TomsMom

Comments

• Don’t worry about children being shunned for eating habits! I mean, really, children tend to isolate each other into groups anyhow, for any reason. My best girlfriend in school was isolated because she was a kosher Jewish child, so what? She could h…

  in Junk food in school Comment by TomsMom
• I have had chronic asthma since I was an infant. A few years ago, I stopped taking the inhaler, which I was using every few hours, and now I take wild cherry bark. I make the tincture myself. It’s very effective. (and of course I hydrate during an a…

  in Asthma in children Comment by TomsMom
• OH, and I forgot one more. I have Fibrocystic breast disease, or had. Now I can feel no lumps at all, none. First time since I was a young teen. (This is not from lack of caffeine, as I still drink coffee)

  in Healing Comment by TomsMom
• I had acid reflux disease, I mean the real thing, not just heartburn from eating crap, like most people I know. I was evening vomiting stomach acids in my sleep; it was frightening. Well, after going on raw, it was gone, just like that. It beats hav…

  in Healing Comment by TomsMom
• Fresh fruit does not cause diabetes. This is a myth, based on nothing.

  in Who eats mostly fruit? Comment by TomsMom
• During WWII, the United States created a false shortage of foods to create a frenzy of fear in citizens. I’ve seen the same behavior in this last administration in order to beat the drum for its war-mongering and greed. I haven’t heard one word from…

  in SURVIVAL- Food Crisis!!! SUPERFOODS and more Comment by TomsMom
• I stopped shaving years ago. I’ve never regretted it. I was raised being told that only “unclean” women didn’t shave their legs and pits, lol, too bad, they can kiss my hairy white butt:-)

  in Do you shave pits/legs? Comment by TomsMom
• First of all, don’t punish yourself anymore. You’re recognizing that your thinking and behavior is indicative of an eating disorder, and in that sense, you’re way ahead of the game. What I do when I have painful cravings is to try to raw-feed that c…

  in having trouble staying on the wagon.... Comment by TomsMom
• That huge amount of hair loss could be malnutrition. What are you eating?

  in Needing some advice and words of encouragement Comment by TomsMom
• I thought I was buying Rejuvinative(sp?) raw tahini, but someone on the forums said that when sesame seeds are hulled, heat is used and they are all dead. So the huge amount of money I’ve been spending was on a bogus product, I guess. I would make m…

  in Raw Tahini? Comment by TomsMom
• I started last fall and have lost 43 pounds so far. I have to loose much more. I was very obese but still, I loose rather slowly, not at the dramatic pace that some of our more famous raw foodists on the Web have lost. I was reading about 20 pounds …

  in How much weight have you lost? Comment by TomsMom
• Most of the nuts mentioned in this thread are NOT raw, as the industry routinely heat-sterilizes the shells before shelling the nuts. Some nuts are also easier to shell after heating, so their is that, too. Pecans are almost always heated, as are ha…

  in Raw nuts Comment by TomsMom
• Thanks for the site, omshanti.

  in Question re: organic Comment by TomsMom
• Did you start taking any new medication or drug therapy of any kind last year?

  in HELP!!! FACIAL HAIR...NOT COOL Comment by TomsMom
• The commercials that bother me are 1) fast-food ads that show large men slurping and chomping huge burgers and cokes. They sound like pigs at a trough; it’s disgusting. 2) Nutri-System, with morons proclaiming they lost tons of weight eating pizza, …

  in Weight watchers ad Comment by TomsMom
• I blend tons of kale into honeydew melon. Loads of calcium that way. I’m not very good about drinking enough, though, because I’m not a huge lover of any kind of smoothie, but it is a good tasting mixture, the kale with honeydew melon, and not too h…

  in Need some kind of drink high in calcium ? Comment by TomsMom
• The problem with Mercola’s various arguments on soy is that he is a bit of fibber. For example, he claims “Asians” only consume an average of two teaspoons of soy a day. Number one, there is no country called “Asia” and no race of “Asians”, Asia bei…

  in fermented soy Comment by TomsMom
• Yerba Prima brush for me, too.

  in Dry Brushing Brush recommendations Comment by TomsMom
• Sorry, OP, but I don’t think that because something doesn’t suit you, you should call it “dogma”. I’m not sure you understand what the word means.

  in When RAW becomes DOGMA? Comment by TomsMom
• I’m not a fan of the medical establishment, but as an epileptic, I do agree with the rest that it’s time to see the pill-roller, hon.

  in Convulsions...NOT GOOD! Comment by TomsMom
• Do you have pets? What kind of worms do you have? I don’t know offhand of any human-loving parasitic worms from inside fruits and vegetables, just what could be left by pickers who are ill and not clean. Yes, always wash your food.

  in worms - the final straw! Comment by TomsMom
• dreaminraw, you are too cute!:-D

  in Raw Kitchen Disasters Comment by TomsMom
• I made an attempt at dehydrated crackers, using sprouted wheat, bell pepper and herbs. It seemed to taste good but hit my stomach like lead. I was up all night, burping up thick, wet, aromatic gusts, omg, I’m getting sick again thinking about it:(

  in Raw Kitchen Disasters Comment by TomsMom
• Yes, we certainly can “demonize” Big Pharma. People are quite right to be frightened and to demand answers and to avoid many, if not most, drugs and vaccines if they can. Big Pharma has earned and deserves it’s reputation for greed and evil and anyo…

  in Have to get a hepatitis A shot! Comment by TomsMom
• That’s too bad you had to take this job with its nonsense shot requirement. It’s being used almost like a cure, which it is not. There is nothing inherently “safe” or “healthy” about any vaccine, whether we require one or not for a specific situatio…

  in Have to get a hepatitis A shot! Comment by TomsMom
• Asking questions about what you put into your body is not obsessing; it’s being prudent and smart. Obsessing happens when you starve yourself from fear, or when you put your body into a state of malnourishment for same. Demanding to know whether a s…

  in Where to draw the line Comment by TomsMom
• Yes, coming from a hard science background, I become offended when someone, anyone, tries this sort of mass media technique to enrich themselves or their site. I don’t care who they are. I’m not impressed.

  in Raw pet food Comment by TomsMom
• Just read Part I. I don’t respond well to alarmist articles, especially those blending facts with careful omissions. It pisses me off.

  in Raw pet food Comment by TomsMom
• Are you telling people they are wrong to feed their dogs an appropriate, raw diet?

  in Raw pet food Comment by TomsMom
• I have troubles reading so I love this one: http://www.healthassist.net/nutrients/

  in Website to find nutrition, calories, fat and protein?? Comment by TomsMom