Re: My skin is making me miserable. Please help!

Hello again,

I'm not a vegetarian, nor are my nieces. Although they eat a majority fruits and vegetables, turkey, chicken and fish are a part of their diets as well. They also eat lots of corn and whole wheat bread, used to make their turkey sandwiches, with no problem to their skin. This shows the uniqueness of each eczema sufferer and why it is important to educate yourself with the general listing regarding food allergens; but not to assume an allergen to the general listing unless you've proven to show allergic reactions to those items. Especially since a lot of the foods that are listed as food allergens for eczema sufferers are foods that nature made and are necessary sources for nutritional nourishment (vitamins, minerals, and protein) to the body, it is important to make sure that an individual has shown an allergy to those items before eliminating them from their diet. If you feel that the corn is playing a role in your breakout, then you should honor your instincts. You seem to do a lot of good things for your body and your skin; you've simply come across something that didn't agree with your body. To boost your immune health, I suggest eating more dark green vegetables (like spinach, kale, collards, mustard, & brocolli), carrots, squash, and romaine/green lettuce. Green vegetables are my nieces favorite vegetables and I know they have played the role (along with water) of restorer to their immune health. You may already eat these vegetables as part of your daily nutrition. If so, I just want to encourage you to continue.

According to my grandmother's old medical dictionary, dry, cracked, peeling skin and brittle hair usually signified a vitamin A deficiency. The vegetables that I listed above are natural sources of beta carotene/vitamin A. That same dictionary also cautioned that an overdose of vitamin A would produce the opposite effect to the skin (extremely oily) and could promote life threatening disease. This is why it is important to use caution when supplementing your diet with pills; and is why I always suggest that people look to fill those deficiencies with foods that provide the nourishment naturally and not depend solely on pills. I usually suggest a one-a-day multivitamin supplement because I don't like the idea of people popping so many different pills. I've had an aversion to pills since I was a young girl. I didn't even like the idea of taking pills for headaches (most of the time I would suffer through them without any assistance from pills). Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up as to why those particular vegetables would prove to be beneficial to the skin.

Your Kefir shakes, the drinks from Kyo-Green and the V8 juice should serve to not only provide you with the nourishment that your body needs; but also to serve as a flushing agent for toxins that enter the body. We took the initiative that brought about my nieces healing, so don't feel like you're doing something out of the ordinary. For the healing that you desire, you will have to take the initiative and do for yourself what you had hoped the doctors would do. You can do it and you're worth it.

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