the only thing is going to help ultimately is the right diet and exercise. However adding fresh juice to your diet (especially vegetable juice) can be an aid to weight loss and is a great way to get lots of the important nutrition that you need in a low calorie healthy drink. You can read more on my other post Juice Diet Recipes

Darren

As important as modern medicine is I am continually offended with the arrogance that is often displayed by some doctors. It is all too common to accuse the patient of something when they can’t figure out what the problem is. Of course, in saying that, some doctors are great, so I don’t want to make an umbrella statement. Anyhows, I am sorry to hear that your daughter suffers as she does. I found a few online resources from fellow IG sufferes that looks very helpful.

http://www.inspire.com/groups/agmd-gi-motility/discussion/those-with-idiopathic-gastroparesis/

http://gicare.com/Diets/Gastroparesis.aspx

http://gpawarenessfund.tripod.com/id1.html

The first link above has some great information from a variety of people who suffer with IG and there are a lot of ideas there.

I guess from a juicing point of view, a few thing come to mind for me. Firstly, if you have the budget, is to get a very high quality juicer machine that extracts the most nutrients and enzymes from fruits and veggies but doesn’t let through any pulp, this will keep the juice as fiber free as possible. My recommendations in this case is the green power juicer or the green star juicer, these machine produce more yield and nutrients than the Jack LaLanne juicers. However, the Jack LaLanne juicer is still great and you may find that it is just fine. The Jack LaLanne juicer pro model features an extra fine mesh filter that lets less pulp through.

Secondly, because acidity and acid reflux seems to be a big problem with IG, I would try and focus on juicing vegetables everyday because they are very alkaline, especially green leafy vegetables. I would suggest trying different green leafy vegetables to find the ones that seem to ‘go down’ best. You can mix them with the juice of carrots and or apples to sweeten the green juice to make it more palatable as green juice is naturally bitter. Some recipe ideas would be:

Green Juice 1
2 handfuls of greens (choose either kale, spinach, broccoli, green cabbage)
5 carrots

Green Juice 2
2 handfuls of greens (choose either kale, spinach, broccoli, green cabbage)
1 or 2 apples

I am keeping the recipes simple here so that start figuring what vegetables and fruits work best in the stomach. You can also peel the apples and carrots before putting them in the juicer since the peels contain the most fiber. As I read through the IG forums it seems that experimenting is the key. Although, an important point to remeber is that vegetables carry less calories than fruits, since fruits are more sugary, and it looks like you and your daughter need to get all the calories you can from food, so fruit juices daily would be important from that view point too. You could maybe make a fruit juice with just one type of fruit at a time and see how you guys react to each one, so that you can figure out which ones work best and start building recipes from there.

Thirdly, protein powder maybe something that you can mix into your drinks, I am not sure but it seems like a possibility. SOme of them are high quality these days and pure protein powders like pure whey protein powder will contain no fiber and are very low or contain no fat.

Of course, none of these recomendations should be taken as medical advice or are not intended to cure or treat any disease. Always consult with your Doctor before making any changes. (sorry I have to say that to keep my ass covered!)

Hope that helps! Let me know if I can help any further.

Best wishes
Darren