Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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my food today: breakfast: 2 pcs gluten free toast with 2 eggs over easy (cooked in butter) with two additional egg yolks. A few berries. lunch: small amount of mac nuts and 90% dark chocolate. Some asparagus and jicama. snack: small amount of mac nuts and 90% dark choc. another piece of GF bread with almond butter. (I know, I know, but the GF bread is an occasional treat and I don't buy it often). dinner: salmon cake with sauteed swiss chard and avocado.

symptoms: since about 3 pm I can't stop burping up these disgusting sulfurous burps!! also, stomach gurgling and a little gas. I'm thinking it was from the eggs, but what do you guys think?

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Ingredients for the gf toast? – Mscott May 3 2012 at 4:29

basically brown rice and tapioca flour – RR May 3 2012 at 4:46

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I'd say the GF toast!!! Gluten free is not grain free...rice and tapioca are gut irritants to some. I'd give that up. – Tim May 3 2012 at 5:29

i don't think sulfurous burps would come from GF toast. I'm thinking the eggs (sulphur-rich, can be gassy) and/or asparagus (a FODMAP food, can be gassy). – Renee May 3 2012 at 15:45

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Oh, and jicama, didn't see that one - that would bug me too. I disagree with people here - I don't think it was the bread. – Renee May 3 2012 at 15:47

Eric · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-03 06:23:00Z UTC

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look for carbs. I would say the GF bread...

answered May 3 2012 at 6:23

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George Brodie · Answer 2 · 2012-05-03 05:27:57Z UTC

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Bread, of any kind, gf or not, soaks up stomach acid. Then u do not have enough to fully digest the later meals.

answered May 3 2012 at 5:27

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This would make sense, as now your indigestion is sulphuric (eggs or asparagus). You aren't processing the other "good foods" as well because of the impact on your stomach acid. – Joshua May 3 2012 at 8:50

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Is this actually true? Bread soaks up stomach acid? What about sweet potatoes and bananas, do they soak up acid too? This reasoning seems kind of suspect to me. – Renee May 3 2012 at 15:46

It is true, doctors tell you to eat bread to balance acidity levels in your stomach. – Soccertanker Mar 3 at 22:10

Kaz · Answer 3 · 2012-05-03 05:47:49Z UTC

Jicama tears my stomach up. It's absolutely delicious, but the inulin (a kind of soluble fiber and a FODMAP) in it destroys me. Maybe that's it?

Hopefully you're feeling better by now! A swig of cider vinegar may help with the indigestion, if you have it on hand. I like to mix it with bubbles (sparkling water) and it's actually a pretty tasty drink. :)

Carla · Answer 4 · 2012-05-03 10:26:31Z UTC

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The carbs in the bread, and maybe the jicama...but my guess is the bread.

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Blitherakt · Answer 5 · 2012-05-03 04:53:13Z UTC

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Eggs or asparagus, or a combination of both is my guess. There are at least two sulfur-containing compounds in egg yolks and whites, and at least six in asparagus. I'm not sure about the chard.

What was in the salmon cake?

answered May 3 2012 at 4:53

Blitherakt
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	leftover salmon, one egg, spices. It's not the salmon cake because the burping started before dinner. – RR May 3 2012 at 5:09
	I'll stick by my initial idea, then. Were they older eggs or weekish old asparagus? – Blitherakt May 3 2012 at 6:36

Chris · Answer 6 · 2012-05-03 13:43:35Z UTC

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Nuts and chocolate.

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These food choices are definitely not helping, but I'm not sure how much they hurt compared to the toast. – Soccertanker Mar 3 at 22:11

a mesmerizing trickster · Answer 7 · 2012-05-03 16:41:19Z UTC

If it were me, I'd think the GF bread, asparagus, or possibly the macadamia nuts, or possibly just the combination. If you're going to be eating nuts often, you should soak them in water overnight.
Is this your first time eating eggs recently? If not, could the eggs be old and gone bad? Happened once, learned my lesson ^^

Any kind of bread makes my digestion messed up, even potato, rice, or tapioca bread. If you've been eating strict paleo for a while, your body is not used to the bread, specially since it was rice (worse than that, BROWN rice!). You should drinks lots of water when you eat grains; they take a lot of water away from your body. It makes my digestion so awful, that if I plan on cheating I make sure to drink lots of water beforehand.

It might just be the combination of the bread and the eggs/asparagus. Bread just messes things up for me. Any other day I eat eggs and asparagus, I'd be fine. Bread? My digestion would feel weird for days.

Could you eat something Paleo, instead? I like bread too, but when I make my pancakes the craving goes away (1 banana, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 or 3 tablespoons tapioca starch, 1 egg, a squeeze of lemon juice).

Want2BHealthyGirl · Answer 8 · 2012-05-03 16:03:34Z UTC

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I'd say it's the asparagus! Whenever I stir fry asparagus I get a similar problem, if I steam cook it its fine... but stir fry gets a more gassy result.

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MeepsIsWellfed · Answer 9 · 2012-05-03 17:49:33Z UTC

Have you started any new supplaments? Perhaps something in them is causing a reaction?

Chocolate can also be an irritant. For about four months I would occassionally (weekly) indulge in the 87% dairy free dark chocolate when it suddenly started giving me HORRIBLE gas and rrhea. It was a very sad day, but I had to give it up.

Check your almond butter. Could it have gone rancid?

Colleen · Answer 10 · 2013-03-03 21:27:09Z UTC

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Jicama! Every time I eat it I have indigestion. I don't know why but I just avoid it.

answered Mar 3 at 21:27

Colleen
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What is causing my disgusting indigestion tonight?

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