Re: Re: WAS: High Ammonia issues. now Jodyreply

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Summer, I'm curious as to what the anti-inflammatory diet your dr.

perscriped has on it

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>Reply-To: pecanbread

>To: pecanbread

>Subject: Re: Re: WAS: High Ammonia issues. now Jodyreply

>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:33:01 -0800 (PST)

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>To both of you and everyone, ITS TRUE! SO true! I can tell you, that one

>corner of a gummy bear and one, just one mcdonalds chicken nugget, caused

>harm for Hunter, months ago.

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> My SCD views:

> The thing about starving is, the kid is NOT starving! The gut bugs are

>starving, and causing great discomfort and cravings in the individual. Like

>with sugar, you crave it when it is in your diet, but when it is out, you

>no longer want it, it tastes sickeningly sweet.

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> I just wanted to add this to the convo, my kids, Hunter since 1 year,

>would not eat anything but milk and non edible foods. I started cooking

>everything by hand, home-made, down to the gluten free breads, and expanded

>his and Ben's food menu a tiny bit.

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> But, who is sastified with a tiny, unhealthy menu??? If it is going to

>be tiny, might as well be good healthy foods that don't feed gut bugs!

>Believe me, we have been around the block trying this diet, and that diet.

>SCD was the FIRST diet that incorporated everything...no grains, no sugar,

>no yeast, home made.

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> And guess what? After the initial holding out, starving periods, both of

>my boys started eating more foods! Slowly, of course, I might have to

>introduce a texture a couple of times first. Now, they try things with

>relish.

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> I say this because we too have been in those shoes. We feel so bad the

>kid is starving. Hindsight, they say is 20/20, and when I look at my boys

>who are starting to develop more and more normally, SPEAKING, potty

>trained, learning how to cook and write, blasting through all previous

>short comings on evaluations...we learned how to cut with scissors this

>year and ride bikes...yikes, isn't that worth it? It is! It is! Ben is

>growing! He has gone from a size 24 months at the beginning of this year to

>size 4T and 5T clothes this year and he just turned 5!

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> Besides tests, or measures people like to do, the number one thing

>anyone can do to start wading to the bottom of these sensitivities, start

>the intro diet, and gradually add SCD approved foods back in. This will say

>so much, and it is all possible. What maybe some people don't understand,

>is, no matter the diet, starting out with a proper elimination introduction

>should be done, or one may never get a real feel (not test results on

>paper), but a real feel for food reactions.

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> I keep saying this too, what seems harder at first ends up being

>easiest, and what seems easiest at first, ends up being hardest. This is my

>experience. If a diet seems hard at first, imagine how much easier life

>will be when things have healed some?

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> For us, we jumped into digestive enzymes, which help with digestion and

>yeast busting. We picked a brand with good repor, and after a trial, moved

>onto another one, then another one, which was Houston's which we found

>worked so well.

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> I consider SCD a blessing in our life. We do SCD, and since I suffer

>from inflammation, I took the anti-inflammatory diet my doctor gave me, and

>chose the foods that were SCD legal. We do enzymes, we have to eat all

>organic, and keep chemical residues down in the house, and it seems like a

>heck of alot of work, but it is easy. My kids are talking, potty trained,

>painful anal cysts have been in complete remission for over a year, less

>overall yeast flares and rashes, less problems with ammonia (Ben can't have

>too much protein, weak kidney function), management for both my kids

>hypoglycemia and my own, better absorption of fatty acids, more routine

>poops, cured whatever diarhea problem no doctor could figure out, Ben had

>constant diarhea since 8 months old, and this is all just the tip of the

>iceberg.

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> Now, I save money for not having to buy large diapers, and quick fixes

>for other mysterious problems. We are not completely healed, it is not

>realistic to expect healing to occur rapidly, for problems that have gone

>on for years. Just makes sense.

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> So, all I know, these kids bodies, my own body, absolutely starving!

>Starving, starving, it is a sick and diseased state. Sometimes, all it

>takes is bearing down, absolutely no illegals for 6 months, do a proper

>elimination diet and reintroduction of foods, slowly, one food at a time,

>and my own opinion, start looking into digestive enzymes. They are safe,

>and even if they do not work for someone, they don't know until they try,

>and different enzymes work for different people. It's too late in this part

>of the game to try anything sort of, and expect it to work.

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> The food thing does get better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In fact, there seems

>to be correlative evidence at this point, that children with digestive

>problems, autism, adhd and other cases of metabolic dysfunction are more

>likely to have offspring with similar or even worse problems. Healing

>todays young ones is going to make a greater impact in the future of

>society, beyond them. That is my own opinion. I am inspired that many

>native tribes think of the future, the generations that come later, in the

>decisions of today.

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> LOL I kind of went off on my own opinion there, nevertheless, holding

>fast to SCD, theres alot to be learned from it. Say someone wants to leave

>the SCDiet. They should only do so if they understand why it has not

>worked, the root of it. Then they will know where to move next, if there is

>a next. Applying that strategy to any diet will make it more successful.

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> No one needs MSG. No one needs bht, bha, annatto, no one needs sugar, no

>one needs to consume food their body cannot digest and use, no one with

>pathogenic gut flora or explosive populations of yeast do, thats for sure.

>The answers may be different for everyone, but some of the techniques to

>get there are the same.

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> I admire all the time you devote to this site, Jody, and all the other

>wonderful moderators, Carol, Sheila, all the great posters, , Dana

>and so many others I have learned heap loads from. This site is golden, SCD

>is golden. We don't need all this junk in our diet to flavor and color old

>foods!!!!!! My wish for the NEW YEAR is health and healthy food for all

>people, everywhere!

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> SCD rocks!

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> Summer

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> " Jody G. " momtobandj@...> wrote:

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>You are right.

>Most people when they hear " no convenience foods " they think

>starvation diet...LOL.

> " No Mc's, no frozen pizzas, no pop or potato chips... my kid

>would starve " ....

>The truth is that those kids' bodies ARE starving- for real nutrition.

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>It makes me want to cry to see what people put in their shopping carts

>and feed to their kids.

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>My MIL is a big fan of blogs. I told her that I should start one

>called " Jody's Soap Box News " and the first entry would be able

>children who are not being fed or given proper exercise and if I wrote

>it well, I bet people would be up in ARMS, until they realize that

>it's THEIR kids that I'm talking about.

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>Kids in this country are lab rats to see what happens to a society

>when children are malnourished and don't receive appropriate physical

>exercise. We don't need outsiders to kill us, we are voluntarily

>doing it to our own society. What will happen 20-30 years from now

>when these kids hit middle age? They will be so sick... it's so sad.

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>And even worse, we are exporting our ways to all of the " up and

>coming " industrialized nations of the world. Mc's is

>everywhere. It's crazy.

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>Well, I better get off that soap box now...

>LOL

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>Happy New Year to everyone!

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>Jody

>mom to -7 and -9

>SCD 1/03

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>For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

>_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

>websites:

>http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

>and

>http://www.pecanbread.com

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