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by Sue Luscombe
Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:48 pm
Forum: diet
Topic: Healthy ready meals?
Replies: 10
Views: 9667

Re: Healthy ready meals?

Thanks Unfortunately you are limited in what you can do, with such practical constraints. Adding extra frozen veg to ready meals sounds a great idea. Varying quick meals from scratch with ready meals is a good way to increase variety. Ready meals have had a very bad press this year because of the ho...
by Sue Luscombe
Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:31 pm
Forum: diet
Topic: Gluten and dairy intolerances
Replies: 7
Views: 7681

Re: Gluten and dairy intolerances

Hello Brenda So glad to hear that so much is improving for you, even long-standing symptoms such as your sinusitis. Very heartening. Just a final comment, about being on a gluten free diet. In the UK it is recommended for those with gut symptoms to be screened for coeliac disease, (by a blood test),...
by Sue Luscombe
Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:44 am
Forum: diet
Topic: Diet
Replies: 10
Views: 9434

Re: Diet

Thank you for this Sue. As I suspected there is an absence of evidence for any of the claims made. Are there reasons which make studies into diet specific recommendations outside the normal diet health guidance impossible or is it a case that funding needs to be obtained for studies into diet to be...
by Sue Luscombe
Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:17 am
Forum: diet
Topic: Healthy ready meals?
Replies: 10
Views: 9667

Re: Healthy ready meals?

I'm also intolerant now to wheat. I have no energy to get food in the day and I am putting on weight due to lack of activity. I just end up grabbing a mars bar which I know I shouldn't do. Any tips please? Hello mittens123, Many find that their reduced ability for activity leads to unwelcome weight...
by Sue Luscombe
Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:52 am
Forum: diet
Topic: Healthy ready meals?
Replies: 10
Views: 9667

Re: Healthy ready meals?

[quote="SummerSun"]I am currently bedbound with severe M.E. I have carers that come in to do meals etc. Breakfast and lunch not too much of a problem but they have 20 mins in the evening to prepare a meal for me and my son. This is nearly always frozen food in oven or ready meals in microw...
by Sue Luscombe
Thu Aug 15, 2013 9:38 am
Forum: diet
Topic: Diet
Replies: 10
Views: 9434

Re: Diet

You replied regarding CFS/ME diet and supplements. I'm curious if it is the same for FM. I have always been told to take magnesium and that studies have reflected this. Hello, The evidence on benefits of taking magnesium supplements is not as concrete as some would suggest. It may help but there is...
by Sue Luscombe
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:23 pm
Forum: diet
Topic: Anti-Candida and restrictive diets
Replies: 1
Views: 3100

Re: Anti-Candida and restrictive diets

Hello, I wonder if you are feeling better because such diets do cut out a lot of the processed high fat, high sugar foods? Not a bad thing to happen. I do understand how hard it is to follow such a restrictive diet, on top of the often massive burden of coping with CFS. Such diets can really add str...
by Sue Luscombe
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:20 pm
Forum: diet
Topic: Dietary Advice-Crashing all the time
Replies: 2
Views: 3584

Re: Dietary Advice-Crashing all the time

Hello You are doing exactly what is recommended to minimise “crashing”, also sometimes referred to as “energy slumps”. You are not alone in getting these symptoms and quite why this happens in CFS is not clear. The symptoms of shaking and sweating are similar to what happens when the blood glucose i...
by Sue Luscombe
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:16 pm
Forum: diet
Topic: Diet and supplements for ME/Menopause.
Replies: 1
Views: 3051

Re: Diet and supplements for ME/Menopause.

Dear Mary Helen I’m sorry to read, on top of all other issues, that you are experiencing very unwelcome menopausal symptoms. There has been a lot written about potential benefits of certain foods such as those containing plant oestrogens that may help, but the jury is still out. The British Dietetic...
by Sue Luscombe
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:11 pm
Forum: diet
Topic: Supplements
Replies: 3
Views: 4024

Re: Supplements

If you are concerned that you are not getting a good intake nutritionally, a one-a-day multivitamin/mineral, (with no more than 100% recommended daily intake), is absolutely safe to take with Sertraline. However, do avoid taking several different supplements, as this may mean doubling up on certain ...
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