Re: Alcoholism seen as a Nutritional Disease

Hi,

I am not interested in arguing your points; only being helpful to Chris. I will say that there are a lot of people who have receovered from alcoholism and not changed their diets or gained weight from eating more carbs or sugars to compensate.

My personal experience and experience watching hundreds of people stop drinking and "stay stopped" tells me that this disease does in fact extend beyond the physical and into the realms of the mental and spiritual. I am absolutely willing to believe everything you say about the relationship between drinking and insulin resistance, but my experience tells me, again, that someone trying to stop who is a true alcoholic will not be able to stay stopped for any length of time if they try to treat the physical craving alone -- which can be treated by not picking up the first drink, which leads me back to a point in an earlier post -- the real problem faced by the alcoholic lies in the mind, which will tell him or her that a drink might be a good idea!

Again, I suggest you become more familiar with the nature of alcoholism as a condition of the mind, body and spirit -- and again, I am perfectly willing to believe that I and all my friends over the years have been divinely delivered of insulin resistance, but I assure you that it did not come about by any change in diet, exercise, etc.!

Best,

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