Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Nutrition You Can Live With PDF
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Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Irritable title: Bowel Syndrome : Nutrition You Can Live With Tell Me What to Eat author: Magee, Elaine. publisher: The Career Press isbn10 | asin: 1564144445 print isbn13: 9781564144447 ebook isbn13: 9780585321080 language: English Irritable colon--Popular works, Irritable subject colon--Diet therapy. publication date: 2000 lcc: RC862.I77M24 2000eb ddc: 616.3/42 Irritable colon--Popular works, Irritable subject: colon--Diet therapy. colon--Diet therapy. Page 3 Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome Nutrition You Can Live With by Elaine Magee, MPH, RD Page 4 Copyright © 2000 by Elaine Magee All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I HAVE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Cover design by Lu Rossman Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-free 1-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201-848-0310) to order using VISA or Master-Card, or for further information on books from Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 www.careerpress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Magee, Elaine. Tell me what to eat if I have irritable bowel syndrome : nutrition you can live with / by Elaine Magee. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-56414-444-5 (paper) 1. Irritable colonPopular works. 2. Irritable colonDiet therapy. I. Title. II. Series. RC862.I77 M24 2000 616.3'42dc21 00-031214 Page 5 Contents Introduction 7 Chapter 1: 12 Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask a Gastroenterologist Chapter 2: 24 Main Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Chapter 3: 30 Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask Your Dietitian about IBS Chapter 4: 47 The 10 Food Steps to Freedom Chapter 5: 70 The 20 Recipes You Cannot Live Without Chapter 6: 97 Navigating the Supermarket Chapter 7: 120 Restaurant Rules Index 133 Page 7 Introduction Being told you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is there is no real cure. The good news is that the condition will never kill you or seriously impair your health. In fact, approximately 60 percent of people with IBS symptoms never seek medical care. These people just live with it. I know, because I'm one of them. I'm a third-generation irritable bowel sufferer. People with IBS have bowels that tend to overreact in certain situations. Whatever affects the bowels of the population at large, such as diet, hormones, or stress, affects those of IBS sufferers even more. And IBS symptoms are the result. So what can we do? We can at least make ourselves feel more comfortable as we go through life with this syndrome. We can eat a healthful diet (rich in high-fiber foods that our systems tolerate), drink plenty of water, avoid foods that make us feel worse, and find ways to minimize and handle the stress in our daily lives. Page 8 But be forewarned, treating IBS is a little like trying to hit a moving target. Not only do IBS symptoms vary from one person to the next, they can also change from week to week in the same person. And when if comes to treatments, different things work for different people. The only way to know what works for you is to try it and see if it seems to help. To make things even more complicated, the treatment you try for one symptom can cause a completely new symptom to occur. So with IBS, you definitely want to choose your treatments wisely. That's what this book is about: presenting the possible dietary treatments for IBSmany of which have helped IBS sufferers live more comfortable lives. People with IBS who don't seem to respond well to drugs or dietary modification may want to concentrate on the psychological treatments available for IBS. Individual or group psychotherapy, relaxation training, meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis can all help relieve some symptoms. You Are Not Alone IBS has been around a while. Medical descriptions of IBS can be found from as far back as the late 1800s. If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, you are not alone. In the United States alone, 25 to 55 million people suffer from some degree of IBS. Many of them don't even know that the symptoms they have been dealing with over the years have a name. After the common cold, IBS accounts for the most missed days of work, and up to 40 percent of all visits to gastroenterologists are related to IBS symptoms. And what I find most interesting is that IBS is common across countries that are culturally very different from America, such as Japan, China, and India. So trust me, you are not alone. Page 9 Bowels 101 Whether you are experiencing constipation or diarrhea, knowing how the colon is supposed to work will help you understand what's going on in your body. So let's review the jobs of the large and small intestines, which together are referred to as the bowel or bowels. Once the stomach has churned food into mush, it releases small amounts of it into the small intestine. The bulk of the digesting and absorbing of the nutrients and calories from the food we eat happens in the small intestine. The pancreas contributes enzymes to help further digest food in general, and bile from the gallbladder and liver helps to break down fat in particular. What's absorbed? Carbohydrates are broken down into sugars and absorbed. Protein is broken down into amino acids and absorbed. Fat is broken down into fatty acids and glycerol and absorbed. And vitamins and minerals, along with other important nutrients from the food we eat, are also absorbed into the bloodstream in the small intestine. What isn't absorbed? Fiber for one thing (more on this in other chapters). The remaining food waste moves to the large intestine, which is also called the colon. The main job of the large intestine is to reabsorb water and salts as the food waste travels through it. This helps form solid stools, which can then theoretically exit the body a couple of days later via the rectum (easily and without discomfort). These "movements" are controlled by nerves and hormones and by electrical activity in the colon muscle. Muscles in the colon help propel the food waste slowly toward the rectum. "Normal" bowel movements range from three stools a day to as few as three a week. A "normal" movement is one that is formed but not hard, contains no blood, and is passed without cramps or pain.
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