moved out of this flat to move in with Mr Vegan, the landlord came and done his yearly check. You know to make sure I hadn’t knocked any walls down etc but I said I was moving out and I won’t be renewing the lease.

We arranged to meet at the flat to hand over the key and he would return my deposit. So as he knew about “pubegate” I made sure those cupboards in the kitchen aswell as everywhere else were cleaner than I found them.

I had this mantra when cleaning every room including the stairs and hall that it was going to look better than I found it. I’d painted the living room and painted the lovely wooden high fireplace mantel and shelves. As my flat was on the first floor of a converted house and my back was getting worse.

So these stairs weren’t help me at all. He was not only happy to see it was clean and tidy he said it looked better than before I moved in and gave me a month’s rent free on top of the deposit..

Lastly, I think the pandemic and covid is teaching people to avoid getting covid is to be cleaner in general.. ♥️💪🧚

Cannabis News Canadian Study Reveals…

According to Leafie UK News a Canadian study reveals legalisation has had no effect on increased Psychosis & Schizophrenia… Check out the link below for more info on this interesting evidence based science. ❤️

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/cannabis-legalisation-no-increased-psychosis-schizophrenia/

Watch “ADD/ADHD | What Is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?” on YouTube

This is a fairly straightforward and informative video about ADD /ADHD for children or adults with a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Attention Deficit Disorder.

In my former career I was, what was called in the UK a qualified SENCO for children primarily under 5 years. Although the training extended to children of school age

While I was undertaking the training the tutor covered different conditions that presented in children the symptoms of what to look for..

The tutor also covered the symptoms in adults with ADD and ADHD that hadn’t been diagnosed. I jokingly said it sounded like me as a child and she asked me to give examples.

I’d unwittingly walked myself into a example of how ADD and ADHD can escape diagnosis.. Cutting a long story short the lecture broke for lunch saying that I am a typical example of what ADD and ADHD is like in adults….

If you find any of the symptoms sound familiar with you. A good start would be to making an appointment with your family doctor..❤️

Watch “How to treat ACID REFLUX AT HOME – HEARTBURN TREATMENT(GERD)” on YouTube

This educational video gives you a good explanation of what GERD is and how you can help your symptoms. Being vegan I won’t be consuming any animal products.

It is interesting to note that when I was being investigated and they saw evidence of oesophageal reflux as part of their investigation into my belly pain. I had also had my diagnosis of hypothyroidism which according to this doctor is one of the causes of GERD. This is known as GORD in the UK as we spell Oesophagus therefore denoting the “O”

The other cause was Diabetes, which I thought also interesting. Considering I had a diagnosis of Prediabetes and Reactive Hypoglycemia.

I know there is a few things I can implement to neutralise this painful condition such as drinking warm water. So enjoy and u hope this is useful for you or a loved one ♥️