2nd Annual Online Eating Psychology Conference
July 21 – 26, 2014.

I’m excited to announce that I’m a featured expert in the 2nd Annual Online Eating Psychology Conference. Join me, along with Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, as he interviews over 45 experts in eating psychology, embodiment, weight, health, and nutrition. Get ready to hear some great insights and information that will advance your understanding of eating psychology and personal transformation in this one-of-a-kind virtual conference!




Sign up for the 2nd Annual Online Eating Psychology Conference for FREE here:https://ipe.infusionsoft.com/go/2ndepoc/jerriaubry  

It’s time for a whole new understanding of our relationship with food. Obesity, overeating, body image concerns, emotional challenges with food, and diet-related health issues are with us more than ever. People have abundant access to nutrition facts and information, but need to search long and hard for true healing wisdom. It’s time for an approach that honors all of who we are as eaters – body, mind, heart and soul. Join us for an exciting time together as we explore leading edge thinking in the fields of eating psychology and nutrition. Get inspired by speakers from a variety of disciplines who have something unique and innovative to share.
Speakers include Dr Mark Hyman, Dr David Perlmutter, Paul Chek, Dr Hyla Cass, Amy Pershing, Dr Srini Pillay, Dr Frank Lipman, John Robbins, JJ Virgin, Tom Malterre, Dave Aprey, Dr Tom O’Bryan, Jon Gabriel, Dr Susan Albers, Sayer Ji, Donna Gates, Dr Alan Christianson, Jessica Ortner, Daniel Vitalis, Emily Rosen, Meghan Telpner, and many more!

Dates: July 21 – 26, 2014
Price: FREE
Where: Sign up online: https://ipe.infusionsoft.com/go/2ndepoc/jerriaubry 

I look forward to seeing you in the conference!
Best regards,
Jerri Aubry, M.S. 

How to Know if You have Leaky Gut

How to Know if You Are Suffering from Leaky Gut

Lately, I have been sharing information about HS and the dangers of continuing to eat nightshade foods like potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, paprika, and more. Today I want to share information about "Gut Permeability" or "Leaky Gut." According the Dr. Alessio Fasano and his research on gut permeability and celiac's disease (and gluten intolerance) there are 1 in 133 people in the US who suffer from this disease. Therefore, many people are suffering from "Leaky Gut."

For many of us, this may be the first time hearing about this term, "Leaky Gut" and so many don't realize that they may be suffering from this disease and damaging the body without even knowing it. Since the 1980's doctors and researchers like Dr. Alessio Fasano of Mass General Hospital have noticed that many people have sensitivities to gluten or wheat that is found in many grain products offered to the public such as breads, mixes, flours, and more. Researchers are now finding out that many chronic health conditions are related to this gluten insensitivity.

What is Leaky Gut or Gut Permeability?

Well, it exactly as you would think it would be, stuff leaks out of your gut where a protein like zonulin breaks apart the tightly fit junctions in the intestinal lining allowing proteins to escape into the blood stream. Now you have leaky gut and now toxins, undigested food are able to escape into your bloodstream instead of being broke down and used by the body like food was intended. So when you eat something your stomach can process and breakdown foods so that the body can then use them. When proteins break free from the stomach via these holes then, it ends up in your bloodstream where it doesn't belong and causes a response where your body begins attacking the protein and may end up attacking other areas in your body such as your thyroid.

Researchers are now finding that people who suffer from auto-immune disorders may have leaky gut, and this is the cause of the attacks on the body. I have Hashimotos and know I have leaky gut or did before I quit eating the foods that were causing the leaky gut. I believe that I had been eating foods that I was allergic or non-tolerant of since childhood and the leaky gut then caused my auto-immune disorder and, therefore, developed Hashimotos.

How do you know if you have leaky gut?

The symptoms of leaky gut, most of us, have felt at least once in our lives, but I bet more of you suffer from this and don't even know it. I was one of those people and never realized that there were foods harming me when I ate them, but they did, and now I don't suffer from any of these symptoms anymore and I have to say wow it is wonderful.

Symptoms of leaky gut

·        Bloating

·        Gas

·        Cramps

·        Aches and pains

·        Irritable Bowel Syndrome

·        Seasonal allergies or asthma

·        Hormonal imbalances such as PMS and PCOS

·        Autoimmune disorders like Hashimotos, Lupus, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, or celiac's disease

·        Diagnosis of chronic fatigue or Fibromyalgia

·        Depression, anxiety, ADD, ADHD

·        Acne, Rosacea, or Eczema

·        Overgrowth of Candida (yeast)

·        Food allergies or food intolerances

·        HS Disease

Some researchers believe that cancers are also part of this list. It makes sense if you think about how eating foods that are poisonous to our bodies or that we are unable to tolerate affect us negatively. Look at this list, there are thousands of people across the world that suffer from many of these disorders, and if they quit eating the food that is affecting them negatively, their own body will heal and the disease or disorder will go away.

What causes leaky gut?

The number one reason people are suffering from leaky gut is from gluten. We eat many products that contain gluten such as pancake mixes, all breads, and many other foods have even just a little bit of gluten. The majority of us are not able to digest gluten, and it causes the leaky gut which then causes people to suffer from a disease or some other chronic disorder. According to an article written by Dr. Amy Myers, the main culprits are foods, toxins, and infections. Foods like sugar, dairy, and alcohol are also culprits that can cause leaky gut.

However, it's not just foods that are causing these issues but medicines as well like Ibuprofen, steroids, antibiotics, and acid-reducing drugs. It's a vicious circle that we weave when we eat the foods that cause an inflammatory response like pain leading us to take medicine to relieve the pain which is part of the cause of a leaky gut. Of course, the environmental toxins are also part of this process. When a person quits eating the foods that are causing the inflammation response most disease and disorders disappear. Stress is also a factor in causing leaky gut. So you can see there are a variety of things we all are doing every day that is leading the breakdown of our digestive system and causing leaky gut.

So, you have leaky gut now what?

1.   The first thing to do is not eat the food that is causing this to happen. Changing your diet is harder than you think but once you quit eating the food you will begin repairing your digestive system. When you try to eat these foods in the future, you will have a reaction to it as pain, headache, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach ache, or something else that tells you that you should not eat that particular food. For me this is rice, I keep testing the boundaries and ate pasta the other day that was made of rice flour and was violently ill afterwards and sick for 24 hours from eating a food that I cannot tolerate.

2.   Next you will need to balance your gut flora. This is where probiotics are very important and you will need to get some and start taking them. Also eat fiber rich foods these can also help balance the gut.

3.   Repairing the gut requires some supplements. Many doctors believe that a supplement of L-glutamine is helpful.

You should work closely with your gastroenterologist on repairing your digestive system. You may want to look in your local area for a functional medicine practitioner who will understand how to help you with this because many doctors don't always believe in leaky gut but there is a lot of research that has been done on this area and if you are interested in finding out more check out this site.

Please share if you think you have been suffering from leaky gut or have a story to share with us about how you healed your leaky gut issue. Or if you have questions about it.

Can Eating Bread and Rice Increase Heart Disease?

This is a great article written by Dr. Mercola and I wanted to share this valuable information with all of you.

Women who eat a lot of foods high in blood-sugar spiking carbohydrates, such as white bread and rice, are twice as likely to develop heart diseases. Complex carbohydrates, such as fruit and pasta, were not associated with the increased risk of heart disease. This suggests that the problem is not carbohydrates per se, but rapidly absorbed carbohydrates. The information comes from a study of about 48,000 people who were asked about their diets in detail. Previous studies have also shown a similar link between simple carbohydrates and heart disease risk.

It is not a mystery that eating many refined carbohydrates -- bread, rice, pasta, cereal, bagels, etc. -- is not a smart move for your heart.
When you eat more carbohydrates than can be used, the excess carbohydrate energy is converted to fat by your liver. This process occurs to help your body maintain blood sugar control in the short-term, however it will likely increase triglyceride concentrations, which will increase your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Also, insulin, stimulated by an overabundant consumption of grains, starches and sweets, is the cause of many problems.
It's responsible for many bulging stomachs and fat rolls in thighs and chins, and even worse, high insulin levels suppress two other important hormones -- glucagons and growth hormones -- that are responsible for burning fat and sugar and promoting muscle development, respectively.
So insulin from excess carbohydrates promotes fat, and then wards off your body's ability to lose that fat. Excess weight and obesity not only lead to heart disease but also a wide variety of other diseases.

Refined Carbs More Than Double Your Heart Disease Risk

In the above study, women who ate the most high glycemic foods had more than double the risk of developing heart disease as women who ate the fewest. Previous studies, including an excellent one published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, have also linked high-carb diets, and their tendency to induce liver fat production and insulin resistance, to heart disease.  

Your body is simply not designed to process large amounts of refined sugars and grains, which explains the myriad of health effects that occur when you overindulge in foods like bread, pizza, pasta, bagels, rice, pancakes and waffles without serious metabolic consequences:

• A study of more than 2,300 Italians found that high bread consumption significantly raises your risk of renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer.
• In postmenopausal women, the risk of breast cancer was raised by 87 percent in those who ate the most refined sugars and grains.
• Diets high in carbohydrates that are quickly digested and absorbed, such as white bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugars and corn syrups, may produce eye tissue damage that leads to blindness.

Why Refined Carbs are Among the Worst Out There

Along with the problems with liver fat production, insulin resistance and increased triglycerides, refined carbohydrates are nutritionally devoid foods, meaning they do nothing positive for your health.  

For instance, when flour is refined, the most nutritious part of the grain is removed, so the flour essentially becomes a form of sugar. Then it is typically brominated which produces toxic disinfection byproducts. Whenever you eat a slice of toast, a bowl of cereal or a half a bagel made with commercial brominated flours, picture yourself dipping directly into your sugar bowl and gulping down a spoon or two, because that’s essentially what it amounts to.
What else gets lost in the refining process?

• Half of the beneficial unsaturated fatty acids
• Virtually all of the vitamin E
• Fifty percent of the calcium
• Seventy percent of the phosphorus
• Eighty percent of the iron
• Ninety-eight percent of the magnesium
• Fifty to 80 percent of the B vitamins

And many more nutrients are destroyed -- simply too many to list. White flour is often bleached during the refining process as well, a step that adds a potentially dangerous chemical poison to the end product on top of everything.

Is the Glycemic Index a Reliable Tool to Choose Your Carbs?

The glycemic index became very popular several years back during the low-carb diet craze, when both Dr. Atkins of The Atkins Diet and Dr. Agatston of the South Beach Diet began advocating the use of this index in choosing foods. 

In a nutshell, the glycemic index rates foods on a scale of 1 to 100 depending on how quickly or slowly the carbs impact your blood sugar levels. Those ranked below 55 are said to be low-glycemic index foods, while those 70 and over are high.
You’ll now see many studies that divide foods according to their glycemic index and use it as a baseline for determining the role of carbs on various health problems.
The underlying premise, that some foods can seriously raise your blood sugar and as a result cause harm and damage in your body, is true. But the main problem is that the glycemic index is not a valid tool to use to determine which foods will do that for you.
A classic example is fructose, which ranks very low on the glycemic index, yet is a disaster for your health.  

The fact is that numerous factors play a role in how a specific food will affect your blood sugar. The glycemic index doesn't, for example, measure how a food, or a specific ingredient, affects you over time.
Moreover, it fails to take into account the harm chemicals like sucralose, sorbitol and refined fructose contained in supposedly low-GI foods do to your body; they convert directly into triglycerides and adipose tissue instead of blood glucose, accelerating obesity, diabetes, hypoglycemia and heart disease.
Rather than using the glycemic index, you would be better off using more reliable means, and for this I always recommend nutritional typing.

Your Nutritional Type Can Help You Determine Which Carbs are Right for You

Refined carbs (again, the white bread, white sugar, pizza, bagels, etc.) are not a healthy choice for virtually anyone. So when I speak about “choosing your carbs” these will not be on the list.
Further, no matter what your nutritional type is, if you suffer from the following diseases you would best be served avoiding ALL grains, even whole grains:

• High cholesterol
• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Overweight
• Cancer

There are also many people who suffer from gluten intolerance without even realizing it. This condition can cause an array of symptoms from fatigue and depression to abdominal pain and anemia, and if you have it you should avoid all gluten-containing foods in your diet. You can read Why is Wheat Gluten Disorder on the Rise? to find out more.
So, in my experience, about 75-80 percent of ALL people benefit from avoiding grains, even whole grain and sprouted grains, because, typically, grains rapidly break down to sugar, which causes rises in insulin that exacerbates health problems. 

The only consistent exceptions would be those whose nutritional type is a carb type and who don’t suffer symptoms of gluten intolerance. However, it’s still important to realize that there is a major difference between vegetable carbs and grain carbs, even though they’re both referenced as "carbs." Unlike vegetables, grains convert to sugar, which is not something anyone needs in their diet in high amounts. 

In short, most people are consuming far too much bread, cereal, pasta, corn (a grain, not a vegetable), rice, potatoes and baked goods, with very grave health consequences.
Yes, this even includes organic stone ground whole grains.
That said, if you are going to eat bread, you should certainly stick with high-quality whole-grain products. You can tell whether the loaf you’re looking at is truly whole grain before you even read the label by first picking it up. Authentic whole-grain breads are dense and relatively heavy -- avoid imposters that are light and fluffy.

 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/01/new-proof-that-white-bread-and-rice-increase-heart-disease.aspx

Amazon vs. Hatchette Publishing

I wanted to share this article regarding Amazon VS Hachette Publishing

 

 

The Amazon Books team says:

"We are currently buying less (print) inventory and "safety stock" on titles from the publisher, Hachette, than we ordinarily do, and are no longer taking pre-orders on titles whose publication dates are in the future. Instead, customers can order new titles when their publication date arrives. For titles with no stock on hand, customers can still place an order at which time we order the inventory from Hachette -- availability on those titles is dependent on how long it takes Hachette to fill the orders we place. Once the inventory arrives, we ship it to the customer promptly. These changes are related to the contract and terms between Hachette and Amazon.

At Amazon, we do business with more than 70,000 suppliers, including thousands of publishers. One of our important suppliers is Hachette, which is part of a $10 billion media conglomerate. Unfortunately, despite much work from both sides, we have been unable to reach mutually-acceptable agreement on terms. Hachette has operated in good faith and we admire the company and its executives. Nevertheless, the two companies have so far failed to find a solution. Even more unfortunate, though we remain hopeful and are working hard to come to a resolution as soon as possible, we are not optimistic that this will be resolved soon.

Negotiating with suppliers for equitable terms and making stocking and assortment decisions based on those terms is one of a bookseller's, or any retailer's, most important jobs. Suppliers get to decide the terms under which they are willing to sell to a retailer. It's reciprocally the right of a retailer to determine whether the terms on offer are acceptable and to stock items accordingly. A retailer can feature a supplier's items in its advertising and promotional circulars, "stack it high" in the front of the store, keep small quantities on hand in the back aisle, or not carry the item at all, and bookstores and other retailers do these every day. When we negotiate with suppliers, we are doing so on behalf of customers. Negotiating for acceptable terms is an essential business practice that is critical to keeping service and value high for customers in the medium and long term.

A word about proportion: this business interruption affects a small percentage of Amazon's demand-weighted units. If you order 1,000 items from Amazon, 989 will be unaffected by this interruption. If you do need one of the affected titles quickly, we regret the inconvenience and encourage you to purchase a new or used version from one of our third-party sellers or from one of our competitors.

We also take seriously the impact it has when, however infrequently, such a business interruption affects authors. We've offered to Hachette to fund 50% of an author pool - to be allocated by Hachette - to mitigate the impact of this dispute on author royalties, if Hachette funds the other 50%. We did this with the publisher Macmillan some years ago. We hope Hachette takes us up on it.

This topic has generated a variety of coverage, presumably in part because the negotiation is with a book publisher instead of a supplier of a different type of product. Some of the coverage has expressed a relatively narrow point of view. Here is one post that offers a wider perspective. 

http://www.thecockeyedpessimist.blogspot.com/2014/05/whos-afraid-of-amazoncom.html

Thank you."

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How Eating Potatoes and Tomatoes can Damage the Body

How Eating Potatoes and Tomatoes can Damage the Body

Lately, I have been talking a lot about Nightshade foods and how they can affect certain people. I wanted to delve deeper into this nightshade issues and talk a little about how these are affecting people today. First what are nightshade foods? Well, we eat many of these foods daily.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a list of nightshade foods:

·         Potatoes

·         Tomatoes

·         sweet and hot peppers

·         eggplant

·         Tomatillos

·         Tamarios

·         Pepinos

·         Pimentos

·         Paprika

·         and cayenne peppers

·         Nicotine

 All of these foods are classified as nightshade foods. This group of foods contains alkaloids that can impact nerve-muscle function and digestive functions in both animals and humans. Some people may also suffer from joint issues that are associated with eating these foods. Individuals that are especially sensitive to these substances will want to avoid eating any of these foods. I am one of these people and so are my children. I have been living with Hidradenitis Suppurativa that was caused by me eating these alkaloids daily.

I can't believe the change in my body from quitting eating of these foods. I no longer feed these foods to my family either. My two sons are likely also to suffer from eating these foods, so I am spending my time teaching them about the hazards are eating such food. There is no cure for HS, and there are many treatments but it will not go away. I have realized now avoiding the food is the cure to put HS in remission. After learning more about these foods, I have learned that there are several effects and diseases that are also caused by eating of these foods.

According to the research done by Dr. Childers,  found that 74 – 90% of people who ache and hurt, regardless of their diagnostic "label," have a sensitivity to nightshades.  Alkaloids can affect the nervous system, joint health, cause eczema, IBS, nausea, dizziness, migraines, and more.

Effect of alkaloids on the nervous system

The steroid alkaloids found in potato have been studied for their health effects on the body. These alkaloids tend to block the activity of an enzyme called cholinesterase. When cholinesterase is blocked, the nervous system control of muscle movements becomes disrupted. This disruption can cause muscle twitching, tremble, and paralyzed breathing that might result in convulsions.

 

 

Effect of alkaloids on joint health

Alkaloids can damage joints by causing inflammation. Some researchers have found that eating nightshades can lead to excessive loss of calcium from bone and cause excessive depositing of calcium in soft tissues. Doctors are now recommending that people who have osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other joint issues like gout should not eat any of these foods.

These alkaloids tend to affect many in different ways. Eating these foods can cause an inflammation response to happen within the body causing muscle spasms, chronic pain, and stiffness. For many these will subside once the person quits eating the food, but this may take up to three months to happen.

Want to know if eating these foods are negatively impacting you? Take the three month challenge and see for yourself

Don't eat any of these foods for the next three months. After the three months have lapsed you can start adding back one of the nightshade foods and notice what happens. You will know within 24 hours of eating the food if it is impacting you negatively. Notice aches and pains in your body along with headaches, stiffness, stomach aches, acne or boils, loss of energy, and respiratory problems. For many who quit eating these foods will find that they already feel better, this is a definite indicator that these foods were having a negative impact on your body.

It has been more than 6-weeks since I have eaten these foods, and I no longer have bumps on my scalp and the itchiness of my scalp has disappeared. I also don't have bouts of acne like before, and I haven't seen a boil one show up on my body. I am hoping to share this information with many people so they too can do something about their own diet and start healing. Eating this food also leads to leaky gut that I will cover in a whole other post.

Please feel free to share your own experience with us. 

 

 

 

 

Green Tea Can Increase Calcium and Strengthen Bones

Drinking Tea Everyday Can Strengthen Your Bones and Osteoporosis

Bone loss as people age is a normal process of aging. However, osteoporosis can debilitate older individuals leaving them disabled and unable to function. Older people are at a higher risk of falling and causing a fracture to happen because that person's bones are weak from the osteoporosis. Symptoms of osteoporosis are leg and foot cramps, a loss of height due to disk loss, and pain that can be felt in the low back, hip, and wrist. Recently, researchers have found that drinking black and green teas everyday can lead to a lesser risk of fractures caused by osteoporosis.

Not only does tea (black or green) deliver essential nutrients, minerals, and antioxidants, it may lower your risk of hip fractures and other bone issues such as osteoporosis as well. Most of us have known that black tea and green tea have many health benefits such as lowering risks to cancer, lowering blood pressure, increasing mental awareness, and reducing kidney stones. "By the year 2020, when 40 million American women will be over the age of 65, between 18 and 33 percent of them will suffer from a hip fracture by the time they reach the age of 90. Of those who sustain hip fractures, 12–20 percent will die of related complications," (http://www.drnorthrup.com/womenshealth/healthcenter/topic_details.php?topic_id=60)

According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation website osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, USA and Japan. It is expected that every 1 in 3 women will get this bone disease in their life and experience osteoporotic fractures. Osteoporosis isn't just a disease that affects women, but men as well. Men over the age of 50 are at risk of experiencing a hip fracture which is similar to the prevalence rate of prostate cancer (http://www.iofbonehealth.org/facts-statistics#category-14).

In a study conducted by Osteoporosis International researchers found that participants who drank 1-4 cups of black or green tea per day decreased their risk of hip fracture by 37 percent. Green and black tea's leaves contain polyphenols that can ease cellular inflammation that can degenerate bone tissue. In a similar study conducted by Mediterranean Osteoporosis found that both men and women over the age of 50 who drank tea every day did reduce their risk of osteoporosis by 30 percent.

Additionally, researchers have been finding that green tea promotes bone remodeling within three months of consumption and reduced oxidative stress damage. Drinking tea can slow the process of bone loss and also build up bone and delay the onset of osteoporosis (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/19/drinking-tea-may-help-prevent-chronic-illnesses/57808190/1).

Although, drinking tea is only one thing to do to prevent osteoporosis and fractures from occurring it is an easy task to do daily, and the cost is minimal as opposed to treatment later in life for osteoporosis. There is a long list of daily regimes that need to be followed in order to help prevent or stop osteoporosis including eating a well-balanced diet, exercising, and taking supplements of calcium and vitamin D. Now adding tea to your diet can help prevent osteoporosis in the future.

 

Do you have HS? Many people are undiagnosed with this disease and it could be silently killing us

Hello Everyone,

As everybody knows, I have been doing the Paleo diet for the last few weeks. I wanted to let you know how things have been going so far. I have lost 10 pounds and lost my sweet tooth cravings. I have downloaded many recipes and are constructing new ones of my own to help feed my family. I went down a dress size, and I am in the middle of my third week, but I wanted to share with you why I am doing this diet.

I have had difficulties with losing weight for 16 years, and I have lost weight and then gained it back and then some. I also have Hashimotos hypothyroidism. I have found out much interesting information regarding thyroid issues and weight loss and weight gain. Over the next several months, I will be sharing a post each week on one specific area about weight loss, paleo, autoimmune diseases, food, and much more.

This week I am sharing a personal story with you about me and my family. I recently found out that I have HS or better known as Hidradenitis Suppurativa. I have lived most of my life plagued by this and it’s embedded in my family, and my oldest son has this already. So what is HS? It is a chronic skin disease that appears to look and act as acne, but it is not just a bacterial infection such as acne. Instead, this disease causes boils to come up, and these take months sometimes years to heal but they never heal.

It appears that they sit under the skin and come to the surface to erupt. The boils are quite painful before they burst and drain stinky fluid. Mine would drain and fill up again and do it all again and take many months to finally heal. Or so I thought they healed but in reality they were waiting under my skin for the next eruption. The boils make tunnels under the skin, and more of these boils will pop up in the same area over and again. It is like an underground tunnel and city. The boils connect to each other and can interfere with a person's lymphatic system especially for those who get boils under the arms and near lymph areas.

The boils do not heal, and this is considered a disease with no cure. There are many treatments for this disease but once you quit doing the treatment the boils come back to haunt you and embarrass you once again. My younger brother had this bad when he was a teen. He began getting the boils during pubescence at the age of 13, and he was plagued with boils all over his body. My mom took him to doctors and specialist, but they never knew what it truly was and treated acne that never helped because it was not acne. It was heartbreaking to watch my brother be embarrassed about having these all over his body. I felt terrible but at the same time was so happy that I did not seem to have this problem.

When I was 23 years old, I work up one morning to find a boil on my cheek. It hurt terribly, and I thought what the heck is this crap? It took six months of it popping and filling back up before it finally went away, but it did not it moved behind my ear. It was so embarrassing when it would pop while I was out with friends and drain blood and fluid and people would say "Um you need to go take care of that" as they pointed to my face.

Finding out this information made me feel relieved and scared at the same time. I have been seeing many doctors about these boils and they say the same thing it's just acne. They have me treat with acne products that don't help. I recently had one boil pop up under my nose, and it drained continues for a month and within in two months it began drying up only to have one pop up right next to it doing the same thing drain and drain for months. I was terrified that I might have cancer or some weird thing because I never had these boils do this before. Thank goodness they finally went away only to pop up somewhere else in my body usually on my shoulders or neck.

I found out that if not taken care of this disease can cause skin cancer that is what happened to my younger brother. He had these boils all over his back and didn't think anything about it when one did not heal for a year, and finally it began to hurt badly, and he went to the doctor to find out he was already in stage 4. He died at the young age of 36 years old and left a family of five children behind who will also have this disease.

In the last week, I have talked to more than a dozen people who also feel like they have this disease and it’s embedded in many families. I contacted my older siblings, and they too have this, and so do their kids. Okay, so I am sure you are all wondering what do we do about it?

Well, what I have learned while doing this Paleo diet is that there are foods that are causing these outbreaks and boils.  Okay, so do you know about the nightshade plants that are considered toxic? Well, I am about to bust your food bubble. Here are some foods that belong to nightshades and are toxic if you eat them. Potatoes not sweet potatoes but regular white potatoes are nightshades. Eggplant, tomato, yes tomatoes oh no I love spaghetti and tomato sauce and now I cannot eat it at all or I could and deal with my health issues caused by eating them. Also, all peppers including bell, sweets, and hot. Paprika is part of it, as well. I know much info also elderberries are one, as well.

After finding this information out HS, and the nightshade food it was the day after, I had made eggplant parmesan and the next day my sons tongue swelled up just a little, and it hurt. All of his taste buds were swollen, and it was from eating the eggplant parm well I through the rest away along with potatoes and peppers and the tomatoes in my house.

It has been two, and half weeks of not eating those foods, and my boils on my back are going away. I cannot see them or feel them anymore. The scars I had from these are getting better and lighting up, and I feel so much better. Who knew that I had been eating toxic foods almost every day of my life? Not only is it difficult to lose weight when your body is fighting off the toxicity caused by the disease it can lead to other autoimmune diseases like Hashimotos that also is caused and triggered by these foods and more, but that's for another post.

I would love to hear from you about your experience or if you think you have this disease as well. Or tell us what do think about these toxic foods we have been eating and feeding to our children that are slowly killing all of us. Share I would love to read your comments.