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Lactose Intolerant Easy Zesty Cranberry Sauce Recipe

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A healthy diet with Lactose Intolerance!

If you have Lactose Intolerance, eating dairy can be a painful experience. However, you might not have to swear off dairy completely. People have a varying degree of symptom occurrence that has a direct correlation to just how much dairy you eat in a sitting. Try having small amounts of dairy gauge your limit. Also, spread your consumption of dairy products throughout the day.

Not to worry, if you are extremely susceptible to symptom occurrence at any amount, there are plenty of ways to live a dairy free life while maintaining sound health. The main concern of a dairy-free diet is a lack of calcium and vitamin D. Drinking one glass of calcium-fortified orange juice and one glass of calcium fortified soymilk a day will help you achieve daily requirements (600 mg of 1000 mg) for calcium. Foods that are plenty rich in calcium are broccoli, almonds, soy beans and bok choy. Add a multivitamin to your routine to help. With this said, nothing really substitutes dairy products. Try to find your level of severity and consume a safe amount as much as possible to ensure enough calcium and vitamin D intake.

This post was provided by Andrew Rubalcava, author of Go Healthy Go Fit.

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Jerry has been quoted for saying: “I’m lactose intolerant. I have no patience for lactose, and I won’t stand for it.”

I’m sure you have seen Jerry’s TV show Jerry Seinfeld- but did you notice that he always has cereal. This makes no sense since he lactose intolerant! Does he always put Lactaid milk in his cereal?

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Talk to your Pharmacist before taking supplements or prescription drugs.

Brace yourself for this one. Lactose is used as a filler in almost every prescription and over-the-counter drug (including birth control pills and calcium supplements) made by almost any pharmaceudical company!!! I can’t tell you how much email I’ve received about this. Although the amount of lactose used is sometimes so small that it isn’t even on the label–of course, making it difficult to detect–severely lactose intolerant individuals may feel the familiar effects of the lactose.

I’d like to tell you to read the label. But, often labels are covered with prescription labels, and sometimes ingredient lists exclude lactose because there’s not much in there. What you can do is talk to your pharmacist about your prescriptions and encourage him or her to call the specific company which makes your medication for ingredient information. Note that over-the-counter versions of some prescription medications may not have the same ingredients. Also, generic brands do not have exactly the same makeup as their brand-name counterparts.

So. . .call the drug manufacturer or have your pharmacist do it.

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Five years ago, two chocolate loving friends, one a dedicated vegan vegetarian and the other allergic to dairy, were unable to get really good tasting chocolate they would be willing to eat. They decided to do something about their problem and made their own chocolate!

After much research and experimentation, they came up with a really delicious chocolate with no dairy. Realizing that there were a lot of other people in the world like them, they decided to form a company to market and distribute their dairy-free chocolates.

To find out more about their chocolates, check out Chocolate Decadence or call 800-324-5018.

Dark Chocolate
Did you know dark chocolate doesn’t have lactose in it? Its SAFE to have if your lactose intolerant!

Kirsten

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