Take control of IBS so
IBS doesn't take control of your life
IBS Relief, Second Edition is an extensively updated, hands-on guide to help you manage your symptoms and limit the frequency, intensity, and duration of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) episodes. Written by a doctor, a dietitian, and a psychologist, this guide gives you a multidisciplinary approach encompassing every proven strategy for managing IBS, including new drug therapies and stress management techniques.
This book won't confuse you with medical terminology—IBS is confounding enough. Instead, the book contains questionnaires, lists, diaries, stress and food tolerance tests, and other tools to help you determine the pattern of your symptoms, identify triggers, and take appropriate action. You'll learn how to manage your problem based on your specific symptoms. Approaches include:
* A three-step process for managing irritable bowel through healthy eating
* Recommended diet adjustments for the six most common IBS symptoms
* Three stress-management strategies, including specific techniques for calming the body, calming the mind, and confronting stress
* Three steps to controlling pain
This book gives you the tools, the techniques, and the information you need to make specific lifestyle and diet changes that can bring real relief.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. What Is IBS?
2. How Do I Know I Have Irritable Bowel?
3. How the Gut Works, and Sometimes Doesn't.
4. What Causes Irritable Bowel?
5. Want Relief? Start with Healthy Eating.
6. Foods and Habits That Irritate.
7. Healthy Eating Adjustments for Specific Symptoms.
8. What Is Stress, and Does It Affect Irritable Bowel?
9. Stress Management.
10. What Do I Do about the Pain?
11. Are You Ready? Making Change Happen.
12. Irritable Bowel Is Not My Only Worry.
13. Working with Your Doctor.
14. Living with Irritable Bowel.
Appendix: High-Fiber, Low-Fat Recipes.
Index.
cassie70
Posted September 16, 2009
I've suffered from IBS for four years, and I can say that this is not the best source of information I've found. I bought this book a year ago trying to figure out more about IBS, and have found better resources since then. while the book does offer useful information about dealing with stress, social situations, and emotional issues surrounding IBS, the dietary information is poor. Many of the suggested foods are actually triggers for a lot of people with IBS, such as when they suggest eating whole wheat and suggest dairy probably won't be a symptom trigger if it's low fat. For a better idea of a good diet to manage IBS, try books by Heather Van Vorous, an author who suffers from IBS herself.
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Posted August 23, 2006
Having sustained a very healthy lifestyle and a diet of fresh foods rich with fiber for a number of years, three months before my daughter's wedding, I've been struck with a round of IBS. Wearing out my shoes in search of relevant, useful info, most of what I came across included some information with lots of recipies. My search did not yield the well-rounded advice and help I was seeking. Out of desperation for relief, I searched the shelves at my local B&N and was blessed to find this very well-written gem. It's easy to read, easy to understand and most importantly, full of very sound and balanced medical information. You won't be sorry and you'll recommend it to others as I have. Do you body (and mind) a favor and buy this book!
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Posted August 3, 2010
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Overview
Take control of IBS so
IBS doesn't take control of your life
IBS Relief, Second Edition is an extensively updated, hands-on guide to help you manage your symptoms and limit the frequency, intensity, and duration of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) episodes. Written by a doctor, a dietitian, and a psychologist, this guide gives you a multidisciplinary approach encompassing every proven strategy for managing IBS, ...