Are you worried about blowing your groceries budget because you need to follow a Low FODMAP diet? You may have recently been told to follow a low FODMAP diet to control your Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms and soon after you may have started to visit those supermarkets aisles with “Healthy Food” written all over […]
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Can Essential Oils Help IBS Symptoms?
How Can Essential Oils Help IBS? As I have alluded in a previous blog post, one of the suggested natural treatments for IBS symptoms is through the use of essential oils. In this post, I am aiming to get into more details about which essential oils help IBS sufferers to ease their symptoms. In doing my […]
IBS Diet – The Elimination And Reintroduction Phases
Low FODMAP Diet Phases An IBS diagnosis comes as both a relief and a discomfort for most people. Relief because the cause of all the distress and various digestive malfunctions is finally revealed; discomfort because it means that there may be a lot of dietary adjustments to be made and favourite food to be given […]
Low FODMAP Diet Is Not For Life
“What? So I’m not going to be able to eat bread, garlic and apples ever again?” Not necessarily, in fact the good news is that the low FODMAP diet is not for life, at least not in its most extreme form. It is actually recommended that one doesn’t stay on a strict low FODMAP diet for an […]
Low FODMAP Diet Is Not A Gluten Free Diet
Is Gluten Free Diet Ok For IBS? So, here is the deal: Low FODMAP diet is not the same as a gluten free diet. While it looks like you are being wise, by following a gluten free diet, as you are avoiding Oligos-fructans and Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) contained in wheat, barley and rye (just to mention […]