Re: SCD - Is Cold/Frozen Food a Problem

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It probably depends on each individual.  Just cold stuff like ice chips soothe my stomach. 

 

For a long time, I preferred warm to hot like soup, it seemed better.  Now I'm the complete opposite.  But it also took a long, long time tolerate any fruit.  Just go slow and see how you react to it.

 

debbie 41 cd

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:02 AM, SCDNewbie6.10 <barbour.am (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

 

Hi AgainJust ate my delicious frozen banana 'ice cream' and was wondering if very cold/frozen food is a strain on an inflammed digestive system?With thanksAnne-MarieIBS 15 monthsSCD 9th night!

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Just ate my delicious frozen banana 'ice cream' and was wondering if very cold/frozen food is a strain on an inflammed digestive system?I would guess that everyone's different, so I'd go with you're reaction to it. However, when I was getting acupuncture, my chinese doctor was very adamant that I not eat anything cold/frozen. Cheers!Alyssa 16 yo UC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 75 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 15 mg 1x per day (trying to wean!!!!)

[Guest guest]

Someone I know is seeing an acupuncturist, and she says cold food/drinks " put

out your furnace " . I've read the cold food/drinks keep your stomach from

producing enough acid, so I guess stomach acid must be the furnace ;-).

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> > Just ate my delicious frozen banana 'ice cream' and was wondering if

> > very cold/frozen food is a strain on an inflammed digestive system?

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> I would guess that everyone's different, so I'd go with you're

> reaction to it. However, when I was getting acupuncture, my chinese

> doctor was very adamant that I not eat anything cold/frozen.

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> Cheers!

> Alyssa 16 yo

> UC April 2008, dx Sept 2008

> SCD June 2009 (restarted)

> Azathioprine 75 mg 1x per day

> Prednisone 15 mg 1x per day (trying to wean!!!!)

>

[Guest guest]

Hey :)Cold/frozen foods strain digestive symptoms in general, in Chinese medicine it's absolutely verbotten. in fact,  if you go to any proper, authentic chinese restaurant, they will not serve you ice in your water.

The trouble is, your body has to heat up that frozen/cold food, and it's a little hard and straining. In Chinese medicine, frozen/cold food is considered to weaken the digestive system in general and is considered a cause/contributer of ailments.

Also, from a more western view, heating up that food takes a lot of calories. if your having enough trouble getting calories, like many of us, that'll suck.It may contribute to you feeling hungry. I try not to eat cold food, but it's a problem logistically for me, often I eat straight out of the fridge. and often I feel it as a result.. culturally this exists in Western wisdom, the concept of a nice hot meal being good for you, nourishing, sustaining, and 'necessary' on  a regular basis. I think we all know how much better nice hot soup feels on the stomach than frozen fruit or ice cream. before SCD, I had given up ice cream completely, partly as renouncing dairy and sugar, then completely, giving up soy or other 'replacement' frozen deserts in awareness of Chinese medicine and the concept of cold food degrading you. I felt much better, and am very very happy with this decision in my life. I learned that working with your body is so incredibly rewarding, as opposed to against. Once you achieve harmony with your body, it is so rewarding, and you lose the desire to return to things that create dissonance.

Best wishes!!p.s. a thought experiment: I do not now how completely this relates, but an idea: try holding your frozen banana in your hand, or your ice cream. very soon, the nerves will tell your body to knock it off. you don't have such nerves in your gut. If you eat really, really strong hot sauce, your body won't like it going in your mouth, nor going out. but in between -  no nerves to tell you to knock it off. yet your gut might just move your meal through a little faster than usual if you eat really, really strong hot sauce - it doesn't want it in there. it can flush stuff right through you. but it can't tell you through nerve signals that you've got hot sauce bothering your gut, you don't really hear about it again until it leaves your body.

...why do people eat hot sauce? well, largely because it's addictive. it activates natural painkillers in your mouth, and your body gets addicted to those painkillers...why do people eat ice cream/frozen fruit? it makes it sweeter. ice cream = very popular, unsweetened frozen milk = not popular at all. if you bake bananas, it makes them sweeter too.. that would be healthier.

so, no, your body is trying to maintain roughly 98.6 F inside. I wouldn't go tormenting it with something frozen.. you are an animal, a living thing. flesh and blood. not a machine. be nice to yourself! whether or not it can tell you as clearly to knock it off as it might otherwise. If you listen real, real carefully, you'll be able to start hearing your body better. start reaching harmony, and dissonance becomes much more clear.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:02 AM, SCDNewbie6.10 <barbour.am (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

 

Hi Again

Just ate my delicious frozen banana 'ice cream' and was wondering if very cold/frozen food is a strain on an inflammed digestive system?

With thanks

Anne-Marie

IBS 15 months

SCD 9th night!