Low-carb diet may remedy bowel illnesses

[Mazen]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/24647

A low-carbohydrate diet developed by a Christchurch researcher is set to help bowel disease sufferers across New Zealand.

Dr Richard Gearry, senior lecturer at Otago University's Christchurch School of Medicine, has found a low-carbohydrate diet can quickly ease the suffering of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

In a study of 100 patients at Box Hill Hospital in Victoria, Australia, Gearry found the diet was effective in more than half of those with IBD – an umbrella term for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

"Doctors have known for a long time that patients know what affects their condition and causes symptoms," he said.

"Dietitians and doctors and scientists looked at this more closely and identified a number of foods that can cause abdominal pain and diarrhoea."

The diet involves cutting back on wheat, onions, milk, icecream, apples, honey and stone fruits. Legumes were also found to cause pain.

"Often they are sugars and carbohydrates that are not absorbed when they pass through the bowel and when they get into the colon they can ferment and produce gas and pain," Gearry said.

 

[BWS1982]

Stone fruits?

 

[imisspopcorn]

Stone fruits?

You've never heard of fruits that get you stoned?..It's the fruit that grows on cannabis bushes. Just kidding Bens....
Any fruit with a pit...Apricots , peaches.....Not the kind that break your teeth.

 

[pewpewlasers]

It was originally thought that I had celiac disease because as soon as I cut out all the gluten, my symptoms went away. I had several flare ups within the diet though. I was pretty sure that it was just something I ate and I would have to put up with being sick for a week.
Lately, since this whole Crohn's thing has been floating around, I've decided to test out what I can and can't eat.
I've had a few non-gluten things here and there and everything seems to be fine.
I think for me, that it really depends on how my insides feel that day. One day a salad can be fine and then then next it makes me sick for a week.

When my Mom was diagnosed with Celiac and it was recommended that I try the gluten free diet to see if I had it too, I was so excited when I felt better.
It took about a month, but I saw improvement. When I got sick, I would just blame it on something I ate, but now I'm not really sure.

I don't doubt that a low-carb diet helps. The only problem is that at least for me, I can be fine with something one day and not okay with it the next.