Posted on 12/03/2009 3:33:25 PM PST by freedommom
Two out of three otherwise normal/healthy persons experience fructose intolerance (fructose malabsorption form) when 50 grams of processed fructose or more is consumed.
Choi's research associates the 50-gram fructose dose with fructose intolerance (Am J Gastroenterol 98(6):1348-1353, 2003). An average 600 ml of soft drink contains a whopping 32.6 grams of fructose!
Myself says mind your manners, n00b.
I’m sorry that you are the 5% because that puts you on the defensive as a mother but as long as you have well baby/child check ups and the doc knows, that shouldn’t be a problem.
I had a friend whose daughter was at a 25% at 2 years old and her little girl was the same size as my 9 month old 85%. All kids grow at different rates. My child looked like a monster next to hers.
If your doctor said to feed her differently, that what you were feeding her is harmful to her, would you change what you fed? I suspect yes. You feed her well and that’s just the way God made her. I would never intend to make someone feel guilty and I’m sorry if I did.
I believe these parents were told their diet was harmful to their child, they chose not to make any changes to give their child needed nourishment.
Our kids put us through hoops as they grow up. Your cross to bear is your 5%. Beats the heck out of the 105%. Everyone is different and we thank God we’re not all the same.
LOL! I am reminded of my youngest son. 6’4” size 15 shoes...Now.
It was not always that way. From 2 to 6 he was always in the lowest percentile range for height and weight. There were a few check-ups he didn’t even make it to the lowest percentile. He was in negative territory.
I would look at him and think to myself “sniff, sniff I will love you even if you are a midget” (a mother’s heart is not always PC)
By the time he was 9 he was always the tallest kid in the crowd. The other boys caught up with him when they were about 16. He still has the biggest feet though. I swear, he has long assed toes. I look at them and it hurts me to think of putting them in a shoe.
I’m sorry but that was too funny when you were talking about your sons toes. We’re all weird, one way or another. I just got such a laugh out of your sons toes.
:-)
Laughing is always good and some of my best laughs have been on FR.
>>”Usually when the term “healthy eating” is used they are either vegetarian or worse vegan.”
That was my first thought, too. Sadly, the article is bereft of any detail regarding the actual “healthy” foods.
It does, however, contain these:
>>”...after four months, Zak returned home with the blessing of social services, who accepted he had good and caring parents.”
and
>>”By this stage social workers had lifted their objections - and he had put on only 1lb.”
and
>>”They admitted that in foster care Zak was exactly the same with his food as he was at home.”
It certainly seems that whatever the problem actually is, it isn’t “failure to feed empty calories.”
DG
Thank you for the information! Looks like I’ve got my homework cut out for me this weekend.
:-)
There are some permissable vegetables such as spinach and red leaf lettuce, some celery, cucumbers, mushrooms.
Be sure to check out the lists of fructose content of foods, because my information about the vegetables might not be totally accurate.
Have no soda pop, no honey, no table sugar, no candy, etc. You already are wheat & gluten free, and that supposedly reduces the fructose load alot.
You can order pure glucose at amazon, it's corn sugar and it's used for brewing beer. It contains no fructose. I think that cornmeal doesn't either, but corn does. Cornstarch is safe.
Some of my friends have been shocked what two weeks on an old fashioned "unhealthy" diet of "white foods" and lots of meat did for their general health and well being.
If you are researching this for your children, then please be sure to check out all the HFI websites. That is short for "hereditary fructose intolerance." Yeah, it's rare, but the reason I advise you to study those sites is that those forums are filled with parents trying to find suitable food for their toddlers and children - and thus there are extensive listings of all SAFE commercial candies and SAFE breakfast cereals & processed foods. One of the midwest universities also has an extensive website, but I can't recall the state - and I'm unsure if it's HFI or FRUCTMAL specific, or both.
Good Luck to you.
Goodby, Marie.
HP
Well, there are entire web pages devoted to it, but ...
We have friends who have a son who went through a “playing with matches” phase. One night, he set the drapes on fire, so they gave him a spanking. The kid told his teacher, the teacher told the CPS. CPS took the kid.
9 months and $60,000 in legal bills later, they got the kid back. Out went the college money for the older siblings, and the parents aged at least 10 years from the stress.
The CPS is evil.
I agree with your assessment of CPS. In CA they are like the Gestapo.
Hang the blessed teacher!
(Hang the teacher, hang the teacher, hang the teacher...)
Apologies to The Smiths.
Drango doesn’t care about the big picture.
Conservatism and libertarianism stop when he hears the words “tobacco” or “cigarette”.
It’s a pavlovian response.
There was some childhood trauma there. He won’t tell us about it.
Dissenting opinions, passionately given, are always interesting.
I told my Mom that I needed mo’junk fud years ago!!!...;0)
Juice should not be introduced into the diet of infants before 6 months of age.
Infants should not be given juice from bottles or easily transportable covered cups that allow them to consume juice easily throughout the day. Infants should not be given juice at bedtime.
Intake of fruit juice should be limited to 4 to 6 oz/d for children 1 to 6 years old. For children 7 to 18 years old, juice intake should be limited to 8 to 12 oz or 2 servings per day.
Children should be encouraged to eat whole fruits to meet their recommended daily fruit intake.
Infants, children, and adolescents should not consume unpasteurized juice.
In the evaluation of children with malnutrition (overnutrition and undernutrition), the health care provider should determine the amount of juice being consumed.
In the evaluation of children with chronic diarrhea, excessive flatulence, abdominal pain, and bloating, the health care provider should determine the amount of juice being consumed.
In the evaluation of dental caries, the amount and means of juice consumption should be determined.
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