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Summary: The best book on IBS I have read so far.
Review: Having struggled with Irritable Bowel Syndrome since I was in high school and having just recently been officially diagnosed with IBS, I have done some research on the topic and have read 3 books on how to manage IBS. The team approach to this particular book is very effective and I especially appreciated its attention on stress management and cognitive restructuring in dealing with emotional triggers to IBS symptoms. While other books on IBS, such as Gerard Guillory's _IBS: A Doctor's Plan_ (which I also highly recommend and review on amazon.com), tend to give a more medical overview, _IBS Relief_ gives additional information which helps to "flesh out" treatment strategies. I learned many useful tips about diet and emotional triggers from Burstall, Vallis, and Turnbull. I highly recommend this book for its useful information, as well as for its reassuring tone.
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Summary: INTERESTING TOPIC
Review: I certainly do agree on some of the topics mentioned in this book. My understanding as reading this book and also attending at the time a Psycologist, is I think it narrows down yes with some foods you eat, I feel everyone is sensitive to certain foods than others, but what I found very interesting and had a hard time dealing with is to accept the fact that I had IBS. That's the first thing you have to accept. The second is STRESS, what major role that plays on the digestive system. You may not agree, but what I've learned through experience and dealing with stressful situations, yes I do believe this can play a Major Role. I was confinced that stress didn't have a role in this and that I had something wrong with me, even though all my test were coming back fine. I had to accept that I had IBS and handle stressful situations a different way. It could be things from the past, present, or the future.
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Summary: INTERESTING TOPIC
Review: I certainly do agree on some of the topics mentioned in this book. My understanding as reading this book and also attending at the time a Psycologist, is I think it narrows down yes with some foods you eat, I feel everyone is sensitive to certain foods than others, but what I found very interesting and had a hard time dealing with is to accept the fact that I had IBS. That's the first thing you have to accept. The second is STRESS, what major role that plays on the digestive system. You may not agree, but what I've learned through experience and dealing with stressful situations, yes I do believe this can play a Major Role. I was confinced that stress didn't have a role in this and that I had something wrong with me, even though all my test were coming back fine. I had to accept that I had IBS and handle stressful situations a different way. It could be things from the past, present, or the future.
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Summary: Be careful on published medical advice
Review: IBS Relief is a practical and effective guide for people trying to manage irritable bowel. I use it in my practice as a nutritionist and recommend it to all of my patients with irritable bowel. It is particularly useful because it offers a team approach to the condition. A medical doctor, a nutritionist and a psychologist teamed up to write this book based on the understanding that effective management requires a multidisciplinary approach, not just advice from one health professional.The review from the East coast (July, 1999) is misleading for people considering buying this book. IBS Relief does not recommend that people load up on insoluble fibers, it provides advice on the gradual introduction of wheat based (primarily insoluble) fiber to a level that provides a regular bowel habit for each individual. Oatmeal (primarily soluble fiber) is a food that is well tolerated by people with irritable bowel but is not very effective in regulating bowel habit. The book recommends a very gradual introduction of insoluble fibre to manage diarrhea prone irritable bowel which, from my experience, is more effective. I recommend this book to any person with irritable vowel who wants to manage their condition.
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Summary: IBS Relief -- Effective
Review: IBS Relief is a practical and effective guide for people trying to manage irritable bowel. I use it in my practice as a nutritionist and recommend it to all of my patients with irritable bowel. It is particularly useful because it offers a team approach to the condition. A medical doctor, a nutritionist and a psychologist teamed up to write this book based on the understanding that effective management requires a multidisciplinary approach, not just advice from one health professional. The review from the East coast (July, 1999) is misleading for people considering buying this book. IBS Relief does not recommend that people load up on insoluble fibers, it provides advice on the gradual introduction of wheat based (primarily insoluble) fiber to a level that provides a regular bowel habit for each individual. Oatmeal (primarily soluble fiber) is a food that is well tolerated by people with irritable bowel but is not very effective in regulating bowel habit. The book recommends a very gradual introduction of insoluble fibre to manage diarrhea prone irritable bowel which, from my experience, is more effective. I recommend this book to any person with irritable vowel who wants to manage their condition.
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Summary: Dietary advice very misleading!
Review: The doctor has told you that you're suffering from I.B.S. and the doctor said to take more fiber. What your doctor probably failed to tell you is what types of fiber are best. That is one of the strengths of this book. This book doesn't sugar-coat the issue...it tells you precisely what you are up against and specifically what has benefited others who suffer from an irritable bowel.
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Summary: Excellent Guide
Review: This is an excellent guide, giving many details of symptoms, causes, diet change needs,trigger foods, and stress reduction. I refer to it frequently. It has no gender bias that women are the major sufferers of IBS.
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Summary: Be careful on published medical advice
Review: This is one of many books being published that explain and propose cures for IBS. All the books I have read prior to this one were heavy on dietary precautions but not as concerned with the so-called psychological aspects of IBS. As a psychologist myself, I have noted the growing tendency, when physicians don't know what causes a disease, to quickly dismiss it as psychological. As a sufferer of IBS (started after I took an antibiotic), I wasn't content with being told that it was entirely or partly in my head, and I got relief from most symptoms by visiting a nutritional doctor (not a nutritionist) who tested me for food allergies using an IGG blood test. Once eliminating the foods I was sensitive to, my IBS improved dramatically to the point where I do not need medication. Nor am I affected by stressful situations as I was prior to watching what I ate. My biggest concern with this book was the advice on loading up on wheat fiber. If you research gastric diseases, IBS is very similar to celiac sprue, which is caused by extreme allergy to wheat. I found this misguided, because I don't doubt that some cases of IBS are celiac sprue -- just not diagnosed because traditional physicians believe it only occurs in infants. Our digestion is being assaulted by processed foods, junk food, pollutants in our drinking water, disease spread by unsanitary food services, and even plastic and styrofoam chemicals leeching into the liquids we drink. Like me, if you are a sufferer from IBS or any "new" disease, you may be getting frustrated by publications that claim cures, including psychoanalytic cures, rather than revealing the reasons or sources of disease. This book just doesn't cut it if you are a person interested in answers, and I do worry about the cure proposed here. If you want to study up on gastrology, getting more info that you can use to search for your own cure, don't neglect the information on digestion and the stomach's nervous system in The Second Brain by Gershon. There are plenty of books on Food Allergies also on amazon.com -- a number are good sources for all sorts of symptoms, not just IBS.
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