Hi,

I've been oil pulling for a few days and I think I might be seeing some results (although I'm cautious at this point). I've also been applying DCL AHA revitalizing cream 20 (high potency glycolic) as I've done for a long time now and uremol 20 (also shea butter when my skin feels too dry). I'm not sure if it's the oil pulling or a combination of all these things or just a fluke...

Anyway, since the idea behind oil pulling is about getting rid of toxins, I've been thinking of modifying my diet drastically. I've been searching the web for info on skin disorders and diet.

I came up with this
For eczema (which I suffer from also)

Avoid high-fat meat and dairy products, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, safflower seed oil and mixed vegetable oils, alcohol, hydrogenated fats (e.g. margarine, commercial peanut butter, shortenings)

Replace with: chicken, turkey, fish, cornish hen, 1 percent milk or yogurt, no cheese above 3 percent milk fat, olive oil, canola and peanut oil (for salad dressing, sauteeing vegetables and stir-fry)
-On another site, it says that all dairy should be eliminated altogether, and no eggs.

Which leaves me with a problem. What do you eat for breakfast if you can't have either milk or eggs? I usually have the same thing in the morning (oatmeal with milk) but now I have to get rid of the milk. Is there anyone out there with a restricted diet who can advise me?

As for the oil restrictions, I circumvented this by using olive oil for oil pulling instead of sunflower...

Thing is, I know what not to eat, but I don't know what the hell TO EAT! Any suggestions? articles or books I can read?

Thanks

Hi! I've been oil pulling for two weeks and am cautiously optimistic, too. Thanks for the diet info - that's been on my mind, too, and you've got me thinking. I'm no expert on restricted diets, so I'll be anxious to see replies to your post, but here are some breakfast ideas that might work:

Steel-cut oats, which are whole grain (oatmeal's not), are a favorite at our house. Nice texture, kinda nutty. We add dried cranberries (or other fruit), cinnamon and honey at the start of the cooking process to make them more interesting and make them "wet" enough to not need milk. Vanilla extract works well in place of cinnamon, too. They're also called pin-cut oats.

Yogurt, a piece of fruit and a handful of almonds would be fast and easy.

Granola sprinkled over yogurt is yummy. But I guess you'd have to watch the oils the granola is made with, or make your own. (We get ours at the health food store.) And we've been making yogurt with organic 1% milk lately, too, when we can't buy organic yogurt: gotta wonder about all the stuff that goes on with the non-organic dairy...

We use Smucker's organic peanut butter since it doesn't contain anything but peanuts and peanut oil. Works well on toast. Like the granola, I guess you'd have to check the ingredients on store-bought bread. I just made great bread from a Hodgson Mill mix in our bread machine (totally easy - just pour in warm water and the mix and press "start"), and their stuff doesn't have any bad ingredients (www.hodgsonmill.com).

Thanks again and good luck, I look forward to reading about your research! :-)

Hi Freedom,
I have mostly eliminated dairy from my diet. I love oatmeal and have it almost every morning. I am cooking it with more water, as Sassafras suggests, so I don't need as much milk. For milk, I use homemade almond milk or rice milk. You can find recipes for both on the internet, or you can buy them at a natural food store. I also sometimes use store-bought soy milk. I use all three for smoothies and for cream soups, as well. I have eggs once a week.
Hope this helps.
kebod

Hi Freedom.

Off the subject, but if I remember correctly: you have darker skin. I replied to one of your previous writings, but I have recently gotten better results by using soap instead of a moisturizing bar. When I scrub (exfoliate), I started using Dial - anti-bacterial soap. Reason: To treat your skin, it needs to be clean and dial strips away excess oil and dirt so that when you apply treatment, such as glycolic acid lotion, it is actually on the KP and not layered over moisturizer! I believe that when I use a moisturizing body wash or bar, it deposits things into my skin to make it softer instead of taking away things to reveal the KP more. Now, when I use the glycolic acid lotion, I'm noticing much better results, and it's progressing more quickly. I am so ecstatic about this discovery that I had to tell someone! If you think about it with common sense: its kinda obvious that we aren't trying to get softer skin, we are trying to get rid of bumps and dark spots. Once we are rid of those, then moisturizing may become more important.

Angel 3000