Hi I hope your reading this on a 'good day'.
I feel there's so much to talk about on this topic of CFS, I've been pondering for a few days on where on earth to start!! So I guess we should start with the basics...
I feel the 3 main steps we all need to work on towards health are:
- Nutrition
- Physical body
- Mind/psychology
(Think of it as a triangle, if one part is missing it won't work).
The Nutrition banner is very important in my personal opinion, this can includes a basic overhaul of someone's diet. I only 'discovered' nutrition about 6 years into my condition. It's amazing what diet can do to help our symptoms. When I occasionally eat the 'naughty' foods, chocolate bars, crisps, all the well known processed foods I feel such a dip in my energy levels! (Christmas is always a hard time with all those temptations!)
A qualified nutritionalist would look at your whole health history, blood sugar levels, adrenal & thyroid glands, some diagnostic tests & supplements could be recommended if they felt it necessary. Depending on how much you wanted to spend or how in depth you wanted to go, a Nutritional Therapist could make a huge difference to your condition.
eg. if you're like I used to be, always eating sugary foods, we can have a sugar spike then our energy levels will plummet & we will feel worse! I used to LIVE on Lucozade thinking it gives you energy as the marketing companies would have us believe! How wrong I was, looking back it was doing alot more damage than good.
A few cheeky tips for sufferers of CFS:
- Drink at least 8 glasses of filtered water per day
- Plenty of fresh fruit & vegetables every day
- Avoid tea & coffee - caffeine (or if you are hooked try to cut back, it can cause our energy levels to plummet)
- Avoid processed foods - our bodies are trying so hard to heal it doesn't need a load of artificial products to work against too
- Try to avoid alcohol
- Eat regular small meals to make sure your blood sugar doesn't dip.
- Try to include protein with each meal, meat, poultry, beans, lentils, eggs, nuts.
Most are very bog standard tips for most people to improve their diets!
Please remember I am studying Nutrition but I am not qualified yet, I am working & giving advice from what I put into practice in my own life & my own condition.
Finding a good Nutritional Therapist is key you can look on http://www.bant.org.uk/ for a fully qualified practioner (& some will specialize in CFS).
We will explore the other two points soon...
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