  The use of SU(3) chiral perturbation theory in the analysis of low energy
meson-baryon interactions is discussed. It is emphasized that short distance
effects, arising from propagation of Goldstone bosons over distances smaller
than a typical hadronic size, are model-dependent and can lead to a lack of
convergence in the SU(3) chiral expansion if they are included in loop
diagrams. In this paper we demonstrate how to remove such effects in a chirally
consistent fashion by use of a cutoff and demonstrate that such removal
ameliorates problems which have arisen in previous calculations due to large
loop effects.
