Re: [at-l] food find

["Coosa" <coosa@alltel.net>]

I love this list -- there's always someone around who knows what I'm talking
about and can explain it so that even I can understand what I was trying to
say.

Thanks for the info --

Can you use Arrowroot cookies on the hike?  Corn tortillas?  Graham
Crackers?  (you know what has refined wheat in them better than I)

Guess ya don't want any of the oreos I've got sittin' here in a tin, huh?

Coosa

-----Original Message-----


>>Have you been tested for allergy to wheat products?  If you crave wheat
>>products after you've had just a little (as in one piece of bread is not
>>enough, the entire loaf leaves you wanting more) you may be allergic to
>>wheat.
>>
>>Also, are you staying away from nutrasweet?  I read that it depletes your
>>stores of carbohydrates and makes you crave them.
>>
>>Coosa
>
>Aspartame depletes your store of serotonin which makes you crave carbs.
>Carbs don't refuel serotonin, but rather boost the tryptophan from your
>protein which goes through the factory and comes out serotonin.
>
>Problem is - carb cravers eventually forgoe protein as they crave carbs so
>they eat more and more carbs, less and less protein, crave more and more,
>gain weight, feel worse...
>
>Wheat does it to me - even whole wheat, but not all carb cravers are
>sensitive to whole wheat.  (All are sensitive to refined wheat.)  I now use
>*sprouted* (flourless) bread and wonder what I will do for bread stuff on
>the AT.
>
>Delita
>


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