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mechanically breaks down insoluble fiber in foods, making it easier on the gut. Peeling foods would actually remove the insoluble fiber, so you're not eating it at all.
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You have the BEST sig lines. I just thought I'd mention that. This chocolate one is my favorite so far. I chuckle every time I read your posts. LOL!
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Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them. I was heartbroken when Sandra Boynton stopped doing greeting cards and mugs and turned to children's literature. Sure, kids are great, but I don't think they really have the maturity to truly appreciate chocolate!
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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Greetings! Have you had a gastric emptying test? If you feel ok with western meds, you may want to ask your md about reglan. Usually you take between 5 and 10 mg 30 minutes before meals. It works well in increasing gastric emptying time and is also used as an anti-nausea medication.
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I want to mention to you that you might consider trying a different SFS because Acacia tends to make C'ers more constipated. I use it once a day in my protein shakes, but it only accounts for 2.5g out of the 12.5g I take a day. I take Citrucel and psyllium for the rest of my fiber.
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Elizabeth
all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
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#185051 - 06/09/05 08:48 AM
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I am the same with iceburg lettuce and strawberries! Weird huh?!
I find there are many foods I can eat if I eat very little of it at a time. Strawberries is one of them. Almond milk is another. ("Milks" don't sit very well with me in general for soem reason. I've tried soy, rice, and almond). Interesting how our bodies react to things!
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Sure, kids are great, but I don't think they really have the maturity to truly appreciate chocolate!
Are you a writer? That would be a FANTASTIC book title! if you're not going to use it, someone should!!!! 
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Made me all "wired" and awful. I felt like I was crawling out of my skin. Just MHO.
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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If peeling fruits makes them all soluble fiber foods, then is the only way to eat more insoluble fruits to eat them whole with the skin? This scares me. I haven't even a skin peel in a year!
And would cooking them and eating them with the skin keep them insoluble?
And I assume peeling the zucchini and cooking it also makes this a soluble fiber veggie?  If I cooked them with the peel would it be insoluble?
I am not sure if it is the peeling alone that makes them insoluble or the cooking too?
Can someone help me figure out how to get in more insoluble fibers, please.
Apperently, I haven't been eating any and that could be why I am still so constipated. I've been counting all my peeled cooked fruits (nectarines, zucchini...) as insolubles. 
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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