Alkaline Diet

id like to take this moment in time to share my experience of eating alkaline forming foods and the effect it has on clearing my sinuses. ikr gross. but seriously.

ok so i have horrible allergies and sinus problems. i have sleep apnea and snore and get really congested and am always sniffly and if i get a cold or cough that i dont treat immediately itll turn into bronchitis, which has in the past, turned to pneumonia!! i get fungal skin allergies and once went into anaphylactic shock from eating raw-ish walnuts. i loved walnuts!

but somehow i thought i had an unbalanced ph and needed to alkaline my diet. so i went on a fast and ate only alkaline forming foods. well mostly only. for about a month. and it helped me lose weight and save hella money and it cleared up my sinuses and general malady regarding allergens affecting me so much that they linger and cause further problems.

yes.

so all was good till christmas time. the feast. all that white flour and beef and sugar. then i kind of got lazy and was eating a lot of naan again (its sooo yummy) and did many other things that i am certain raised the acidity of my body.  my sinus got totally clogged again and i was kind of bummed. i started up eating mostly only alkaline forming foods building up to last night i ate:
2 roasted yams (oven 1.5 hours at 350) -mashed with butter, sea salt and pepper
with
1 small onion cooked in butter and pepper- with one cup frozen green peas.
plus drinking apple cider vinegar water again (which i stopped doing for some reason)
and with that, just today got fully back on track and my sinuses cleared up again, like fully.

its so amazing. im pretty stoked.

so this is the list of foods ive been using. i printed out the whole thing and its just by the kitchen at all times :)

http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm

this is about our bodys' ph level
http://altered-states.net/barry/update178/index.htm

cheers to good health!

CRAFT FAIRS!

Andrea Tucker of gotCraft will be selling some of my pieces at the I Heart Crafts! Isnt she just the best!

I Heart Crafts Bazaar
Sunday, Nov 30th, 2008
11:00 am-6:00 pm
Ukrainian Cultural Center
805 E Pender St. (in Strathcona)
hand made, unusual and wonderful works by local artists,
designers and crafters.
$2.00 admission,
for more information visit iheartcraftsba

GOT CRAFT!!! December 7



Saturday, December 20 - noon -5:00pm - FREE @ the CAMBRIAN HALL (across from Blim )

Blim presents:

Blim Winter Market ( craft event )

featuring:

basement sweet www.basementsweet.com
Julia Say and Tondela Myles ( knitted items ) www.tondela.ca
Mindan Gunther Moore (jewellery)
Stephanie Aitken and Frances Mcdonald (felted creatures)
It's Your Life www.itsyourlifeshop.com
District Thirty www.Districtthirty.com
Billy Would www.billywould.com
Re-up www.list4all.com/re-up
Fibre Manipulator www.fibremanipulator.ca
Pon http://overmindproductions.com/index.html
A Farmers Daughter
Baby Elephant www.babyelephantdesigns.com
Moobs www.flickr.com/photos/pandabones
Stitchella www.catcompanion.ca
Wee Works
Roxy Pops (knitted goods)
Chicffon www.chicffon.etsy.com
Vanessa Kapka
Down Home Amy www.downhomeamy.com
Su Foster ( jewellery)
Sara Mulder
Some other girl
Momoko (pottery)
Laurin Valentine
Gldnmilitia
Hand and Shadow fting: Georgie Russell
Blim www.blim.ca
Otaunu Spirit (soaps and bags)
Civil Disobediance www.civildisobediencecompany.com
Chanda Stallman ( framed collages)
Bueno Design www.buenodesign.ca
Nicole Sanches
Sedated www.sedatedclothing.com
Catalyst www.catalystreaction.ca
Jen Kim (stuffed animals)
Heyday Design fting: Claire Madill (ceramics)

with Hot Japanese Snacks by Michael Tora Speier
and Baked Vegan Goods by Evan Mcgraw.

Noon - 5:00pm @ Cambrian Hall - 215 e. 17th ave. (across from Blim behind Granville Island Toys)

www.blim.ca

here are some pics from the fab fair!
it was fun as usual.. up to now my display is still the same! HAHA my god like i never improve in that area!! my gosh it got real dark near the end and i had no light etc...
but! was super casual. old lovelies and familiar faces. and met a new lovely lady named iris who sews click on pics to go to their links...(this might take me a day or two haha hold on..)