Thanks for the website. It should be helpful, I keep a food journal now since everything was making me sick and have cut caffine and sugar and other various things.

Thanks for the info. I never eat any of those foods due to acid reflux, except potatoes now and then.

I think I grab something up first just to eat it like cracker or something quick instead of preparing vegs. A habit I need to change.

Thanks Butterfli. This answered some questions I had recently. I've read in quite a few places lately that we need to stay away from Nightshade veggies, just needed a good listing of what was included.

Dang it!
- it was hard to give up soda
- it was hard to give up processed foods
- it was hard to give up wheat
- now to give up nightshade veggies?
But if it helps, I'm all for it.
So let's go get healthy. :-)

Magic - I keep a bowl of cut up veggies in the frig. Makes it easy to grab instead of crackers. it is so much easier to prepare them when I'm feeling good, and not wait til I'm hungry. Grapes are good too, easy to grab a handful to munch on. Good Luck

May a good diet heal our bodies.

Thank you for the post. I am going to try to implement some of her suggestions.

Space I cant eat raw veggies they cause reflux problems and IBS problems. I can bananas and thats about it in the fruit dept.

I am so glad I am not alone in the dietary issues. I have given up all fruits and most vegetables. The food diary I have been keeping has been so helpful. If you suffer from frequent bladder irritation there are lists for that too. There are also lists for common migraine triggers, I used to just have a couple of triggers and now have many others. I discovered legumes were a huge irritant, swollen glands, painful skin, feeling of fever and fatigue. When I went looking online I found that is not so uncommon, lots of people are intolerant. I have the same problem from aged cheese. Sugar is my current issue, weaning myself off slowly.

The elimination diet greatly helped me, along with allergy testing. I also learned from my allergist, that during outside allergy season there are a list of fruits and veges I have to avoid. If I eat these they can make my pollen allergies worse. A food journal is wonderful. After I went gluten free from Celiac, I really started looking at everything I eat. There is so much of the diseases that are out of my control, I was glad when I found that what I eat is in my control.

Thanks for sharing the website. I watch what I eat due to food allergies and am now gluten and wheat free as well. Honestly, staying away from wheat has made the biggest difference in joint pain. The fibro pain I haven't found a true correlation.

Oh dear! If the alkaloids build in our tissues, how long would we have to be off of the foods before we know if it works? What I mean is that cow's milk is easy. If I have any, I start having a stomach ache in a matter of half an hour. With gluten I am foggy and constipated the next day. But, how would we know with these?

I have substituted sweet potatoes for potatoes. But bell peppers, hot peppers, and tomatoes are difficult to give up completely.

I've never found any particular food that helps or hurts me.

The best thing I've done for myself and my health was to elminate processed foods and fast food - you never know what's in that stuff. We cook everything from scratch, and we cook in large batches and freeze portions so we're not worn out from constantly cooking. It does take some time, but I actually crave veggies now instead of sugar.

I have had Ankylosing Spondylitis for many years and also Fibromyalgia, night shades have alway aggravated my pain, what's weird is I did not know of this information before.
Here's how it went...I was keeping a food dairy for months and when I looked back it was when ate those foods (nightshades)... that my pain would be worst.
Then I found out through a Alternative Med Doctor one day, she gave me a list of foods that may aggravate my conditions. I was blown away because the proof was in the pudd'in so to speak. There on my list before she handed me her list, I had all those foods with ? marks next to them, before I even knew anything about night-shades. Now I know everyone is different and some of these things may not aggravate the next....But the proof is it does most whom have severe Arthritis... I had a blood test done and found out I was allergic to wheat about two weeks later, I already thought that because that was flagged in my food dairy also as a maybe?
After not eating these things my pain level has come down tremendously. I still have pain more so when the Humidity is high and is cold out...But not to the point where I think Im going to die from it now..
O'k I talked alot! Sorry I just wanted to share that in case it could help someone else... (((hugs))) and thank you for your post and info. butterfli
Angels2u :)

Wow-first topic I see when I checked in. I just got a book by JJ Virgin called the Virgin Diet--it's about the seven foods that can make us feel bad. Soy, dairy, eggs, gluten, corn, peanuts and sugar. I already deal with the IC diet and I'm diabetic. I get migraines from MSG and food additives. I am depressed that there is very little left to eat. But I know food has A LOT to do with how we feel. I will go on a strict "write down everything I eat" regimen for as long as I can stand it.
Thanks for writing.