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Nutrition for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Dietary Principles:
* Elimination/rotation diet
* Correct any obvious nutritional deficiencies.
* Make sure you're taking in at least 1,500 calories per day.
* Be careful with food combinations: Especially avoid starch, sugar, and protein combinations (i.e. cheesecake). Avoid eating too many types of foods at one time, stick to one starch per meal, and eat more steamed than raw vegetables.
* Short fasts are recommended, as are alkaline juice fasts.
* Maintain a high complex carbohydrate, high fiber diet.
* Eat all foods slowly, chew at least 28 times, and salivate well. Most important, eat in a relaxed atmosphere.
Sample Diet:
Acute Phase (1 to 3 weeks)
BREAKFAST: Whole brown rice cereal (Cook 3 to 4 Tbsp. rice flour with 2 cups of water, stirring constantly over heat), 2 tsp. olive or corn oil
MORNING SNACK: Raw grated apple, applesauce, or baked apples (sour or semi-sour only)
LUNCH: Vegetable soup made from celery, parsley, zucchini, squash, pumpkins, carrots, potatoes (blended and strained); steamed carrots and squash, rice or millet or barley or potato, 2 tsp. olive or corn oil
AFTERNOON SNACK: Same as morning
DINNER: Same as lunch
As Improvement Occurs:
BREAKFAST: Oatmeal 3 x week; add soft boiled egg during one meal, 3 x week
SNACKS: Add almonds (raw and blanched) with apples
LUNCH and DINNER: If you can tolerate dairy products, add yogurt (preferably goat), green beans, waxed beans, lettuce, cucumbers, green onions, parsley, celery, garlic, lentils, peaches, apricots, watermelon, grapefruit, grapes, ripe bananas, and goat whey
SUPPLEMENTS: Liquid chlorophyll, alfalfa tabs, chlorella, calming herb teas: lemon balm, chamomile, fennel, peppermint
After stabilization:
Vegetarian Sample Diet
Cruciferous vegetables to be eaten only with carminatives (fennel, caraway, cumin, anise, dill)
Therapeutic Foods:
Potato broth, cooked carrots, okra, steamed and mashed parsnips, squash, pumpkin, figs and flaxseed tea, steamed zucchini and squash, papaya, grated raw apple, applesauce, ripe peaches without skin, bananas, rice porridge, miso soup, slippery elm gruel, psyllium seed powder, flaxseed powder, vegetables, nuts, cold water fish, evening primrose oil, black currant oil, flaxseed oil, pectin, guar gum, oat bran, and legumes
Fresh Juices: (Try each one until you find a juice that benefits you.)
Carrot and apple Carrot and spinach Carrot, beet, and cucumber Papaya Raw cabbage Celery juice and apple
Foods to Avoid:
Any food that produces a sensitivity or intolerance, hot sauces, spicy, fried, fatty, salty, and refined or processed foods; artichokes, grape skins and seeds, wheat, corn, dairy products, carrageenan-containing foods, peanuts, meat, soybeans, oranges, most legumes, sugar and sweets, coffee, teas and colas containing caffeine, and alcohol
Specific Supplements:
Folic acid - 40 to 60 mg. a day (with diarrhea)
Peppermint oil - 3 to 6 caps (0.2 ml/cap) a day
Liquid chlorophyll - Take as directed.
Alfalfa tabs - Take as directed.
Chlorella - Take as directed.
Vitamin A - 50,000 I.U. a day
Chelated Zinc - 60 mg. a day
Vitamin C (buffered) - 3 grams a day
Flaxseed oil - 2 Tbsp. a day
Vitamin E - 400 I.U. a day |
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