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Or at least, this just found on the web ;-)
A study of the use of probiotics with both IBS-C (IBS with constipation) and IBS-D (IBS with diarrhea). The study is summarized in a press release from the Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, the major medical association for Tummy Doctors (Gastroenterologists), the ones who send you for colonoscopies and that fun stuff. The paper that was presented should, if all went well and there were no major editorial questions, be hitting the medical journals about now. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
A quick summary: The paper, delivered in 2005 to the American College of Gastroenterologists, found that in a controlled study, which I hope was double-blind, that both experimental groups, IBS-C and IBS-D, improved with probiotics over those who received a placebo, over a four week period.
October 2nd, 2006
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The other caution about the Revival Soy site is this page, that might be the first page you see if you search on Revival Soy. The Revival Soy Bars aren’t suitable for many people with IBS because they have dairy and sweeteners that cause problems. The shakes offered, again, are not suitable for many people with IBS because as offered on this page, there is no option to get unsweetened shakes.
It would really be helpful if Revival Soy were to have a page of products they produce that are “IBS Safe.” Some of the soy chips are fine, but definitely not the dairy-laced Ranch ones; the “coffee variety pack” is great for people who want to see how their tummies react to half-soy, half-coffee, and how their taste buds react to all-soy “coffee.”
October 2nd, 2006
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While I haven’t been recommending all their products, I have written in favor of the Revival Soy Shakes. They come as a powder, in an envelope, and need to be added to 6 oz. of water, or 8 oz. of soy milk to form a shake. The nice thing about the Revival Shakes is that you can get them with unsweetened. The choices for each flavor, then, are how many day’s supply you want (at 1 shake per day) and what sweetener (or lack of sweetener) you want.
I have a recurring order for a 30-day’s supply of Chocolate Dream shakes. Because of the dental surgery and a liquid or soft diet for the last 10 days, I’ve used up my supply of shakes a little early–not that I went to two a day for every one of those days, but on some days I did have two shakes instead of one.
So yesterday I ordered 15 days worth of shakes, and thought, just for the heck of it, since I wouldn’t need it for that long, I would order the Cappuccino shakes. So I ordered the new flavor. Then I realized that the Revival Soy people probably make Cappuccino with real coffee, not such a good thing for people with IBS. I checked the nutrition label for the contents, and yes, indeed, the Revival Soy Cappuccino shakes are made with real coffee powder. So I quickly sent an email request to change the order to the old familiar Chocolate Daydream flavor–no more adventures this month.
October 2nd, 2006
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Well, tonight I was almost out of the Stevita Delight Choclate Powder I mentioned in the last post. I do most of my ordering at the beginning of the month, and it takes many places five days (at best) to get an order to me.
But I did have on hand some Stevia, in the form of the powdered Stevia that Stevita makes, Stevita Stevia Spoonable Powder. Although I’ve given a link to an Amazon marketplace seller, you can get it a little more cheaply at VitaCost. And I also had some chocolate powder (fat free, almost calorie free, no sugar added, pure powedered cocoa). So I decided to try mixing them to approximate the Stevita Delight Chocolate Powder that I linked to above.
The proportions of the mix are one heaping TABLEspoon of chocolate powder to 1 TEAspoon of Stevia powder.
In the taste test, they are of equal sweetness; the prepared Stevita Delight Chocolate powder tastes smoother and more deeply chocolate-y, though.
October 2nd, 2006
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Life would not be complete without chocolate.
Discovering that I could not tolerate any dairy products meant, most of all, that almost anything with chocolate sold in an ordinary drugstore, convenience store, or grocery store was out of the question. The exceptions are chocolate soymilk and chocolate powder (not powder for making cocoa or chocolate milk).
There are two Stevia products that have chocolate built in, that have saved my sanity and kept me from feeling (too) sorry for myself. One is Sweet Leaf Stevia Dark Chocolate, and the other is Stevita Stevia Delight Powder.
October 2nd, 2006
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