Vegetarian notes on GAPS

Disclaimer: this blog is mainly to collect info. for clients, predominantly parents of children with Autism, but also for teens and adult clients with various conditions.

Personally, I am a vegetarian and have been for two years.  My husband happens to be the R&D chef for Tofurky/Turtle Island Foods. They make two categories of products: soy meat analogs and tempeh.

So I am wanting to post on the possibilities for vegetarians with the GAPS diets, as well as the challenges.

No Soy?

Gut and Psychology Syndrome book p. 113
"Soya is cheap to produce and, following some research suggesting that it may be beneficial for menopausal women, the whole market has exploded with soya products.  It can be found in many processed foods, margarines, salad dressings and sauces, breads, biscuits, pizza, baby food, children's snacks, sweets, cakes, vegetarian products, dairy replacements, infant milk formulas, etc...

1. The perceived benefits to menopausal women, seen in Japan and other Eastern cultures are due to the form in which soy is traditionally used: as a whole bean or fermented as a soy sauces, natto, miso and tempeh.  The form in which soya is used in the West is called soy protein isolate."

So we see two forms of vegetarian protein: whole vs. processed.


What I don't understand is why she is not including the whole products on the list of what you can eat (on the GAPS diet)?

Gut and Psychology Syndrome book p. 156
"A few words about vegetarianism" section is very negative and cautionary about being vegetarian, esp. for a child with any of the is GAPS issues.


Gut and Psychology Syndrome book p. 233-4
"Vegetarian diets are largely based on carbohydrates, which require a lot of magnesium to be digested and metabolized, so deficiency in magnesium follows."