Some friends of mine lived in Fort Collins and Boulder from 1990 to 2005. She was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and was very sickly and weak most of the time she lived in Colorado. Then he got a job as an executive at Dell Computer in Austin. Within four weeks of moving to Austin, her condition cleared up – and a year later she had triplets.
So what changed? The tap water in Austin tasted terrible, so they switched to purified water when they moved there. I tried to get them to quit drinking tap water while they lived here, but they didn’t listen to me.
My mother has suffered from several bouts of cancer and severe rheumatoid arthritis for most of the last 20 years. I’m extremely healthy, but unlike my mother I don’t eat any wheat or dairy. If I consume any dairy, my ankles swell up the next day. A week of eating pizza and I can hardly walk. My experience is that managing my health is primarily dependent on controlling what I consume. I have spent exactly $0.00 on doctors the last five years, and saved a lot of money on food by minimizing what I eat.
Like most people, I have a lot of food allergies – but stay healthy by sticking to a very restrictive, minimal diet.