IBS-Health.com is very proud to present two new websites to further assist your battle with IBS. we have created IBS Curo and IBS Sano to tackle specific areas of IBS. We have a very clear goal, to create the largest free website to help the sufferers of IBS. We are well on the way to achieving that, however the site is growing so large that we became concerned that it will be harder to find specific material for some. In particular we have isolated the basic information for those who may be new to IBS and simply wish to find out the key guidelines. That information is on IBS Curo.
IBS Sano is totally dedicated to the low FODMAP diet. The site contains basic information about the low FODMAP diet, along with FODMAP food lists and a vast selection of low FODMAP recipes. We aim to add to the recipes every day, so there should be something there for you.
From vegan, through to gluten and dairy free, the list of recipes aims to cover every possible dietary requirement and we take a great deal of pride in ensuring that we have a well balanced variety of dishes.
For those who have yet to try the low FODMAP diet, we do recommend that you give it a try. It does not work for everyone, however it has worked for many IBS sufferers and relieves some of the troubling symptoms of IBS.
Sadly one thing that can never be questioned is an IBS sufferers knowledge of restrooms around the world. We spend far too much time in these places, which makes us true experts of the restroom.
A conversation in the office became quite competitive when we described the worst restrooms we have ever visited, with each of us 'lowering the bar'. This was not a pleasant conversation however we think we came up with a pretty good list of the very worst (click on the link to see our list). We have also included some nice restrooms to balance things up a touch!
IBS can bring anything from mild stomach discomfort, through to debilitating pain, and crippling anxiety. Very few, outside IBS sufferers really understand the nature of the condition. We have made it our mission to provide a free website, which offers IBS sufferers the chance to learn more about their condition, and to hopefully find a way forward.
IBS has huge variations in terms of symptoms, therefore aim of the website is to give sufferers the chance the find the right path for them as an individual. We look at all factors that relate to IBS and endeavour to make sure sufferers know that there are others out there who have been through this.
We have no agenda, we are entirely independent and the site is written by IBS sufferers. Our long term aim is to create the largest IBS information website, and to always keep it free. We hope that if you have IBS, or know someone with IBS that you send them our website link www.ibs-health.com
We would also just like to thank those who have already been using the site. We are absolutely thrilled with the response and are deeply grateful for the kind messages.
The following charts how I went from being the most spectacularly average student to a first class student through simple diet changes. I begin this tale with a sample report remark from my French teacher:
‘Philip generally sets himself very low targets, which he often fails to achieve’.
Kudos for that comment sir, I did not know you had it in you. I have no issue with that report, it was one of many similar comments from the time. I was regarded as a typical lazy teenage boy, clever but lazy. I had plenty of friends and by and large this contributed to the idea that I was just lazy.
I grew up with quite severe IBS, at a time when nothing was really known about IBS and nothing could be done. Diet was also a subject in its infancy so it was no surprise that when I reported that I had digestive problems to my Doctor that nothing ever really happened.
College
School came and went, and I left with grades befitting a lazy teenage boy. I’d been to an excellent school and failed to advantage. Next came real life, I worked in hotels for a few years before deciding to go back into education. I went to college and returned to my comfort zone, of average grades.
IBS was still a huge problem and my diet was pretty terrible when I look back, halfway through a course I decided I didn’t want to go on and as this fulfilled my ‘waster’ profile no one batted an eye. So having completed one average year, so that if I ever wanted to go back I could, life carried on. The IBS was still awful so I went to see the Doctor again and whilst waiting for a blood test got talking to a nurse. It is no exaggeration to say the conversation with that nurse changed my life.
Wonderful Nurse
Unlike the Doctor she had time to listen to me, and quickly realised there was a problem with my diet, I was in my early twenties by this point. The suggestions she made (cutting out wheat and dairy to start) had such a profound effect so quickly that from that point on things changed.
I went back to college, and got top grades across the board, then off to University. At uni I gained a First Class Honours Degree and did so with straight firsts in my finals. All of this happened because of a simple change of diet. My moods went, my energy arose and I started to finally live up to my potential.
Freedom
This lead to some of the greatest times of my life, it was like a butterfly leaving its cocoon, I get a big grin on my face just thinking about it. Since that time I have crammed in so much that I now feel like a very lucky guy indeed, but the crazy thing is I could have missed out on all that if it wasn’t for that nurse ‘Mrs Driver’.
I dread to think about all the stuff I’d of missed if I hadn’t made those changes. My life continues to not disappoint. Diet can be spectacularly powerful, my academic record is there as a statement of fact, without knowing about the dietary changes you would find the difference in my results as inexplicable. How does an average Mr Lazy turn into a straight A student ?
Changing diet will not have such a profound effect on everyone, I write this blog to make that point that you must not diminish it’s importance, for some a simple look at what you consume could change your life.
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