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You're welcome, desmalia. The grains definitely aren't crucial for me, and I often have two servings from the "potatoes" category and skip the grains altogether. The original USDA plan says "potatoes or other vegetables," so there are also things like carrots, beets, sweet potato...

Hi, Desmalia, Yes, it is interesting that more women than men get MS. Is it because of hormones? Or because we're always dieting and depriving our bodies of some necessary nutrition? :-) Anyway, my low-carb lifestyle has been generally 50-100 grams of protein and 50-100 grams of net carbs, with lots...

Hi, InHisLove! Welcome, from one newbie to another. I'm from US, near Lake Michigan. I wish you luck with this diagnosis thing. I used to be on another forum where they called that "limbo land." They were having symptoms, but were awaiting a definitive diagnosis. I was about 36 when the ve...

Hi, Deb. Someone on a low carb blog explained the problem this way: The gall bladder is designed to store bile from the liver and then dump it into the system when some fat is eaten. With our low fat diets, we might not call upon this action for quite some time and the bile can eventually dry up and...

Hi, dlb. I had my gall bladder removed in 1981, about the same time as you. I've read that, too -- that after gall bladder surgery, one cannot metabolize fats properly. Some have suggested using coconut oil, which is said to be metabolized differently. (Though I've always wondered if a person's insi...

I read with interest Jimmylegs' post in which he looks back to his vegan days and considers the possibility that deficits in his diet had caused his MS to develop. I've had some of the same thoughts concerning the extreme low-fat diet period in my life, during which my MS developed. A low fat diet i...

Hi! I just signed on to this site. My symptoms first appeared in 1987. I was diagnosed in 1996. I have the primary progressive kind of MS that has so far been limited to a gradual decline in my ability to walk, plus the usual fatigue and heat sensitivity. I'm on no drugs. (Any that I tried years ago...