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I don't know too much about it, but recently did some research for a friend. One thing that is a good idea for replacing sweets, is sweet potatoes. They actually have some acivity that helps balance insulin. Another good thing to eat is cinnamon.

I realize these pieces of advice seem really small. I'm sure other folks with more experience have some bigger ideas. My friend did get off his medication more quickly than the doctors thought he would...so that was good.

Take care.

This may sound silly, but what about lightly massing your whole abdomen every day. I once read a very interesting article about IBS (I know, I know) that talked about how the nervous system and its communications with the brain can be in part to blame for elimination problems. I know for a fact that unless I eat 90% raw, I have a FAST top digestion, and a SLOW bottom digestion. My stool is perfectly fine, I only elimate it every other day or so. I recently went on a trip and ate raw the whole time (had to eat in my hotel room and was in California - so had avocados and tomatoes all day long), and within two days I was eliminating every day, even twice a day, and it felt newer. Maybe you know what I mean - when you're pretty sure you're pooping out something you ate a week ago. If you massage the bowel and small intestines and tummy and all that, you can help get them moving. Along with a warm tea or water with lemon, to get paristalsis started.

Secondly, try sitting on the pot every day at the same time, regardless of if you have to go. It helps to put your feet up on a stool so that your body is in a position similar to squatting. I'm not kidding that this has helped me immensely.

Lastly, while you're there, do the massaging thing, including down your lower back.

Hope this helps. Glad to hear the stool itself isn't miserable -- I lived through years of that and am so happy to have nice soft management poop. Yahoo!

Distillation debate aside - you should consider only eating apple cider vinegar, raw, unpasturized with mother in it. This is a good for you vinegar, as opposed to other vinegars which are probably not too good for you anyway,and are acidifying. Make sure to get it in a black bottle or some other colored bottle as the mother gets killed off by light.

I found this:

High potency B-complex (B 50)

400 IU of vitamin E daily (over 2 years of age, give 800 IU)

250 mg vitamin C twice a day (over 2 years of age, give 500 mg)

100 mg of selenium daily (over 2 years of age, give 200 mcg)

500 mg of borage oil twice a day

12,500 IU Beta Carotene (over 2 years of age, give 25,000)

1 mg/kg (or 1 capsule) Ginkgo bilboa 2-3 times a day

1 capsule (or cup) Green tea, twice a day

50 mg grape seed extract, once a day

2 sardines or 1 T ground flax seeds

1-2 Raw Garlic Cloves (crushed)

Note: Add the supplements gradually, one new supplement every few days. That way, if something does not agree with your dog, you will know what has caused the problem. Overloading the digestive system of a dog with many new items, all at once, is never advised. Vitamin C is not recommended for dogs with IBD.

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I dont know if it will help, but supplements cant hurt - introduce one at a time.

I also found this information for your veterinarian as well as yourself. It is not a common disorder so many vets have not seen it before. It is considered autoimmune.

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There are several conditions that can cause this kind of weakness in the hind end, in middle-aged medium to large breed dogs. Your veterinarian will do a thorough neurologic exam on your dog and x-rays, to rule out other causes.

For the veterinarian: Rule-outs include diskospondylitis, myelitis, intervertebral disc protrusion, and spinal neoplasia. Abnormalities on neurologic examination are consistent with an upper motor neuron lesion in the T3-L3 region, and include decreased proprioception and placing reactions in the hind limbs, normal to exaggerated patellar and hind limb withdrawal reflexes, normal anal sphincter tone, and sometimes crossed extensor reflexes in the pelvic limbs. Occasionally patellar reflexes are depressed or absent in one or even both legs, but this is an afferent rather than an LMN lesion.

Hope this helps. I am sorry to hear that your active Emmett has been diagnosed with DM

Sandy

Thanks so much! I'd been looking at the work of Dr. Clemens, and many of those supplements are on his list, but not all. I'll certainly look into adding those. My vet wanted me to add the salmon oil first to see if it helped - I always add everything and then we can't figure out what helped - but that was before we knew how fast things were going to be progressing. I'm at least going to add copper/calcium/b vitamins OR have him tested for deficiencies there. I almost bought Borage Oil yesterday.

I'll look into these and get started adding them. I don't want to wait too long to do some good.

There is also two drugs that folks use, that you have to have made into paste at a lab, but they help some dogs. They are both some kind of acid I forget the name of right now. I might try that as well, after I try the natural supplements. Thanks again.

I am so sorry for your furry freind. It is so very hard to deal with their pain, it is not like you can explain to them what is going on. Just on the off chance it might help are you feeding him gluten free food? Perhaps that might help, if gluten can mess up our nervous systems it can also mess up a dogs if he is sensitive to it and gluten is in most mainstream dog foods in one form or another. If you haven't tried it already it might be worth a shot.

Actually, Emmett has been eating raw food for some time, totally grain free. I am a bit worried that because for a spell he didn't have any bone, he might've gotten calcium deficiency, which can affect your nerves.

And, the good news about DM, if such a thing can exist, is that it is painless -- in fact, what is happening is that he's losing communication with his hind end. It starts in the legs, then eventually moves into the bladder/pooper control, then eventually they stop breathing, though that is a long ways down the road I hope. Prognosis is that the dog will die from the disease -- it is just a matter of so many factors as to progression, that no one can guess. Some dogs last weeks, others last years. I'm voting for years!

I'm going to supplement him on B vitamins, copper, and calcium in addition to the omega 3's he already gets. Thanks for thinking of the gluten though! Dog's don't exactly go about baking bread in the wild, do they? That would be a funny site - a pack of wolves baking some bread around a fire!

Hi all. My Emmett (see avatar) just got diagnosed as probably having Degenerative Myelopathy. This is when the nerves in the spinal column lose their sheath (myelin) and short circuits start happening. He can barely use one of his back legs now. Three weeks ago he was going on 16 mike hikes - now he gets tired too quickly from using his front legs to do all the work. It's depressing. He's 9 - so not a spring chicken - but we were hoping for 12 or 15 -- one of those really old grey dudes barely able to walk from old age instead of from some weird disease.

Anyway, anyomne who has lived through this -- can you share anything that might help?

I just got back from a trip and took walnuts (in shell with nutcracker), avocado, salt & pepper, bars, onion. I didn't take my own water bottle. but I do the raw food thing, eating something like a whole avocado being a normal meal for me. But they didn't bother me about these foodstuffs -- I don't know about prepared foods. Good luck.

I was a vegan when I went gluten free almost two years ago, and chose to start eating meat. Now I'm back to probably vegan again, but I'll tell you about my journey.

To add back, I started with "healthY' lunch meat, like Applegate Farms, etc. I thought since it was really skinny, it would work to introduce slowly. I ate it with mustard and raw sauerkraut. It was not very good, but lunch meat never has been.

Then I added back chicken, organic and pasture raised. This worked out pretty well for a while. Then I added back GRASS FED beef from a ranch I inspected myself. This was so great for a while - tasted so good, was relatively ethical since I checked out the spot, the cows were being fed their natural diet, etc.

Soon, I got into bacon. There is nothing healthy about bacon, but many veggies, myself included, find bacon the thing they miss most. It is really tastey. I think I got addicted to bacon - had it a lot.

All of this went fine. I digested it fine. I felt a bit more energetic than I had, but I had also gone gluten-free so there is no way to tell which was the trigger. I would have occassional bouts of diarrhea (always a C person with the celiac), probably from too much bacon. My bacon, chicken, and beef all came from sources I for the most part trusted (beef was the only one I was able to check out personally) so I felt that I was not contributing to the economy of animal cruelty and sacrificed heatlh/nutritional value that the mainstream meat industry is representative of.

Fast forward to a few months ago. I decided to go raw for the most part. This has been great so far, except for the difficulty in getting enough calories. Since most raw foodists are vegan, it just naturally followed that I would go that way, since I was checking out websites and books for recipies and the like. My digestion really perked up on the raw food. I would find that sometimes I did not feel my stomach (almost never happens) - like I might be a normal person for once. I am hungry a lot, have to think about food a lot, have to plan and prepare food a lot, but I figure that is my fate, you know. Food has been an issue for me since childhood.

Where I am now: 1) I am not sure if I am a protein type metabolizer or a carb type - if protein type, it is likely that I need some sort of animal flesh. If it turns out that way, I'll occassionally eat grass fed beef or buffalo or some other meat I can get LOCALLY from someplace that I've checked out and that I trust - and I won't eat more than 20% of any meal of meat. 2) if I can do it, I'd rather NOT eat meat. I don't like contributing to the economy of food as commodity (food is a human right and tied intrinsicly with dignity) and I don't like causing harm to animals or causing animals to be brought into this world just to be food. 3) I need to figure out my new energy problems - are they from lack of calories? am I detoxing? is it lack of protein? etc.

It is most certainly do-able - being a veggie/vegan and being gluten free. My personal advice is to watch out for several factors that I think get vegetarians in the end, health-wise. Soy is not good for you, number one. If you do five minutes of research on the Internet, you'll find out more about why you should not eat soy that you ever wanted to know. If you are replacing protein from animals with protein from cheese, you are not going to be very healthy either. If you eat cheese, it should be raw milk cheese, which has some goodness for lots of folks (I can't eat it, gives me poop problems). Consider eating at least 50% raw - we need the enzymes and the vitamins/minerals and water content of foods as they are gifted to us in nature.

Some good sources of protein: nuts, veggies, superfoods like spirulina or klamath algae.

Anyway, you already are veggie, so you doubtlessly know all that stuff.

When I eat meat, I only eat grass fed organic. We have a nice ranch here by me, and I visited them to check out the conditions. Grass fed beef is way more nutritious than corn fed. But to me, the most important part is ethics - I will not contribute to a system that feeds animals food they are incapable of properly digesting without drugs -- after all, isn't that what I had been doing to myself for 38 years. Cows were meant to digest grass and nothing else. I personally consider it an abomination to feed them anything but. Sounds strong, but that's my belief. If people can afford it, they should get grass fed beef. If they can't afford it, they should consider vegetarianism, if it works for their health.

But it really is a problem now of economics. More and more corn is being used to make fuel, including that which is exported. More and more land is being used to grow corn for this purpose. This leaves less land to raise grass fed animals, and less corn to feed them as well. People need to buy locally - that is probably the only answer. Hopefully after gas gets to be over $5/gallon and the cost of food goes way up, we'll have to rethink the way we think about food in this country -- it is not a commodity, it is a human right AND, it should be community pride as well. If you think about how much we use food socially - going out to eat, cooking and eating together at home, etc. - it's easy to see how much it guides our community. Adding some sort of food bartering to this makes perfect sense.

I've gotten a bit off topic. I guess the main point being to me: 1) health of me 2) health of the food I eat. I believe what many east Indians believe: the life of the animal lives on in the meat. If the animal had a bad life or a bad slaughter or whatever, that energy lives on in their flesh, and I consume it. I've actually given up eating meat for the most part - maybe a 1/2 a grass fed hamburger patty a week. I just can't stand the thought of being part of the economy that treats animals so poorly, and which seems to care about the health of consumers just about the same miniscule amount.

my personal guess is that animal fats are healthier uncooked...and we don't typically eat our meat raw. But that's just a guess. The only fat I get that is cooked is coconut oil right now (waiting to eating meat again.)

My question is, can I use the Organic cider vinegar just for soaking the meat for 15 minutes and Sea Salt with boiling water to boil up the meat for a very short time, then rinse the meat with cold water thoroughly?

After I do this the meat does taste a little bit of ocv but there's no aftertaste of salt at all. I've read that vinegar isn't allowed so can I or can't I?

Also I have lost some weight and am quite thin as it is so this is a worry, will I put the weight/muscle back on any time soon?

Thanks for reading..

Nige2008

I try to do about 70-80% raw, and follow paleo pretty much, save for no sugar or sugary fruits since they bloat me out. I've added buffalo, beef, and ostrich back after going back veggie for a while (changing to raw I went vegan, I think mostly since the "cook" books lean that way). I already feel a bit better adding back the meat, mental-wise. I, too, am still physically weak as to exercise. I have to force myself to get out and walk right now, to try to get back into shape.

Anyway, as to the vinegar. My understanding of RAW Apple Cider Vinegar is that is is quite good for you. Especially if you get it with "mother", the weird stringy bits that don't look so appetizing, but are apparently superfoods. ACV is supposed to help with joint pain, too, which it sounds like you've had some of. Are you wanting to use it on the meat to kill germs/"cook" it? I myself have not moved to barely cooking my meats, though I'm quite sure it's healthy...there is always the food poisoning thing, and I quite literally have a phobia of vomiting, so mentally, it's hard for me to do.

Sounds like you've really stuck with it through your healing crisis. This is great to hear because it is so hard to tell if I'm in healing crisis, or if what I'm doing isn't right. i try to just use my intuition - does it feel right? I know that not eating grains/beans/dairy/soy/gluten/sugar feels right -- I just need to work out the details and get over my "healing" and into "health".

As to the weight loss thing...this remains my problem. Nancym here seems to do really well and not lose too much weight, you might try checking with her. I know she eats lots of dense foods like avocado, agave, coconut, nuts, etc. I read an interesting thing the other day - if you wanted to eat 2,000 calories and all you had was raw veggie (non-starchy), it would take 30 pounds of it. I try to stick to 80/20 veggies/meat, but I might up it to 70/30 or 60/40 and see how that goes. Then I worry about not being alkaline enough. I don't know...now I'm over complicating things. Some things in the past that have helped me keep weight on:

rice milk tea lattes (or nut milk tea lattes) - you can make raw almond milk in the Vitamix if you have one.

sweet potato/yam/winter squash - in the wintertime, I need to add this in to keep warm, frankly.

nut pates and the like - I use Ani Phyo's cookbook for raw food, and think most of it is yummy.

Good luck.

I do not eat grains or dairy or gluten or soy...and a few other things, but anyway....

1. Green salad plus protein source, such as hamburger patty, buffalo patty, just had ostrich patty yesterday, chicken meat, fish, etc. It should be about 80% salad and 20% protein source. I don't use bun or anything. For dressing I use apple cider vinegar, a bit of mustard (Eden brand), some flax oil, hemp oil, and olive oil, and salt and pepper. My salads often have pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, avocado (but not nuts/seeds AND avocado since apparently they don't combine well), cucumbers, celery, lettuce, cilantro, basil, chard/kale/etc., spinach, zucchini, green onion or red onion. I DON"T use dried fruit for the high sugar content and the fact they don't combine well with anything. This salad/protein is really good in summer with grilled salmon.

2. Poached egg over sauteed veggies...especially zucchini, asparagus (when in season), OR napa cabbage. The napa cabbage one is really good believe it or not. Also, poached egg on raw spinach salad is really good, or medium boiled egg. Rules here are sauteed things should be cooked in coconut oil, not olive oil which becomes bad when heated to high temps; use sea salt or Himalayan crystal salt. Very good. The raw spinach salad usually utilizes the same dressing as above, only I warm it up so that the spinach wilts a little bit, and doesn't leave that weird taste in your mouth.

3. Omelet. Think like above, but add cilantro, tomato, green onion or red onion, etc. I often suatee zucchini and onion, then add the whipped up egg and cilantro and tomato, and a bit of jalepeno if you have some. VERY good.

4. Snack: grapefruit slices, fennel shaved thinly, red onion shaved thinly, mint/basil/cilantro (just one), some ribboned spinach maybe, and then some dressing made from the juice of the grapefruit (whatever you can get from peeling, etc. and/or some lime juice, oil (flax, hemp, olive), salt and pepper. Let it sit for a minute to absorb flavors, then eat. You should only have to wait 45 minutes until you eat again, but since it has fruit, you should not eat anything else with it.

5. I don't know if you eat rice...but if you do, my family loves to eat those Indian foods in the pouches over rice. There are a couple brands, at least two of which are gluten free (sorry, I can't recall)...in co-ops and grocery stores. Watch for gluten free. If you don't eat rice, they end up a bit soupy. Also, they are typically based on potato or legumes, neither of which I eat, but which smell really yummy. VERY easy, just drop pouch in boiling water and wait ten minutes...like hiking food really, but tastes good.

6. Sauteed veggies and protein source.

7. Snacks: fruit (by itself); handful of nuts (by themselves, and not peanuts and make sure gluten free - RAW is best); SMALL handful of dried fruit, and only if it does not gas you up or give you sugar fits - high fiber ones are best like figs, as it makes the sugar go into your system more slowly; handful of seeds; an avocado with salt or without salt and also with or without dressing; a half melon (by itself) with or without salt.

8. Tuna, but not very often (mercury) with olive oil or mayo (gluten-free) and mustard (gluten-free, I use Eden brand), with onion, cilantro, salt/pepper, etc. on top of salad or inside the scooped out bit of an avocado.

Breakfast is still befuddling me if you don't do eggs, which I am giving up tomorrow (new years idea) to see how I feel. I have no idea what to eat for breakfast, other than Rice & Shine or buckwheat cereal, but I don't really want to go back to grains. I have to eat breakfast though. Maybe just sauteed veggies and protein source for brekkers, too.

Anyway, just some thoughts. If you wash/prep your produce when you get home from the store with it, it will be ready in your refer so you don't pick something else to avoid the salad spinner. You an make dressing and leave it out on your counter for the next salad as well. If it helps you eat salad, break up your lettuce in the bag so all you have to do is toss (by the way, iceberg is useless - you need a green leaf lettuce or red leaf lettuce or romaine - all of those have good nutrition; if you're in a hurry in the a.m., prep your omelet veggies the night before and seal up. You can freeze single servings of protein - like I put in zip locks one hamburger of buffalo patty. Then when I eat it, I get out the next days' protein source. I usually use half the burger for breakfast/lunch and the other half for dinner, though it is good to vary your protein sources as well, so you don't develop allergies.

Hope this helps. I am someone who cooks a lot (or uncooks since I eat about 70% raw), so I'm not sure how "easy" these things sound. But if you don't eat any grains, you'll likely feel better it sounds like. And I find it pretty easy to avoid them.

Oh yeah, sprouts might be good too. I've started growing my own for salads and the like. We'll see how it goes. Right now only half the seeds germinated in the jar, and the other half are still whole. It is cold, though. Take care.

I can really relate with your fear of vomiting/getting sick. Just a couple days ago a friend of mine told me that a virulent stomach virus was going around town, and my stomach started to hurt the instant he said it. Then, a few days later, he got it, and so did his live-in girlfriend. I was practically panic stricken - afraid to eat anything in case I would have to throw it up. Jeezopeet. Then I was in the public library and got the chills - and immediately, before my brain could do a darned thing about it, I was dizzy with a panic attack. I reasoned myself down - of course I wasn't sick. I went and washed my hands. then I went home and looked up the virus which has a incubation period of 24-48 hours. I was exposed to my friend five days ago, and I'm only now starting to feel safely like I'm not going to get it. What a pain.

As to anxiety attacks in general - mine disappeared virtually overnight when I quit gluten. But I had "generalized anxiety disorder", attacks would come on frequently with eating. I would definitely consider 1) physiological reasons behind it: dairy, soy, hidden gluten, lectin intolerate, etc., but also vitamin/mineral deficiency; 2) watch for patterns...for me it was eating, especially cooked tomatoes (I think from my childhood sick-fest every time we ate spaghetti or pizza - hmm, celiac...I wonder why) but also overeating, eating too fast, or eating when unhappy, stressed or with people I didn't like/was sick of/was arguing with, etc.

1) food intolerances

2) eat when totally calm; if can't be worked out, eat minimum amount to avoid hunger nausea

3) eat sitting down, maybe with calm music on - don't eat over sink or on the run

4) meditate or take naps every day. there are 20 minute tapes you can use like a nap, some which focus on body/mind stuff

5) get enough exercise

6) create a safe space for yourself, like a closet or a chair or make a fort or something - someplace safe to ride it out.

7) if it helps, call someone who supports you and talk about something else until you forget you're having an attack

8) try "calms" when you know you'll be in stressful situation. available at health food stores/coops and the like.

9) wash your hands a lot. keep lotion in your purse. gluten free of course.

If all else fails, consider getting on some anti-anxiety drugs. I personally don't like at all the ones that work in some mysterious way -- I like the valium/xanax famiily - they tone down your whole nervous system, turn the world down if you like. Doctors know how they function; there is no question about people killing their families and selves when taking it; relatively safe with side effects, at least in the stomach area. (I love it when they try to prescribe folks who have panic about food issues drugs that give them nausea.) I took Xanax for a few months quite successfully (couldn't eat at all I was so tense and upset, and was getting too thin - it really helped) - but now prefer to avoid it unless flying.

my nutritionist published a book i really like - it is mostly gluten, dairy, soy free - I can't verify right now because I loaned it to my parents. His website is "wholelifenutrition.net". He has some sample recipies on his site.

Good luck.

Oh yeah, also, raw food cookbooks can be helpful that way - though they like to include raw soy sauce, it can be avoided quite easily. And any time they call for soaked oat groats, you can use soaked buckwheat groats. You have to be willing to eat raw, though. (I have been and it's going very well so far.) Ani Phyo's cookbook is great, and Raw Food Real Life is pretty good too. Ani's is simpler.

Good luck.

Another factor in handling candida is keeping an alkaline system...acidosis makes it works. This means few or no grains -- let's just say LOTS of veggies (that aren't starchy), almonds are alkaline if you can tolerate them. If you look up acid/alkaline, you'll get some info. A lot of it contradicts itself - what is acid, what is alkaline.

anyway, good luck.

I have found several culprits for me...but the one that comes to mind is HONEY. I know ... it's supposed to be good for your tummy, even killing off hpylori and other great stuff, help with seasonal allergies, etc. But none of that matters to me, because I don't care about my runny nose when my tummy hurts.

Just a thought.

I would make sure my thyroid was working properly - if it is underactive, it can keep you overweight. And diabetes might be another thing. make sure you don't have some underlying medical condition contributing to it being difficult to lose weight. My sister just got on thyroid meds and has lost 20-30 pounds already. And is happier, and has more hair.

If it is not an underlying medical condition, I would investigate further. First, I would suggest you try to determine your metabolic type. You can check out a book at the library no doubt. Right now there aren't any good free online tests.

protein types do well with low carb high protein animal based diets

carb types do well with high carb low protein diets

mixed types ... well, pretty obvious

I bring this up because if you're not losing weight on low carb, it might not be the best kind of diet for you.

One thing you might look into is the raw food diet. It is hard to stay on, but can be very good for losing weight. You can search it on YouTube and see various folks who have tried it. This would only work if your digestion is strong enough to handle it. I've been doing well on it myself. If you have any questions about it, PM me. Again, you could check out raw food diet books from the library...way better than buying them since books with recipies either work for you or don't - no sense wasting money.

Good luck.

If their NAME is of import to them, the greenery should be grown from CHIA seeds, a superfood from South America. I put Chia seeds on my salads. They are really good. I'd double check it, though.

Chia seeds. Yum.

Not to play devil's advocate here, but codliver oil is a GREAT supplement. It has omega fatty acids, which most Americans are woefully deficient in; AND vitamin D, a lack thereof which contributes to skin cancer, among other things. Especially in climates that do not get a lot of sun in the offseason, cod liver oil is an excellent thing to add to your diet in the wintertime.

Good point that multivitamins are NEW. Our grandparents didn't take them because they didn't exist. Multivitamins are a mixed blessing in my mind. I don't take them. How is it exactly they are ISOLATING certain nutrients, and making them work in our bodies, which don't work in isolation in any way. All things having to do with life are systems, not separate parts. We have yet to and no doubt never will really understand entirely how the body works, because it is not reducable, and can't be managed by reduced things, like multivitamins. (the nation's sewage, by the way, contains millions of undigested multivitamins.) What's ironic about someone refusing to take vitamins because their bread flour is "enriched" or their milk is "enriched" -- what do they think they're enriching them with? Isolated vitamins and minerals.

Nutrition should be had from food. That said, I do understand many of us can't absorb vitamins/minerals properly since our intestines are damaged. Perhaps in those instances, until we heal ourselves, we can gain some help from NATURAL, WHOLE FOOD BASED multivitamins. But ultimately, we should not be popping pills for nutrients - we should be eating them in food. Kids should definitely be getting it from food - they're systems are cleaner than ours in most instances.

As to nutrition from whole grain bread -- everything on the web I could find in 1/2 hours time that touted the goodness of whole grain bread products, presented them in contrast to refined bread products. One of the things they like to say is about fiber. What is the fiber content in your average piece of whole grain bread compared to a fig? an avocado? most vegetables? most fruits? Not good, when compared to those things. Here's what the AVERAGE whole wheat bread has for nutrition info on the packaging:

Calories: 70

Fat 1.2

Sodium 140

Carbs 13

fiber 2

sugars 5.6

protein 2.7

A0%

Calcium 2%

C 0%

Iron 5%

Here's what the Millet Bread (Food For Life) my family eats has:

Calories: 100

Fat .5

Sodium 170

Potassium 130

Carbs 21

fiber 1

sugar 3

protein 2

Vit 0% except

C at 4%

Iron 4%

So, the difference in 1 gram of fiber when we're supposed by getting 30 a day seems a bit irrelevant really. I'd focus on getting high fiber fruits and veggies in their diet.

if you do try eating 'bland' with the BRAT diet (banana, rice, applesauce, toast?), and don't feel better, consider those things are all relatively high on the glycemic index. Also, fruit is best eaten alone.

Of course they say bananas have some quality that firm up the outflow or soften it, depending on what you need - so you might consider that.

Also, some things can cause diarrhea, like supplements (I had my sister taking Triphala, an Indian herb, w/o realizing it was laxative), and Mate (a south American tea) can cause a bit of the old loosening as well. Also, can't too much magnesium cause it. I'd watch for those things as well.

just some thoughts. good luck.

The nutritiousness of whole grains is actually more debated than most folks know. Many grains are high on the glycemic index - that's part of why " whole grains" are better for you, because they re less so. Nonetheless, they are not actually that nutritious.

What nutrition is it exactly you are looking for? I'd be happy to search for and suggest other foods for those nutritive values, and then you don't need to worry about the bread replacement.

-Sherri

Hi. Since you are new to this whole thing, you might not have figured out which non-wheat flours work well for you. Lots of folks have trouble with tapioca, for example. It does look like high concentrations of sugar can increase diarrhea, though perhaps no cause it, I only researched that for a minute.

AS to the itching at night -- I had this VERY badly before getting diagnosed, and it got better once I went gluten free. However, now that it is winter, I have it again, though more mildly. If my partner rubs my back, which should feel good, right, I end up amazingly itchy afterward. Of course, I take amazingly lot hot showers in the wintertime, and our water is heavily chlorinated (or so it smells). This one should get better. What helped me too was using heavy lotion, the kind you find in tubs not bottles, though you have to be sure it is gluten free.

As to light-headedness/spaciness: are you sure you're not getting some gluten someplace? To be honest, this is one of the ways I can tell if I've been accidentally dosed, if you add anxiety to it as well. I typically only get this anymore if I eat out. If it makes you really tense when this happens, drink some peppermint tea. If it is happening all the time, I'd definitely try to figure out if your kitchen is contanimated or if you're missing smething. Of course, it could be nutrient deficiencies of all kinds, which will clear up as you start to digest better.

A couple questions to you/considerations:

1) are you taking digestive enzymes? This might help you digest your food until you get back on track.

2) are you taking probiotics of any kind? florastor is good if you're not allergic to yeast; acidophilous, those things...

3) consider Betaine HCI - it supposedly increases stomach acid, to help digest food.

The Betaine only worked for me for a while, or if I eat protein rich foods. When I just eat salad, I can't have it or I end up getting acidy. But my nutritionist put me on it when I was first diagnosed, and I took it again for a month or so recently when I stopped digesting my food very well (or so I'm guessing by the contents of the bowl, if you catch my drift).

Good luck. Keep asking questions - folks on the board are great. There's lots to learn. Take care.

Probably not that helpful, but I've been giving it to my dog (for arthritis and digestive issues). He does not seem to get harder stools; they are already pretty hard because he eats raw food. Anyway, sorry not more helpful. Hopefully someone will know.

Thanks. I actually ended up buying one, and I really love it too. I'm doing the raw food thing, so make almond milk out of it, and cashew cheese, and the like. I made a really good raw mole sauce the other day.

I do wonder, do you make green shakes out of it? And if so, how do you keep from too much air getting in there. If I add rough stuff to it, I find it gets really foamy.

lastly, nice puppy dog....how old? We've had an Am Staff and how have a Staffy Bull (see avitar). Yahoo for bullies!

Whey is from dairy. Do watch out for "made in a facility that also processes wheat". There is at least one brand of cracker with the Celiac Foundation stuff on the front that has that label as well. Depending on your sensitivity, or how you choose to come down on the issue of cross contamination in manufacturing, you may want to avoid those things made in facilities with wheat.