Re: Peanut Butter and Bananas

[Guest guest]

I'm not sure about peanut butter, but bananas are terribly constipating

to all three of my girls. They are the most obvious factor I've been

able to identify. (Me, however, they don't affect at all. I could eat

2-3/day and still go 2-3 times!)

Julee

>

> Hi,

>

> So what is the consensus on peanut butter and bananas. I've gotten

> different info from each dr. on whether or not they constipate. I

> tried eliminating them and it didn't seem to matter but we also

> switched meds around.

>

> Thanks,

> Mallory

>

[Guest guest]

Bananas as we eat them in the western world, tend to constipate, and

that is because we eat them too soon, before they are fully ripe!

Bananas in a lot of other parts of the world, are felt to help your

system go, and they are not constipating, because they tend to eat them

after they are fully yellow, and just beginning to get the spots on

them. In our society, we tend to eat them after they've just gone

green, and are just newly yellow. At this stage, the sugars haven't

converted, and so yes, they are constipating. But banana's that are

fully ripe (i.e. yellowed and beginning to get a few brown spots) are

more towards a laxative effect, or enhance regularity.

FWIW,

W

>

> Hi,

>

> So what is the consensus on peanut butter and bananas. I've gotten

> different info from each dr. on whether or not they constipate. I

> tried eliminating them and it didn't seem to matter but we also

> switched meds around.

>

> Thanks,

> Mallory

>