Reddit mentions of Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life

I can't help with the artist contacting, but as a fellow Crohn's sufferer who's been on a PICC line, I wish her all the best. It can be very tough in the in the hospital, but every visit/little thing helps - you're definitely right on track with the positive attitude!

For when she gets out and is in a more stable position, check out this book -- basically, a doctor found that a majority of his Crohn's patients responded very well to a low carb diet. I follow that type of diet now and have been in my longest remission since being diagnosed.

This disease is hilarious, I've been living with Crohn's my whole life too. It's good that you can laugh at it, and not let it take over your life. I laughed when you said "almost seven years I should have known not to trust that fart". Stay away from spicy food, caffeine, drink lots of water at least 2 liters a day, take some acidophilus capsules, and buy the book "Life Without Bread" , and follow it.

Crohnie here. I completely control my Crohn's with diet alone- no symptoms at all.

I recommend reading Life Without Bread. One chapter specifically addresses CD and UC, noting that CD responds much more quickly (with UC taking 12-24 months, or longer, to respond). I can send you the .pdf of the relevant section if you like; PM me an email address.

That said, Lutz's one rule: no more than 72 g/day carbohydrates. That's it. I would add to that lots of fermented foods.

Actually, organic non-factory-produced meat (raw, rare or at worst medium) is highly beneficial. Meat is the primary (and in some cases only) source of certain important nutrients, such as carnitine, Co-enzyme Q-10 and Vitamin B12. Co-enzyme Q10 is of interest in that it is important for heart health and, ironically, statin drugs like Lipitor (championed as a protector of the heart) actually create a Co-enzyme Q10 deficiency.

Sweet fruit should be eaten in moderation, and it's better to eat it instead of drinking juice, so that the fruit sugars don't hit your system quite as fast. Processed sugars and refined carboydrates (e.g. white bread, white rice, extruded breakfast cereals etc) are hugely detrimental to health and are associated not only with heart disease, but also diabetes, obesity, and cancer (for starters). The book Life Without Bread by Christian Allan PhD & Wolfgang Lutz MD is excellent for further information on this.

I completely agree that turning to a brightly coloured collection of pills and capsules is bad - not only physically, but from a moral perspective also: this desire for an external "quick-fix" actually reveals the weakness of avoiding personal responsibiliy for one's own actions. "Crap, I did this to myself, I'll have to change my habits" becomes externalised to the less personally confronting "This health problem just happened to me, it's not my fault - but The Doctor can give me some pills to fix it".

When you don't take charge of yourself, others are happy to take charge of you, for you. And if those people are motivated by profit, power, and professional prestige, your health is reduced to a mere fourth-priority matter.

Hi Nartchie - Congrats on the sobriety ! Your post reminds me of the title of an old low carb book, "Life Without Bread".

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Bread-Low-Carbohydrate-Diet/dp/0658001701/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1458390461&sr=8-5&keywords=no+bread+diet