Vegankit wrote:Amazing, just amazing. You must be so happy.
I am SO happy. It is strange because some of the reactions I get are .... "well, that is good, but don't get your hopes up." *sigh* I was told that I wouldn't get better and that I would be on dialysis within the year. The doctors refuse to believe that I can improve, but I am now and nothing could make me happier.
My aunt has a similar disease and has lived with it her entire life. She eats the renal diet, which, when I look at it now is a diet that will only make this disease worse. It takes away all whole grains, promotes animal protein, takes away vegetable proteins like beans and lentils and decreases the amount of fruits and vegetables to a very small amount and encourages more fat and sugar because they supposedly don't harm the kidneys. After 35 years she is just now going on the transplant list. She maintained her disease all those years because they told her there was no cure. I wonder... if she had changed her diet... I just wonder.
I am grateful to my sister for telling me to read The China Study and then sending me to this site. I read on this site each day to get encouragement, watch what the successful people are doing and I read, read, read the things that Dr. McDougall and others write in the research. I absolutely plan on being a star McDougaller and claiming victory not only over this kidney disease, but my weight issue as well.
Thank you for all the positive feedback!! You are all amazing and I am so glad to be here and on the right path.