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which boggles my mind in the first for over three years, I have noticed a without feeling sick. (Okay, my fam-
place, but why all these artificial milk strange occurrence. When my girls go ily wasn’t the picture of health, but we
products? It enrages me and I want to to birthday parties or indulge in holiday weren’t vomiting after a meal either.)
take some action. I’ll definitely go see festivities such as Halloween or Easter, One would hope that eating nourish-
the local newspaper publisher, and be- they don’t feel very well afterward. Af- ing traditional foods regularly would
sides complaining to the local politician, ter eating the processed foods out of the strengthen a person’s constitution so that
what do you suggest? industrial food system, the girls become an occasional meal of highly processed
Vesna Talan nauseated and complain about stomach foods would have no effect. But the re-
Stanstead, Quebec, Canada pain within a few hours. verse appears to be true. The longer my
My eldest daughter has vomited a family eats nourishing traditional foods,
The dairy industry makes more money number of times after these meals. My the more sensitive we become to these
on butterfat if they put it into ice cream youngest daughter is very sensitive to processed foods.
rather than sell it as cream or butter; something in these foods. More often Why are we now having industrial
hence the degradation of cream and than not, it causes behavioral problems food sickness when in the past these
the push to reduced fat milks, even for for a day or two after eating the pro- same processed foods did not cause
school children. This industry knows cessed food. sickness? What has changed? I have
that if you eat lowfat dairy throughout My husband occasionally eats out been thinking about this question for
the day, you will binge and splurge on at restaurants and complains about not quite some time. It is hypothesized that
ice cream come evening. As to what to feeling well after most meals. Even our the healing action of the Specific Car-
do, visits to politicians and letters to the cat, Tabs, who has been on a raw meat bohydrate Diet changes the composition
newspapers can help educate people. diet since we got her, has become sick of gut flora or reverses gut dysbiosis.
People will slowly and gradually wake from getting into a friend’s processed Gut dysbiosis is the lack of gut flora or
up to what is going on, thanks to the ef- cat food. As I observe their sickness, I an unhealthy gut flora imbalance which
forts of members like yourself. notice it is like a mild flu that includes causes illness.
stomach upset or vomiting. What if this progressive industrial
INDUSTRIAL FOOD SICKNESS Now my family has not eaten un- food sickness is caused by changes in the
Since my family has been eating processed foods our whole lives. We gut flora community? Do the processed
exclusively whole, unprocessed foods used to eat processed foods every day foods damage or kill healthy gut flora?

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