Date:   5/1/2006 10:40:37 AM ( 18 y ago)
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I will just throw this out as a possibility for you to consider.

I was an Ayurvedic vegetarian for quite a while as a result of my involvement with Transcendental Meditation. I began early on to have digestive problems, including severe bloating and constipation (which I'd never had trouble with before), that ballooned into a huge eating disorder. I later learned about dietary paradigms like Metabolic Typing and Eat Right For Your Type, that hold that different people thrive on different diets: some people need to eat a lot of protein--animal protein--some people need very little or none, and some are in between. By that time my digestion was so compromised that it has been very difficult for me to return to a proper diet for me, a protein type, and I am still struggling; however, I can say that when I eat a meat-based meal and it goes down well, I feel my best. I know someone else who is also a protein type, who said she almost died after years on the vegetarian diet and didn't regain her health until she started eating meat again. I also know a lot of people wouldn't agree with this dietary view, and I'm certainly no authority, but it seems like the most realistic to me. Anyway, I would suggest that you make sure that vegetarianism is really right for you; if it isn't, I don't think you will ever solve your digestive problems if you continue with it. It's all very well to say that they may be due to having damaged yourself with the western diet, etc., but if I've learned anything, it's that dietary idealisms are concepts but the body is reality--it doesn't care about concepts. In sum, I would advise that if anyone has made a quick change to any diet and they are having ongoing problems, back off. Either go back to your previous diet and start over, going slowly, or (maybe more realistic), reintroduce the important foods that you stopped eating and see if you improve. And don't forget that if you haven't eaten meat in a long time it may not be comfortable for a little while until you get used to it again (get the needed bacteria in your intestines and so on). Another potential problem if you've been eating incorrectly for your type is that you may not be producing enough stomach acid to be able to digest meat well any more, and so you might need to supplement with HCL (but be careful with that stuff; a few people, including myself, can't tolerate it). You could also look at the two diets I mentioned and see which type you are (according to that diet, anyway, even if you may not believe in it), and if you are not a vegetarian type, then at the very least you should give serious consideration to the possibility that you should not be eating a vegetarian diet.




 

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