My wife bought a 400 gram packet for 12 dollars. The paper says that today's price of wheat, No.1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein, FOB Gulf of Mexico, is 290 US$ per metric ton. One ton could feed me three years. Dont tell her!
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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My wife bought a 400 gram packet for 12 dollars. The paper says that today's price of wheat, No.1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein, FOB Gulf of Mexico, is 290 US$ per metric ton. One ton could feed me three years. Dont tell her!
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My son says that our digestive systems were really not designed to digest wheat in large quantities. A cave man might have been able to gather a few handfuls of wild wheat seeds here and there, mixed in with berries, nuts, etc. but not whole meals consisting of nothing but wheat.
K
Evolutionary adaptation may occur much faster than the Paleo dieters assume. Meaning we have not remained creatures of the cave man's conditions.
I'm saying this, having just marked my 1st month of no grains, virtually no carbs nor sugar, high meat "paleo" dieting (and exercise too). I'm over the carb-cravings, but I'm still waiting to experience that big difference in how I'll feel, still waiting....
Not done yet though.
ram
My son was afflicted with intestinal ailments. He was diagnosed as having "Krohn's disease" and was given oral steroids and other medications, which worked somewhat but not completely. He switched to a "paleo" diet and his symptoms disappeared. He stopped his medication completely. I think that he also put himself in a less stressful situation and that may have a lot to do with it as well, but if he attributes it to diet. A high (red) meat diet is also not supposed to be good for you.
K
K,
It's Crohn's disease. Some patients can experience long-term remissions, so if the diagnosis was solid, he may not be entirely out of the woods. Depending on the degree and duration of symptoms/findings, it can be a hard diagnosis to make definitively, though.
Is that fishwrap behind your boiled wheat?
K, it would be of interest to see how your son fares on a Chinese diet.
Anon.
Yes, reading the fishwrap takes my mind off the "food".
Yes, reading the fishwrap takes my mind off the "food".
My son lived in China and ate mostly a Chinese diet. He now feels that it is too high in grains (contrary to myth, in the north they eat wheat as much as rice). He felt that they had major problems with air and water pollution and did not feel healthy there.
K
Notwithstanding how well he feels now, he should discuss the pro's and con's of regular surveillance colonoscopy with a competent gastro-enterologist.
Anon.
He has been under the care of an excellent gastro and has had all sorts of tests. Apparently his area of inflammation is too high up to be visible to a colonoscopy but they had him swallow a camera that was contained inside a capsule and were able to see his small intestine. Sounds like science fiction but true.
K
K,
Capsule endoscopy. It't not a perfect modality (i.e. not a replacement for the scope), and there is a small risk that the capsule can get stuck, in which case it has to be surgically removed. It's major advantage, like you said, is that it can go places the scope can't.
The capsule was in addition to colonoscopy. My nephew was a gastro resident in the same hospital and my son received VIP treatment. The meds did put the Crohn's into remission. Hopefully it will stay that way although typically it does come back sooner or later. I'm guessing that it is stress related in his case - for now he has adopted a low stress lifestyle (unfortunately a low income one also but he is not asking me for $ and it is his life) so hopefully that will keep the disease at bay. I guess that the fact that he is off his meds and still in remission is good, whether it is a result of diet or lack of stress or just coincidence.
K
Maybe try to leave your son an inheritance, K. He sounds like an intelligent, level-headed fellow (no doubt a chip off the old block). Some starter capital might be all that is needed to generate an investment-based fortune.
I get the feeling that he is a classic Jewish luftmensch who will always be able to scrape some nickels together one way or another no matter where he is. He has definitely rejected the idea of being a cog in some bureaucratic/corporate machine.
K
The point is not to visualize the inflammation in the small bowel, but to keep the large bowel under close surveillance.
The gastro-enterologist should have a set a schedule of colonoscopies.
Anon.
Crohn's patients can also develop small bowel cancer, although it's much rarer than large bowel cancer. In the case of K's son, they were trying to make the initial diagnosis. If he has received that diagnosis, then yes, he should get colonoscopies at whaterval interval is now standard for Crohn's patients.
Agreed.
Anon.
I will check with him and make sure that he continues to get proper follow up care despite his current remission.
K
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