Re: Children's Multi-Vitamin from GIhealth.com

[Guest guest]

Hi, April,

Vitamin E from soy is legal.

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Why is that different from regular soy byproducts?

julie46250 wrote: Hi, April,

Vitamin E from soy is legal.

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Why is that different from regular soy byproducts?

I am not a scientist and don't always ask about the whys of this diet.

I can think of 2 possible reasons. Maybe Sheila knows for sure.

Possible reason number one: It could be like the reason that grain

alcohol is legal. In the distillation process for grain alcohol, you

get a basic chemical compound that no longer has the nature of the

original complex substance. The Vitamin E may be such a basic thing

that it is the same no matter what you get it from.

Possible reason number two: Vitamin E is important. Available vitamin

E is commonly made from soybean oil. It is probably better to have E

and comsume something derived from soy than to not have E.

mom to -12

SCd 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks for your answer. The reason I was wondering is because I think my son

has an intolerance to soy and I was wondering if giving him this would cause a

problem.

April

julie46250 wrote:

Why is that different from regular soy byproducts?

I am not a scientist and don't always ask about the whys of this diet.

I can think of 2 possible reasons. Maybe Sheila knows for sure.

Possible reason number one: It could be like the reason that grain

alcohol is legal. In the distillation process for grain alcohol, you

get a basic chemical compound that no longer has the nature of the

original complex substance. The Vitamin E may be such a basic thing

that it is the same no matter what you get it from.

Possible reason number two: Vitamin E is important. Available vitamin

E is commonly made from soybean oil. It is probably better to have E

and comsume something derived from soy than to not have E.

mom to -12

SCd 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

I think you could safely try it and see.

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Thanks.

julie46250 wrote: I think you could safely try

it and see.

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Elaine wrote that it is fine to use Vit E derived from Soy,

from Lyris:

" On SCD, even though soy or corn is not permitted because of its

carbohydrate

content, various fatty substances extracted are OK. For example,

lecithin is a phosphoglyceride and is just fine. Corn oil, altho not

my favorite oil, is OK.

Therefore, tocopherols (Vitamin E) extracted from soy are OK.

However, my training in nutritional biochemistry (altho 20 years old)

taught me that mixed tocopherols, altho cheap to produce, are not

active forms for the human being. Only alpha D-tocopherol is active. "

Although the vit E is derived from the illegal soy the parts of the

soybean that are illegal are not in the vit E.

I do not know if the same applies for those that have a true allergy

to soy. For those poeple they may have to avoid that type of vitamin

E.

Sheila, SCD Feb. 2001, UC 23yrs, PCOD 22yrs

mom of and

>

> Why is that different from regular soy byproducts?

>

> I am not a scientist and don't always ask about the whys of this

diet.

> I can think of 2 possible reasons. Maybe Sheila knows for sure.

>

> Possible reason number one: It could be like the reason that grain

> alcohol is legal. In the distillation process for grain alcohol,

you

> get a basic chemical compound that no longer has the nature of the

> original complex substance. The Vitamin E may be such a basic

thing

> that it is the same no matter what you get it from.

>

> Possible reason number two: Vitamin E is important. Available

vitamin

> E is commonly made from soybean oil. It is probably better to have

E

> and comsume something derived from soy than to not have E.

>

>

> mom to -12

> SCd 4/23/04

>