how many people tolerate soy? *DELETED*
#46293 - 02/24/04 01:00 AM
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Nope. I love the stuff.
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It can be very acidic...I know that there are days that I have to take a break from it. Try rice products instead...hopefully that will help!
Christianne
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I know you're searching for answers, Chris, but sorry... soy is one of the few things I can eat with wild abandon!
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Hi Chris,
For a while I could eat tofu or soybeans but not soy milk or any of those fake hot dogs etc. because of the additives. Have you ever tried an elimination diet? I reduced down to only a few foods (rice and veggies and a rice protein powder) and then reintroduced foods for three days to see if I had any problems. (I just had peas, they made me feel terrible!) This link has some good info, but your doctor might have more specific ideas. http://www.ic-network.com/handbook/eliminationdiets.html. Be careful- it's not a link for IBS so some of the suggestions are not IBS safe.
If your symptoms don't improve when you eliminate everything suspect, your problems may not be food related!
Best of luck,
Laura
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Hi - I've always done just fine with it, on a daily basis and in pretty large quantities. If you've been eating it regularly for a while, you should be producing the enzymes needed to digest the bean sugar in soy, which is what can cause gas/bloating for some folks when they first start eating it. But, you could also have a true food allergy to soy, and eating it regularly would not help one bit, it would just make you worse.
You might try switching to rice, almond, or oat subs for milk instead of the soy for a week or two and see if you notice a difference.
Also - make sure there's not a lot of added fat to the soy products you're using. I'm not sure about the ingredients in the UK, but in the US when soy milk first became popular most brands added oil to make it thicker and more like dairy milk. Only in the past several years have most brands stopped doing this and gone to using soluble fibers for thickeners instead of oil.
- Heather
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soy seems alright for me. I don't like the taste of soy by itdself, but with food is okay.
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Speaking of oil, which is the best type to cook with?
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basically anything low in saturated and hydrogenated fats, and high in monounsaturated oils. All fats are still triggers, but you have to eat low fat, not fat free. So make your fat choices heart healthy ones. 
- H
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some soy stuff i can eat or drink. jasper.
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ive had ibs for 8 years now. im learning alot on this web board. thanks again everyone
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I cannot tolerate soy. I was having very bad D for quite
awile after I started understanding IBS and using the
things available to me here. I kept getting sicker and
sicker. Then I realized that it "might" be soy. I stopped
using anything with soy in it and thats not easy because
everything seems to have soy in it, and my cramps and D
stopped. I now use Almond milk and read lables and try
to stay away from soy completely. It makes me mad because
there are so many good things you can cook that have soy
in them but there not for me.
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I was born and raised a vegetarian, so I've had soy products all of my life. They do not trigger my IBS-D. In fact, I've been using West Soy milk and loving it. I hope you feel better soon, Chris.
God bless!
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I also do really well with soy, although I drink rice milk sometimes too because I don't like relying completely on one food. Like many foods, how you tolerate it is definitely an individual thing!
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I tolerate it just fine
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I want to start eating some soy and need to know how much to start out with...dont want alot of gas
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Gretchen
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