Re: Re: specific carbohydrate diet

[Guest guest]

A good book on low-carb diets for Crohn's, MS, etc., is Wolfgang Lutz' " Life

Without Bread. " You can get it off of amazon.com. Lutz advocates a daily

diet of no more than 72 gms of CHOs a day--for anyone.

Also, the lectins in legumes and grains cannot be tolerated by many due to

individual food sensitivities. I wrote about this in my updated vegetarian

paper. There is a link to a British Medical Journal editorial on this very

subject that is worth reading.

All the best,

Byrnes, PhD, RNCP

http://www.PowerHealth.net

>From: " The Pavels " <pavels@...>

>Reply-

>

>Subject: Re: specific carbohydrate diet

>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:57:46 -0800

>

>In addition to the amazon and healing crow sites, you can visit

>

>http://www.scdiet.org

>and

>http://www.scdiet.com

>

>My daughter has been on the specific carbohydrate diet for almost three

>years. She has the " worst " form of Crohn's disease: perforation without

>warning (think peritonitis, shock, and rapid death) - but has had no

>problems on the SCD and taking an immune suppressant since two emergency

>surgeries three years ago. Normally the immune suppressant alone does not

>give these results and it was expected that she'd be in surgery more often

>than once a year. Swimming also helps.

>

>My daughter looks like a million dollars and is living an active, full,

>successful 17-year-old life in every way. She has no desire to change from

>the SCD. She does most of her own cooking. She's been accepted at CalTech

>and MIT, both of which have kitchens in their dormitories.

>

>There is a lot of overlap between the SCD and NT and if my daughter were to

>leave the SCD, it would be to the NT way of cooking if at all possible. In

>fact, we learned about NT on the SCD mailing list.

>

>But if a person only has vague symptoms I think they would be more likely

>to

>stray from the strict SCD. People want to know why they have the symptoms

>and sometimes there wasn't anything they could do about it: they were just

>victims, of heredity or environment or both. Autoimmune diseases such as

>Crohn's and cancers are triggered by things that we usually have no control

>over. The SCD alleviates the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease and

>celiac disease, promoting healing and preventing bowel deterioration by

>nourishing the body effectively, and allows the sufferer to live a

>wonderful

>full life, but it does not (usually) cure the disease. But if you are

>living a wonderful full life, what more can you ask?

>

>I think that one of the best things about SCD and NT is that everything

>that

>enters your mouth is nourishing and everything is absorbed. No poisons or

> " fud, " as I call fake food, are eaten to damage the body or take up

>valuable

>space, so one just becomes healthier and healthier. People with

>inflammatory bowel disease just need the SCD because that diet is even

>easier to absorb through damaged intestines.

>Good health to all,

>

>

>

> > From: " beckymauldin2001 " <beckymauldin@...>

> > Subject: Specific Carbohydrate Diet

>

> > So, for those of you on this diet, have to tried introducing NT

> > prepared grains?? What was the outcome?

>

> > Becky

> >

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