Week 4 - Day 3

(May 3, 2011)

Based on Ann Boroch's book, The Candida Cure, she says that the digestive system is the most overlooked  system in the body.  Did you know that 75% of the immune systems's cells are produced in the digestive tract? I did not.  And that "an imbalance in the system - comprised of the mouth, salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and small and large intestines - is responsible for the onset of the majority of health condiyions and chronic progressive diseases plaguing Americans?" I did not.  It goes on to say that "scientists tell us that there are ten times more bacterial cells living inside the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach, and intestines than there are human cells in the entire body."

"A balanced ecosystem in the GI tract has a ratio of 85% healthy microorganisms to 15% unhealthy ones." Diets based on non nutritional foods filled with chemicals and preservatives upset this ratio and can "create maldigestion, malabsorption, intestinal dysbiosis, and elimination problems."  What's more bothersome is that they also affect other systems of the body, including the immune system.  No wonder why my daughter is always getting sick.  Her immune system is completely compromised.  It's that vicious cycle.

I'm not even going to type what I made for my daughter for food today. It's just the same old thing.  It's getting so old. I'm so over it!!!  Does she seem to care? No.  The repetitiveness of the food doesn't seem to bother her as much as it bothers me.  Tonight for dinner I picked up some Chinese Food.  My son seems to love egg drop soup lately.  I got chicken and broccoli and egg drop soup.  I made her try everything.  She liked the soup okay.  She didn't like the chicken or the broccoli, but ate 2 small pieces of the chicken.  Whop de do.  She was still hungry, so I just have her some more of the leftover meatloaf from the other night.  We ran out of the homemade ketchup, so I reverted back to the original.  Although it doesn't have the high fructose corn syrup, it still has sugar.  I just made sure that she didn't have too much of it.  As usual, she had her supplemental shake.  I don't know how she can drink that.