Isadora
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I have this friend, we’ll call her Natalie, who is very dear to me. She is 1.55 m tall and weighs 39 kilos. Her Tanita scale shows her at 6% body fat, mine at a "whopping" 11%. She has two children, Patrick, 7, borderline autistic since the birth of his sister, Diana, now 5. Both kids look severely malnourished, especially the boy, who is extremely picky about his diet. Her husband looks OK, actually fighting off a few pounds, exercising a lot and eating a regular diet. Their live-in babysitter has put on some serious weight too in the past few years — so my guess is that real food is bountifully available in their house, just that not everyone partakes…
Natalie was always a fussy eater. She always said she wanted to put on more weight, but was unable to. She claimed severe digestive issues allowed her to only eat a few things: processed grains in all their forms, especially the white bread/pastry/pasta. She tends to be a vegetarian, but sometimes white fish makes its way on her plate. I've seen it happen. It was painful: she carefully chose only the white meat on top, so the white sauce it came with would not touch it. She left all that had been made impure by the unexpected sauce on the plate. She abhors fat. Yogurt, white bread, almond milk and soy milk are her main sources of protein.
She says about her son (with some degree of admiration, but I might be wrong in this perception) that he can only tolerate white foods. Not even a little pink, as in chicken breast. Therefore, Patrick eats some kind of formula milk, a little rice, white fish, and not much else.
They took him to a nutritionist and they thought that person to be very unprofessional when she prescribed tons of supplements.
Frankly, I am on the border of some kind of intervention here. I try to distance myself from these problems, but can’t. I feel like I should act.
Sending her eBooks and links didn’t work. I even tried sending her husband a few things on FB, and all I got back was “You have some bizarre conceptions there.” Traditional food and Peat thinking are obviously too far from their realm.
I should probably mention one other tidbit of communication I had with Natalie recently — as a way to end the conversation on food I had initiated she told me, with some impatience, that if I think that food is the only way we get energy into our bodies I am very much mistaken. What about the Yogis that never eat? Food is only 25% of what makes us who we are, the rest is… Hard to explain. Energy, there…
By her standards, I am obsessed with food, I eat way too much, I got myself very sick with extreme diets and nasty animal food. She feels very sorry for me and would do anything to help me out. She is trying to open my mind towards the healing energy out there and I did my best to follow her, but… That’s another story.
I did get a tidbit of an opening — she promised me she would get herself tested for gluten intolerance, but I couldn’t convince her to do the same for the boy (”I will not put a needle in my baby just to make you happy.” Apparently, the kid never had a blood test in his life.)
Another small victory: I made her curious about niacinamide.
What else could or should I do? If anything?
Thanks! Any input will be MUCH appreciated!
Natalie was always a fussy eater. She always said she wanted to put on more weight, but was unable to. She claimed severe digestive issues allowed her to only eat a few things: processed grains in all their forms, especially the white bread/pastry/pasta. She tends to be a vegetarian, but sometimes white fish makes its way on her plate. I've seen it happen. It was painful: she carefully chose only the white meat on top, so the white sauce it came with would not touch it. She left all that had been made impure by the unexpected sauce on the plate. She abhors fat. Yogurt, white bread, almond milk and soy milk are her main sources of protein.
She says about her son (with some degree of admiration, but I might be wrong in this perception) that he can only tolerate white foods. Not even a little pink, as in chicken breast. Therefore, Patrick eats some kind of formula milk, a little rice, white fish, and not much else.
They took him to a nutritionist and they thought that person to be very unprofessional when she prescribed tons of supplements.
Frankly, I am on the border of some kind of intervention here. I try to distance myself from these problems, but can’t. I feel like I should act.
Sending her eBooks and links didn’t work. I even tried sending her husband a few things on FB, and all I got back was “You have some bizarre conceptions there.” Traditional food and Peat thinking are obviously too far from their realm.
I should probably mention one other tidbit of communication I had with Natalie recently — as a way to end the conversation on food I had initiated she told me, with some impatience, that if I think that food is the only way we get energy into our bodies I am very much mistaken. What about the Yogis that never eat? Food is only 25% of what makes us who we are, the rest is… Hard to explain. Energy, there…
By her standards, I am obsessed with food, I eat way too much, I got myself very sick with extreme diets and nasty animal food. She feels very sorry for me and would do anything to help me out. She is trying to open my mind towards the healing energy out there and I did my best to follow her, but… That’s another story.
I did get a tidbit of an opening — she promised me she would get herself tested for gluten intolerance, but I couldn’t convince her to do the same for the boy (”I will not put a needle in my baby just to make you happy.” Apparently, the kid never had a blood test in his life.)
Another small victory: I made her curious about niacinamide.
What else could or should I do? If anything?
Thanks! Any input will be MUCH appreciated!