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Specific Carbohydrate Diet
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Summary:
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet is based on the concept that many bowel conditions are due to imbalances in the microbial
environment of the gastrointestinal system. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet also believes that foods included
in the diet have very specific chemistry that help restore the
necessary balance. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet, in my opinion, is too restrictive and not comprehensive enough and I must warn that it doesn’t work for everyone. |
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Specific Carbohydrate Diet
Specific Carbohydrate Diet has two potential shortcomings: The Specific Carbohydrate Diet is both too restrictive and not comprehensive enough to address all the common gastrointestinal complaints.
First, the Specific Carbohydrate Diet restricts foods that I have never, in fifteen years, required any of my patients to stop eating...at least at the beginning of my protocol. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet has all patients stop eating most dairy foods and all gluten-containing foods, but it also suggests not eating any rice or potatoes. I have found the elimination of rice and potatoes to be unnecessary for my patients unless we find through food allergy testing that they are allergic to them. Only a small percentage of patients test allergic to them.
Second, the Specific Carbohydrate Diet is not comprehensive enough when it comes to dairy being eliminated from the diet, and the Specific Carbohydrate Diet does not call at all for a food allergy test. My protocol calls for the elimination of all dairy products. That’s a 100-percent rule.
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet suggests eliminating all dairy products except fermented cheeses and a special yogurt that the author teaches how to make. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet protocol is additionally lacking by not recommending a food allergy test, as I have found it almost impossible to help people suffering from Crohn’s Disease or any type of colitis without such a test.
Crohn's Disease and any form of colitis are complex
conditions requiring a complex solution. To help you eliminate symptoms
associated with them, we must realize there are in total, nine separate variables that
may cause your symptoms, many of which the Specific Carbohydrate Diet does not address:
- Lost beneficial bacteria in your intestines
- Possible bad bacteria, yeast or parasites
- Lowered levels of digestive enzymes (especially if you have lost your gall bladder)
- Detrimental bowel chemistry
- Intolerances to dairy products (the most important dietary elimination)
- Intolerances to fructose containing foods
- Intolerances to gluten containing foods (another important dietary elimination)
- Celiac Disease (a problem with gluten, but different than a gluten intolerance)
- Possible
food allergies (different than intolerances, it's an immune response
and without learning of them, you will never get well)
If you notice the nine separate causes in the paragraph
above, the last five are diet related: Intolerances to dairy, fructose
or gluten, Celiac Disease and food allergies, which are found in all
Crohn's and Colitis patients and must be identified and eliminated from the diet
before the patient can get well.
Have you learned of and tried to eliminate some of these foods before
with no success possibly by using the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? Many have, but it is a planned step-by-step process
of elimination of these foods while we utilize all-natural supplements
that is the strength of Dr. Dahlman's Crohn's Disease/ Colitis diet treatment.
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