~HCrow~ Soya beans and seeds

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Well all,

God must be trying to tell me something.

I just thought I would re-post this on soy to complement Elaine 121's posts:

This is from the woman who wrote the Specific Carbohydrate Diet which I am on.

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>Dear Ora from Elaine

>You asked

><I wonder why are soya beans not allowed? The same for seeds (in the first 3

>months).

>Ora>

>Back in the l970's when Dr. Haas was still alive, soy beans were just

>beginning to be hyped. I was looking for something for my daughter to

>nibble on and asked him, personally, if I could roast some soybeans for her.

>He said, " I am not sure and I would rather you did not. "

> So I did not.

>In the years following, I have come to realize that along with canola, soy

>is one of the most genetically altered crops around and I have never been

>able to find out much about the kind of carb and what its molecular

>structure is. I, therefore, feel people have other beans and can live

>without soybeans. As for seeds, there are many reasons, one of which is that

>anyone with diverticulitis who has been " hammered " by being told that their

> " pockets " of diverticulae would be made worse by seeds (and I doubt that

>they would) would immediately be turned off if I allowed seeds. However,

>they do contain starches in a complex form and one is better off without

>them at the beginning of the diet.

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