hooked on rice cakes

[Guest guest]

My son, who is not a big eater, seems to be hooked on rice cakes. He

can eat 4-5 in one go. Plain white rice is also a great favorite. I

had started suspecting that he has a rice intolerance, but I

recently read somewhere on this page that rice is a great yeast

feeder. Could this be the reason he craves it? He was tested this

summer for gut fermentation products and was found to have a mild

yeast overgrowth. Other foods that he craves -but doesn't get- are

currant buns, bananas, apples and vinegar(!)

Anne

[Guest guest]

> My son, who is not a big eater, seems to be hooked on rice cakes. He

> can eat 4-5 in one go. Plain white rice is also a great favorite. I

> had started suspecting that he has a rice intolerance,

My son's rice intolerance was MUCH WORSE than his gluten intolerance.

He tolerated gluten with HNI enzymes, but I had to remove rice all

the way until the very end of chelation when his gut was entirely healed.

but I

> recently read somewhere on this page that rice is a great yeast

> feeder. Could this be the reason he craves it?

This can also be true. Does he also crave potatoes and other

starches? Or just rice?

He was tested this

> summer for gut fermentation products and was found to have a mild

> yeast overgrowth. Other foods that he craves -but doesn't get- are

> currant buns, bananas, apples and vinegar(!)

Those would all feed yeast, and are also high phenol

http://www.danasview.net/phenol.htm

Dana

[Guest guest]

All that processed rice can be affecting the yeast. It is still a

food that will turn into sugars in the gut. White rice doesn't seem

that nutritious either. A number of those going GFCF develop yeast

problems because of all the white rice, gums, potatoes, sugars, etc.

This is one of the big points between SCD and GFCF.

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