[Magdalen] Diet whine

[Jay Weigel]

The gluten-free bread business is not really because of gluten, or so my
understanding goes, but because of wheat. Also on the verboten list are
barley and rye, and spelt *unless* sourdough. Oats and, TBTG, rice are
okay. Cauliflower, broccoli, and (sigh) sugar snap and snow peas are
no-nos, as are all stone fruits, watermelon, apples, and blackberries. But
I can have sweet potatoes and regular ones, and grapes, and most other
melons. And tomatoes, and all the greens I want. It's just weird. And I
miss my garlic!


On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:15 AM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lactose is currently on the no-no list. I'm allowed to have lactose-free
> milk, and there are some good ones out there. I will be allowed to try
> things one by one after 6 weeks. And I found some almond-based ice cream on
> special this past weekend, which is yummy. There is also coconut-based
> yogurt, but I'm only allowed 1/2 cup of coconut milk at a time, dammit.
> One problem is that soy products are allowable, but I don't tolerate them
> well, never have.
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
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> Plain unsweetened yogurt should have hardly any saccharides of any kind,
> as the good little bacteria have used up just about all the lactose, which
> is the main (only?) carb in milk.  I love Chobani's Greek, which has the
> additional gift of being Ethically Virtuous.  And I have no problems with
> Splenda.
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> Best with it, dollink --
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> Molly
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> p.s.  I'm making weird cross pendants in copper clay.
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> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
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> > On Feb 1, 2017, at 10:41 AM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
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> > Hmmmm - this sounds an awful lot like my dear wife's diet, who has
> found, after years of trial-and-error, that anything high in fructose is a
> no-no. Seems her father had much the same problem. So - little or no high
> fructose corn syrup, fruit, onions, and honey. She also tries to go light
> on bread, but that may be a separate issue. Maple syrup (the real thing, of
> course) is a savio(u)r - all glucose. Pretty much any veggie is fine (other
> than onions), and she lives on yogurt.
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> > Food for thought -
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> > Chad Wohlers
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> > Woodbury, VT USA
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> > chadwohl at satucket.com
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> > -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weigel
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> > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 10:07 AM
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> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
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> > Subject: [Magdalen] Diet whine
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> > So after four mostly blissful trouble-free years of eating what I wanted,
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> > that ole debbil IBS seems to have shown up again, despite the fact that
> my
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> > surgeon had told me that in *most* cases like mine, after surgery it
> would
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> > not. This time I am on what is called a Low-FODMAP diet. FODMAP stands
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> > "*F*ermentable, *O*ligo-, *D*i-, *M*ono-saccharides *A*nd *P*olyols"
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> > and FODMAP
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> > restriction has been found to improve symptom control in people with
> irritable
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> > bowel syndrome <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irritable_bowel_syndrome>
> (IBS)
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> > and other functional gastrointestinal disorders
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> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_gastrointestinal_disorder>
> (FGID).
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> > Yippee. It's actually not as hard to follow as the gluten-free business,
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> > which Did Not Work. Unfortunately, some of my dietary staples are no-nos
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> > this time. What I miss most are onions, garlic, yogurt, and bread! I'm
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> > allowed gluten-free bread, which tastes like sawdust, and something
> called
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> > sourdough spelt bread, which I have yet to find anywhere. UGH. And
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> > vegetarian options have, for the most part, gone by the board, as beans
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> > all kinds are prohibited. Interestingly, I have found that one culprit
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> > seems to be high-fructose corn syrup, which is damn near ubiquitous,
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> > including in my beloved Heinz chili sauce! I had some of that on fries
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> > other night and suffered the night long...my fault for not reading the
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> > label as it is on the "bad" list (the corn syrup, not the sauce itself).
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> > So, Cady, I join with you on the difficult diet train.......
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