My poor husband has been having tummy troubles for a big part of his life. Recently a friend's mom passed along some information about the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. SDC is a very strict grain, lactose, and sucrose-free diet. It's supposed to help people with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, and IBS...along with some other illnesses. My hubby got the book Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet, read through it and decided to give it a try. We wanted to wait until after the holidays to start because there's a lot of prep work involved. I've been pretty lazy lately about cooking, but I'll have to get over that because there are so many restrictions on this diet and that means almost everything needs to be made from scratch...
I think the hardest part for Joel is going to be the lack of sugar. He loves sweets, but the only things he'll be allowed to eat will be desserts made at home with honey & fruit instead of sugar.
I'm hoping he'll survive at least a year on this diet, but we'll see. There's a chance the diet may not work but he has to dedicate at least 3 months to it to find out.
I think the hardest part for Joel is going to be the lack of sugar. He loves sweets, but the only things he'll be allowed to eat will be desserts made at home with honey & fruit instead of sugar.
I'm hoping he'll survive at least a year on this diet, but we'll see. There's a chance the diet may not work but he has to dedicate at least 3 months to it to find out.