FURTHER DIETARY ADVICE

There is a lot of theories on dietary advice for IBS but nothing that is conclusive or that can applied to everybody.

Some things seem fairly obvious when you look at the research. Inflammatory foods, lack of pre-biotic containing fruits and vegetables and low fiber intake must all be aggravating factors.

FOODS TO AVOID

Irritating food for the digestive system, includes the following:

• Red Meats
• Added Sugar
• Processed foods in general (including pasta)
• Processed grains especially wheat, and other products containing gluten, pasta, pastry, cake etc.
• Too many nuts and legumes like baked beans, chickpeas and lentils
• Gas forming foods - Raw cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli
• Don’t follow a raw food salad diet until the IBS symptoms have gone, as it can introduce too many immediate micro-organisms

RECOMMENDED FOODS

• Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables (try stewed apples)
• Cooked root vegetables are good (except potatoes)
• Vegetable Soups, mushroom, pumpkin, parsnip
• Chicken and fish (instead of red meats)
• Probiotic drinks and yoghurt smoothies
• Digestive herbs and mild-medium spices especially turmeric, mint, cinnamon, rosemary, cumin, corriander
• Black tea and herbal teas (see above)

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