That is a great idea! I'll keep that one in mind for when my son is older.

I know. :ack2: I think they would be a wonderful addition to my diet. I can't yet get myself to do it. Eating a dead animal does so much for you when you eat the whole thing. :ack2: I'm trying. :ack2::ack2:

I would think it would be most natural to eat more than that. I like the paleolithic diet's idea of going back to what our ancestors ate before processed foods, before farming, etc. If you were wandering around in the wild, your diet would be mostly fruits and veggies you could find with whatever meat you could kill. That's how humans ate for most of human history. I think it's what our bodies are tuned best for.

I'm anti-soy too... mostly because I'm allergic to it. lol I also worry about all the phytoestrogens in it.

Liquid soap. No wash cloths or anything. It grosses me out using them more than once and leaving them wet all day. I just use my hands. My son does the same thing now. Miraculously, he does not use more liquid soap than he should. He's only 5, too.

Fruits and vegetables, imo, are the most natural things in the world for a human to eat.

This is why I have a problem with Atkins. It *does* work. But is it healthy? I don't think so.

They are trying to say that a volume of fat weighs more than the same volume of fat. This means that a very musculer person at 200 pounds is much smaller than a little muscle/lots of fat person who also weighs 200 pounds.

I can't recommend this one more highly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

This forum! http://www.soulcysters.net/ It's great and the ladies there are always up to date on the latest discoveries. There are even a few who were in the d-chiro inositol trials a few years back. A drug company ran the trials and was going to make it as a prescription drug, which would have been great for people with insurance. They dropped it all without explanation though. A chemist in Texas heard about it and started making it, but he charges an arm and a leg. :glare: Really, though, the proper diet is far cheaper and works well. Anywho, the ladies on there can give them any and all info they need. :001_smile:

Send her Snickerdoodle's video! Also, the pcos diet or the paleolithic diet will work for her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet is a good jumping off point. I don't have a link to the pcos diet.

It depends on the quality of the doctor and also how learned they are about pcos. My primary care physician put me on metformin and did nothing else. I was eventually assigned to a reproductive endocrinologist who used to run a program at Yale and is now running a program at UC Davis. He knew his stuff. He is at the top of his field. He basically gave me a terrible scenario about how I was going to die from this if I didn't do what I need to do and then tons of info on what to eat and how to exercise. His stats on what was going to become of me were indeed correct (and scary!). Most doctors just don't have the latest info and that's why none of my other docs have ever scared me that bad. :tongue_smilie:

YAY!

It's called pcos because the ovarian cysts were the first thing discovered. They now know that the kidneys in affected persons flush out a chemical called d-chiro inositol at much greater rates than normal. They do not know why yet. D-chiro inositol plays a part in the the body's insulin regulation. Without it, the body's response to insulin triggering foods is way over the top. This leads to consistently high insulin levels that damage the ovaries, leading to infertility. It also wears out the pancreas. After having put out so much insulin for years, the pancreas decides to quit, leaving many people with pcos diabetic. 70 percent of people with pcos are diabetic by the age of 50, or so I read. If you cut out the carbs, insulin is not triggered and that saves people with pcos from all of the negative things they'd have to handle otherwise.

Very good. :tongue_smilie: Basically high insulin levels damage the ovaries over time resulting in fertility issues and often cysts on the ovaries. It sucks.

I'm sorry! Pcos is an insulin-related disease where one of the main symptoms is weight gain. It's a great example of what happens to a person with insulin levels that are high all the time. If a person with pcos eliminates carbs, they basically fix themselves. Although, it's not a cure. They can't go back to carbs. But without carbs, all the horrible things that result from pcos won't happen.

To answer your questions, wheat with the germ is better, but not perfect. In Snickerdoodle's video, the doctor mentions the paleolithic diet. The paleolithic diet does not allow many grains at all because for most of human history, grains were not a part of our diet. They are far too small to be gathered naturally to mean much food-wise, so we never did until farming became the norm. So wheat with the germ is better, but still not exactly part of our historic natural diet that humans were made to eat. Yes, processed wheat and other grains are a large part of the obesity epidemic! A person eats white flour, insulin goes up, fat cells are triggered to begin storing fat, and over time you have a fat person. This effect is very much minimized if the flour is not so processed.

You got this right. :) That's why people with pcos gain weight suddenly when their pcos starts. Their insulin levels become constantly high. High insulin levels trigger fat cells to store fat. Low insulin levels trigger them to release fat.

My exh was allergic to carrots.

For me, if I were in that situation, having to send my son to ps on top of it all would send me over the edge. :tongue_smilie:

Am I the only one who thinks that homeschool is far less strain than ps?

She didn't say she was stupid. She said she couldn't read well.

I think it could work since they are so young. If she goes through a phonics program with them, it could help a ton and help set her up to homeschool in later years. She needs to be very motivated to fix her reading skills though. If it were me, I would totally be into tutoring her. But I love tutoring.

Mastery to me is understanding 100 percent of the material. When my son can recall the material without having to think about it, can turn it upside down and sideways and otherwise manipulate it mentally however he wants, and can apply it well, then he has mastered it. I teach to mastery and therefore I don't give grades. There is no point in years of A+ report cards.

Jimmy Dean makes the best sausage gravy, imo. Does it happen to be the sage variety? It has to be the sage variety...