soy & gas
#208791 - 08/26/05 10:17 AM
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jaime g
Reged: 07/27/05
Posts: 961
Loc: new york city
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of course, i've been seeing all the same things here... but some people describe it as being the same as IF - once your body gets used to it and builds up proper helpful enzymes, you can handle it better. as a (lazy) vegetarian i'm rather dependent on it, and hoping that since i've always eaten it, and it's SF, i can keep on going... and a little gas is better than no protein. i guess.
-------------------- jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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Beth, Thanks very much for the info! I just went out and bought a gallon of regular and vanilla rice milk. Well, it says rice drink, but it looks like milk. That soy info site makes it seem like you're going to die tomorrow if you eat or drink the stuff today! Here it is, I've been drinking soy milk since the beginning of March, and eating soy yogurts every day for the last two months. Oh boy! All these contradictory claims are really disturbing. Well the guy who was trashing soy formula and products was adocating dairy products. Now if you go to notmilk.com, you'll see he's full of it too. My oh my, this is just too much . According to Jaime, I should be adjusted to the soy stuff by now anyway. I'll try this rice milk stuff and if I don't notice any difference, it's back to the soy stuff. It's also much more convenient for me to get the soy stuff as the grocery store in my town has it. The rice stuff is only available at one store a dozen miles away.
Oh the reason I thought Chris was female is because when I checked out dysbiosis via on the web, it said something about it being a condition women got from candida infections?!
Hope you're feeling better! -Bob
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i make no claims of knowing that one's body acclimates to soy. i only hope.
-------------------- jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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-------------------- IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Oh yeah I wholeheartedly agree! Mori-Nu is definitely the best I've tried by far Love the stuff!
But anyway, I got off my lazy butt and looked it up...
1/2 a package (2 slices) Mori-Nu Regular Firm Tofu has about 5g of fat and 104 calories, which is about 43% fat. (Also has 12g protein.)
The same amount of Mori-Nu Regular Firm LITE Tofu has about 1g of fat and 62 calories, which is about 14% fat. (11g protein.)
And, just for the sake of comparison, a similar amount of skinless chicken breast (2oz) has 2g of fat and 92 calories, which is about 19% fat. (Not to suggest that chicken breast would be a suitable substitute for tofu or anything, I don't eat the stuff myself anymore ) (17g protein - not that much more than the tofu!)
Again, the regular tofu would probably be ok for most people with a regular, low-fat meal - i.e. it would be pretty easy to bring the whole meal down to the 20-25% fat range with some rice and veggies.
Edited by retrograde (08/26/05 08:42 PM)
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awesome. thanks for looking that up for me. i happen to have none in my fridge at the moment.
and i realized that since finding mori-nu (bless its space aged packaging), i've always bought the lite. so i don't feel too bad about that at all.
thanks again.
j
-------------------- jaime
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