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Help sought...anyone? Coeliac & Fructose Intolerant looking for advice....

  • 13 Jul 2011 12:47 AM
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    Message # 652048
    Deleted user
    Dear fellow addicts, 

    I came across David and his amazing research and story at a conference last month.  I immediately bought the quit book and have gone cold turkey ever since.  Not too bad so far, being a woman I think my withdrawal symptons are emotionally driven rather than physical at the moment - others experiences?

    I am wondering if anyone has the same health problems as I have (See subject line)?  Any suggestions/recommendations/experiences to share?

    I am interested to discover if the foods listed as high in fructose for those of use who are fructose intolerant should also be avoided by people seeking to eliminate all fructose from their diets.  Foods high in fructose/frutans (veggie equivalent) include artichokes, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, fennel, garlic, legumes, okra, peas, sugar snap peas, beetroot, onion, asparagus, watermelon, paw paw, apples, pears, mango, nashi pears, honey, custard apples, persimmon, rambutan and peaches and wheat and rye.  Anyone with any experience to share????  David??

    Anyone who is coeliac, I would love some recipes that you have adapted.  I look at the recipes in the book and am not confident of making them as I dont know the modifications I need to make to them for them to work.

    Any help gratefully accepted!!!

    cheers

    Leharna
  • 16 Jul 2011 6:30 AM
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    Reply # 656338 on 652048
    Anonymous

    Leharna,

    The FODMAP diet for fructose malabsorption is aimed at eliminating foods where fructose is not balanced by glucose.  Fructose malabsorption is a malfunction of the fructose transport (which is dependant to an extent on the glucose transport) in our intestine.  Fructose malabsorbers can eat fructose if it is combined with equal amounts of glucose but will struggle if there is more fructose than glucose in the food.

    The diet is not really designed to help people avoid the largest source of fructose in the diet (sucrose) because in sucrose there is an equal amount of glucose (that's why some people are surprised to find loads of sugary treats in a FODMAP diet).

    If you are following a FODMAP diet then that is terrific for eliminating pure fructose.  To make it truly fructose free, all you need to do is also eliminate sucrose from that diet (or any food which has fructose and glucose in equal quantitiies. 

    Any-one following a Sweet Poison sugar-free plan is automatically on a FODMAP diet.

    Hope that helps a bit?

    Cheers

    David.
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