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Summary: A guide for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Review: People with IBS will benefit heavily from this book. This could be their bible for IBS. Especially the section where the author tells you what you can eat when you cannot eat anything. If you have severe pain and diarrhea then a diet consisting refined starch and pureed vegetables may work wonders for you. Eating fibre rich food will help you if you have constipation. This book will give a lot of information for the normal person also.
By giving up my coffee habit I realized having that wired up feeling all day clouded my concentration. Did you know one cup of joe raises your blood pressure by 14%! Fortunately for me I was able to find a wonderful tasting replacement made from soyabeans. You brew like coffee and it even helps lower my cholesterol. I found it online at www.S o y c o f f e e.c o m. Gaining this understanding will effect every move you make from this point on and will bring with it the necessity to share it.
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Summary: The First Year-IBS(Irritable Bowel Syndrome) : An Essential
Review: Reading this book has given me my life back. Heather, having suffered from IBS herself, for most of her life, has tremendous credibility. The book is written in a very friendly manner, not like similiar books written by doctors. What she gave me were some ideas to change my diet. Her explaination of "trigger" foods was a major revelation. Her advice to emphasize certain foods and eat them in a certain order has been like opening all the windows and letting in the light. I recommend this book!
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Summary: A great book!
Review: Several years ago I read Eating for IBS by Heather Van Vorous. That book confirmed many discoveries I had made regarding the treatment of my IBS. After a recent flair up of my IBS I was very discouraged. Heather's new book, The First Year IBS, has given me renewed motivation, encouragement, and helpful suggestions for controlling my IBS symptoms. It's a wonderful book!
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Summary: The best-researched, best-written book on IBS. All you need!
Review: Thank you to Heather Van Vorous for writing the best book on IBS that I have ever read, in more than 20 years of living with IBS. This book puts everything about IBS into perspective, with medical research, clinical studies, and personal stories to back things up. I have heard tons of confusing advice from my doctors about nutrition and the best diet for IBS, but this book solved the mysteries. And it also covered everything I needed to know about stress management, medications, supplements, alternative therapies, support groups for IBS, dealing with family, and more. The information the most accurate I've ever seen but the style and tone is very friendly and down-to-earth. It feels like the author has pulled up a chair in my kitchen and is talking to me. It's weird, but after reading this book I feel like I know her, and like she's a friend I've never met. The best thing about this book was that it covers all the ways of dealing with IBS, so you can pick and choose the ones that work best for you. I am now back into a normal social life, I'm off my deprivation diet, and I can join my friends and family in eating healthy, normal, delicious meals. Thank you so much. I have several family members with IBS, and they have been very frustrated by the lack of useful information out there or by the inaccurate information that they receive from both their physicians and other books. I'll say it again - this book is the best and most accurate resource I have ever found, and I have enjoyed reading it over and over again.
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Summary: The First Year of IBS
Review: This book actually has a section called "What to eat when you can't eat anything" - for someone without IBS that sounds stupid - for someone with IBS it can bring tears to your eyes because you can be there everyday. You are hungry, you don't feel good, all you want to do is eat something - anything - and not get diarrhea and stomach cramps. The list provided in this book is only the start of a fantastic new journey toward being able to eat. It's so fantastic. Almost like being able to walk again!! And, that is just the beginning. The book is very easy to understand, very sensitive to your situation (unlike any doctor you've seen, humm!) and it gives you knowledge that WILL make your days more normal - identifies the triggers (foods) that activate the ibs and helps you work around them. Forget the doctors and the tests and the medicines - this book is all you need (well, along with EATING FOR IBS). I've had it for four weeks and for four weeks I've been able to figure out what to eat at a restaurant and be able to get on the back of a motorcycle and go on a long trip without fear! Try that with ibs! Thank God for Heather and the fact she has found an answer and shared it with so many of us. If the book cost a thousand dollars, it would be worth it! Get it, read it, your life WILL change. You CANNOT eat like everyone else, this books shows you how to eat for you......
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Summary: Need more facts....not sugar pill remedies
Review: This book does a good job of putting us all at ease that by letting us know we are not alone and that IBS can be controlled with diet. The advice about changing diet is good but too extreme. Most people will not need to go to the extreme diet elimination that the author suggests. Unfortuntately, the advice on medications and dietary supplements is based for the most part on annectodal experience rather than scientific evidence. While the author has her IBS under control...most people will be able to get their IBS under control with a less drastic measures ie. elminating alcohol, soft drinks, high fat foods and dairy. It is unlikely that most people will need to follow the authors footsteps and take peppermint tea 4 times a day, high dose calcium three times a day, and metamucil 3 times a day to become regular. In fact many of these unproven nutritional supplemnts can have adverse long term health effects and should only be tried with medical supervision
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Summary: Positive Results
Review: This book has given my son his life back (and mine). We have gone through numerous doctor visits and testing, but only this book has provided us with the much needed guidance and knowledge. My son was 12 years old when diagnosed with IBS. He was tried on different prescription medications, but Heather's suggestion of peppermint oil was not only more effective, but is also a nature based product.Truly what has been the best advice is to start off the day with a soluble fiber and eat these foods as much as possible. My son is now regaining weight and his energy level has increased.I am a nurse and was skeptical at first that I could find the answers from this book and not from his physicians. However,this book and Eating for IBS, also by Heather, have become my bibles.
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Summary: Great information on IBS
Review: This book has so much helpful information on IBS
After two years of tests, surgery and five trips to Emergency Department for severe abdominal spasms I found more information in this book than I did from the all the medical staff I came in contact with. This book is truly a lifesaver for people with IBS
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Summary: Seek Out a Correct Diagnosis
Review: This book is a real godsend for anyone suffering from IBS, in addition to Heather Van Vorous's other book, Eating for IBS, which has fantastic recipes. I had IBS-like symptoms for several years, and recently suffered a severe bout with it. While waiting to see a gastroenterologist I discovered Heather's book at my local library and decided to give the dietary guidelines outlined in the book a try. At this point, my condition was worsening and I had nothing to lose. Was I surprised to find that after only a few days of changing my eating habits by eating more soluble fiber I noticed a significant improvement. I felt considerably better, had more energy, and was able to freely go places I was afraid to go before. I felt like I was getting my life back. In addition to the wonderful dietary information, the book is also well documented and researched. It is very easy to read and understand, and the chapters are broken down into manageable segments on different aspects of coping with IBS. The author also stresses getting a correct diagnosis before assuming one has IBS. Due to this encouragement, I went ahead and had blood work and a colonoscopy, and was very surprised to learn I did not have IBS after all, but a condtion called celiac sprue which is a gluten intolerance. Even though I did not have IBS, the information in this book did help initially to improve my condition, and I am still following certain aspects of it (ie. soluble fiber) with the exception of wheat. I would encourage everyone out there who thinks they have IBS, but have not been tested yet to seek out a diagnosis. Don't assume as I had for years that you have IBS without eliminating the possibilities of other conditions.
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Summary: Easy and Understandable
Review: This book is easy to read and understand.
I also read the authors last book and this is equally as good.
The structure of the book was unusual but enjoyable. Walking the reader through the first year in a reassuring and open and fair way.
I also liked the way the author investigated alternative methods of coping with IBS, I enjoyed all the chapters, chapter 7, was I found one of the most informative, with easy to understand explanations and language which for me at least was worth the price of the book in itself.
Over all a good, all round, easy to understand book with lots of information. Thank you, the suggestions will help me, I'm sure.
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