Re: OT - SCD help with ovarian cysts ?

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, here I go again on my Splenda kick. My 19 year used to consume sugar and Splenda products all day long. Start by asking her to avoid Splenda. It's chemical makeup makes you crave more "sweet". It's in over 3500 different foods and has really effected the bacterial balance of my body. If she read up on it she'd agree. It should be labeled "poison" and we don't even know what all the long term side effects are. My opinion is eating healthy can only help.

Good luck telling the 21 year old anything!

Terri

2 years UC

3 weeks SCD

OT - SCD help with ovarian cysts ?

Ok, i've come to the conclusion reading and living these posts for 2 years that the proper bacterial balance in the gut is evething in keeping disease proof, or at least 80% of it and the balance in your lymph. I am trying to talk my 21 yr. old stepdaughter into giving up sugars/carbs for awhile to see if it helps with her ongoing ovarian cyst problem. I've known she's had candida issues for years, but convincing kids is another matter, especially when it's not something so obvious as your stool and digestive symptoms.Anyone have experience or opinions on this ? Marilyn ? Thanks,CD - 3 yearsSCD - 2yrs.

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At 12:08 PM 10/5/2008, you wrote:

I am trying to talk my 21 yr.

old stepdaughter into giving up sugars/carbs for awhile to see if it

helps with her ongoing ovarian

cyst problem. I've known she's had candida issues for years, but

convincing kids is another matter, especially when it's not something so

obvious as your stool and digestive symptoms.

In a word, yes, carbs are related. There's a very good site

here:

http://www.cyst101.com/cause.htm

which explains more than I could hope to in a single email. I'm familiar

with Lee's research, and I've comes across 's

material from time to time. On the page referenced, it says,

The Diet Connection to PCOS

By far the biggest lifestyle contributor to PCOS is poor diet. Young

women with PCOS tend to eat far too much sugar and highly refined

carbohydrates. These foods cause an unhealthy rise in insulin levels.

According to Jerilyn Prior, M.D., insulin stimulates androgen receptors

on the outside of the ovary, causing the typical PCOS symptoms of excess

hair (on the face, arms, legs), thin hair (on the head), and acne.

Eventually, this type of diet will cause obesity, which will cause

insulin resistance (the inability of the cells to take in insulin), which

will aggravate the PCOS even more. The androgens also play a role in

blocking the release of the egg from the follicle.

Women, who have a high number of dysfunctional follicles to begin with,

due to xenobiotic exposure in the womb, will have worse problems if their

diets are high in sugary foods and low in nutrition. Since this is

exactly the type of diet favored by teens and young women, it's easy to

understand why there is so much PCOS in that age group. Fifty years ago,

the average person ate one pound of sugar a year. Today the average

teenager today eats one pound a week! Potato chips, corn chips, pasta and

white rice are all highly refined carbohydrates that also act on the body

much the same as sugars do.

So my suspicion is that SCD, which eliminates refined carbs, would

definitely help -- although you might need to be careful the person

involved doesn't go overboard on the legal sweets to make up for the

sugar and junk she has been consuming.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

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At 12:39 PM 10/5/2008, you wrote:

Start by asking her

to avoid Splenda. It's chemical makeup makes you crave more

" sweet " . It's in over 3500 different foods and has really

effected the bacterial balance of my body. If she read up on it she'd

agree. It should be labeled " poison " and we don't even know

what all the long term side effects are. My opinion is eating healthy can

only help.

Terri,

FYI, Elaine was very much against Splenda.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund