“Help for IBS” Current Newsletter
I don’t endorse enthusiastically the “Help for IBS” Website and newsletter, for a couple of reasons.
First, the diet she endorses is very high in carbohydrates, with limited attention to protein intake. That’s possibly good and necessary if you are thin, with IBS-D. It is not the healthy diet currently recommended, and she/her staff incorrectly states that it is.
Second, she seems confused about soluble fiber, and endorses foods like rice that actually do not have a lot of any kind of fiber, but are high in starch (=carbs). There is definitely a place for starch, and both starch and soluble fiber tame the gastrocolic reflex, so they work alike in that fashion. The problem lies in the idea that eating rice is eating fiber. It isn’t.
I can, however, recommend the current issue of the “Help for IBS” Newsletter.
Everything in this issue it is okay. A nice letter about going off Zelnorm and seeing results with dietary control. A doctor’s article about The 7 Myths about IBS. And, if it applies, a bit of knowledge about what celiac disease is/is like.
