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Your Healing Diet: A Quick Guide to Reversing Psoriasis and Chronic Diseases with Healing Foods

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I've had severe eczema all my life and have always been on one medication or another, or two or three... When I quit smoking six months ago, eczema flared up all over my body. I was literally scratching my skin off. I went to several doctors, each of them gave me the newest medication on the market for eczema, told me to try it and come back for something new to try if it didn't work. Nothing worked!! Determined to get off of prescription medication and seek a cure, not just a mask, to the symptoms I've had all my life I met with Deidre. She recommended I try a whole foods diet for six months, no caffeine, no alcohol or processed foods. After five months on this diet, my skin has cleared up and I have quit taking all prescription medication with no side effects. I feel better than I have in years. Deidre's book, Your Healing Diet, is my little guidebook. I keep it out and refer to it when I need to remind myself that I am well because I am on a diet that promotes healing from within. I am so thankful that I've been able to take control of my health and don't have to rely on western medicine, but can actually heal myself by eating right. Deidre has been so supportive and encouraging. She is a valuable resource for people truly desiring to make a change in their lives to promote healing from within.

The impetus for writing a book against psoriasis came from Deirdre Earls' own long and painful encounter with the skin condition. The dietitian from Texas chose a more natural way of tackling her problem by healing with diet instead of chemotherapy. Her book Your Healing Diet (BookSurge Publishing, South Carolina, 2006) gives dietary advice on coping with problems, including psoriasis, resulting from noxious food.

Though Earls' book is a short one, mere 62 pages, it offers a simple and clear explanation of the anatomy of psoriasis and other diseased conditions in terms of food intake and digestion. Particularly informative and interesting are the author's description of human body's acid/alkaline balance, nutritional value of different food species, and comparison of natural versus processed food items. The facts sum up to the uncommon but wholesome principle of `healing from the inside out' rather than `healing only the symptoms from the outside in'.

Earls puts forth her three central healing principles: diet, positive outlook, and outdoor activity. The brunt of her dietary commendation stands on fresh vegetarian food, discouraging flesh, fat, and artificial snacks. She shares her own culinary chart with the readers, caring for taste, which, to her, comes after good health.

The real value of her work is latent in the power of motivation her words stir up in the reader. The many side effects of drugs are the horror of a patient. Knowledge of our natural nutritional treasure is essential to each and every person who is having health problems of any sort. Earls' short book comes close to achieving this aim.

For Americans, or those visiting here, Your healing Diet is of practical guidance in that it has a list of stores where food of value can be purchased. Whether one is home or traveling, Earls' book is a good guide to better eating.

A year ago my husband was struggling with severe psoriasis with lesions covering 98% of his body. He lost all hope of healing when doctors told him that there was nothing they could do to cure him. Out of desperation I contacted my son who was instrumental in finding Ms. Earls. She gave us hope and started us on a healing diet which was our new beginning to a healthy lifestyle. Our family embarked on a team effort to support my husband, and in return we have all benefited from our efforts. Within weeks of following a healing diet we began seeing changes in my husband's skin and demeanor. Today my husband is 95% cured of psoriasis and shows no visible signs, no longer has high cholesterol or on high blood pressure medicine, and has lost 40 pounds. We continue to practice all that Ms. Earls recommends in her guide Your Healing Diet. Her practical approach makes the compact guide user friendly when shopping, planning meals, or doing expository reading.
Our family has a profound gratitude for all that Ms. Earls has done for us. CF, Victoria, TX

I wanted to post a message out here to vouch for Deidre's professionalism and competence as a nutritional/dietician expert and special consultant for people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. I am the support group leader for the Dallas/Fort Worth Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Support Group. We are a National Psoriasis Foundation affiliated support group and we have a Web site at www.dfwpsoriasis.org. I founded the support group in the summer of 2003. We currently have 263 members and we meet monthly at two DFW area locations. I have had Deirdre up to speak to our group on two occasions. At both of those meetings we experienced our best meeting attendance ever and the group members were very appreciative of Deirdre's presentation and the information they received. Deirdre has continued to field questions from our group members and her motivation is sincere and her overall intent is to better the lives of people who must deal with this disease daily (as she does). I fully intend to ask Deirdre to come and speak to our group again in the future and I know she will be warmly and appreciatively received. I personally consider Deirdre our best resource when is comes to treating psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis or any inflammatory disease for that matter from the perspective of diet and nutrition. Given her exceptional training and the fact that she is a patient herself, I don't think you could find a better resource anywhere.

I bought this book because I was intrigued with the way that the author put the healing diet into a format that I could understand and implement. I am a very busy workaholic, and was glad to have a guide that made it very easy for someone with a hectic lifestyle to implement... in other words, I didn't have to actually cook everything myself. The results have been incredible. I feel healthier, think clearer, have more energy... and lost 12lbs... Not bad. Thank you Deirdre.

I'm 58 and have had psoriasis for 50 years. I had been to numerous doctors and all the creams and ointments didn't work. The injections did but with terrible side effects. In looking on the internet I found an article by Deirdre Earls and I ordered her book. That was last May. I've lost 30 pounds and my psoriasis is 95% cleared up. This is the first time in years I can shave my legs without my tub looking like a crime scene. I want to yell to those doctors, "read Deirdre Earls' book". I would never have thought diet would make that much difference. I haven't had meat or fried foods in a year and don't even miss them. I've enjoyed trying new things. I'm so glad to have found this book. If you have psoriasis please try it - you won't be sorry.

This book gives people the opportunity to change their lives. As a registered dietitian and former instructor of nutrition at the University of Texas, this is one of the best hands on, user friendly books I have ever had the pleasure of using with my clients. The book is concise, but filled with a wide variety of quick and easy meal plans for everyday living. This is a book not just for someone with psoriasis but for anyone who wants to take charge of their lives and improve their health.

Earls uncovered a significant link between diet and autoimmune disease. Using this knowledge, she set out to create a dietary approach that relies on natural healing rather than powerful, often dangerous, and always prohibitively expensive medications. The result is a profoundly useful and well-written book, Your Healing Diet.

This book is a real eye-opener when it comes to the actual source of the psoriasis. I loved the way the author broken the shopping list per different store, and what I should keep in the fridge, pantry, office, purse, etc. This book has easy guidelines to follow, and it does not contain some complex recipes. So I can be creative, and I cook certain foods the way my husband and two children that are picky eaters could and would eat.
I have started my diet only 20 days ago. The most difficult thing about is to find all these products in the store first time around. But once you get a hang of it, it is ok. So far, I have started experiencing the outcomes as the author described in the book. I will try to follow it for a while, I hope it works!

I especially appreciate the way this books helps me to create quick and easy recipe-free meals and snacks. Whether I'm at home or at my office or on the road, this book shows me how I can eat all day and fit this way of eating into a life that doesn't include frequent trips to the grocery store. It also shows me that I don't have to spend much time in the kitchen to practice this way of eating.