How to eat the right fats

How to eat the right fats.

A trip to the Emergency Room coupled with nausea, a constant back-ache, depletion

of energy and no appetite was a wake up call for me. I was very ill for the month June 2007 and to make matters worse I was told at that time there was nothing wrong with me repeatedly. Apparently after the CAT scan, Ultra-sounds, and various trips to 2 different doctor offices and 3 trips to the ER someone decided I had a gallbladder issue. The problem is I didn’t get

‘the message’ until my next physical a year later. I was lucky there was no life-threatening

symptoms after this. Since I was sent home frstrated, crying and feeling so very sick I felt I made a fool out of myself. I was not aware I had had a gallbladder attack. Even though the pain, nausea, distended stomach continued, I did not go back. Instead I stopped eating what a ‘normal’ person might eat. I slept, took motrin, hot bathes and weathered the pain. I had stopped eating for about a week fasting only on herbal teas, water and later

added rice, bread and chicken. The pain became tolerable with daily doses of Motrin. The

nausea, however, increased with exersion. This caused me to lose 3 different jobs. I

didn’t realize I was sick. I thought I couldn’t ‘lift’ anymore due to my age. I thought

caregiving was not a job I could perform anymore. This all started as I recieved my LNA

(licensed nursing aide) and as I turned 48 years old.

During the course of the year, 2007 to 2008, I automatically stopped eating certain foods that I used to love. I couldn’t eat chocolate ice cream, peanut butter, stake, hamburg, corn and the list goes on. The one product I did not suspect of making me sick, which I should have, was the ‘pat’ of butter I put on my toast in the morning. A year later, the day I was informed of having a diseased gallbladder, was the day I researched the Internet and books. I found the number one items causing gallbladder issues are foods high in fats and cholesterol. That pat of butter was a pat of ‘fat’ that my gallbladder could no longer accomodate. Gallbladders are like holding tanks for excess bile. If the fat can not be broken down gallstones can result.

I immediately stopped using butter. I bought ‘vegan’, a butter substitute. It is found on

the shelves above or below the butter. I bought whole wheat crackers showing ‘o’ on the label for cholesterol. Essentially I learned and came to value the meaning of ‘organic’. I didn’t

realize what it really meant

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