Hi there.

My name is Melody and I'd like to offer a possible help to all your symptoms. At least it helped me and I am thankful every day that I found a newer lifestyle (in my food choices). Don't just pooh pooh me just yet. Give a listen.

I used to be a morbidly obese woman with degenerative joint disease, used a cane, my knees were shot and two years or so ago I was diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy. I have been diabetic for 23 years. I am now 63 years YOUNG!!

what did I do? I started to sprout my own food, I eat organic as much as possible. I don't nor did I ever smoke, and I never EVER put anything processed food in my body. Made a big difference in my pain level.

Also (and this is fact, so look it up on the internet), I take 5000 mgs of Methyl B-12 sublingually every morning on an empty stomach).

This nipped my neuropathy in it's tracks.

Look at it this way, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Doesn't matter if you are overweight, a normal weight, or whatever. Your body is talking to you and you should listen.

Just google "Benefits of Sprouting" and see what it does for the body. I am not talking about Brussel Sprouts by the way. I'm talking Broccoli sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, radish sprouts, lentil sprouts.

I'm not even talking about eating a raw food diet because that did not work for me. I need the protein and I eat fish and chicken and bison meat. Look up bison and you'll see the benefit of bison over red meat (beef).

I started eating this way and let me tell you for a 63 year old woman who has to take care of sick husband I would NEVER be able to do this if I ate like all the other people on the planet.

No fast food by the way.

If you want to see how I sprout, and how I grow them in my kitchen, (and this takes 1 minute twice a day to rinse and drain the sprouts, well if a person can do one minute every 12 hours, everyone should do this.

If you think you just might be interested to see how HEALTHY EATING just might be beneficial to you, click on this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adeh3-LcSbo

It's one of the videos I made (I belong to a sprouting message boards and we have all kinds of people from all parts of the world, and we give each other tips and better ways to sprout various seeds).

You'll see that I use stackable trays, and then put them on my shelves in my kitchen. I don't need anything fancy, because I don't have a lot of money. What I do have is MUCH LESS PAIN everywhere in my body because I don't eat anything inflammatory.

I enjoy this hobby like you would not believe.

And once you see this video, if you think to yourself "wow, let me look into this further", just go to the right and you'll see all my other sprouting videos. I have other videos up and they are all public but I just wanted you to see how easy, how CHEAP, and how healthy it is to sprout your own food.

I eat a sprout salads (that's up on youtube also). In the morning, I grab a handful of sprouts and go to my local breakfast cafe and order an egg sandwich on a toasted roll and I just take out my little ziploc bag of sprouts and I dump them on my sandwich.

I also bring a nice bag of sprouts (broccoli) to my primary care physician because he's a body builder and he LOVES SPROUTS.

Just google the benefits of broccoli sprouts and you'll see why I sprout these.

So when you get a minute (and this is for everyone who sees these postings), why not look into sprouting. You can incorporate it into whatever you eat and they taste wonderful.

I also make an item called Birds Nest patties in which I use my bean sprouts (yeah I grow my own). And I have them up on youtube too.

I think many of our diseases can be traced back to what we put in our bodies.

We only get one body. I plan to be good to mine from now on.

All the best

Melody