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This month's support group meeting will be at 4:00 pm Pacific time. I am looking forward to speaking with all of you!

And for the posts I have not answered below, I will get to those today. Sorry for the delay:)

...I remembered which flour I used in my chocolate cake. It was Bob's Red Mill whole Wheat.!:) Many people asked, and I finally found the old familiar package!

Salad Idea #1
one head of romaine lettuce
two handfuls of spinach
half a cucumber -take skin off if it is not organic-cut it in vertical quarter slices and then cut those long pieces horizontally.
half cup of cherry tomatoes cut in halves
season with dried basil going in circles from the outside of the bowl to the inside 
repeat this with salt
repeat this with garlic powder
repeat once a gain with olive oil
if you are allowed lemon squeeze one lemon in

Salad Idea #2

one head romaine Lettuce
1/4 head of red cabbage
half a cucumber -take skin off if it is not organic-cut it in vertical quarter slices and then cut those long pieces horizontally.
half cup of cherry tomatoes cut in halves

Your bottle of probiotics and other supplements have other instructions on them the ones that I give you. Please disregard the directions on each bottle and take your supplements in the manner that I have prescribed, because interactions with supplements at different stages in treatment are very different with IC. 

Also, please do not substitute something else in for a product you have run out of, and do not take any of your supplements if you have run out of one of them unless you ask me if it is OK. IT isnt always OK.

Someone asked me today how you know if you are flaring when you add in new foods. 

Typically, a reaction from food or something that you have placed on your body will occur within moments to a few hours. There are definitely exceptions to that rule in that, I have had a few patients who have delayed reactions. But, that is rare UNLESS you have cheated with foods like sugar-that is almost always delayed.

More often than not reactions occur as I explained above. Where it can get confusing is if the timing is such if you are having symptoms that are worsening at given time of the day and that coincides with the period after you have eaten that food. It is better to not introduce something in in such a way if you can avoid it.

Has been threatened in the past with the attempt of many bills to pass in congress by many different people. Thus far none of them have passed and, it would be my hope that non ever will.

This is the most recent one. I thought it was important to let each of you know so that all of us can do our part in helping to voice our opinion on the importance of being able to have access to vitamins and supplements in the healthfood store.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028257_Senator_McCain_dietary_supplements.html 

Over the years, I have seen so so many people who have been so imbalanced that their body exhibited a plethora of signs and symptoms that seemed relentless.

Many of these patients have been the recipient of incredibly unempathetic remarks with accusations
of the symptoms being in their head. 

While it is true that one cannot separate the mind from the body, and that there are definite connections between the two, I was really put off by reading a most recent diagnosis.

It made me feel that there was a sense of arrogance to it-as if something cannot exist unless we understand it. Well, there are many things in life we don't understand, and just because we don't does not mean that they are not true.

A patient found this product and recommends it for a great hair result.
It will probably be too intense for new patients, but may be better for
people who have reached list #3.

http://www.originalsprout.com/shampoo/35-oz-natural-shampoo.html

Someone sent this to me yesterday and I really liked it. It goes along with my constant
advise to keep things positive and in focus. Because what you think and what you do really
makes a difference in more ways than you may know!

Watch your thoughts; 
They become words

Watch your words; 
They become actions.

What your actions;
They become habits.

Watch your habits;
They become character.

Watch your character.
It Becomes your destiny.