What Constitutes a Food in a Food Group
An Explanation of Why We Cannot Tolerate Some Foods
By Dr. Tish Dick-Kronenberg, ND |
The following letter was written by Dr. Tish in response to the question of why certain foods are grouped together in a food intolerance category when it may not appear to make sense according to biological descriptions and/or categories. The question specified Fruit; it is the same for all foods. (You may also read about this in the November 2013 newsletter.)
Chemically
speaking, honey breaks down into different "sugars," as described by a
chemist into simpler sugars; as does corn syrup, agave, and even milk.
The chemical names for the sugars are based upon how many carbohydrates
they contain in a chain…
…The
chemical elements of these complex sugars, made up of the simpler
sugars, actually have nothing to do with how our enzymes react to the
foods they are in.
Our digestive enzymes recognize proteins, and those proteins are tagging the molecules that come from particular foods.
The
lactose in milk reacts by dairy intolerant people because of the
protein related to the dairy, and not the simpler sugars that make up
the lactose (which, if I can remember, is galactose and sucrose). The
same occurs with sugars which come from grapes, apples, melons,
tomatoes, or a cucumber. The sugars in these are all broken down from
enzymes made from your stomach, pancreas, liver, etc. What matters here
is where these sugars come from. A sugar from a melon will digest for a
fruit intolerant person, whereas a sugar from an apple will not.
It has to do with the protein markers on the foods which are the identifying parts of the foods for the human body.
This
is really what is going wrong with the commercial, artificially
produced high fructose corn sugar. There is no identifying protein on
this synthetic sugar which would trigger the pancreas and liver to
recognize it as a useful food; so, instead of digesting it properly, it
grabs it out of the blood stream and stores it...causing one to gain
weight.
Well,
I got side tracked onto high fructose corn sugar. Back to the fruit
issue. Dr. Carroll, Dr. Harold Dick, and I all have asked the same
question as all of our fruit intolerant patients ask...if the fruit
category really includes all fruit. Believe me when I say that there
has been so much investigation on this that it is 100% accurate when we
tell someone they must avoid the entire category of fruit. We are not
just making this up. It has been studied and repeated hundreds of times
to prove that a fruit intolerant person must avoid all berries, apples,
citrus (lemon, lime, oranges), pears, plums, tropicals as in bananas,
papayas, star fruit, kiwi, and the list goes on. Not only is it the
fruit of these plants, but any part of the plant as well. This would be
raspberry leaf tea. Even the leaves of the raspberry plant are fruit.
The bark of a cherry tree is fruit. So, you see, it is the protein of the plant which indicates to the human body what the enzyme reaction will be. It
is not just the fact that fructose is in the raspberry, for example.
There wouldn't be any fructose in the leaves of the raspberry plant.
So, what makes a fruit a fruit?
The complex protein of the plant which is coded in the DNA of that plant makes it what it is.
I
know that the fruit intolerance is the hardest intolerance to follow. I
also know, after over 20 years of seeing patients and telling thousands
of people that they are fruit intolerant, that this intolerance is the
one most people fight. We don't want to believe we can't have fruit.
“Isn’t it a ‘health food’? How can I live without fruit? Aren’t I
missing Vitamin C? But it tastes so good! Can’t I just have
strawberries? I notice I don't have a stomach ache with apples, but I
do with oranges, so why can't I have apples?”
I have heard this for years. Just because a food doesn't give you a stomach ache doesn't mean it is ok for you to eat it.
A food intolerance causes toxemia and this toxemia can manifest in many ways, not just indigestion.
It
can raise blood pressure, cause headache, asthma, allergies, runny
nose, brain fog, fatigue, and lead to autoimmune disease or heart
disease. Also, Vitamin C is in vegetables, even more plentiful than in
fruit. Bell peppers and broccoli have more Vitamin C than an orange does.
The
moral of the story is that a fruit is a fruit, and fruit intolerant
people must not eat them if they are going to be healthy and free of
disease and pain. I wish I could change this. I cannot. There are no
magical enzymes you can take to make your body recognize the fruit and
digest it. It isn't that simple. Our metabolisms are much more complex
than that. This is why lactaid doesn't work for lactose intolerant
(dairy intolerant) people. There is more to digesting dairy than the
lactose sugar in the milk. It is the milk protein and its "complex"
which must also be broken down. The
inability to break down lactose causes gut fermentation of the milk and
gastrointestinal distress, which the lactaid enzyme helps to break
down. But it does nothing to break down the milk protein, which causes
toxemia all the same in the dairy intolerant person. In children, this often leads to ear infections; in adults, it causes sinus infections, asthma, or allergic responses.
I
hope I have helped to clarify this very complex issue of gut digestion,
enzymes, and food intolerances, especially in relationship to the fruit
category. If you are fruit intolerant, please don't eat fruit. You
will be healthier without it. Dr. Letitia Dick
Click here to see COMPLETE LIST OF FOOD INTOLERANCE CATEGORIES
SEE:
The Food Resource List for products that have been evaluated for hidden ingredients,
The Food Substitutions List for ingredient alternatives and Recipes for delicious entries submitted.
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