Greening My Life

So I more or less finished most of the Green Cooking Cookbook since a lot of it was for how to green your house and make your kitchen more efficient, better cookware, etc. I'm at the end of the book but started reading a new book that came in from the library, Gluten Free Girl , and it is really interesting. I just got it yesterday and actually read three chapters (52 pages) before going to bed last night! That is like a micracle since way out of character for me :-). It got me thinking though, is there really stuff in the food I eat, even if it's healthy, that I should be careful of?? There was a book recommended in there called The Gluten Connection that apparently talks more in depth about different health disorders that gluten contruibutes too. So I'm going to order that too and have a peek.

Having struggled with my weight since probably somewhere in my teens and then more health problems since my twenties, I've always had somewhat of a fascination with how "what we eat" affects "who we are." I was diagnosed with my first food allergy at about 28 and my second at about 34 (dairy & soy respectively). What realy was frustrating was that I absolutely love several foods that contain one or both of those ingredients (e.g. creme brulee). Somehow living with my best friends family in southern CA for 2.5 years eating lots of home cooked meals and so much yummy Jewish food that contained those ingredients made it all that much worse. I managed by limiting my intake of those foods that contained dairy & soy and took a lot of benedryl :-). As my adoptive Jewish mom would say "short story long"...I survived and have never regretted a day having had that time with them. Besides if you haven't had the experience of eating traditional Jew...