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I also seem to have blood sugar rise when I get even the smallest amount of
wheat product. I normally don't have a lot of cravings, but after getting
wheat poisened, I crave everything. I found yesterday that the excessive
blood sugar (feeling) can be reduced significantly by 30min of aerobic
exercise. Also lemon juice helped a little.

The SCD diet, an excellent diet for IBD, has no legal grains. While most IBD
diets, especially gluten-free ones, allow corn and rice, it doesn't. I found
that most everything listed is right on. But I've had to reduce the legal
list further because I have allergies to foods that go beyond intolerances.
After a year of being strict on the diet, I just tried corn again. I still
have an allergy to it and I know that allergy has a gut bacteria component.
BUT, while I have yet to retry it, I think that long grain brown basmati
rice is going to be ok for me. It has a more favorable amylose to
amylopectin ration than other rices (not cross pollenated to be lighter and
fluffier and sweeter) and I think that makes the difference. 

The SCD diet and resources are available online, so that you can check it
out: http://www.scdiet.org/. This diet changed my life is showing me exactly
what shouldn't be in my diet any more. I add to it by reducing carbs and
eating low-glycemic fruits.

I'm now trying to check out kefir grains and ripened kefir as possible help
for IBD. Ripened kefir should have low levels of lactose.

Mickie


On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:19:06 -0500, Tuttle, Elizabeth
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>My experience is that I don't "react" to glutens as far as pain.  My
>reactivity is that my blood sugars rise quickly and stay elevated much
>longer when I eat them.  I also experience delayed gastric emptying from
>glutens.  So the reactivity can happen in a variety of ways.
>
> 
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>I'd like some support also, because the various diets out there except
>for Atkins recommend that the diet be grain intensive, and I can't
>manage that.  I don't metabolize most kinds of fibers well either.
>
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>I'm curious what supplements folks are using to lower blood sugars and
>how successful they are.
>
>Liz

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