A Cancer Theory - Part II

My theory on cancer is:

1. cancer is an external invader, specifically the human intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis Buskii
2. the fluke escapes a damaged intestine and nests in the weakest part of the body
3. the fluke sometimes becomes a tumor
4. the fluke can be starved by abstaining from sugar and animal protein
5. the immune system can be boosted in order to fight cancer by eating only vegetables, whole grains, beans, legumes and whole food condiments
6. the tumor can be destroyed with herbal remedies, Essiac and Regehr-Clark protocol
7. prayer is essential

I am not the only person who believes this:

"Dr. Atkins has observed that, in general, people
diagnosed with advanced-stage cancers benefit more from nutrition and other
biologic treatments (e.g. enzymes, botanicals, and glandular extracts) than from
chemotherapy. For this reason, in most cases he suggests 'holding off' on
chemotherapy and conventional treatments unless it becomes clear that the safer
treatments alone are not getting the job done."

Dr. Robert C. Atkins, M.D.

Definitive Guide to Cancer by Goldberg, Diamond M.D., Cowden M.D.

"A primarily vegetarian diet is the optimal nutritional
strategy for supporting recovery from cancer, Dr. Stoff says. His dietary
approach is designed to meet individual needs, determined by objective laboratory
tests (blood test for nutrients, enzymes, hormones, and immune
paraments)."

Dr. Jesse Stoff, M.D.

author of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic

"Technically, many people carry harmless tumors within
their bodies, even until their death from other causes. Such benign
tumors are encapsulated by fiber, functionally insulating the body from their
otherwise toxic effects. At a certain point, these tumors simply stop
enlarging; since they do not 'seed' other tumors, they are considered
benign. A malignant tumor, which is not encapsulated by fiber, is capable
of invading nearby cells and spreading to distant sites within the body.
If the cancer cells do not spread beyond the tissue or organ where they
originated, the cancer is considered to be localized; if the cancer spreads to
other parts of the body, it is then said to have metastasized."

Definitive Guide to Cancer

Goldberg, Diamond M.D., Cowden M.D.

"Okay, let's first talk about what causes cancer.
We need to define what cancer is before we can actually treat it whichever way
the patient desires.

Toxicity accumulates over time, whether it be nutritional
toxicity, emotional, physical, mercury-induced, or environmental. These
toxins deplete respiratory enzymes so these cells can no longer utilize
oxygen. Healthy cells utilize oxygen to create energy. But with
cancer, instead of utilizing oxygen, cancer cells revert to a primitive way of
creating energy by fermenting sugar. Once you ferment sugar, you create
lactic acid, which makes the acidic condition of the body even worse. Now
you have both acids and toxicity, which increase total body acidity through
fermentation. This was discovered in the twenties by Otto Warburg.
He's a German doctor who won a Nobel Prize. So what do you do at this
point? You want to limit sugar intake; this is vitally important. No
sugar for any cancer patient. Number two, you must increase the oxygen
supply to the cell."

Dr. Michael Galitzer

www.ahealth.com

"Dr. Marty Dayton is a brilliant doctor out of Florida
and he's done research on the need for nutrition concurrent with
chemotherapy. Nutrition is everything. We have to understand where
the poisons are coming from: when we open a can of beer or soda or water
we don't realize it's lined with bisphenol A, a chemical poison. We think
we can take in all these poisons and not get ill? What are we
thinking?

Conventional medicine will tell you nutrition isn't all
that important; in fact, they say it's antagonistic to chemotherapy to feed
nutrition to chemotherapy patients. But nutrition is crucial for sick
people. When using chemo, it is imperative to properly nourish the
patient, as ultimately it is your immune system that will save you. This
is integrative. Conventional therapy say that nutrition is
counterproductive and offsets chemo's efficacy. Well, they are totally
wrong, and consequently patients are being starved to death in a land of
plenty."

Burton Goldberg

burton@burtongoldberg.com

Tiburon, CA

"The more you cook the meat, the more concentrated and
tough it becomes, making it more difficult to break down and release the
individual amino acids. When these amino acids are not fully broken down,
chunks of undigested protein can create an excess of uric acid, acidifying the
system even further. The more acidic our bodies become, the more the
oxygen is forced out, and the easier it is for cancer and viruses to
proliferate. At the same time, parasites absolutely love it when the
improper digestion of protein happens, as they also thrive in a low-oxygen
environment. Parasites live off undigested protein."

The Cure

Dr. Timothy Brantley, Ph.D., N.D.

"If these symptoms and feelings sound familiar, then you
may be an unsuspecting victim of the parasite epidemic that is affecting
millions of Americans. With this information in mind, here are practical
steps often employed to start detoxifying one's system of presumed
parasites.

1. Cleanse the intestines.
2. Do a colon irrigation
3. Prepare your system: it is prudent to give your
   gallbladder and liver a week to prepare for the parasite program.
4. The herbal cleanout: Naturopathic physician Hulda
   Regehr Clar, N.D., Ph.D., recommends using a blend of 3 herbs to flush the
   parasites out of your system: black walnut hull tincture, wormwood
   capsules, and fresh ground clover (to kill the parasites' eggs.)
5. Drink extra water.
6. Sanitize your environment.
7. Eat anti-parasitic foods.
8. Modify your diet.
9. Recolonize your intestines."

Ann Gittleman

www.annlouise.com

"Let food be thy medicine."

Hippocrates

A Cancer Theory

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, I am an insurance salesman. I am not an oncologist, I am a mother. I have read 100 books in the last 10 years on nutrition, cancer, herbs, prayer, and detox. As a result, I believe there is a cure for cancer: nutritional healing.

Cancer is curable. There is a tangible cause of cancer. There is a predictable weakness in the cancer patient's immune system and a way to strengthen the body such that it can kill and eliminate the cancer. One million people have cured themselves of cancer through nutrition. (www.hacres.com) One million people have cured themselves of cancer through herbs. (www.essiac.com) One million people have cured themselves of cancer through prayer. (www.dosseydossey.com)

Cancer is in everyone. A healthy immune system fights off 2-3 bouts of cancer in a lifetime. However, a compromised immune system will not fight off the cancer and will contain the cancer in the compromised part of the body. For instance, a smoker deteriorates the lining of their lungs with carcinogens. Therefore, when cancer enters the body, it plants itself in the sick area of the lungs.

Cancer enters the body through parasites, specifically the human intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buskii.

Millions of parasites and micro-organisms live in the intestinal tract. Good bacteria and bad bacteria are both important to a healthy digestive system. But certain foods contain inordinate amounts of bad bacteria including parasites. When a parasite enters the digestive system it can leach into other areas of the body through microscopic holes in the intestinal wall. Typically a parasite will travel to the weakest area of the body and plant itself. For instance, a parasite traveling from the digestive tract (specifically the liver) to the lungs results in lung cancer; a parasite that enters the kidneys results in leukemia, cancer of the blood. Once the parasite finds a "nest" it will reside there and grow into a tumor. It grows according to how well it is nourished. (Read The Cure by Timothy Brantley)

Tumors love protein and sugar; specifically cow's milk and refined white sugar.

To eliminate sugar and glucose-producing foods from your diet you must cease eating prepared foods, bread and all flour products. Refined white sugar is found in all bread, cereal, cakes, canned goods, prepared boxed foods, almost all restaurant food, etc. (Read The Zone by Barry Sears for information on glucose) To eliminate cow's milk products stay away from all foods with cow's milk, yogurt, cheese and even goat's milk and sheep's milk products. (Read the China Study by T. Colin Campbell)
Conversely, starving the parasite is possible if you eat only whole foods: fruit, vegetables, grains, beans, legumes and whole food condiments such as extra-virgin olive oil, herbs, sea salt and apple cider vinegar. (Read God's Way to Ultimate Health by George Malkmus)

The parasite can be killed with herbs.

There are two groups of herbal combinations that have been used since Bible times to detox, cleanse the colon and intestinal walls and kill parasites. Essiac is a combination of sheep sorrel, burdock root and slippery elm bark. It was created by a Canadian woman who was given the recipe by a Canadian Indian. There is another combination of herbs from Canadian scientist, Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark. Her herbal remedy contains black walnut hull extract, cloves and sheep sorrel. Both herbal remedies are ideally made in tincture form from whole ingredients. But both are available online and in some health food stores. (Read The Cure For All Cancers by Hulda Regehr Clark)

The cancer leaves your body through waste.

The body eliminates waste through urination, sweat and bowel movements. A smaller percentage of waste is removed from the body through exhaling and mucus secretions. When the parasite has been starved, it will be flushed from your body. This involves all methods of waste removal but primarily bowel movements. (Read 7 Day Detox Miracle by Bennet and Barrie)

Include prayer in your healing regimen.

Prayer alone will not heal you. You cannot wish away the consequences of smoking, junk food, laziness, alcohol, drugs and poor life decisions. But, it is important to include the Creator of life in your cure. God made your body and its miraculous systems for immunity and digestion. Pray that God will make you strong enough to discern a nutritional and medical plan to attack the cancer. (Read Prayer is Good Medicine by Dr. Larry Dossey)
Cancer is overdetermined as are all diseases. Overdetermined means there is not simply one cause for the disease; a person may smoke for 40 years and never get lung cancer. Another person may smoke for 40 years and live a terribly sad and lonely life and get cancer and die within months. There will always be emotional and spiritual reasons why people get sick. (Read Anatomy of The Spirit by Carolyn Myss)

An Autism Theory

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I do not have an autistic child. I am a mother of 3 who sells insurance and has an MBA. As a result of 10 years of reading about nutrition I have formulated one theory of nutritional healing which seems to be the pervasive cure for all disease. This blog is intended to give hope, nothing less.

Autism is caused by the MMR vaccine. My children were immunized at 15 months and then again at 4 years old for Mumps, Measles, Rubella commonly known as MMR. Because we have almost eliminated these diseases thanks to mandatory vaccination for school-going children, we have precious little of the original diseases from which to manufacture a vaccine. Therefore we place mumps, measles and rubella in monkeys and other animals and "grow" the disease in order to harvest more blood with which to inject as a "vaccination" against the disease. In addition, we add mercury to the vaccine as a preservative.

A baby of 15 months old who is injected with MMR must have a formidable immune system in order to handle this level of toxins. Otherwise the monkey blood and mercury harm the baby. If he does not have a viable immune system with healthy intestinal bacteria, the vaccine will cause extensive damage to his large intestine. 80% of your immune system is housed in your intestine. After the MMR has damaged the intestine, the entire body is compromised. In autistic children there can be brain lesions in the F4 frontal lobe. These lesions can cause seizures which resemble epilepsy.

A child with autism will have the following symptoms: bloated belly, gas, constipation, diarrhea, tip toe walking, repetitive stimming, flapping, spinning, delayed speech, etc. A neurologist, child psychologist or DAN! doctor can properly diagnose autism.

Autism affects five boy babies to every one girl baby: one in seventy boys are diagnosed with autism. And the numbers are growing exponentially: in 1980 autism was rare. It's possible that boy babies have slower growing guts: maybe their immune systems are slower to formulate at the onset of life and then pick up later on to create a larger, more formidable system later in their adolescence.

The cure is:

• Seize the moment. Time is of the essence. You have a window of opportunity when the body can heal itself. Baby bodies are fragile and yet. simultaneously, ripe to heal.
• Boost the immune system by removing everything that weakens the gut
• Eliminate wheat, dairy, sugar, preservatives, casein, gluten and all "non foods". Trust me, there are plenty of foods out there, you just have to look.
• Mercury chelation will start to remove the mercury which damages the brain and prevents normal speech.
• Use autistic therapies. Find the best for your money and get help with retraining the brain.

The prevention is:

• do not vaccinate a baby for MMR until they have a fully operable immune system
• put off the vaccination until the last possible moment i.e. for public school records
• interview your pediatrician. Ask her opinion on MMR, dairy-free diet for babies, breast-feeding and anything your precious-mother-instinct tells you to ask.

"Luckily, the best DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) doctor in the world was not in
Timbuktu. He was in Texas. His name was Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, and on
the first visit, he had Evan tested for everything and saw numerous
deficiencies. But the one that was causing Evan's consistent ailments was
his weak immune system. Dr. Kartzinel told me it was imperative to send
Evan to the best immune doctor in the world, down in San Diego, for further
testing. I couldn't understand how Evan's immune system was so
damaged. Dr. Kartzinel simply replied, 'Vaccines.'"

Louder Than Words

Jenny McCarthy

"Starting with my own son, I had to fix the nutritional aberrations (he was
consuming only chocolate chip cookies, french fries, Fruit Loops, and half a
gallon of milk per day). Fixing his diet required the removal of
gluten-containing foods and all forms of dairy. What we then experienced
was staggering. We saw sleepless nights morph into complete and glorious
SLEEP! By adding cod liver oil to his diet, we witnessed the return of eye
contact and language! Hey, maybe this autism is treatable. Finding
out what is broken and fixing it may truly be the key to recovery."

Jerry J. Kartzinel, MC, FAAP

www.pppvonline.com

Autism and Nutrition

I just read Jenny McCarthy's book about her son's autism and her quest for a cure.

The book is fabulous and written with Jenny's typical wry wit. The content is refreshingly redundant: maintain a rigorous wheat/gluten/preservative/dairy free diet and illness will vanish. After 30 days of detox, major shifts in personal health occur.

Jenny's son, Evan, was misdiagnosed with epilepsy at 2 1/2 years after a series of seizures and black outs. Then she went to a specialist who diagnosed autism. The DAN doctor (Defeat Autism Now!) sent her to a play therapy group where she met other moms who were trying anything alternative, spiritual, holistic or otherwise to "awaken" their children from autism. She took their advice and read a book, Special Diets for Special Kids Two.

"After a couple of weeks, the tantrums had diminished
by half. I continued to research online all the different gluten- and
casein-free recipes and started to find things getting easier...

About three weeks had gone by with Evan on the diet,
and I was putting away dishes in the kitchen when I felt a tug on my leg.
I looked down and saw Evan's big blue eyes staring at me. It wasn't his
normal glazed-over look. He seemed clear-eyed. He tugged on my leg
again, and I got down on my knees and said, "Hey little bird, what's going
on?"
He look at me again and said with all of his might,
"Want...to...go...swimming."

...Chills went through my whole body, and I cried as
John and Evan splashed in the water. Up to this point Evan would say only
one word at a time, and only words for objects. The fact that he had just
blurted out a four-word sentence was honestly a miracle. I knew it was the
diet that had helped clear the fog, because within that week Evan responded to
my calling his name every time I said it. He also didn't seem drunk.
Mind you, he was in no way cured from autism, but just three weeks prior, he had
been locked in a world of spinning toys and ignoring people. Now he was
actually trying to tell me what he wanted and was responding to people in the
room.

Even though this progress made me so happy, I couldn't
help but be pissed off that doctors weren't telling moms to at least try
it. They really were against the diet. My thinking is that if the
diet works on some autistic kids, that would link it to vaccines, and God forbid
that happened. Doctors will never admit it, and it's a useless war to try
and fight."
Louder Than Words
Jenny McCarthy

God made our bodies. They are created following certain laws. Disobey these laws and disease will occur. You can call the disease cancer, heart disease, allergies, depression or autism but it is all the same - an ignorance of the laws in which you were created.

• Your body has a pH balance. The balance must be alkaline. If your personal pH is acidic, you are sick.
• Vegetables, whole grains, beans, and fruit are alkaline to the body.
• Meat, dairy and cooked foods are acidic to the body.
• Your body has a finite amount of digestive enzymes. Exhaust your personal enzyme store and you will be sick.
• Raw whole foods carry with them their own enzymes thus eliminating the need to draw on your personal store.
• Cooked food, preservatives, chemicals, hormone laden meat and sugar require large amounts of digestive enzymes pulled from your liver, pancreas and gall bladder.
• Your body must be hydrated in order to operate properly
• Your body must be well oxygenated through the foods you eat.

G.K. Chesterton said, "It is not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting, it is that Christianity has not been tried at all."

I contend, "It's not that nutrition has been tried and found insufficient - it's that nutrition has not been tried at all."

Vegan Friendly Foods

A vegetarian does not eat animal flesh. The animal must die in order for the food to be considered off limits. Therefore, vegetarians do not eat beef, chicken, veal, turkey, fish, pork etc.

A vegan does not eat animal flesh or animal by-products. Vegans do not eat eggs, milk, cheese, or yogurt.

Why would you become a vegan? What could you possibly find to eat?

The short answer is - because the same antibiotics, growth hormones and steroids fed to chickens and cows are contained in their by-products: milk and eggs.

The long answer is below.

"Breast milk can grow an 8-pound newborn into a
24-pound toddler. Sounds pretty fattening, eh? It is. By
design, it is intended to allow for the biggest growth spurt of a person's
entire life. Breast milk alone can accommodate for a 300 percent weight
gain in a twelve-moth period. When her child is anywhere from 12-24 months
old, a mother stops breast feeding. Her milk dries up. The child
will never drink breast milk ever again.
Mammals need the enzyme lactase to digest lactose (the
sugar found in dairy). However, between the ages of 18 months and 4 years,
we lose 90-95 percent of this enzyme. The undigested lactose and the
acidic nature of pasteurized milk encourage the growth of bacteria in our
intestines. All this contributes to a greater risk of cancer because
cancer cells thrive in acidic conditions."
Skinny Bitch
Freedman and Barnouin

Cow's milk grows cancer. I know that sounds wild. I know your doctor would say that's bunk. I know you don't want to believe it because there is nothing in the world that would make you give up Parmesan on pasta, cheese pizza or yogurt for lunch. So keep on eating that way but understand this: an American PhD by the name of T. Colin Campbell can grow tumors to 3 times their size in a petri dish using pasteurized cow's milk. He wrote a book explaining his exact process, The China Study.

If you have cancer, stop eating the by-product of lactating cows. Stop eating preservatives, growth hormones, antibiotics and steroids. If you have a tumor, you have the power to stop the growth of the tumor. Don't let people bring you cookies and wine to drown your sorrows. Eat what dissipates the tumor. Eat to alkalize your body and right it's pH. Eat foods that carry with them their own digestive enzymes and thus boost your precious immune system. Read books about the body, it's miraculous digestive and immune systems and how they heal. Practice nutritional healing.


Vegan foods I know and love:

• Xochityl tortilla chips and homemade guacamole
• black beans and corn tortillas
• hummus and NutThins
• carrot, beet, cucumber juice
• Starbucks Decaf Soy Mocha
• baked Brussels sprouts and brown rice
• baked potato with olive oil and sea salt
• sauteed kale and onions with walnut sauce
• decaffeinated iced tea
• mexican rice and pinto beans with hot sauce
• Whole Foods vegan black bean soup
• Fadi's cauliflower, rice and hummus
• spring rolls and Bragg's Liquid aminos
• edamame and sea salt
• vegetable chop chop salad with olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinegar
• vegan aioli on long grain brown rice
• rice linguini with olive oil, sea salt and white pepper
• quinoa veggie curls with olive oil, chives and fresh black pepper
• spelt toast with bananas, honey and almond butter

Food and Emotions

Americans love to feel happy. In fact, they demand to feel happy.

"The January 2007 professional publication, Lawyers and Settlements,
reported that the U.S. market for antidepressants accounted for 66 percent of
the entire global market, compared to 23 percent in Europe, and 11 percent for
the rest of the world (mostly in Japan). Since the class of drugs that
includes Prozac and Paxil became available in the 1980's, the market has
exploded. According to the journal, in 1985 sales of antidepressants in
the United States totaled about $240 million, but from September 2003 to August
2004, sales skyrocketed to $11.2 billion."
The Secret to The Secret
Karen Kelly

A lot of your feelings, emotions, and even decisions about food and diet and exercise and health and body image are due to poor dietary habits. Here's why:

The liver serves as the sieve for your body. It cleans the blood. It delivers enzymes to the stomach to break down food into usable substances. It helps syphon off the impurities in food so that the resulting nutrients can be rushed to your starving muscles and tissues and the trash can be removed.

The problem is that at the same time trash is running through your liver, so are your hormones. Hormone levels affect mood and your overall emotional state. So get a load of this: if you are detoxing, your liver is working overtime due to the removal of trash. But your hormones are housed in the liver as well and act like screaming children calling for attention at the same time. You end up with this warring mass of hormones and detox all going on in the liver at the same time. If you have ever had a few too many glasses of wine, you may have experienced the day-after blues while your body is trying to cleanse itself of the alcohol while fighting with the hormones also housed in the liver.

The only way to stop the insanity is to detox once and for all. Educate yourself on the function of the liver. Ask yourself what foods you must eat in order to ease the toxic load on your liver. Remember that beef and chicken products are hormone laden. It is possible that you are putting highly acidic foods such as steak, ground beef, tacos, chicken salad and baked chicken in your body and your liver cannot handle everything. Dairy products are animal by-products and therefore contain the same amounts of growth hormones and antibiotics injected in cows and chickens.

Once again, your emotions are intricately tied to your hormones which are housed in the liver. If you strain your liver, you strain your hormones, you strain your emotions.

Detox once and for all. Take 30 days to permanently change your physical and emotional health:

• decide to eat 3 meals per day every day. This regulates the digestive process and keeps it from being overloaded all at one meal/time.
• decide what those meals will be: juice for breakfast, eat-out for lunch, raw salad with nuts and olive oil for dinner
• drink half your weight in ounces of water per day: 120 lbs = 60 oz water
• of the 90 meals you will eat in the next 30 days, make 60 of those whole raw foods
• keep a diary of what you eat and how you feel for 30 days. Watch how your emotions try to override your good decisions. See it for what it is: a toxic liver speaking out of turn!
• after 30 days, determine to never go through the pain again. Plan 60 meat/wheat/dairy free meals per moth to keep your liver clean and in good working order.

Change your food and it will change your mind!

Celiac Friendly Foods

Wheat just isn't what it used to be!

In the "olden days", we snapped off a stalk of wheat, crushed the heads, beat it into flour and mixed it with yeast, ground sugar cane and a pinch of salt. The wheat grain was intact, complete with endosperm and germ providing vital selenium and magnesium. It went stale and hard after 24 hours indicating a complete loss of enzyme potential and therefore unedible.

Then someone decided we prefer our bread to look whiter and feel softer. Eliminate the fibrous endosperm and you get white bread that can sit on the counter for 7 days. We sell the germ separately to health food stores for far more than a loaf of bread and are left with a stripped down wheat product which we claim to have "nutritionally enhanced" with a sprinkling of powdered vitamins. This is not bread, this is a non-food.

It's no wonder many of us have found wheat products to be the source of illness and disease.

I eat a wheat-free, gluten-free, flour-free diet 6 days a week. I feed my family the same for at least 2 meals per day.

Why? I have not been formally diagnosed celiac but when I got sick 9 years ago I experimented with wheat-free and had an immediate change in my health. Within 12 hours my congestion eased, the mucous ceased after 3 days of abstaining from all flour products. My digestive system became more regular than it had been for 40 years. I had a complete clearing of the brain fog. My joints were healed but I contribute that to a combination of meat/wheat/dairy-free eating. I feed my family a wheat-free diet because I have since studied the contents of flour products and find them to be preservative laden. Pancakes, muffins, bagels, croutons, cake, sandwich bread, tortillas, cookies, quessadillas, granola, Wheat Thins, Sun Chips, onion rings, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, breakfast cereal, granola bars, crackers, waffles, french toast, chicken fingers......have you ever thought about how many times your children ingest white flour? And every single one of these foods have preservatives in them as well.

"By age sixty-five as much as 75% of the
American population has x-ray evidence of osteoarthritis in the hand, foot,
knee, or hip. I estimate, based on statistics for people
purchasing unrefined foods and quality animal products free of hormones or
antibiotics, that more than 75% of the American population has lived almost
exclusively, for the greater part of their lives, on poor-quality meats, eggs,
and dairy products; oxidized, refined, and/or hydrogenated oils and fats; and
completely denatured, "white" wheat-flour products. Many have eaten far
too few fruits, vegetables, and legumes. In addition to excessive calcium
in the soft tissue, other excesses relating to modern diet and lifestyle
include residues from chemicals, heavy metals, drugs, intoxicants, and
non-foods. These folks are invariably overfed on calories
but unknowingly starving for minerals (including magnesium), vitamins,
essential fatty acids, enzymes, antioxidants, and especially, real food
with true life force."
Healing With Whole Foods
Paul Pitchford

So...what to buy? where to shop? what will the kids think?

It is, as with all of life, a balancing act. We flood our daily diet with raw fruits and vegetables, potatoes, rice, fruit, eggs, yogurt. We use wheat-free substitutes for cereal, granola bars, pasta, tortillas and corn chips. Then my kids buy lunch at school on Fridays and the choice is up to them.

"Shitty simple carbohydrates include white flour, white
pasta (durum semolina), white rice, and white sugar. These are the bad
boys that give all carbs a bad reputation. For some asinine reason, food
manufacturers decided that we wouldn't buy their products unless they were
white and soft. So they took natural grains, like brown rice and whole
wheat, and stripped away all their nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to achieve
the color and texture change. This refining process totally compromises
the nutritional integrity of the food - all for appearances. So companies
then add these nutrients back into their refined, milled foods, and use terms
like 'enriched' or 'fortified.' But there's no use trying to fool with
Mother Nature. Our bodies cannot absorb these added-in minerals with the
same ease. Tragically, most cereals, pastas, rice, bagels, breads,
cookies, muffins, cakes, and pastries have been bastardized in this
manner. Pay attention to how your body feels when you eat these
foods. Chances are you'll notice moderate to severe mood swings and energy
surges and losses."
Skinny Bitch
Freedman and Barnouin

Here is a list of substitutes but one word of warning. You are not doing your health any favors if you continue to eat flour. Go 3 days without flour. Ask yourself if you feel better. Do an internal evaluation for muscle aches, constipation and congestion. Feel better? Then try to avoid all flour. Make flour products a twice-a-week routine.

DeBoles: makes fabulous rice linguini, spaghetti and fettucine
Tinkyada: makes wonderful rice lasagna noodles. Remember to rinse all rice pasta with cold water after cooking to prevent sticking.
Envirokids: look for gluten-free breakfast cereals.
Barbara's Kitchen: gluten-free breakfast cereals
Whole Foods Gluten Free Bakery: pie crust, muffins, bread, bagels.
Xochitl Tortilla chips
Glutino wheat free cookies
Ancient Harvest: quinoa veggie curl pasta, shell pasta and macaroni
Van's wheat free waffles
Blue Diamond Nut thins: almond, hazelnut and smoked almond are out of this world!