What kind of diet do you follow?

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I was re-reading the nausea post because today I feel particularly

terrible. I think it's from the urso because I've now been on it for

a week and it's just getting progressively worse. Oh well.

But something Jeanne said was interesting to me, that she can't eat

any meat or she has issues.

Right now I'm able to eat chicken but that's about it. Are there a

lot of people like this? Any good resources on what to eat? Like

books or websites? I am trying to follow a low fat diet and just

interested on what others do.

in NE

psc dx 8/07

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for a long time i could only eat chicken soup and jellojmhette2 wrote: I was re-reading the nausea post because today I feel particularly terrible. I think it's from the urso because I've now been on it for a week and it's just getting progressively worse. Oh well.But something Jeanne said was interesting to me, that she can't eat any meat or she has issues.Right now I'm able to eat chicken but that's about it. Are there a lot of people like this? Any good resources on what

to eat? Like books or websites? I am trying to follow a low fat diet and just interested on what others do. in NEpsc dx 8/07

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Most people in advanced stages of liver problems do better on low (animal)

protein diets. Some become vegetarians as a result. If I recall correctly,

the kidneys try to pick up more of the liver's " load " , so high protein diets

are particularly hard on the kidneys. It also reduces HE symptoms. Anyone

else, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Personally, I have not had a high protein diet in many years (decades) -

just don't crave it any more. Low fat is also not a problem for me. When I

had my gallbladder removed, they told me to go on a 30 gm/day fat

allocation. Turns out I was already there!

Arne

56 - UC 1977, PSC 2000

Alive and (mostly) well in Minnesota

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....But something Jeanne said was interesting to me, that she can't eat

any meat or she has issues.

Right now I'm able to eat chicken but that's about it. Are there a

lot of people like this? Any good resources on what to eat? Like

books or websites? I am trying to follow a low fat diet and just

interested on what others do.

in NE

psc dx 8/07

[Guest guest]

I once dowloaded a booklet called " A guide for Patients with liver

diseases including guidelines for nutrition " somewhere. Don't ask me

where.

Chaim Boermeester, Israel.

[Guest guest]

, regarding your comments about possible connections with urso

and nausea, some people have found that by slowly increasing the dosage

to the presribed high dose levels (rather than just diving in) helps

prevent nausea.

As for a preferred diet, you have to find out what works for you. I

really believe that our daughter's low fat (and no processed food) diet

has played a huge role in her day-to-day health. She has been following

a vegan diet which includes a B12 supplement the past four years (with

her hep's approval). While a vegan diet is pretty extreme for most

people, I think it has worked for Libby because it has eliminated all

sources of saturated fats. Libby recently agreed to add fish (salmon)to

her diet to help with those Omega-3's. Usually, the only time she can

count on feeling crummy is after eating out when she has no control

over the use of oils, etc. by the restaurant kitchen. A typical day for

Libs includes a fruit smoothie for breakfast, a bean and rice burrito

with advocado for lunch, and " fake " chicken, steamed veggies and sticky

rice for dinner. She loves cheese-less pizza (makes it herself,

including the crust)and just loads it with artichoke hearts, mushrooms

and olives. She generally avoids sweets. But she has found a soy-based

chocolate and vanilla pudding mix brand from Henry's Markets (Wild Oats)

that she makes with nonfat soy milk and she makes a chocolate cake from

scratch that uses no eggs or butter and is really, really tasty (even

for her very non-vegan boyfriend!) I know some on this list cannot

tolerate fresh fruits or veggies and there are days when Libby can't

look a tomato in the face and will turn green if you even

say " broccoli. " (And for some reason, the kid won't touch grapes....)

But she has learned to just roll with the punches and do what her tummy

tells her to do.

Good luck, !

W.

Mom to Libby,22 yrs., psc, 03, who is moving into a studio apt. in LA

this week that's about the size of our bedroom closet. Ah, the life of

the poor grad student!

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Wells wrote:

> and she makes a chocolate cake from

> scratch that uses no eggs or butter and is really, really tasty (even

> for her very non-vegan boyfriend!)

Do you have the recipe for the cake? We're vegetarian, not quite vegan,

but since my wife's allergic to eggs and the kids and I can only

tolerate a little bit of milk (and my mother who lives next door and

sometimes eats with us can't have any milk at all), we're pretty close

to it. I've got lots of egg and milk free recipes that I've developed,

but egg free cakes are something I've never really gotten satisfactory

results with...

If you are interested in any of my egg free recipes I'd be happy to

share with you too!

athan