possible tabasco sauce recipes

http://www.hotsauceaddicts.com/hot-sauce-recipes-detail.asp?article_id=59

http://www.mexican-barbecue-recipes.com/tabasco-hot-sauce-recipes.html




Last night, whilst making a mushroom-rice-filled supper, I forgot to add the white wine, and so supper was entirely more salty than I needed it to be.
and so I soaked in epsom salt for 45 minutes before going to bed.
and my ear is not so bad off today, and my balance is alright.

a lack of vertigo is so good.


Yesterday I went through one bucket of peppers and got out almost all of the yellow and orange ones and I washed them.
now I need to pick out a recipe and make some pepper sauce.


I've decided to start keeping a food and beverage journal. i just don't know where such a thing will be located just yet. (this can also help me with figuring out which nutrients i may be low on AND how much to increase my eatings so as to healthily gain weight for this winter. - I cannot *stand* being freezing all the time.)

I still have not located coconuts. i still fantasize about them.
perhaps this weekend will be the Weekend of the Coconuts.

the underarm cyst officially went away yesterday or the day before yesterday. these days are running together. i think i can attribute it going away due to the amount of epsom salt I soaked in and the amount of tea tree oil I put on.

tmj. and calcium and magnesium and vitamin-D!

I think that a Vitamin D deficiency can also aid in causing my TMJ to appear.

I'm not *positive* but I'm still suspicious that soy lecithin blocks the absorption of Vitamin-D, even though it's only one part of the Soy bean.

I have eaten and eaten pretty well today. though still inevitably consumed some soy lecithin in my eatings.


i would guess that the more soy you take in, the more vitamin-d that you block the absoprtion of, or something like that... Um, but okay, if you have to have vitamin-d in order for your body to utilize the calcium you consume, then a vitamin-d deficiency can lead to a calcium deficiency... and I know that my TMJ greatly improves from consuming more magnesium, and the more magnesium you take in, well, somehow i have to balance this with calcium, because they work together. i don't really understand exactly how just yet.. or how to balance such a thing!

my tmj has been relatively bad (in comparison to how much it improved when i was trying to increase my magnesium levels) and it either needs my body needs more calcium (to compete with the magnesium) or I need more vitamin-d.

Tonight I will take some cod liver oil which has 100% dv of vit-D.

more on soy.

I am so so so so so suspicious that Soy Lecithin has the same affects that soy has... Even though lecithin is the emulsifier of soy. (?)

There are a few things that they put in everything: Soy Lecithin, Gluten, Casein, and MSG.

http://www.tuberose.com/Soy.html



This is actually a terrible, terrible source of information about soy.

And this is the article that the above article speaks of.




another question!! does SOY cause arthritis??
there is something that is causing ... arthritis, I think. within myself and within someone else that i know.
but I don't know WHAT it is!

coconuts.

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3113/2

I will very soon make raw coconut milk.

I need to gain weight for this winter season, and a good friend of mine suggested drinking coconut milk..

Coconut milk is the answer to my lack of calories and lack of fat... My brain needs saturated fat. I learned that recently...

Oh! coconut has copper, magnesium, b-vitamins, manganese...
it has so much.
I am going to find coconuts tomorrow.

fibroid cysts do NOT like MSG.

http://dogtorj.tripod.com/id16.html

I ate...pizza hut pizza, two days in a row. complete with breadsticks.
And after I finished eating it the first night, I felt pain in all of my fibroid cysts that I am aware of... and then an underarm fibroid cyst appeared.

Tonight I'm going to soak in Epsom salt..in hopes of it getting rid of the cyst under my arm.

But that link may tell the most useful information on all of this insane stuff..

It occured to me yesterday that I am attempting to do something that is quite impossible. - I am trying to avoid gluten, casein, soy, and MSG (and other exciotoxins). MSG is really the main thing I'm trying to avoid, and on Monday I hope to be able to buy some MSG-free basic cooking ingredients. i think they sell such things at Whole Foods.

*laughs insanely* (meniere's disease and msg: proof)

Oh, this is so good. I am really onto something here. And it is exciting.

In the ear that I have been diagnosed as having Meniere's Disease in, sometimes... and sometimes more often than not, I have these cysts that appear in the..pathway to my ear. do they call that a canal? if the ear has a canal that is leading to the opening of the ear, then yes, that is where I have cysts.
They obstruct my hearing and they hurt and they ONLY appear in my right ear. Not my left. So I believe it is something relating to Meniere's Disease.
Now, we all know that I strongly believe that my Meniere's Disease was caused solely by MonoSodium glutamate, since I was mostly just consuming products that consisted mostly of MSG (Gatorade was my main food source during this time.)... Well, I got the idea to look up and see if MSG causes cysts.
I don't really know if it does, but I came upon "why does MSG cause cancer" (which tells how to prevent the msg from turning into cancer..something about citric acid, i think)... and then, I came across this which says that certain organs have "glutamate receptors"... THEN I googled 'which organs have glutamate receptors' and GUESS WHICH ORGAN the results displayed!!! no, no... guess!!
The Vestibular organ!

vestibular organ

n.

The structure composed of the utricle, saccule, and the three semicircular ducts of the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.

The effect of monosodium glutamate on your health -- this is good, i think.

I remember reading this link a long time ago, when I was first beginning to do research about nutrition and msg and stuff: http://cancertutor.com/Other02/Menieres_Disease.html. It gives a good list of things that cause meniere's disease symptoms and also a lot of the hidden names for MSG. It's a proposed natural treatment for Meniere's Disease.

food as medicine

patients seek natural alternatives to nsaids

http://www.functionalmedicine.org/

I wondered last night if soy bean oil and/or soy lecithin cause calcium & vitamin-d deficiencies.
I looked it up, I still don't know...
but I found a link about what the bad additives in certain foods do to you... http://nutritionaldynamics.org/FoodAdditives.aspx

I also learned that it's quite possible that vegans take soy lecithin supplements. this disturbs me greatly.


soy and osteoperosis

this is sad.

Birmingham man killed in train derailment
The Associated Press
Published: Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 6:13 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 6:13 a.m.

Authorities have identified a conductor killed in a train derailment in north Alabama.
Decatur Police said 28-year-old Gregory Johnson of Birmingham died in Wednesday night's accident.
Two trains operated by CSX Railroad collided and went off the tracks at about 11:30 p.m.
A total of 5 cars derailed. All were carrying soybeans and soybean oil.








....
he died whilst transporting things that we don't even need to be consuming to begin with!

gooo blueberries!

"researchers found that eating one or more cups of blueberries every day may improve communication between brain cells, enhancing your memory."


I was reading something yesterday about bilberries (which are the european blueberry) and it said something about how they improve night vision. and the time it takes for your eyes to adjust to the dark.


"Numerous studies showed that the nutrients in blueberries improve nighttime visual acuity, promote quicker adjustment to darkness, and promote faster restoration of visual acuity after exposure to glare."

recap of some stuff i learned today

Peppermint contains folate, calcium, and other important things.

I looked up DDD (degenerative disc disease) ... and well, I gotta do some more digging. But! I came upon some sort of forum where people were saying that they developed DDD when they were 17 and 18 years old, due to celiac disease.

Also, cinnamon contains manganese and other... important things.
Sniffing cinnamon helps improve brain function. (I learned this from whfoods.com's page about Cinnamon.)



I think that one really big problem, and it is becoming larger.... The genetically modified versions of real fruits and vegetables are simply not as healthy. They do not contain the highest content of vitamins and minerals that we need to survive in a healthy sort of way. - I need to do much more research on this..
GMOed food is inferior to the real thing. No matter how much "cheaper" it is. I'm sure it's not really as cost-efficient as THEY (and we all now know who THEY is, don't we?) want us to believe -- the drugs and SUPPLEMENTS that we will need will be costly.. Whereas, if we were eating real food, perhaps we wouldn't have such vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Soy... is probably the number one GMOed crop.
And honestly, soy is probably the worst thing you can eat. -- And they utilize soy bean oil for everything, because it is SO CHEAP.
But why is it cheap? because Monsanto made created soy that has a special PROTEIN in it that their number one product RoundUp (which *causes* cancer) will not kill. I believe that these proteins are unable to be digested by our stomachs. -- Think of the Asians, which is where we supposedly got this grand idea of eating large amounts of soy. They do not eat large amounts of soy products. (About 1% of their diet consists of soy -- but they only eat the kind that is fermented for six months first.) No one does.. except the U.S.A. And why? Because the people who control our food system want us to be as stupid, sickly, and cancer-ridden as possible. Because we can't overpower them if we're weak and stupid, right?

It is being marketed as a health food, but it is an anti-health food.

Soy *increases* the need for Vitamin D, and it BLOCKS the absorption of Calcium. -- Why on earth would someone drink soy milk -- in order to receive calcium, when in fact, it will cause you to have a calcium deficiency?!

Soy contains phytoestrogen, it mimicks estrogen in the body and therefore raises estrogen levels. Mothers who are giving their infants Soy formula will cause their female children to have premature sexual development... Soy formula will cause sexual retardation in boys.

I recently read on a forum where people were talking about how they were brought up on soy formula and then they ended up being infertile. There is a connection there.

Flaxseeds contain a phytoestrogen that does not raise estrogen levels, it levels your estrogen levels out... And if they are fine, then it does not do anything.


Expect more real information soon. And soon, all of this information will have a nice, pretty home, at xlicea.com. :)

how to make more serotonin!!!!

"Vitamin B6 is required for the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin. Therefore, a deficiency of vitamin B6 may result in symptoms of anxiety and depression due to inhibition of serotonin synthesis."


In other news, I just made buckwheat brownies..again, but this time I used 1/4 cup cocoa butter with the safflower oil and I added sunflower seeds and honey.
:)

I wanted to make white chocolate brownies, but I've got to learn how to make white chocolate before such a thing can occur. (ie: i have to find out if the milk one uses to make such a thing HAS to be powdered --- can one powder almond milk?)
And so, then, I accidentally came across things that say that caffeine depletes your body of b-vitamins, and many many other things.

Also, I must try to eat as many b-vitamin-containing foods as possible and see if I have anxiety during that period of time. (I learned today that watermelons have a LOT of b-vitamins and b-vitamins give you energy.) I guess it makes sense that when I'm outside playing in the woods and my body becomes low on energy, my eyes are the first thing that become really... tired. I guess there aren't enough b-vitamins to go around in a body like mine. :)

I harvested all but one of my watermelons today... And it is the main thing, aside from a brownie, that I have eaten today... yet I feel quite good. Good enough to do housework. ;P

mmm...cupcakes!!!

http://www.delish.com/recipes/cooking-recipes/birthday-cupcake-kids-recipes?GT1=32003



i just have to substitute gf flour for 'all purpose flour'



oh! and i learned that in order to make powdered sugar, just put sugar in a coffee grinder! so i can make frosting, too.

i dream of white chocolate.

http://www.ammas.com/ar/home.cfm?r=va&bid=0&topicid=2&tid=87371 - the homemade white chocolate recipe that I found calls for lecithin. and this is a very good article on lecithin and what it is and WHERE IT comes from!! (soy)... not just soy, though! the lecithin only comes from the GMO soy!

i wonder if soy lecithin blocks the absorption of calcium.

dairy and arthritis, an idea.

The other day, when we did not have the internet, I wondered if the consumption of dairy products has anything to do with arthritis.

I searched, and I still do not know. But I'm very, very suspicious.

I found this link.. http://www.notmilk.com/forum/798.html

http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/treat/T270729.html

http://www.betterhealthusa.com/public/338.cfm - this speaks of fibromyalgia, too... it's apparently a type of arthritis.

cool... whfoods has something, too! http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=disease&dbid=13

rheumatoid arthritis and the diet alternative

milk: the big mistake

flaxseed cracker recipes

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=709357

http://www.recipezaar.com/152268

http://www.turtlelakerefuge.org/breads.html

asperger's and diet...

The reason why it is important to learn how to prevent shutdowns in myself as well in other people, is because I believe that I became MORE autistic once the shutdown ended and I started to "get better"..

Before the shutdown, I could detect even the slightest hint of sarcasm. I *loved* sarcasm. I was the Queen of Sarcasm.
Nowadays, I only know if someone is being sarcastic if it's like... on Seinfeld.
I really honestly will take sarcastic things literally - in such a way like Amelia Bedelia. Not quite as bad, usually, but I have my moments.

If I had time to thoroughly assess the information in my mind for like, ten minutes, and then I could give some sort of response to the Sarcastic-Situation, I might be able to come up with the "correct" response.

I know this is kind of a repeat entry, from an earlier time..
But I had totally forgotten the initial reason for me being so obsessed with this diet --- This diet, the gluten-free/casein-free/soy-free (as soy free as possible, since Soy Lecithin is kind of equivalent to gluten and MSG, IMHO)/MSG-free diet, is the ONLY THING that has helped me recover from the shutdown. I mean, in a wholesome sort of way. I was coming out of the shutdown, naturally, because it was time. I mean, it had been three years. That's long enough, I think.
But the stupid shutdown side-effects, like poor coordination and a lack of eye contact and UNDERSTANDing eye contact... Those types of side-effects were entirely alleviated by the gfcfsfmsgf diet.
When I was in 7th and/or 8th grade, there was someone in my grade who was obsessed with pointing out the fact that I had trouble moving my arms when I walked. If I had just stopped consuming milk, which I had never liked anyway -- until year 2 of the shutdown, then I began loving it -- then I could have properly walked and then she wouldn't have had anything to make fun of me for.
But, alas..
Milk makes me walk and move in a rigid sort of manner, naturally making it harder to have good coordination.

I started to wonder the other day, while we didn't have the internet, if dairy products cause arthritis or something along those lines. I'm just trying to figure out what it is that is in my diet and my mom's diet that is making us be so consumed with arthritis. I believe I have arthritis in places that seem... quite insane to have arthritis.
I have actually read some contradicting things on arthritis. I read that orange and yellow fruits and vegetables are supposed to help with arthritis..
But then I also read that a 20% acidic food/80% alkaline foods diet is supposed to make all of your arthritis go away -- if the cause of your arthritis is due to too many acidic foods.
Oranges are quite acidic..
I wonder if there is a correlation between gerd and arthritis, due to the acidic foods similarity.
I've been trying to make my GERD go away via only diet. I basically refuse to take prilosec or anything else for it. And, you know what? It HAS improved!
The main thing I'm trying to do is not eat a large quantity of fresh tomatoes before going to bed.. Or if I eat any tomatoes at night (red, that is, the yellow ones are much less acidic), I only eat one slice, to hopefully let my stomach digest it.
I can't tell you how many times I have woken up in the mornings and thrown up from too much anxiety/too much acid/too little food, and there would always be tomatoes. And tomato peeling.

I also need to look up and see if dairy products entice allergies. And how all that works out... I need to look up and find out what a mucogen is and why milk is a mucogen.
Would it be a bad thing even if they did not shoot our cows up with hormones to make them produce more milk faster...? cow steroids.

On Thursday, I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.

brain and brownies.

http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/evm9922p.pdf according to msn, the pons part of the brain controls breathing, arousal, and possibly dreaming.
(i took a brain quiz to see how much my brain knows about itself)

I am about to make gluten-free fudgy brownies via this recipe.. except with some alterations. brown rice flour, safflower oil, and a combo of raisins and chocolate chips.

I also learned, from that brain quiz on msn, that the hippocampus is where memories are formed and it is the first section of the brain affected by alzhiemer's.
Stress and the hippocampus.

Sleep and the hippocampus

This is a good collection of notes on vitamins and minerals.

links to read or consider when researching arthritis (and acorns, not related to arthritis)

http://www.answers.com/topic/mucopolysaccharide

this is how california native americans remove tannin from acorns


A chart compromised of alkalizing food & acidic foods.

devil's claw -- the most useful info i've found so far.

oils, flaxseed muffins, wfm, crimini..

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/guides/oils.php - At the end of this, it tells about how our brains are made up of fats.

I am going to start utilizing the recipes provided on the wholefoodsmarket website. I am about to make flaxseed muffins... but I'm changing the ingredients slightly, of course.

Also, one day.................... I want to make Coconut Mate Chocolate truffles.
It sounds absolutely delicious. I'm sure I'll need to make another trip to Whole Foods before such a thing can take place, though.

Did I mention that we bought some crimini mushrooms from Whole Foods the other day? Well, we did. And I love them! They don't have that gross mushroom taste to them at all... and they have a high content of things that I don't normally obtain from anything else within my current diet. :)

you know you're obsessed when...

http://www.yourfamilyclinic.com/nutrition/brainboost.html - vitamins & minerals that help repair your brain!!

I had a conversation with my eye dr today, and I told him about what I've been going through - with the diet and all - and I told him my newest plan of creating a list of meals that I can have each day and doing that... and anyway, he did say that it's good to be interested in your own health, but that sometimes it can become more of an obsession..
or something.
Anyway, it's always so refreshing for me to be able to tell a doctor what I've been going through... This is the second time such a thing has happened.

So far, I believe that Magnesium and copper will help to repair neurons. And the b-vitamins, esp b6, since it depletes MSG and since Msg depletes magnesium, it just only seems right that magnesium would help things.
And copper does it's little trick on those myelin sheaths. ;P

sanity will prevail.