What you NEED to eat to maintain BALANCE changes over time. It also
changes with the SEASON of the year, amount of toxins in your
environment, where your food supply come from, etc. In other words, food
is only one piece in the equation. You have to look at the WHOLE picture!

Don

> I agree that mixing protein and starch can cause gas, but it did not
> for me over the past year. My digestion seemed iron, no matter what I
> threw in my body I would not produce gas or bloating. Now it seems to
> come up when it feels like it, even though my diet has NOT changed.
> This is what is confusing to me.
>
> --- In detox@yahoogroups.com, "S. Pearce" <share@i...> wrote:
> > Hi Don,
> > Mixing protein and carbo at the same meal causes gas. It takes 20
> minutes for me!
> > You could try putting a little more roughage in your diet. You
> could throw a 1/4 cup of oatmeal or barley flakes into your smoothie
> in the morning.
> >
> > And soy can cause gas too. Garlic causes gas for some people.
> >
> > Salads should have chunks of things like cauliflower, broccoli and
> carrots, not just lettuce.
> >
> > And yes, it's about the bacteria. The key is to keep the good ones
> in good quantities that keep the baddies in check. That's why
> antibiotics are dreadful because they kill the whole lot and the
> baddies usually multiply quicker. If you had any antibiotics in the
> past year, that would also contribute.
> >
> > Hope those snippets help.
> >
> > Sharron
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Donald E. Jacobs
> > To: detox@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [detox] Gasss - tro Problem - Please Help
> >
> >
> > When you go from a bad diet to a marginal diet, your body starts
> healing
> > and you start feeling good. Eventually the healing slows down and
> you
> > start to revert to how you were before, but not as bad.
> >
> > Fruit smoothies and raw salads are not what I call a balanced
> diet.
> > Balance your diet and thing should start to improve again.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > > Sorry for the long post but I think many people have my problem
> but
> > > are afraid to admit or talk about it. And since I believe that
> most
> > > illnesses start in the bowel I think it's an important topic to
> > > discuss and diagnose.
> > >
> > > In the past I used to always get regular bloating and
> flatulence,
> > > almost every day for years, which I thought might be normal
> until I
> > > got rid of it last year! Last year in June I started eating
> only raw
> > > large salads for supper, I would get satisfied and full. Then
> > > something amazing happened, I started having bowel movements
> > > twice/day, very emptying and satisfying and non-smelly. After a
> few
> > > days of this my bowels became very quiet, I never experienced
> > > bloating or flatulence again. I could not believe how good I
> felt, I
> > > wasn't sure what had happened to me. My digestion seemed to be
> made
> > > of iron after this: it DIDN'T MATTER what I ate anymore, I would
> > > NEVER get the bloating or gas.
> > > I have again just started getting episodes of bloating and
> flatulence
> > > after meals that last 4-5 hours! This frustrates me because my
> diet
> > > is so good, and has not changed since I thought I beat this
> problem
> > > last year. For the past year or longer my diet consists of the
> > > following:
> > > Breakfast: raw fruit smoothies made of bananas, mangos, peaches,
> > > papayas. Sometimes oranges. I never include milk, yogurt,
> protein
> > > powder or any of that nonsense, just pure fruit and a bit of
> water to
> > > thin.
> > > Lunch: Fast food usually, either small amounts of chicken and
> rice
> > > with peas, or rice, green beans and corn.
> > > Dinner: Salad with a sandwich, or potatoes, soy protein. There
> was
> > > usually a salad involved though.
> > > Now however, I seem to be getting random bouts of bloating
> flatulence
> > > again. Sometimes I will eat a large salad on an empty stomach
> and
> > > nothing will happen, then the next day I'll eat the same salad
> on an
> > > empty stomach and get tons of bloating and gas again. I ate a
> stir-
> > > fry one night with lots of bloating and gas, then 2 days later
> I eat
> > > the exact same thing again with nothing. I eat on an empty
> stomach,
> > > so I know that the food was not mixing with another food that
> was
> > > still in my stomach from a previous meal. Besides, it didnt
> matter
> > > what I ate before I would not get bloated. I do not think that
> > > producing gas is as simple as what you eat, or from being
> constipated
> > > with 4 days worth of food in your bowels. I'm thinking it can
> also
> > > have something to do also with bacteria types in your gut with
> > > different levels of it at different times?? Could this be true?
> Could
> > > I possibly have inadvertently eliminated this bacteria last
> year, and
> > > now its creeping up again, causing random bouts of bloating and
> gas?
> > > I tried a detox to mimic what I did last year with only salad
> for
> > > dinner, eating raw foods for a week with a cleansing
> supplement. The
> > > herbal laxative of this supplement gave me bad diarrhea so I
> stopped
> > > using it.
> > > So to a sum things up, my diet has not changed in the past
> year, yet
> > > the bloating and gas is coming back sporadically, slowly
> increasing.
> > > Could higher levels of some sort of bacterias that produce
> bloating
> > > and gas cause it? If so, what could they be and how do I
> eliminate
> > > them?