Last month a late Christmas gift arrived for my wife. 3 different types of round Dutch cheese and a big slice of another kind of Dutch cheese. Hmmm… I have fond memories of european cheese. I remember my trips to France and in a buffet I would rather stuff my face with the various French cheeses rather than the main course. Now I remember, I became constipated in France too!
Anyway, curiosity and fond memories led to experiment with this dutch cheese. Experimenting is easy for me. My current diet is a raw paleolithic diet: raw organic fruits, raw organic animal food and at a high raw fat low carb ratio. So I’m all well and fine and healthy. In comes the dutch cheese, 1.5 table spoon size every evening , and to hopefully prevent suspected constipation, I eat my cheese with 1 tablespoon yellow grass fed butter. I had a wonderful and happy flashbacks savoring the cheese.
Results came in fast. After 3 days I felt the familiar signs of constipation. This Friday morning upon waking up I took 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil. Then drank lots of coconut juice and lots of coconut meat. I felt the reflex of wanting to poop. Uh oh… the 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil was inadequate. I suffered in the toilet bowl for some 15 minutes. Very bad. I got back up and took another dose of 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil and more coconut juice and walked around. The next round of poop came in and I found relief.
So lesson learned is it takes 2 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil for me to be relieved of constipation. And cheese really is constipating. I transferred the cheeses to the other refrigerator and gave it away to the maids. I am certainly not giving any cheese to my children. I can cope with constipation problems easily. I’m a big boy. But the children? Spare them, please. When a new food arrives, parents should try it themselves first before giving it to their children.