Good Friday Morning,
Yesterday afternoon, I officially put Caroline's No Nightshade Kitchen to bed. Now onto the publishing process. I'm excited, and grateful to everyone who has been supportive of this cookbook and guide. Living with arthritis pain is extremely difficult, and if this book and guide to eating and enjoying foods without nightshades helps you, I'll be very happy, and so will you.

I'll post more recipes soon, but today, I've included an excerpt from the introduction of my book. I appreciate hearing from you, and your comments about how the elimination of nightshades from your diet is helping you live pain free with arthritis. Or, please let me know about problems you may by having.

Take good care and be well,
Caroline


From the introduction of Caroline's No NIghtshade Kitchen:
Norman Childers, PhD, founder of the Arthritis Nightshades Research Foundation, conducted a study with over 1400 volunteers concerning this relationship. In his research paper, An Apparent Relationship of Nightshades to Arthritis, published in 1993, in the “Journal of Neurological and Orthopedic Medical Surgery” (12:227-231), he concludes that “...nightshades are an important causative factor in arthritis in sensitive people.” Additional information follows throughout this book, including many other sources and references in the appendix.

     Hopefully future research, possibly gene identification, will provide conclusive scientific results that will enable those with arthritis to determine if nightshade plants are causing, or adding to, their crippling affliction. The Center for Disease Control reports that over twenty-one million people are affected, and often disabled, with arthritis in this country. The numbers are staggering. If you suffer from arthritis, why not do what I did. Stop ingesting nightshades for a few weeks and see for yourself.  
Caroline Thompson