You may suspect high FODMAPs foods such as beans, cabbage or other foods you are fairly sure give you more wind than usual. On the other hand you have pain after moving further from a Low Chemical Diet with minimal added strong spices or additives. IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is more complex than is generally recognised. You can see if some simple changes make a useful difference to your IBS. You have your own particular symptoms bloating, cramping pain, strong urgency, wind. You … [Read more...]

Annette wrote:-Concerning my weight I continue to lose weight since changing my diet. I excluded wheat for about 4 months but tried oats, potatoes, gluten free mixes that I made myself. But somehow my weight continued to decline. Even before stopping wheat I constantly had to monitor it. Usually in the past I monitored my weight since I am a small frame person. But  I realize how easy it is to lose weight more now than before. I have urticaria and eczema. I was also looking to get relieve for my … [Read more...]

I started experiencing unusual dizziness many years ago, but only recently after my second doze of the covid vaccine did it become serious enough (with vertigo on top of it) to beg my family doctor to help me figure out what was going on. I discovered a "thing" called "vestibular therapy" (I say this sarcastically because it was there all along, but none of my family doctors ever suggested this to me over the seven years of me complaining about dizziness). The vestibular therapist I was … [Read more...]

Not all of it! We food-sensitive people have to realize that this is what happens! Wonderful friends and relations want to cook a meal for you and are fairly sure they know what you can eat. Some are wonderful and ask “Is a little rosemary OK?” or “I don’t use much cinnamon in my cake. We don’t like it too strong ourselves.” Each food sensitive person works on their diet until they get what works for them. Small misunderstandings can occur. You may tolerate a small amount of lactose-free … [Read more...]

If you use amine charts you do not get the whole story about what you will tolerate. Remember that meats increase with storage so try to buy very fresh meat and freeze it if not being used that day. Gradually you can challenge with meats held overnight in your refrigerator. Chicken develops amines much more slowly than lamb or beef, and pork is very high unless you read the book I suggest below. Amines in fruit increase as the fruit ripens. Use your nose. Many food sensitive people can tell by … [Read more...]

If you look on the internet you will see that the kids whose behaviour and hyperactivity improve on the Feingold diet are those where there is some connection with their genes. This is great news as it recognises that the diet does work for some kids, and that where improvement happens it is connected to some factor in their family. In 2010, an FDA panel released a report based on many studies of the Feingold diet. The report found that artificial food colours, flavours, or preservatives … [Read more...]

It is hard to find ovarian cancer for diagnosis anyway but even more with IBS, and even more again with food-sensitive people with IBS. You may be someone with constipation and IBS, or have looseness all the time. Following are some notes on changes that happen, particularly as age increases:- You can have other symptoms needing attention: Frequent bladder infections with the discomfort and pain, then being on antibiotics which also change how you feel and how your gut functions. You … [Read more...]