Healthy is also delicious

The self-help group Multiple sclerosis took an evening at the family center, LIBA, to learn about healthy eating. | Photo: Gudrun Billowie
The Family Center is dedicated to the LIBA full cooking and healthy eating Self-help group of multiple sclerosis (MS) allowed himself there an informative gourmet evening.

Barleben l The tables are covered nicely in the family center. Women talking animatedly. Walkers are pushed into the corner. Nothing suggests that women are ill at the table. Only when they gather in the kitchen, are based on a few. Others go alone. MS is an insidious disease, a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. It shows, sometimes more, sometimes less her face.

"There is no diet that influence the disease," explains Daniela Lehmann. She is the chairwoman of the MS support group that meets in Haldensleben actually, but heralds the advent of an evening at the family center LIBA. Nutritionist Dr. Martin Wohlert had made a full menu together and made fresh. Autumn a mixed salad as an appetizer, served nicely from endive, apple, carrot, basil. The main course is a colorful vegetable dish with fish, and for dessert a rasp and apple cups.

Healthy eating is good for the wellbeing of all people well, who has been diagnosed with MS knows that health is a valuable asset. "The disease occurs in spurts," says Daniela Lehmann from own experience. She noticed at the age of 23 years for the first time that something is wrong. "I thought I was going blind in one eye," she recalls. Her boss, a dentist, sent them to the doctor immediately. The diagnosis was made quickly. "This is not always so," says Daniela Lehmann and looks around the room, "some people go through an odyssey through the medical practices, even called a malingerer."

In the self-help group is uncertainty captured

Daniela Lehmann had few symptoms at first, doctors advised her to get all the children she wants. Everything went well, but when the second child a few months on the world, suggested to the Multiple Sclerosis. "The child wanted his morning bottle. When I tried to get out of bed, her legs gave." The baby cried, the "big" kid was barely five years old, far from being able to help her mother. "I could do was to crawl to the phone and call my husband."

Then followed a life in hospital. Until the disease was kept in check. Meanwhile, Daniel Lehmann is nearing the 40th Birthday and feels comfortable. "I go back to work," she says proudly. The way there was anything but easy. Iron will triumphed over the disease. "I had to train that I meet with a fork to mouth," she says, "that's not so easy with MS."

Daniela Lehmann is happy that she won this stage of the MS disease it carries. And wants to give of their strength. "If you end up with MS in the hospital, often gets a book full of information squeezed in the hand and is thus quite alone." Uncertainty, loneliness, and bitterness can be found too. "We want to catch the self-help group," said Daniel Lehman. Many can even live without drugs, others are trying to reduce the dosage, some need the help of medicine. The disease has many faces.

The support group is part of the National Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Society, which also supports the evening in the LIBA.

"I have been able to spend an evening," says Kathrin gene corner, "and was quite amazed at how delicious healthy tastes." They wanted to bring the other from the self-help group that suggests.

Dr. Martina Wöhlert swirls on the cooking line, however, pushing vegetables into the pan back and forth, is supported by Evelyn Brämer and Susan Schmidt of the Center in Lebanon completed its voluntary social year. "We place great emphasis on fresh preparation of our meals and the fact that the products come from the region." Only the fish that comes from Norway. "Self-trapped," adds Evelyn Braemer.