How to live with lupus

Eat and Live Healthy…..start from here

STEP ONE

Feeling stressed?  Because you don’t know what you should do or where to start?  You can start right here.  Remember, we cannot rush it, make changes one step at a time.  Start with one thing healthy and reduce the other unhealthy thing.  Example:  Drink sufficient amount of water daily and cut down on sodium intake.

Thought I shared with you that I have benefited very much from this book ‘Complete DIY Food Guide For Life (in Chinese) by Mr. Billy Wang and Mr. Oyoung.  For a start, we can get lost in the world of healthy living and healthy eating but with the help of this book, at least I know where to start and also because it is from a trusted source.   I have gained much knowledge with the help of this book.  It covers from the different types of acidic food to high alkaline food, the classification of yin and yang principles in food, the energies and flavors of foods.  The different types of diseases and ailments and how to find a diet/recipe and lifestyle that is most suited to your needs.  And it has hundreds of healthy recipes and pictures from noodles, rice, juices, soups, beverages etc.  Now you too, can put this knowledge to use.
 
If you are suffering from SLE, you may find the instructions on page 76 of this book helpful.  This translated version in English is my way of helping those who do not understand or cannot read Chinese.   It gives you the basic information on what food to take and what food to avoid.
 
Note:  This is intended to serve as a guide only.

Building Up One’s Health:  

1.  Eat food high in iodine i.e. kelp, seaweed, algae.

2. ‘Mao gen’ (a type of root of a plant) Soup:  60g fresh ‘mao gen’, 60g fresh ‘Lu gen’ (reed rhizome), 1000cc water.
Wash all ingredients and place in a pot, add water and bring to boil, turn down heat and simmer for further 30 minutes, drink the soup only.

3.  Lily Bulb and Lotus Seed Thick soup:  30g lily bulb, 15g lotus seed, 750cc water.
Wash ingredients and place all in a pot, add water and bring to boil, turn down heat and simmer till all ingredients are cooked.

4.  Chinese Yam (Shan Yao) and Green Bean Porridge:  60g yam, 30g green bean, 30g brown rice, 750cc water.
Peel the yam, wash and cut into cubes. Wash beans and rice and soak in water for 4 hours. Place all ingredients into an electric cooker to cook.  Suitable as a breakfast.

5.  Mixed Juices (5 types of veggies & fruit):  1 apple, 150g cucumber, 150g bitter gourd, 100g green capsicum, 120g celery. 
Wash all ingredients.   Peel the apple and cucumber and cut into small pieces.  Remove seeds from bitter gourd and capsicum and cut into small pieces. Chop the celery and place all ingredients into a fruit juicer and extract juice.  Drink immediately.

6.  Water Spinach (Kang Kung) Vegetable & White Radish Juice:  500g organic water spinach, 250g organic radish.
Quick-boil water spinach for 1 minute. Cut the radish into smaller pieces.  Place both in fruit juicer to extract the juice. Drink immediately.

7.  Double Fungus Soup: 5g dried white fungus, 5g dried black fungus.
Wash the fungus and soak in water to soften.  Add 1000cc water into a pot with the fungus and boil till fungus is thoroughly cooked.  Add raw sugar or sea salt for taste.  Suitable as a light snack.

8.  Drink 2500cc water daily. (inclusive of soups, beverages)

9.  Ensure all three meals must be low calories and high fiber food.  And as part of detoxification, scrub your body with loofah before bath.

10.Cultivate the good habit of clearing your bowels before bedtime.  It will allow the small intestine and stomach to digest food more efficiently and passing through the large intestine thus increasing metabolism and healing.

Food To Avoid:

1.  Avoid eating chilli, garlic, pepper.
2.  Avoid eating types of bamboo shoot.
3.  Avoid eating hot energy fruits i.e. durian, lychee, longan, plum, mango, cherry, custard apple.
4.  Avoid eating food that is fried, deep-fried, smoked, grill/barbeque, baked.
5.  Avoid eating alfalfa sprouts, broad bean, soybean, green pea and other beans.
6.  Avoid all alcoholic drinks.
7.  Avoid eating prawn, crab, shellfish, mutton, which can trigger off an allergy.
8.  No processed food i.e. fish ball, sweet non-spicy, instant noodles, canned food, smelly tofu.
9.  Avoid food high in sodium.
10. Avoid exposure to sunray, use an umbrella for protection.
For other healthy recipes/lifestyle, you can check these websites: 
www.billywang.com.sg  and www.oyoung.com.tw 
Mr. Billy Wang is a multi-talented person. A very famous DJ with Mediacorp Radio, Founder of Care Cancer Society and a healthy lifestyle teacher/trainer/nutritionist and Mr. Oyoung, nutritionist & teacher, with an extensive 24 years experience is from Taiwan.