Nausea or Stomach Sickness

[Guest guest]

I've been a vegetarian (lacto-ovo) for about 6 1/2 years. Over the past 1-2

years I've

experienced bouts of nausea sometimes for a short period, sometimes off and on

for days.

I'm starting to wonder if this is related to my vegetarian diet. I each a good

amout of soy

and soy products. Lots of veggies, cheese and milk products. I don't take any

supplements. Any similar experiences? ideas? theories?

[Guest guest]

Christy

 

I knew a vegetarian years back who kept getting intermittent stomach

aches and nausea, sometimes severe. She had already been vegetarian

about 7 or 8 years when the aches started. After a couple of years, she

figured out that it was related to eating large amounts of cheese in a

single sitting, such as in a veggie/cheese pizza. This led to her

cutting out cheese (and other dairy) and, voila, the stomach aches

disappeared, forever. Our non-professional hypothesis was that after

years of being vegetarian, her stomach had somehow become more sensitive

to any animal products and had become sort of lactose intolerant (even

if it was possibly just psychological). We never found any scientific

evidence to back up this theory, however. But the aches definitely

stopped for good.

 

If you do decrease, or cut out, dairy, you will want to take a

multi-vitamin supplement unless you are sure you can get all of the B

vitamins through whole food sources. It's a little tricky, but look for

vitamins that do not contain gelatin, as that's not vegetarian.

 

You might also want to consider the amount of soy products you eat. Too

much can be a bad thing. Just like eating meat three times a day, or

even every day, is certainly bad very for your health, so too can eating

massive amounts of soy-based foods. Soy, especially highly processed

soy, should be considered more of a treat than a regular staple in any

diet. You might want to check out this recent article on soy for more

info: http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/april/050400.htm.

 

Peace,

david

 

 

 

 

On Behalf

Of christy

Saturday, May 14, 2005 3:23 PM

 

Nausea or Stomach Sickness

 

I've been a vegetarian (lacto-ovo) for about 6 1/2 years. Over the past

1-2 years I've

experienced bouts of nausea sometimes for a short period, sometimes off

and on for days.

I'm starting to wonder if this is related to my vegetarian diet. I each

a good amout of soy

and soy products. Lots of veggies, cheese and milk products. I don't

take any

supplements. Any similar experiences? ideas? theories?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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