If you have CF
If you have CF and feel like you cannot AFFORD to get well by eating better food:
You have to eat anyway. Eating healthier is cheaper in the long run.
Junk food is only "cheap" if you aren't counting the real costs, such as your high medical expenses and lost productivity.
And this site plus my nutrition site should arm you with information that will make the upfront costs manageable so you can get there from here.
- I have supported three people, two with atypical CF, on under $20,000/year for a lot of years. What we do is MUCH cheaper than conventional treatment.
- Over time as you heal, your appetite will shrink. At one point, my monthly expenses for food for ME ALONE dropped a THOUSAND dollars a month.
- I had to figure it all out as I went. You have more than 200 posts by me with details on how to do this which should help enormously in doing this on a budget and etc.
- Start a health journal.
- READ THE ENTIRE SITE.
- Once you have some baseline understanding of YOUR stuff and ALSO the general mental models here, make ONE and ONLY one change, something that makes sense to you and you feel you kind of understand.
- If possible, TRY to give it a week or TWO to see how things shake out and how your body reacts to that so you UNDERSTAND IT before making the next change. (Do be aware you may want to manage side effects using info on this site.)
- Rinse and repeat forever.
- If you have CFRD, start with Aloe Vera as your glyconutrient. It will HELP your blood sugar issues instead of making them worse. When my expensive glycontrient supplement changed their formula and I couldn't take it anymore, I switched to aloe vera. It was much less expensive and did about half for me what the expensive supplement had done.
- If like 90 percent of people with CF you are very thin, adding muscle mass may help reduce insulin resistance. If you don't have an issue with eggs, egg whites are a nearly "perfect" protein in that humans can use about 98 percent of the protein in them, so it is likely to be the easiest way to increase your protein status.
- If you do one and ONLY one thing I suggest: Just REMOVE peanut oil from your diet. It doesn't necessarily cost anything more to use a different oil and it's both highly pro inflammatory and stays in the system a long time.
You have to eat anyway. Eating healthier is cheaper in the long run.
Junk food is only "cheap" if you aren't counting the real costs, such as your high medical expenses and lost productivity.
And this site plus my nutrition site should arm you with information that will make the upfront costs manageable so you can get there from here.
