Peanut Butter
#78110 - 06/11/04 06:56 AM
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mickz
Reged: 09/07/03
Posts: 151
Loc: Jacksonville, FL
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Is there anyone out there with IBS C that can eat peanut butter without it being constipating? Aren't nuts in general extremely constipating?
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IMHO, very little out there is constipating if you're getting enough liquid and soluble fiber and insolubles! 
I eat peanut butter all the time now (at least 5x/week), and I'm regular for the first time in my life. Note, though, that I drink huge amounts of herbal tea and take two heaping tablespoons of acacia a day, and base my diet on bread (fresh baked stuff) and rice. Oh, and I try to get insolubles in at every meal.
Funnily enough, I tend to get constipated on non-PBJ days. I don't eat so much of it on the weekends...when I also don't drink as much liquid. You wouldn't think of a computer job as a health job, but when you always have a mug of mint tea in front of you when programming, it can be!
--AC, computer monkey
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It's insoluble - so treat it like other insolubles.
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I agree with Linz - it's an insoluble fiber, treat it as any other. However, maybe your body just doesn't do peanut butter well? I know I can't eat the stuff - even a tiny bit - without getting at least awful indigestion, if not diarrhea.
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One of my favorite snacks is a sliced banana dipped in peanut butter and honey....major comfort food! as long as I don't eat it every day and don't eat a ton of it, I do fine.
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I eat it - make sure I eat it on white bread, usually a toasted begal and I put very little on the begal. I haven't found it particularly consitpating - I actually thought for a while there that it seemed to help me go to the bathroom but that may have been wishful thinking? 
Ana
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I have IBS D and can scrape a lil bit of peanut butter on a few crackers for the calories and protein I so need. Have you tried skippy low fat creamy peanut butter ?
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skippy low fat creamy peanut butter is very good... I can handle in small amounts
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