Re: Gluten Problems

From: Mouldy Mouse (mouldy_mouse_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: 16 Oct 2004 21:27:16 -0700

nazztrader@lycos.com (montygram) wrote in message news:<d60d7a6e.0410151034.3584f74f@posting.google.com>...
> I used to eat mainly legumes, whole grains, nuts, and seeds, with
> small amounts of fruit and vegetables. I destroyed my body's ability
> to produce stomach acid and almost killed me. Now I eat only
> unbleached, white flour products, and almost no nuts, legumes, and
> seeds, or anything else that is difficult to digest. I take a stomach
> acid supplement, along with pepsin (to digest protein). I consume a
> little nutritional yeast for the B vitamins. I'm posting this for
> those who don't realize the damage whole grains and other "healthy"
> food can do (do a web search for "resistant starch" and you'll find a
> list - beans are really bad - then avoid these foods). While the
> worst thing you can eat is large amounts of foods high in
> polyunsaturated fatty acids (due to oxidative stress), you can do
> serious damage to your ability to digest food and absorb nutrients
> with what most people think of as "health food."
>
>

The only sites I found on resistant starch said that it was probably a
good thing. Can you point us to info on its bad effects?
Also, what kind of quantities of legumes, nuts and seeds were you
eating daily?
What were the symptoms?
I've had the opposite - kind of. I've had two main "phases" in
dietary/digestion. First was chronic diarrhoea since I was very young
- probably dairy-related. Then, the immunologist's recommended diet
reduced my diarrhoea etc. a bit. It was a refined starch, low
salicylate, low amine dairy-free diet and was quite low in fibre. It
didn't fix things completely. Then after ten years on this my
digestive system went berserk and couldn't digest white rice or flour
of any description anymore. A visit to the quack led to some tests
which required me to eat high fibre foods. This reduced the pain and
paleness of stools. I've kept up high fibre ever since.
The safest high fibre carbohydrate sources I've found are brown rice,
lentils, split peas and adzuki beans. Now I only eat small quantities
of grains and starches other than the legumes listed above. I suspect
I sometimes have trouble with nuts - apparently these cause havoc if
you have diverticular disease. I still minimise fruit and high-sulphur
vegetables though, as they are also problematic.

>
> Dunne E. Dawe <never@never.again> wrote in message news:<h4nvm0pkgc1ptjqi97v0djgc22egiqi47t@4ax.com>...
> > On 13 Oct 2004 12:51:06 -0700, rangerhasten@yahoo.com (Wolfbrother)
> > posted:
> >
> > > No body NEEDS
> > >to increase whole grains. There is nothing essential about them.
> >
> > So all the B vitamins in whole grains are not essential? Huh?

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