#scd diet

[scdgourmet]

Small tomatoes

basil and parsley chopped

olive oil

salt

[cannabisrefugee-esq]

Paleo a No-Go?  GMOs, Gluten, and Crohn’s Disease.  Dietary Changes That Finally Worked.

I have tried many supposedly Crohn’s-friendly diets including the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), the low-FODMAP diet, the low-residue diet, the Paleo diet, and the elemental diet and none of them gave me substantial relief.  So far, the only thing I have tried that actually works is a 100% organic, non-GMO diet which combined with my treatment with medical cannabis has brought me immense relief.

[cornteens2020]

Cookbooks I just went through and found useless - esp the Rocco one. Who keeps buying his stupid bookbooks? Oh, people who need a recipe for Ants on a Log. m’k. 

[scdgourmet]

Pear Blueberry & Gruyère cheese

Slice two pears into thin wedges and add them to a warm buttered plan. Let them soften for at least 20 minutes on medium heat, flipping them every 5 minutes. Then add a handful of fresh blueberries and let them cook down until soft (10 minutes). Add some Gruyere cheese on the side of the plate and enjoy with a cup of ginger tea.

[scdgourmet]

Apple Pepper Tuna Salad

Put the 3 ingredients together with olive oil, lemon juice and salt. Top with chives, dry curd cheese and lemon zest. Enjoy.

[elizabethkadeli-blog]

What is the SCD diet?

The SCD diet stands for Specific Carbohydrate Diet (which means adding diet to the end of SCD is sort of redundant).

With all diets it’s debatable if this, this, and this is healthy, but I was on the SCD diet for two years and was medicine free. It’s a real lifestyle change (for the better).

You can find out more from my about where I have a link, but here are some quotes from the website that can sum it up better than I can:

“The diet’s guidelines are based on the fact that not everyone’s digestive tract has evolved to optimally digest complex carbohydrates and other man-made food products like sugar. The main principle of the diet is that carbohydrates are classified by their chemical structure; they are monosaccharide, disaccharide, or polysaccharide. On the diet, only monosaccharide carbohydrates are allowed to be eaten as all others require extra digestion steps to break the chemical bonds down to monosaccharide carbohydrates.”

“By eliminating complex carbohydrates, lactose, sucrose and other man-made ingredients from the digestive process, the body is finally allowed to start healing. As gut flora levels start to stabilize, the reduction of irritants from undigested foods, toxins and other man-made ingredients allows inflammation levels to retreat.”

I hope that was educational and helped!

(p.s. I love you)

Elizabeth

[elizabethkadeli-blog]

Starting to get this blog up and running. I’ll begin posting life updates and such after my week takes off (aka Wednesday). I’m excited to start documenting my journey with you all!

[transform-health]

From 1952 to 1960, there seemed to be no answers to the series of health problems facing our child: periods of severe diarrhea, severe constipation, spontaneous nosebleeds, night- time seizures, failure to thrive, and finally the diagnosis of ul- cerative colitis. The years of treatment with prednisone and sulfonamides, plus innumerable other medical approaches, had been unsuccessful and surgery seemed imminent. …And then, it happened! …Ninety-two year old Dr. [Sidney Valentine] Haas placed our child on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and within days, the neurological symptoms ceased, never to return, the colitis symptoms were completely resolved within one year. The child began to thrive leaving all the previous problems behind and making up for lost time. How could a simple diet cure an “incurable disease?”

E. Gottschall/Medical Veritas 1 (2004) 261–271 261 Digestion-gut-autism connection: the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Website: www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info