Specific Carbohydrate diet question

Hi folks

 Ive been following the specific carbo hydrate diet now for a few weeks.  Forgive the typo errors, Im using a french keyboard at the moment.  Very confusing.  anyway....

I was wondering if you buy  a legal product that is made in a factory that works with illegal products, does that make the product you consume illegal? 

also how advanced is blanched almond butter, or cashew butter.  I was on the intro diet for a while.  Finally I was doing alot better, then I had this stressful trip and my hosts where making foods that contained illegals without me knowing it till it was too latem i.e.  boulion cube!  split peas, not prepared the scd way, and well....flare up ensued.   

That being said, Im not sure if I should go back to intro diet again or what.  Only have 1 to 3 bms daily,  yesterday had a little blood and mucous, after a couple weeks of wellness. 

 Any SCD ers with knowledge on this???

     Thanks sincerely

     EKSPAIN

I dont believe tiny amounts of illegals would be to detrimental to the overall effect of the diet. They would merely prolong the ammount of time needed. According to the book the idea is to starve out the bad bacteria by providing the intestine with foods that are easily absorbed. More absorbed by your body less food for the harmful bacteria to feed off of. Before I went on the SCD I noticed a major improvement just by replacing soda with gatorade and water. I used to drink primarily 90% soda and changing to about 50/50 gatorade and water was a vast improvement before I even knew about the SCD. From what I got out of reading the book was with damaged intestines from UC it made it hard for the intestinal wall to break down complex sugars. I would imagine after a period of wellness long enough for the intestinal wall to regain some of its ability to break down complex sugars, that complex sugars wouldnt be as much of a problem because they would be broken down into absorbable sugars once again.

I would definately begin the diet again if you showed signs of improvement while on it, nothing to lose by doing so. I dont know healingwell's policy on links but I know of a few recipe websites along with a legal/illegal website I'd give you the name of if you'd like. Just send an email to [email protected] just put SCD in the subject line.

I think you know what's right for you. You can tell whether you feel better on the diet or off.
I wouldn't worry about contamination as much as what people are cooking for you.

The SCD forum http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BTVC-SCD/ actually researches what ingredients are in store brands and has letters from manufacturers on file so SCD'ers know whether there are "illegal" ingredients. You might look into that if you are concerned. I don't use many prepared products (I like to cook) so that isn't as important to me.