RE: low-glycemic eating

welcome to the boards, steve!! i'm very interested in your experience with low-glycemic raw diets, specifically Rainbow Green. my partner and i have been all raw for years, and have gotten WAY healthier in so many ways, but have reason to suspect that we still have a slight fungal issue, such as flatulence after eating (mostly from fruit), and bloating (for me). have you ever done the phase one rainbow green diet, or anything similar to that? if so, what has your experience been? we experimented with doing phase one for about six weeks (including NFL's cacao nibs) near the beginning of this year, and although there were some positive benefits of it (i remember feeling more emotionally balanced, and having a little less bloating), it felt pretty imbalancing in other ways. thank you so much for any input/insight! courtney
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Hi Courtney, Thanks for the welcome! I have varied my diet considerably over the last 12 years and really stretched the envelope in all directions. I can only really speak from personal experience since I am not a clinician. A couple of ideas regarding flatulance: 1) Sometimes it is from keeping a very static diet since after a while your body becomes saturated with the same nutrients and thus the nutrients don't absorb anymore (simple physics principle)...therefore, they sit in your gut and ferment and purtrify...result...gas! 2) It might be time to do a MASSIVE intestinal cleanse. I did a hardcore 30 day Arise and Shine last summer and you would not believe the gas that came out during about a week period during that cleanse...afterward, I was fine. Could be a lot of crud stuck to your intestinal walls. 3) Enzymes and Probiotics...eat them by the handful during every meal for about a month and see what happens! 4) For a short period of time, say about 1 month, change your diet as much as possible without throwing yourself into a state of total chaos. Sometimes we work ourselves into a bio-dynamic equilibrium for a short period of time which works wonderfully, but the same inputs long term become less than optimal. Then, after about a month, go back to your preferred way of eating and see what happens. 5) Only for the ADVANCED: Do about a 3 to 10 day water fast. This gives the digestive tract the opportunity to "BURN" everything away. The longer you can go without messing your life up (unless that is needed!), the better. Green Juice fasting will also work if there are enough fire elements (ginger, garlic, cayenne, clove, heating herbs, etc.) in the juice, but it will take a longer time. Citrus and Granny Smith Apple Juice has also worked for me in the past, but please consider that I am a very slow oxidizer with O negative blood and have a very strong immune system and constitution. 6) Do some hardcore exercise on a REGULAR basis - In the Sun preferrably. 7) Sun Gaze in the morning and evening. This has a HUGE effect on digestion and it is a positive one! 8 ) Eat less than you normally would at every meal. Remain hungry. Eat very slow. And, pray and give blessings during the whole food prep and eating process knowing that what you are eating is exactly nourishing your body in the most perfect way. Have massive gratitude for all who have brought the food to you including God or Love or whatever your beliefs are... 9) Don't be too rigid about any of this. Relax over the whole subject. It is ok to make mistakes. That is how you learn about your particular body which is unique in the Universe. Just some ideas... Aloha! Steve

posted by Sacred Steve at 8/30/2005 02:35:00 AM