05-14-2008, 02:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Bitsy  No, I am supposed to be on a diet where I'm not supposed to eat phenylalanine.
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The PKU diet is awful, more restrictive than any sort of food diet, like a raw-food diet, and it includes a putrid tasting, exceedingly expensive powder that makes up the core of the diet and it becomes very difficult to eat enough calories in a day. The powder contains all amino acids in protein except for phenylalanine. The diet eliminates all meat and most dairy products and flour products.
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Jennifer
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