"Why is gluten ok on a low-FODMAP diet? I thought gluten was bad for people with IBS?"
When You Need Low-FODMAP Fluids
Q. Do you have a low-FODMAP recipe I could use instead of purchasing bottled sports drinks?
Short Answer: There is no short answer, because an appropriate substitution for bottled sports drinks depends upon why you are asking. Many people don’t actually need this sort of beverage at all, despite the heavy marketing of these products. On the other hand, “Distance or extreme athletes, people with major GI output such as with vomiting or diarrhea, or people with short bowel syndrome must replace electrolytes, and plain water will not do the trick,” according to Dr. Carol Ireton Jones, an expert on hydration for short bowel syndrome.
Beans in the Time of Coronavirus
If you are planning to stay home for a while during the COVID-19, you may be relying more than usual on canned or dry goods to meet your nutrition needs. I saw some mighty large bags of dried beans in people’s grocery carts last week! So I thought it might be timely to talk about beans! I will skip the usual advice about washing your hands, and instead advise you to wash your beans! The following information will be helpful to anyone who finds beans “too gassy”, including those of you with IBS.
FODMAPs and GERD
Eating to Reduce Constipation
Although the holidays are behind us, constipation knows no season!
What follows are excerpts from the transcript of my December 2019 Twitter Chat with the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders @IFFGD. The hashtag for the IFFGD Twitter Chat series is #DDHChat. For readability, hyperlinks and most hashtags have been removed.
When a Steady Baseline is Elusive on Low-FODMAP Diet
Do I Have to Modify the FODMAP Elimination Diet for My Crohn's Disease?
Can Low-FODMAP Diet Help Ulcerative Colitis?
Converting U.S. Recipes for Use in the U.K.
Q. “I have just purchased your book, The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook, and I live in the U.K. How can I use your recipes when they all refer to cups?”—U.K. Reader
