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IBS - Food Diary's

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IBS - Food intolerances   Iv not blogged for a while, mainly because my IBS has not been that great.  I can't get my normal medication as there's a problem with the manufacturer.  The substitute they gave me isn't working.  I am limited in what I can take, since my form of IBS means I'm really intolerant too Dairy products.  I didn't discover till last year that most pills are bulked out with lactose.  I never imagined there would be enough to set of my IBS, unfortunately there was. Why keep a food diary? -   Iv had IBS for nearly 20 years now, I didn't know what was wrong.  All I could tell the Doctor was that something wasn't right.  Id never heard of IBS before, the only reason I know I'm intolerant to Dairy and dairy products was by keeping a food diary. Now 20 years on it's still the best method I know for working out which foods set of your IBS.  Ever one is different, sometimes its one food group or some foods eaten tog

IBS: - Sugar versus Artificial Sweetener

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Wikipedia: Sugar Sugar   is the generalised name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.  Sugars are found in the tissues of most plants but are only present in sufficient concentrations for efficient extraction in sugarcane and sugar beet . Sugar substitute   A sugar substitute   is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste , usually with less food energy . Some sugar substitutes are natural and some are synthetic. Those that are not natural are, in general, called Artificial Sweeteners Irritable Bowl Syndrome -IBS  Since my IBS and food intolerance's have progressively gotten worse Iv been forced to not only think about what I eat, but look at what's in it and how it was made.  It's been a strange and often mind boggling journey into food.  I ignore logic and never assume that ingredients I am intolerant too have not been added to the food.  I still can not understand why milk powde