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20. RE: Digesting vegetables

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 12:58 PM

Jul 2015

I'm one of the few unlucky people who cannot properly digest most greens. I get painful gas and diarrhea eating most vegetables. I love corn and spinach - they don't love me back. I also have GERD and, as much as I love tomatoes, I cannot handle them.

I can't stand spicy peppers, seasonings, spices, etc. (I get very sick if I do eat spicy stuff) and so on. I'm lactose intolerant. So I'm pretty much stuck to eating meat of some kind.

I love beef - I like it as rare as possible. It's one of the few things that does not cause me to become a bubble of noxious gases and/or an all-day worshiper of the porcelain gods.

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What is your diet - i.e. are you a vegan? [View all] el_bryanto Jul 2015 OP

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I'm just curious- there's another post that has a much longer discussion of this issue el_bryanto Jul 2015 #3

Me too.... daleanime Jul 2015 #7

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Of course thats what I meant el_bryanto Jul 2015 #27

There it is. (n/t) WorseBeforeBetter Jul 2015 #48

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