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Hey now, I've been on SCD for the past 3 years, and its nothing even
close to Atkins.
The main difference between Atkins, and SCD, is this.....
Atkins people count carb points, SCD people DO NOT count points.
Atkins people eat any type of carb they want, they just have to count
the points for it.
SCD people, however, exclude "specific" types of carbs from the diet,
thats ALL we do.
We exclude what we call "complex" or "chain molecule" sugars and
carbohydrates from the diet.
This isn't any more restrictive then Atkins, because there are recipes
for breads, cereals, yogurts, all sorts of things that aren't covered
under Atkins. Basically, there's a recipe for "everything" except
chocolate, but we have brownies, cookies, cakes, all sorts of stuff.
The thing thats bad about Atkins, is the high amounts of Protein.
High amounts of Protein, are not safe for the liver and kidneys,
we on SCD, don't take this approach, we simply excluse complex and
chain molecule sugars from the diet, which never hurt anyone, because
its what the small intestines absorbs and exits as waste material thru
the large intestines anyway. We still get sugar in our diet, the
allowed sugars are "natural" sugars, found in fresh fruits and
vegetables, bananas, honey, anything thats got "natural" sugar in it.
Man-made, or table sugars, is what we stay away from. Only
disadvantage of the diet is everything has to be prepared homemade,
which isn't a big deal since alot of diets are like that.
You guys can find out more about this diet at my forum:
http://www.crohnsdaily.com
I have Crohn's Disease, which is how I got started on the diet in the
first place, since things like immune suppressors, Remicade, Asacol,
antibiotics, etc don't work very well for me.
The idea behind SCD is quite simple:
"by excluding table-sugars from the diet, we attempt to starve the bad
bacteria in the body. This apprach, helps to balance out the bacteria
levels in the body, responsible for intestinal disorders and
inflammation. Once the bad bacteria is being starved, then we use
whats called Acidophilus, to get the good bacteria back into the body,
that the bad bacteria and antibiiotics stole from us to begin with.
This disruptive bacterial inbalance is whats believed to cause crohn's
disease and the immune system to get all thrown out of wack so to
speak"
or by visiting Elaine's webiste at:
http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info
take care,
Tom (bubazoo)
close to Atkins.
The main difference between Atkins, and SCD, is this.....
Atkins people count carb points, SCD people DO NOT count points.
Atkins people eat any type of carb they want, they just have to count
the points for it.
SCD people, however, exclude "specific" types of carbs from the diet,
thats ALL we do.
We exclude what we call "complex" or "chain molecule" sugars and
carbohydrates from the diet.
This isn't any more restrictive then Atkins, because there are recipes
for breads, cereals, yogurts, all sorts of things that aren't covered
under Atkins. Basically, there's a recipe for "everything" except
chocolate, but we have brownies, cookies, cakes, all sorts of stuff.
The thing thats bad about Atkins, is the high amounts of Protein.
High amounts of Protein, are not safe for the liver and kidneys,
we on SCD, don't take this approach, we simply excluse complex and
chain molecule sugars from the diet, which never hurt anyone, because
its what the small intestines absorbs and exits as waste material thru
the large intestines anyway. We still get sugar in our diet, the
allowed sugars are "natural" sugars, found in fresh fruits and
vegetables, bananas, honey, anything thats got "natural" sugar in it.
Man-made, or table sugars, is what we stay away from. Only
disadvantage of the diet is everything has to be prepared homemade,
which isn't a big deal since alot of diets are like that.
You guys can find out more about this diet at my forum:
http://www.crohnsdaily.com
I have Crohn's Disease, which is how I got started on the diet in the
first place, since things like immune suppressors, Remicade, Asacol,
antibiotics, etc don't work very well for me.
The idea behind SCD is quite simple:
"by excluding table-sugars from the diet, we attempt to starve the bad
bacteria in the body. This apprach, helps to balance out the bacteria
levels in the body, responsible for intestinal disorders and
inflammation. Once the bad bacteria is being starved, then we use
whats called Acidophilus, to get the good bacteria back into the body,
that the bad bacteria and antibiiotics stole from us to begin with.
This disruptive bacterial inbalance is whats believed to cause crohn's
disease and the immune system to get all thrown out of wack so to
speak"
or by visiting Elaine's webiste at:
http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info
take care,
Tom (bubazoo)
