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Gottschall Diet??
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Yes, there is Please visit this site: http://www.fwi.com/cmg/index.html Good luck Benito
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I would disagree with the above. But then I’ for over a year now. Yes at first you lose weight because you cut out all carbohydrates and sugars. But that levels after the first month when you can add a greater range of foods such as the nut muffins. And, yes, anyone using nut muffins in the first few weeks would feel worse, it is contrary to the diet. For me this diet was the first thing that worked and is a life saver. I still get problems from time to time but I’m so much improved. Perhaps it doesn’t work for everyone but I think a trail of the 1st month is worth a shot and is a lot less damaging than some of the meds out there. Amanda
I’m glad to hear the Gottshall diet has worked for some people. I didn’t mean to imply that the diet wasn’t worth trying. I’m a strong believer that what we eat affects our health and certainly the digestive tract. This diet at least attempts to use a biological basis rather than mumbo-jumbo. Our timing and planning weren’t very good and so unfortunately we didn’t stick with the diet long enough to know if it would really help. The meds scare the death out of us too and that’s why we’re looking for other means of treatment and healing. My comment about the cannon vs. a shotgun becomes clear when you consider, for instance, the treatment of celiac disease: celiacs are gluten intolerant and need only cut out gluten containing foods (wheat, barley, rye, perhaps oats, and foods with gluten added). So, the Gottschall diet would work for that as it cuts those things out, but it goes much, much further, which won’t make much difference for celiacs but is much harder to do in terms of eating & cooking. I should note that in my research on celiac disease I heard from 3 people who had various types and degrees of inflamation in the colon along with other symptoms, one of whom had been diagnosed with crohns many years before. Once they went gluten free they healed and have been symptom free ever since. Two were finally specifically diagnosed with celiac disease and went gluten free; the one diagnosed with crohns tried it on his own, and didn’t want to go back on gluten and chance the colitis returning just to get a definitive diagnosis. My point is, these people had symptoms of colitis, crohns, etc., rather than or not just the "common" celiac disease symptoms, and yet they turned out to be celiacs. A diet modification has them drug-free and symptom free. Given the large variation in celiac symptoms, I wonder how many other people with inflammatory bowel symptoms are incorrectly diagnosed? You can learn more about celiac disease and gluten intolerance starting at The Gluten Free Page at http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/ Cindy "Madness takes its toll…please have exact change"
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I’m confused. People with Crohn’s and UC are allowed to eat nuts? I thought that’s the ONE food none of us are supposed to eat, because nuts barely digest! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I would disagree with the above. But then I’ for over a year now. Yes at first you lose weight because you cut out all carbohydrates and sugars. But that levels after the first month when you can add a greater range of foods such as the nut muffins. And, yes, anyone using nut muffins in the first few weeks would feel worse, it is contrary to the diet. For me this diet was the first thing that worked and is a life saver. I still get problems from time to time but I’m so much improved. Perhaps it doesn’t work for everyone but I think a trail of the 1st month is worth a shot and is a lot less damaging than some of the meds out there. Amanda Amanda I’m curious,do you have UC or Crohn’s? I’ve heard on the newsgroup that the SCD is more likely to work for Crohn’s. Also, did it take a whole month for you to start feeling improvement, or did you start feeling better sooner than that. Simon
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I would disagree with the above. But then I’ for over a year now. Yes at first you lose weight because you cut out all carbohydrates and sugars. But that levels after the first month when you can add a greater range of foods such as the nut muffins. And, yes, anyone using nut muffins in the first few weeks would feel worse, it is contrary to the diet. For me this diet was the first thing that worked and is a life saver. I still get problems from time to time but I’m so much improved. Perhaps it doesn’t work for everyone but I think a trail of the 1st month is worth a shot and is a lot less damaging than some of the meds out there. Amanda
Amanda I’m curious,do you have UC or Crohn’s? I’ve heard on the newsgroup that the SCD is more likely to work for Crohn’s. Also, did it take a whole month for you to start feeling improvement, or did you start feeling better sooner than that. Simon
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Hi- I’m new to this newsgroup, so please bear with me. What is the Gottschall diet? Is there a website address? Thanks:) K.
The Gottschall diet is outlined in the book "Breaking the Viscious Cycle: Intestinal health through Diet" by Elaine Gottschall. It can be found in bookstores. It purports to be a "Diet for crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, celiac disease, cystic fibrosis and chronic diarrhea." There is a website: http://www.fwi.com/cmg/index.html. We tried this diet for someone with inflamation in the colon, not diagnosed as actual crohns or u.c. It’s very restrictive and we had a hard time finding enough to eat. As the person kept losing weight and was in more pain than before, he canned it after 10 days. We suspect he jumped into the middle of it too quickly, eating lots of nut muffins and so forth right away, but what else he could eat was unclear given that we’re vegetarians. I think the diet has a reasonable biological basis, but is probaby a cannon where perhaps a shotgun might work (Don Wiss’s idea with which I agree). Finding the right shotgun is the problem. Cindy
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -The Gottschall diet is outlined in the book "Breaking the Viscious Cycle: Intestinal health through Diet" by Elaine Gottschall. It can be found in bookstores. It purports to be a "Diet for crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, celiac disease, cystic fibrosis and chronic diarrhea." There is a website: http://www.fwi.com/cmg/index.html. We tried this diet for someone with inflamation in the colon, not diagnosed as actual crohns or u.c. It’s very restrictive and we had a hard time finding enough to eat. As the person kept losing weight and was in more pain than before, he canned it after 10 days. We suspect he jumped into the middle of it too quickly, eating lots of nut muffins and so forth right away, but what else he could eat was unclear given that we’re vegetarians. I think the diet has a reasonable biological basis, but is probaby a cannon where perhaps a shotgun might work (Don Wiss’s idea with which I agree). Finding the right shotgun is the problem. Cindy
I would disagree with the above. But then I’ve been on the Gotschall diet for over a year now. Yes at first you lose weight because you cut out all carbohydrates and sugars. But that levels after the first month when you can add a greater range of foods such as the nut muffins. And, yes, anyone using nut muffins in the first few weeks would feel worse, it is contrary to the diet. For me this diet was the first thing that worked and is a life saver. I still get problems from time to time but I’m so much improved. Perhaps it doesn’t work for everyone but I think a trail of the 1st month is worth a shot and is a lot less damaging than some of the meds out there. Amanda
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Hi- I’m new to this newsgroup, so please bear with me. What is the Gottschall diet? Is there a website address? Thanks:) K.
The diet is described in a book by Elaine Gottshall, _Breaking the Viscious Cycle_. The results from following this very strict diet are mixed, based on reports in this newsgroup. There have been no controlled studies that prove its effectiveness.
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I’m new to this newsgroup, so please bear with me. What is the Gottschall diet? Is there a website address?
There are several web sites on the book. I have listed them in a paragraph on my web page. You will find them at: http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/index.shtml#gott Don.
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Hi- I’m new to this newsgroup, so please bear with me. What is the Gottschall diet? Is there a website address? Thanks:) K.
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