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Discover The 3 Steps To Curing IBS Now!
December 15th, 2011 
Claire Irritable Bowel Syndrome 101 – Know the IBS Trigger Foods
May 1st, 2011 Claire 
Do you experience persistent, sometimes alternating, constipation and diarrhea? Do you feel extreme abdominal pain before and during bowel movement? If your answer is yes, you might be suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS.
One out of 25 Americans is suffering from IBS. Do not worry because it is not fatal or life-threatening. It is not really considered a disease because no pathogenic (virus or bacteria) causes are known. However, it may greatly affect your work and lifestyle. There is no real way to cure it, but there are diet techniques that can alleviate the symptoms. The first step is to know the IBS trigger foods.
Trigger foods contain substances that may cause adverse reactions from the intestines. These foods may release gases or secrete chemicals that can cause the abnormal movement of stool. Usually, this abnormal movement manifests as loose bowel movement (LBM) or constipation. In fact, studies show that 70% of all IBS cases are related to food intolerances.
The most common IBS trigger foods are dairy products. Even if you are not lactose intolerant, intake of dairy may disturb the peace of your digestive system. These include milk, cheese and products based on these ingredients. Fresh eggs are the only exception. Do not eat ice cream, cakes, pastries and other baked products, particularly those that contain yeast and leavening.
Next, fats and several oils can modify the composition of the stool – making the absorptivity of water from the bowel difficult. In most cases, oily foods result in diarrhea-predominant IBS, aka. “IBS-D.” Oily foods include peanuts, mayonnaise, butter and cooking oil. For food preparation, look for substitutes like margarine and canola oil.
Notice that the mentioned IBS trigger foods are also high with saturated fat. Cut down the intake of deep-fried foods and fast food. Do not eat preserved and processed products like canned goods and junk foods. It will also help to avoid excessive food flavorings and spices like pepper and chili. Salt in particular can induce dehydration in the body and the change of stool consistency.
Depending on the fiber content, a fruit, vegetable or grain can be one of the IBS trigger foods. Insoluble fibers are generally not bad but, if too much of them are ingested, they will spell trouble for you. High insoluble fiber foods include cucumber, popcorn, seeds, granola, pineapple, celery and sprouts. Always take less insoluble fibers than soluble fibers. It is also recommended to cook them first before serving.
Perhaps, the tricky part about IBS is that it is a single condition with two manifestations: constipation and diarrhea. IBS trigger foods may vary per individual, as well as the choice of foods that can stop the pain. For some people, a slight increase in fiber intake can induce diarrhea. Others will have constipation problems once dietary fiber is reduced. Trial-and-error is the best method for finding the right foods and combinations. Remember that you don’t have to pressure yourself and quickly change your meals. Take it slowly by gradually introducing yourself to new diets.
IBS Diet Plan – Food Guide for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
April 24th, 2011 Claire 
You are driving to your office, when suddenly you feel a cramping pain in the abdomen. You can’t control it, and you know that you have to find the nearest gas station to use the toilet. If you are familiar with this scenario and it happens to you often, you might be suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS. IBS causes sudden alteration of bowel movement, and it is accompanied with abdominal pain, bloating and discomfort. But don’t fret. You can deal with its symptoms with an IBS diet plan.
You may be wondering, why are you feeling the other symptoms but, instead of loose bowel, you feel constipated? Basically, there are three types of IBS: constipation predominant, diarrhea-predominant and alternating stool pattern. The latter exhibits irregular shifts between loose and difficult bowel movement. There is a similar IBS diet plan for all three types. Of course, supplements and medicines are different for diarrhea and constipated people.
Food Selection
Food fibers are the core of recovery meals for IBS patients. Studies show that increase in soluble fiber intake can lessen the symptoms of the syndrome. On the other hand, non-soluble fibers have the tendency to aggravate the condition. Fibers come from plant products but, sometimes, the intestines over-react when they get in contact with non-soluble fibers. You must also avoid spices and certain oils because they can trigger spasms in the intestines, resulting in IBS. These include hot chili, peanuts, alcohol, fermented goods and vinegar.
Sample Meal Plan
This is a sample IBS diet plan. It can provide you with 20-30 grams of fiber from various healthy sources. Depending on the type of preparation (usage of oil and margarine), you can also obtain 30-35 grams of fat.
For breakfast, you can take a bowl of high fiber-cereal. You can choose from weetbix and muesli. You can also take porridge with a slice of fresh fruit. Since dairy products must be avoided, you must look for alternative protein sources. You can take soya milk which is calcium-enhanced. You can also drink non-fat milk.
In an IBS diet plan, lean meat is the best protein source. During lunch, you can have tinned fish or lean beef, with low fat cheese as side-dish. It is advised not to drink caffeinated beverages like soda and concentrated tea. Diluted fruit juice and water will do. For dessert, you can take low-fat yogurt.
Finally, for dinner, you can eat grilled or steamed chicken, which is flavored with lemon juice and pepper. Just avoid excessive spicing and flavoring. Serve it with vegetable salad. If you are intolerant of fresh vegetables, you can steam or broil them. Whole meal bread and boiled potatoes are good side-dishes for supper.
Important Tips
Do not quickly force yourself to ingest soluble fiber-rich foods in just one day. This may just worsen the condition. The IBS diet plan should be introduced slowly, and must be part of the person’s lifestyle. Also, even if you feel bloated, do not skip meals. The key in dealing with the syndrome is like the ideal way to lose weight: eat small but frequent meals and divide your nutritional requirements evenly.
Insoluble and Soluble Fiber Foods – Their Roles in IBS Diet
January 8th, 2011 Claire 
If you are diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), the last thing you should ever
do is panic. It is one of the most common diseases among Americans, equally affecting young
and old adults alike. Technically, it is not a disease because it is not yet proven to be caused by
viruses or bacteria. However, it may greatly affect your performance at home, work and school.
You must know that most cases are caused by food intolerance. Knowledge of insoluble and
soluble fiber foods is important in combating the symptoms of IBS.
Dietary Fibers and IBS 101
Dietary fiber is an organic material which is found from plant foods. When you eat them,
they are not digested and absorbed by the body. Instead, they are excreted with the stool. Fibers
from soluble fiber foods readily mix with water, and they form a gel to mix with food. This
helps regulate the speed of digestive process. On the other hand, insoluble fiber remains largely
intact as it passes through the digestive tract. Now, why is this differentiation significant? For
people with IBS, the change in symptoms is a matter of regulating fiber intake.
The syndrome’s symptoms have three tendencies: diarrhea predominant (IBS-D or very
loose bowel), constipation predominant (IBS-C or very hard stool) and alternate (IBS-A or
intermediate). For the first two cases, changes in fiber intake can greatly alleviate the symptoms.
For example, if you are constipated, you can slightly increase intake of insoluble fiber foods to
soften it. On the other hand, soluble fiber foods harden the stool by slowing down digestion.
Food Types and Target Fiber Intake
Flax seed, oat bran, dried peas and beans, apples, carrots and psyllium husks are rich with
soluble fibers. Wheat bran, corn bran, seeds, nuts and green leafy vegetables are rich with
insoluble fibers.
According to the US Institute of Medicine (IOM), men between 20-50 years old must take
38 grams of fiber everyday. Women from the same age group must take at least 25 grams. The
recommended daily intake slightly decreases for older adults. However, current statistics show
that Americans eat 5-14 grams of fiber everyday. If you belong in this group, you are prone to
IBS.
In more than half of IBS cases, increased intake of insoluble and soluble fiber foods
corrects both IBS-D and IBS-C problems. But for some people, fiber can worsen their diarrhea.
Dieticians propose high-fiber, low residue foods to stop diarrhea and promote fibrous intake at
the same time. The diet includes applesauce, tapioca, cream of rice, grated apples minus the skin,
and avocado.
Important Reminders
Recent studies have shown that the increased intake of soluble fiber can weaken the
abdominal pain in IBS. While intake of insoluble fibers increase the risks of pain. However,
you should not completely remove insoluble fibers from your meals. The technique here is to
eat soluble fiber foods first before non-soluble fibers. This will prepare the digestive system
and prevent intestinal spasms. Lastly, you can consult your doctor for natural fiber supplements,
which can help regulate IBS symptoms.
How To Get Rid Of The Pain… Now!
December 21st, 2010 Claire 
The Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be, besides being an embarrassing and really annoying condition, also lead to serious pain.
When every time you eat something, you get bloated, you immediately have to run to the bathroom or you feel constipated, sore and generally uneasy, you know that it is time to do something. IBS is a real medical condition, a real problem that deserves to be treated.
But don’t do it like the typical trained physician would. Because if you go to your doctor (which you should to get a clear diagnosis!) and ask for an IBS treatment and help to get rid of the pain, you will most likely end up with prescription medication that is both terribly toxic and actually ineffective.
These medicines, especially for digestive diseases tend to apparently not be designed to actually help people. They seem to just be part of this big, evil billion dollar industry that is feeding on your pain – not your well being as that would make them lose you as a paying costumer.
So what can you do instead? Which alternatives do you have?
Well, there are some. The most effective one will for sure be to adjust your diet to the way your digestion is able to function better. This does primarily mean that you will have to stop eating fast food or any very fatty or fried foods, anything containing refined sure (you will be amazed, that stuff even is in places where it really doesn’t belong…), lactose, caffeine and all that good stuff 
BUT! I hear you screaming already. So what are you supposed to eat instead then? Ok, number one when I said no sugar, I didn’t say no sweeteners. Because you are totally ok to still use clear honey to make teas, cakes, desserts etc sweet. There is absolutely no problem with that.
Also you can eat most vegetables and fruits. Just maybe for a start don’t eat them raw but rather boiled or steamcooked or like in a soup for example. Because right now your digestion is still really weak and probably can’t handle raw fiber very well. That is ok. Things will improve soon.
And when I said lactose is not ok, I didn’t say all dairy products are fobidden. While actually most of them are, there are a couple of things that are important to a lot of people that you still can consume. Those two things are hard cheese which does not contain lactose anymore and also yoghurt for the same reason.
Actually yoghurt is a very great food that you can eat to get rid of the pain IBS is causing you. Because especially home made yoghurt using a good starter will contain probiotics which is a great way to help your intestines heal and deal with any kind of digestive problems.
You see, the main cause of digestive problems is an imbalance of good and bad bacteria in your gut. Your aim has to be to restore a healthy balance and you do this by starving off the bad bacteria by cutting down on sugars and carbohydrates. And then you have to re-increase the amount of good bacteria that make your digestion work properly which is done with probiotics.
Now you are saying “but I never made yoghurt myself before, I don’t know how that works…!”. Don’t worry. Just watch this short but really great video presentation that will give you instructions on how to make your own what we call 24-hour-yoghurt containing all the healthy probiotics you need plus you will also get lots more very important and helpful tips on how to make your IBS pain stop right now.
2 Proven Natural Remedies For IBS To Ease The Pain In Just 5 Days Or Less
December 19th, 2010 Claire 
Finding natural remedies for IBS instead of using and suffering from chemical drugs should definitely be a big priority for you if you want to heal your body. Living with the constant pain and embarrassement your IBS symptoms give you is very hard for you and you are probably looking to end this as soon as possible, ideally with natural remedies for IBS.
I have suffered from IBS myself a few years ago but with the help of the right natural remedies for IBS I was able to drastically reduce and eventually get rid of all my symtoms like severe diarrhea, bloating or gas. Once you have figured out what to pay attention to, it is easy. I know for sure that you can do it, too!
There are two effective natural remedies for IBS and these are the right diet and a good stress management.
Stress can be a big problem for your digestive system. We humans have two nervous systmes: the parasympathetic nervous system which governs our digestive system and sympathetic nervous system which governs stress management. The two are always moving to maintain balance. So when we’re stressed, the sympathetic nervoussystem is very active in trying to help us deal with the situation and the parasympathetic nervous system gets out of balance and can’t do a very good job; when we’re relaxed and there isn’t much stress, our digestive system works the best.
So when you are stressed AND eating poorly, this will actually make your IBS symptoms worse. Therefore taking care of both of these areas will definitely be the best natural remedies for IBS.
To lower your stress level you can try a few different simple relaxation techniques like short meditations, focussing on deep and regular breathing, listening to relaxing music in situations where you often get stressed (e.g. in the car, at work, at home when your kids are having a wild day, etc.) or taking hot baths – with candlelight if you like 
The most effective dietary natural remedies for IBS are a low starch diet and the consumption of products containing probiotics. The absolute best source of probiotics for you is home made 24 hour yoghurt. But no worries if you have never made your own yoghurt before! You can check for an explanation as well as a detailed plan how the low starch diet works and what to pay attention to in terms of food in general here in this video. It was made by a friend of mine who even cured severe chronic digestive diseases like ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease using these exact same techniques.
If you just take those ten minutes of your time right now and follow the important information on natural remedies for IBS this video contains, I guarantee you will begin to feel better or maybe even stop having bad symptoms alltogether after only five days or less – you’re worth it!
The Right IBS System To Cure Your Symptoms Now
December 17th, 2010 Claire 
If you are suffering from IBS, the Irritable Bowel Syndrome, chances are you could profit from an IBS system that will teach you exactly and step by step what you can do to get rid of your symptoms, what you should pay attention to not doing, which foods are good, which are bad and how you can just generally change your life for the better.
Luckily, there are IBS system options available that go beyond expensive, painful and, quite frankly, uneffective and downright dangerous methods that any doctor might prescribe you. Sure, the easiest way to get rid of problems in your digestive system would be to just get rif of the digestive system.
But, replacing your intestines with an external colostomy bag, hanging from your hip to collect the excrement for the rest of your life is neither comfortable, nor attractive as an IBS system. And even if you don’t mind yourself, try to explain that to your date…
So, since this isn’t actually an option and neither is drugging you out of your mind, you might want to consider more natural alternatives. There is a lot of esoteric voodoo out there and people will try to tell you to o all kinds of strange stuff that supposedly helps. It won’t.
In reality, the solution is rather simple. To cure the digestive problems you are having, your IBS system just needs to focus on the basics that impact your digestion: the food you eat.
The food you consume has a critical impact on how your digestion will be able to process it. It is absolutely most important that you find an IBS system that will educate you exactly about the right way to behave because if you are being left in the darf about just small details, you will never be able to cure your IBS symptoms for good.
The IBS system I can personally recommend best because it has helped me and it was actually put together by an ex ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease patient is the No Drugs No Pain system. You can start watching a first introduction for it, which is a two-part free video series, right here on my site (go to video).
It will show your the exact 6 step IBS system to feel measurable improvement in the quality of your life withing the first day of starting to implement the strategies outlined. You will be amazed at how these easy to follow and apply techniques can literally give you your lost life back.
Imagine you won’t ever have to pay attention where the next bathroom is, you won’t ever have to explain yourself to people who just won’t understand, you won’t ever have to worry about what to do on a longer plane or car ride or when using public transportation and you will hever have to battle with horrible diarrhea, constipation, bloating or cramping and all the pain and misery involved ever again. You could just relax and live your life normally again if you get to know and use this IBS system.
Do You Have IBS Symptoms And Treatment Options That Help?
December 16th, 2010 Claire 
Dealing with IBS symptoms and treatment are ususally two things that go together completely in the wrong way. Because when you go to your doctor and tell him about your problems, what he will most likely do is only treat your symptoms. That is what doctors get trained for these days but it is not always the best thing they could do!
So if you are looking at IBS symptoms and treatment options available, it would be much better to actually treat the root of the problem and not just the symptoms you notice externally.
But what is that root of your problem I hear you asking. Well, it’s actually pretty simple. I mean, you are dealing with digestive problems here, right? Your symptoms are probably something along the lines of diarrhea, bloating, gas, constipation and so on.
How to fix that? Well, what makes most sense is to start looking at the things that digestive problems typically might be coming from – the food you eat. So to get rid of the bad IBS symptoms and to cure your digestion, you need to eat more of the right things and less of the wrong things.
As a first step when talking about these IBS symptoms and treatment ideas, let’s address those wrong things. Basically what you should really avoid in your diet, maybe for good but surely at least until your IBS symptoms have faded, is all prcessed food, fast food, lemonades and caffeine. Caffeine for example is known to cause diarrhea so if that is one of your problems, this might be the cause for it right there. All the rest is just plain bad for you, very unnatural and therefore causing your digestion lots of trouble and way more energy than it has to deal with it.
Also everything that is generally very fat, most dairy products, chocolate and stuff containing refined (white) sugar is bad for you for the same reasons. Especially now that your intestines are weaker than others or than they were before, you can’t really digest those things very well at all.
The right foods are a bit trickier. Basically what you want to get used to for your IBS symptoms and treatment is a low startch diet. The concept can best be explained here in this free video presentation.
Apart from that things like probiotics are great. Actually they are probably the very best thing you can have in your diet when dealing with IBS symptoms and treatment thereof. The main point of this is that in your gut the ratio of good bacteria and bad bacteria went out of order. But you need it to be in balance to be able to digest right. So the low starch diet is a perfect practice to starve the bad bacteria off and probiotics are the best way to increase the good bacteria you need again.
And no worries, you won’t need to buy those fancy and expensive probiotics-products in pharmacies, health stores or even supermarkets. You shouldn’t actually. The best, purest and also cheapest way to make them for your IBS symptoms and treatment efforts is at home! How to do that is explained here (Link to Video).
IBS Symptoms And Treatment – Why Your Doctor Couldn’t Help You And How To Fix That
November 16th, 2010 Claire 
Are you looking for information on IBS symptoms and treatment options that will actually help you get out of the pain and suffering instead of just making you feel worse, with no end in sight? Welcome to my website! You are in the right place.
Can you recall what a nice day out on the lake feels like? You get up in the morning, full of excitement and joy, everyone is running around the house and packing everything they’ll need for the day. You grab your bags, get into the car and take a drive down to the beach. You’re not worried, you’re not stressed. All you think about right now is the book you will read and the good time you will have. Did you remember taking sunscreen and glasses? Of course you did.
Not stressing yourself. Not constantly having to explain. Not always needing an excuse. Not having to always keep in mind where the next restroom is. All you want is to be able to live your life normally. Who wouldn’t.
Reality though looks different.
Your life – by the way just like the life of at least one out of 10 Americans – is ruled by your digestive system. You tried going to the doctor and have probably been through a number of unpleasant treatments and are or have been taking lots of shady drugs with horrible side effects. So let me ask you a question: did they help? Probably not. That’s why you are here right now, trying to find as much helpful information on different IBS symptoms and treatment possibilities you can get.
Would you like to learn about the most effective things you can do in your situation to become independent of these drugs, the problems they bring and – most importantly – the pain and discomfort IBS is giving you?
So, just between you and me, let me share with you the biggest secret skill you need to master if you want to finally get rid of all your digestive problems. I’m talking about.. drumroll please.. Nutrition!
Okay, you’re probably thinking this is obvious.
But let me ask you: did your doctor tell you that? When you talked about IBS symptoms and treatment like gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation and all the pills, medicines, therapies and even surgery – did your doctor tell you that your stomach disease has anything to do with the food you eat? No? Now that is a little strange, don’t you think?
Are you beginning to see why they couldn’t help you with your IBS symptoms and treatment options they gave you?
So, let’s catch up on that now then, shall we?
