[SPAM] Re:Feast without Yeast

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In many ways, the SCD diet is how we should all eat. It's basically

a whole foods diet with many restrictions. Those without " issues "

might find the recommendations of my personal doctor easier to comply

with: a brief, brief summary is that he wants us to balance 1 carb

serving with 1 fat serving and to consume no more than 3 of each per

meal. If you're still hungry you can fill up on the " free " foods,

which are basically beans and non-starchy veggies. It gets tricky

when you look at his serving sizes -- they're quite small, roughly

equivalent to 10g -- so all those carbs end up being sides. Even if

you can't live by it strictly, it helps you see our total over-

dependence on starch and sweets.

in NJ

>

> Colleen honey isn't the worst -it's the only sugar allowed on the

> specific carbohydrate diet. Remember what any one of us consider

> fact today could be proven to be a joke 50 years from now -so keep

an

> open mind. According to the specific carbohydrate diet -

the " worst "

> (I'm thrilled to read even though it hasn't been 50 years since I

was

> forced to grow up on it) is a gluten-free diet! (many of you know I

> was diagnosed as celiac as a baby and was raised on that diet -I

for

> one am THRILLED to read about the following as I hated that diet as

a

> child and which is why I never would put my own boys on it unless

> they too were diagnosed celiac etc.)

>

> " AUTISM AND THE SCD DIET Unbeknownst to me, several years ago, a

> mother in New Jersey started a website called Elaine's Children.

> Finally someone told me about the listserv and there are now 700

> mothers and fathers of autistic children on the listserv following

> the SCD diet, and these autistic children are getting better. These

> mothers had been told to put their children on a " gluten-free "

diet,

> which is the world's worst diet. I hope that any celiacs who are

> not happy with the results of the gluten-free diet will please try

> the SCD diet. I will show volumes of peer-reviewed scientific

> research which prove that anybody with gastrointestinal problems

> cannot digest all the starch. People on the gluten-free diet are

> eating gluten-free bread, which is loaded with starch. They are

> carbohydrate addicts and it is a very bad diet. "

>

> And more on this diet and why you can now say " yes honey!! "

>

> THE GUT/BRAIN/FOOD CONNECTION: THE SPECIFIC CARBOHYDRATE DIET (SCD)

> by: Elaine Gottschall, MSc

>

>

>

> In 1975, Elaine Gottschall became a member of the Department of

Cell

> Science at the University of Western Ontario's Zoology Department.

> She spent four years there investigating the effects of various

> sugars on the digestive tract working mainly on the cellular level.

> She obtained a Master of Science degree in that Department in 1979.

> Results of her work are published in the journal, Acta Anatomic

> 123:178 (1985). Subsequently, Mrs. Gottschall worked in the

> Department of Anatomy of the University of Western Ontario

> investigating the changes that occur in the bowel wall in

> inflammatory bowel disease. Her main field of interest is the

effect

> of food on the functioning of the digestive tract and on behavior.

> Elaine's best known book, Breaking the Vicious Cycle introduces us

to

> the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) which helps us to heal the

> intestinal tract and rid it of bacterial and fungal overgrowth. It

> has been successful in curing Crohn's disease, many cases of

> ulcerative colitis and other problems. Recent research indicates

that

> it is proving to be a successful dietary intervention in treating

> autistic children, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

> See www.breakingtheviciouscycle.com For the amazing story about

> Elaine's personal journey to heal her daughter, and her discovery

of

> the SCD diet from Dr. Sidney Haas, please see Consumer Health

> Newsletter, January, 2004.

> http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=20060301174333

>

> Allowed Foods- Quantities are not restricted if you eat a balanced

> diet

> Sugars: Honey is the only allowed sugar product.

> http://www.scdiet.org/1about/scdwhatis.html

>

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