RE: [fast5] Beans Re: The 4 Hour Body

Won't it feed bad bacteria?

From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of angelamom25
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:47 AM
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [fast5] Beans Re: The 4 Hour Body

how do you use it? do you use it once a day, several times a day? which time is best?

thanks so much!!:)

From: Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@gmail.com>
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [fast5] Beans Re: The 4 Hour Body

I do love my konjac. It's pretty much stabilized my gut. It lets the bacteria in your

gut make butyrate, which is just really healing stuff (there was a recent bit about

how butyrate all by itself is an anti-inflammatory. It is also an appetite suppressant,

although as per a previous post, fish and eggs do that pretty nicely too.

I think konjac is all pretty much the same. I do get the konjac powder (often

called "konjac flour"). Buying the noodles or pills cost more. I mix the konjac

with psyllium, which makes it dissolve better. I got mine from miraclenoodles.com,

but it's available at other places too.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:51 AM, angi <angelamom25@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi, if you see this, could you tell me what konjac you use? do you still use it? is it still helping? i am going to try it, and want to get a good one:)
thanks
angi

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:00 AM, angi <angelamom25@...> wrote:
>
> > what have you been doing to work out having a happy gut? I have been
> > trying things as well. For me eating fiber one cereal once a day has helped
> > me greatly, as well as taking a probiotic(a good one). I would love some
> > more ideas:)
> > thanks
> > angi
> >
>
> Well, it's been a 10-year journey, so it's a little hard to summarize in
> one post. But the Cliff notes version goes something like:
>
> 1. Went totally gluten-free (I never was much of a bread-eater, but I got
> rid of ALL the gluten in the house and stopped drinking beer).
>
> 2. Went on probiotics (made our own kefir etc: kefir is a great probiotic!).
>
> 3. Stopped eating dairy (this had more to do with migraines than my gut).
>
> 4. Started taking bentonite clay in small amounts with each meal.
>
> 5. Went on Fast-5.
>
> 6. Started taking konjac/psyllium with each meal.
>
> 7. Switched from a beef-based to fish/egg/chicken based diet.
>
> At each of these steps there were improvements in my health ... at this
> point,
> at 57, I actually feel younger than I did at 30!
>
> Losing gluten was a huge step. But it changed everything, including my
> perspective on life and food. It's becoming a fad now, but at the time,
> my relatives practically disowned me.
>
> Probiotics did wonders for our family, but at the point we started with them
> (1998 I
> think) they were very expensive and cost $150/month for everyone to take
> them,
> so I went for kefir instead. Which worked as well or better, plus it's fun
> to make.
>
> Dairy seems to have been the cause of my lifelong migraines, though
> I don't know why. It also seems to cause urinary issues for me. So I
> don't miss it. I use the kefir grains to make cider, which has about the
> same probiotic effect without the casein.
>
> Bentonite works, but I was concerned about the amount of iron in the brand
> I was taking. I'm not sure the iron is actually absorbed much, but it might
> be
> an issue for some people.
>
> Fast-5 probably saved my digestion. At the time I started, I wasn't having
> major gut problems (the previous steps fixed most of those) but I couldn't
> digest a lot of foods, and got supremely hungry all the time. It is very
> difficult eating many small meals and also being gluten-free! But when
> things like fats started making me queasy, it got even harder. After
> starting
> Fast-5, I can eat pretty much anything that doesn't have gluten or casein
> in
> it.
>
> I still had 6-12 BM's a day though. When I started konjac, THAT stopped
> and now it's just once a day, like clockwork. Nice.
>
> Now I'm experimenting more with a Japanese-style diet: more vegies, more
> fish/eggs/poultry, more stuff like sata-imo yams and beans and seaweed.
> Semi-digestible polysaccharides, which the Japanese eat a lot of. They
> seem to make me feel more "satiated" and calm. Also my joints are less
> "cracky" and my skin not so dry. My blood pressure and blood sugar
> have been going down too (fish are known for doing that, so is vinegar,
> and the Japanese diet has plenty of both). There are lots of other variables
> in this kind of diet, including ginger, turmeric, wasabi, umiboshi plums,
> seaweed, garlic, hot peppers, fermented cabbage ... all of which are very
> active at a biological level.
>
> I am nothing like an expert on Japanese cuisine, so anyone who
> actually grew up in Japan would probably laugh at my food choices!
> Plus I borrow liberally from Korean and Vietnamese and Hawaiian
> cuisines.
>
> It tastes really great though and it's an easy way to eat. I was inspired by
> the book "Japanese women don't get old or fat" ... the book never really
> goes into WHY the Japanese diet might do that (they concentrate mainly
> on cultural variables like, "stop eating when you are not quite full").
> From a scientific perspective though, the folks in those Pacific Rim
> countries seem to have done really well health-wise as long as they
> stay away from European food. Active, healthy old folks! When I look
> at my Mom, I'm very motivated to NOT do what she did, although she
> is in far better shape than most folks in their late 80's.
>
> I've also been working to lower my iron levels ... high blood ferritin
> levels are associated with diabetes and heart disease, which run in
> our family (as does high ferritin, it seems, even though we don't have
> the hemochromatosis gene). The Japanese diet is by nature low in
> absorbable iron, which might be one reason it works. I think iron messes
> up your gut too ... the gut cells absorb the iron until it's needed, then
> shed it. But in the meantime, it changes the bacterial mix in the gut,
> since some bacteria LOVE iron and they overgrow, plus it is
> irritating and promotes oxidation. Fiber in the diet, and stuff like tannins
> and vinegar, tend to block the iron and change the bacterial mix.
> Some cuisines block or chelate iron: some promote absorption, and the
> Standard American Diet is the latter type.
>
>
>
> >
> > --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@> wrote:
> > >
> > > You need to have the right enzymes and bacteria to digest them. Not all
> > > people do. Ditto for milk, meat, fruit and pretty much everything else. I
> > > have
> > > to say though, that since I've been working out "having a happy gut",
> > beans
> > > are fine now. The non-bean-tolerant folks I know seem to do ok with them
> > > by taking beano.
> > >
> > > Also beans are not all alike. Peruanos are way easier to digest ... and
> > to
> > > cook ...
> > > than the usual Pintos. If you soak them for a day or two, they work
> > better
> > > also. Lentils and garbanzos are even easier.
> > >
> > > Beans are one of those few things I tend to crave. Usually on a salad
> > > (along
> > > with roasted nuts: something that is problematic for a lot of people) or
> > as
> > > hummous.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:56 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Beans give me terrible cramps. When I went on the paleo diet, I was so
> > > > happy to stop eating beans. YUK !!!!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Heather Twist
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
>

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