Elaine writes:
To explain to
your friend about absorption of sugars into the gut across the intestinal
cell would take a long time. In
my book, I mention the fact that some fruits and veggies contain a small
amount of sucrose and even starch (legumes). There are many reasons
why one could
speculate as to why they are tolerated: (1) concentration (2)
absorption due to the fact they are contained in WHOLE FOODS, rather
than as
an extracted form; (3) molecular forms of the starch remnants.
The fact is that the diet works and if one were able to analayze every
single
food for carbohydrate, and then do it to the diet the person is
currently ingesting like the standard American diet, you would be
shocked at the
difference. The diet works!
Please read the page in the Mom and Dad Brigade (at the very end of the
book) by Daphne.
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Deana
writes:
Yes, sucrose
- when isolated from its source, refined, and super-concentrated
(i.e. that crystalline white stuff) - is an illegal disaccharide.
However, small amounts of naturally-occurring sucrose, in their
natural state within complete plant cells containing all the other
natually-occuring nutrients - such as occurs in bananas, beets, etc
- are digestible and therefore SCD-legal.
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Colleen writes:
Sucrose does occur naturally in some of our foods, but that is not
the same thing as eating, for example, table sugar. Likewise,
there are polysaccharides
(starches) on the SCD that have been shown to be tolerated by folks
like us with these types of problems - nuts, for example, or
squash. XXXX
*does* have sucrose intolerance - as I said, just like the rest of
us (I always
get a kick out of it when someone writes to the list saying they have "lactose
intolerance." As Elaine says, that's just the tip of the iceberg.)
- but all sucrose is not the same, just as all polysaccharides are
not the same.
A lot of our legal foods contain di- and poly- saccharides. Squash and
nuts, for example, contain starches. But there are some things which
have been shown to be tolerated; and other things which are sometimes
legal and sometimes not. Pectin, for example, which is present in foods
like apples but not okay to consume in concentrated forms.
I understand your confusion, but if you try to analyze everything you
will only make yourself crazy. The SCD, as someone once put it, is "evidence-based." It's
been shown to work as it is. If you find you have trouble with a legal
food, you may just have an individual sensitivity or you're just not
ready for it. That's not at all uncommon.
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