diet Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/diet/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:35:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 31053421 Open Wide https://livingwithscleroderma.com/open-wide/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/open-wide/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:00:31 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=8983

It’s not easy to open my mouth all the way. Even as the stiffening of the skin on my face has eased significantly over the past 40 years (indeed, I have plenty of wrinkles to prove it), I cannot open wide at visits to the dentist or the doctor. My dentist and hygienist and periodontist […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/weather-spotting/feed/ 2 1695 Why I Don’t Eat Meat but Still Wear Leather Shoes https://livingwithscleroderma.com/why-i-dont-eat-meat-but-wear-leather-shoes/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/why-i-dont-eat-meat-but-wear-leather-shoes/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:40 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=214 Living amidst abundance, graced with super-sized supermarkets that devote an entire aisle to the vast variety of mustards and ketchups Americans supposedly crave, we struggle with the luxury of choice: What to eat? Years ago, I decided, out of religious commitment, to follow Jewish dietary law and keep a kosher home. No more ham-and-cheese sandwiches […]

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