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FODMAPS or Low Chemical Diet: which helps gut symptoms?

April 18, 2022 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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...]

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Keeping your low weight up

March 24, 2022 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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Terra wrote about vestibular symptoms

February 5, 2022 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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...]

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When invited to tea you still do cooking

January 8, 2022 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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...]

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Hidden amines in foods

December 18, 2021 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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The Feingold Diet – a 2021 update

November 23, 2021 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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...]

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Why ovarian cancer can be missed in IBS patients

October 24, 2021 by Joan Breakey   Blog

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...]

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Joan Breakey

Joan Breakey is the author of foodintolerancepro.com.  She is one of the few dietitians in the world who has a lifetime of specialisation in the area of Food Sensitivity. She is a  Dietitian, Home Economist and Teacher. In 1975 she began her first work on Diet and Hyperactivity, investigating the effects of the Feingold diet on children’s behaviour. For more than 45 years Joan has been writing books and articles, publishing and presenting the results of her ongoing research in this area.

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