Elimination Diet for IBS-related Diarrhea and other Chronic Conditions

“From a preventive perspective, providing stress management training at the point of diagnosis, or from a high-risk perspective, fast tracking patients who report high and enduring stress levels for timely stress interventions may be as important an adjunct to IBD therapy as the medication regimens that are currently used to treat the active symptoms.”

http://tinyurl.com/32po99w

Celiac disease awareness is growing, but misinformation still abounds.

Here are 15 celiac disease facts every doctor, patient and member of the public should know:

 http://tiny.cc/3bt7y

“Increasing evidence showing that the prevalence of IBS-like symptoms is very high in patients with GERD and vice versa…”

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/184286.php

“Identical twins may share appearances, mannerisms, even clothes — but the microbes living in their guts are anything but the same. By comprehensively sequencing microbial genes in the gut, researchers have found that communities of bacteria in adult identical twins differ dramatically…”

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57759/title/Identical_twins_may_not_be_so_identical_when_it_comes__to_gut_bacteria

Biofeedback training can have long-lasting benefits in people who suffer from chronic constipation due to a condition called “dyssynergic defecation,” new research indicates. This type of chronic constipation has only been recognized for the past 15 years and affects more than 10 million Americans (twice as many women as men). Read more here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6243TD20100305.

Many common digestive conditions can be treated effectively and more safely by identifying and eliminating inflammatory triggers from diet.

Rising Rx trend in kids, adults and seniors alike: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/178359.php.

This trend could reverse if practitioners and patients looked to food first.

Excellent contribution shedding light on a complicated topic at NY Times Consults blog by Dr. Sheila Crowe.  Read it here: http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/confirming-a-diagnosis-of-celiac-disease/

“…Studies show that 3 million Americans, or 1 in every 133 people, have celiac disease. But 95 percent of them have yet to learn they have it, according to the National Institutes of Health.

“The entire disease and all of its manifestations are incredibly underdiagnosed,” said Dr. Charles Bongiorno, the chief of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. “Patients often have it for a decade or two before they are diagnosed…”

Read the full article at:

http://health.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-celiac-ess.html?ref=health

This cannot be happening again, Hayden Newell thought as the angry, red, ferociously itchy welts encircled his waist and spread up his arms. The 57-year-old metallurgist from tiny Boones Mill, Va., who was attending a business lunch in Florida, knew what would probably happen next…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902874.html

“More than 150 representatives of industry, government, academia and the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they encounter in daily life…”   EWG.org

http://www.ewg.org/kid-safe-chemicals-act-blog/2009/10/ewg-conference-finds-broad-consensus-on-toxic-chemicals-reform/