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Window Shopping for IBS Products–Now Available

For some time there has been a Page Title — in the upper right hand corner of the header menu — called “Window Shopping.” If you clicked on it, you would see a browser window that goes directly to the Best Life International website, and their “Soy Amazing” ™ Meal Replacement shake.

That was it. No blurb, no explanation, just the browser window.

I have now added several more browser windows, for products mentioned here that are not available at Amazon.com. The full list of products:

Two soy shakes mentioned here:
• Soy Amazing Meal Replacement Shake, ™ from BestLife International–high soluble fiber content, high protein
• Revival Soy ™ Chocolate Daydream Shake — no fiber content, high protein.

Two probiotics for IBS reviewed here–windows to their web sites.
• Ganeden Digestive Advantage - IBS ™: currently serializing a review.
• Align. ™ Series of reviews, completed.

Use the Google site search, or the Category listings, for more information.

September 25th, 2007 Posted by tummyblogger | Breakfast, fiber, Chocolate, Revival Soy, Probiotics, Food for IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS food, Align, Soy Products, Soy Amazing, Online sources, BestLifeInternational, Digestive Advantage - IBS, IBS Diet | 2 comments

Revival Soy Caution II

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 Posted by tummyblogger | Revival Soy, Soy chips, Food for IBS, IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS Triggers | no comments

Revival Soy Caution I

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 Posted by tummyblogger | Revival Soy, Food for IBS, IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome | no comments

Low-Fiber Meal Replacement

This is a quick recipe for a low-fiber meal replacement that I just invented. I discovered, sadly, that there is a fairly small window between too few grams of fiber a day, and too many. Since my standard meal replacement shake provides 13 gms. of fiber in one nice-sized serving, and two of them provide 26 gms., I’m near my limit. If I then add a high-fiber taco to the mix, at 7 gms of fiber, there is absolutely no more room in me for any more fiber!

So when I want another small meal, and I often do, I need to make a low-fiber shake (or eat Wonder Bread!). I came up with this recipe today: let’s call it “Fiber-free mocha shake.”

Fiber-free Mocha Shake Left-over soy “coffee” or RocaMojo half-soy, half-coffee blend (about 1/4 cup is good)
1 level Tablespoon of Stevita Delight Chocolate Flavored Stevia, or 4 half-droppers of dark chocolate liquid Stevia (or your own mix of cocoa powder and Stevia Powder, to about 1 Tbsp.)

NOTES: ** There is no egg in the BestLife Soy Nog I used, but there is crystalline fructose–not the high-fructose corn syrup we usually get served in prepared foods.Use regular or vanilla soy milk or Naturade Soy-Free Protein Booster. One-third of a cup of the Naturade Protein adds 22 gms of protein; 2 scoops of the Fitness Labs Soy Protein adds 28 gms of protein. A warning: to me the Naturade Protein tastes like grass.

I promise more to come on Low- and High-fiber Meal Replacements.

September 28th, 2006 Posted by tummyblogger | fiber, Sweetener, Stevia, Revival Soy, Food for IBS, IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS food | no comments

Unsweetened!?

UGH! Breakfast with unsweetened coffee (or whatever), and Unsweetened Soy Shake from Revival Soy? Doesn’t sound very good, does it? Well, I left out the best part. I found, first on the Revival Soy pages and then elsewhere on the web, a very good no-calorie organic sweetener called Stevia, which comes from the stevia rebaudiae plant found in South America. The following copy from Revival Soy sums it up:

An intensely sweet extract from leaves of the stevia plant that’s over 200 times sweeter than sugar – with no calories, carbohydrates or bitter aftertaste.

Revival Soy web site, accessed 9/27/06.

You can also read more about Stevia at this site, stevia.net.

So there is a real alternative to the low-calorie/no-calorie artificial sweeteners, called Stevia. Another place to buy Stevia is at Vitacost. Also, the IBS Shopping web site has a page in their Amazon aStore that is devoted just to Stevia–go to the “Soy Store” tab, open it, and find the “Stevia Alcove.”

September 27th, 2006 Posted by tummyblogger | Breakfast, Sweetener, Stevia, Revival Soy, IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS food | one comment