Re: Digestive Wellness okay?

[Guest guest]

>

> I hope you'll all forgive my ignorance, but is Digestive Wellness

> website a legal part of the SCD organization? In other words, is it

> okay to order and allow my daughter to have some of these items offered

> for sale, i.e. the apple chips in a bag? Many thanks.

> SCDBOB

> Daughter uc, 25 yrs old

Digestive Wellness is not part of SCD.

There is a woman there who makes food according to SCD specifications. Anyone

can

claim to do that. The food is also Kosher.

They have a second line of food that is not for SCD. Our founder uses their

products for

one of her children who has great difficulty complying with the diet. Some of

the items are

unsuitable unless you have been on SCD a long time.

It is always safer to cook from scratch but some people reason that without

convenience

foods they could not follow SCD so you may think that is the lesser of two

evils.

I personally buy J. Gourmet baked goods and almond flour because Elaine

supervised and

authorized them as SCD legal, and they are made and available locally without

shipping.

They have no financial links to SCD. ( I have no $$ interest either)

SCD is the diet, book - " Breaking the Vicious Cycle, " and The Herbert and Elaine

Gottschall

Research Foundation, a charitable memorial foundation set up to fund research.

Carol F.

Toronto, Celiac, SCD 5 years

[Guest guest]

Hi SCDbob,

> I hope you'll all forgive my ignorance, but is Digestive Wellness

> website a legal part of the SCD organization? In other words, is

it

> okay to order and allow my daughter to have some of these items

offered

> for sale, i.e. the apple chips in a bag? Many thanks.

Since you wrote your daughter is only able to tolerate yogurt and

cheese most of the items on digestive wellness probably wouldn't be

of much help and some may actually set her back (dried fruits etc.)

Eventually as she is able to tolerate more foods she may be able to

use some of their goods. This might be helpful:

http://pecanbread.com/foodprep.html#beyond

Sheila, SCD 57 mos, 21 yrs UC

mom of , SCD 42 mos

[Guest guest]

Digestive Wellness is the oldest website that offers SCD ready made

foods. Its owner,Rochel W has been on the diet for years and has

written

a SCD cooking book. She has converted many folks to SCD and has her

own

SCD circle of followers. Her followers live in old fashioned

neighborhoods where people know each other and the word about SCD

spread

very fast.

Unfortunately,Rochel and Elaine had a difference of opinion

concerning a

certain borderline food and there was a split between the two SCD

communities.

Right now,things are changing. This controversial food is no longer

being sold by DW. Rochel's daughter is managing

Digestive Wellness and she is trying very hard to work with us to

make

sure that the company products are OK for children with Autism. Here

is

one example of the cooperation between us.

DW sells cashew nuts that are roasted in cottonseed oil. These

cashews

are SCD legal but not optimal for autistic children who might react

to

the cottonseed oil. I wrote and explained this to DW and they are

going

to try to replace the cottonseed oil with other oils.

The folks who run DW and the moderators of pecanbread both agree

that it

is optimal for parents to bake at home. A few years ago,when parents

would go to Rochel's home to pick up their DW supplies,Rochel would

teach them how to bake the SCD way for free. Unfortunately,the

company

is no longer home based so I am not sure if this can happen in an

office

setting. Our website has a large collection of easy to make SCD

recipes.

I do want to add several important points.

*Yes,using DW baked nut products along with SCD will produce MUCH

better

results than GFCF! However, you might get the most optimal results

if

you limit the nut products. Elaine did not want our kids to eat more

than 3 muffins a day. Some kids cannot tolerate the nuts in the

first

few months of the diet. Every once in a while,you might want to do a

trial of eliminating the nuts and seeing if you see improvements.

*Some of the DW products are too advanced for beginners. DW is now

going

to change their website to help clarify this to the parents.

Please introduce only one new food at a time and watch very

carefully

for reactions.

Mimi

I also recommend J Gourmet as a great place for ready to eat SCD

products.

[Guest guest]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:25:16 -0000 " recoverymaze "

recoverymaze@...> writes:

>

*Yes,using DW baked nut products along with SCD will produce MUCH

> better

> results than GFCF! However, you might get the most optimal results

> if

> you limit the nut products. Elaine did not want our kids to eat more

>

> than 3 muffins a day. Some kids cannot tolerate the nuts in the

> first

> few months of the diet. Every once in a while,you might want to do a

>

> trial of eliminating the nuts and seeing if you see improvements.

By " our kids " above, do you mean autistic kids? Before my son got sick of

muffins he would eat more than 3 a day but he's on the diet for an

irritable bowel disorder (as likely were many of the people originally in

contact with Rochel W.).

> I also recommend J Gourmet as a great place for ready to eat SCD

> products.

Would you happen to know if they or any other well-received company are

kosher certified?

Thanks and take care, Fay

[Guest guest]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:25:16 -0000 " recoverymaze "

recoverymaze@...> writes:

>

*Yes,using DW baked nut products along with SCD will produce MUCH

> better

> results than GFCF! However, you might get the most optimal results

> if

> you limit the nut products. Elaine did not want our kids to eat more

>

> than 3 muffins a day. Some kids cannot tolerate the nuts in the

> first

> few months of the diet. Every once in a while,you might want to do a

>

> trial of eliminating the nuts and seeing if you see improvements.

By " our kids " above, do you mean autistic kids? Before my son got sick of

muffins he would eat more than 3 a day but he's on the diet for an

irritable bowel disorder (as likely were many of the people originally in

contact with Rochel W.).

> I also recommend J Gourmet as a great place for ready to eat SCD

> products.

Would you happen to know if they or any other well-received company are

kosher certified?

Thanks and take care, Fay

[Guest guest]

" You recommend autistic children to stay away from nuts as much as

possible. I was wondering if anyone has any good recipes for coconut

cookies - so that we can substitute this. "

I don't think that Mimi is recommending that ASD children stay away from nuts

as much as possible. I think she was reminding the list that the diet allows

nuts, but that it is not a nut-based diet.

Limiting muffins to 2-3 per day (or the equivalent of other nut-based baked

goods) is allowing plenty of nut products.

Way more than my children have ever gotten.

When any one food is served to the exclusion of others, the balance of a diet

is thrown off. Children need to eat vegetables and lots of them- as well, as

fruits and protein.

By allowing a child to consume more than the equivalent of 2-3 muffins per

day fills the child to the point of pushing out vegetables and other nutritious

foods.

And to respond to the question about coconut as a replacement for nuts in

recipes--

Coconut is very fibrous and not as easy to digest as nut butters. So, I

wouldn't

recommend using it as a replacement for the nut butters/nut flours. I would

suggest coming up with way to increase vegetable consumption as the main

component of any healthy diet.

Jody

mom to -6 and -9

SCD 33 months