"Beating IBS with the low-fodmap diet
http://www.health24.com/Diet-and-nutrition/Nutrition-basics/Beating-IBS-with-the-low-fodmap-diet-20130506Reducing or eliminating certain fodmaps from your diet (carbs found in common foods that can be difficult to digest), can improve your irritable bowel syndrome symptoms, research has found.
Fodmaps (Fermentable Oligosaccharides Disaccharides Monosaccharides And Polyols) are carbohydrates (sugars) found in many common foods. When poorly absorbed, these carbs cause symptoms of IBS. In an Australian study, 75% of IBS patients showed improvements in their symptoms on the low-fodmap diet.Chemistry of fodmaps
DietDoc recently attended a symposium organised by Nutritional Solutions in Johannesburg, which featured a presentation on "Beyond Belly Aches: The implementation of fodmaps in clinical practice" by Prof Joanne L Slavin, a professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, in the USA.
Prof Slavin firstly explained the chemical properties that characterise these carbohydrates. Probably the most relevant characteristic is that all of them get fermented in the large intestine or bowel (colon) because they are incompletely digested and absorbed in the small intestine.
These partially digested carbohydrates such as mono-, oligo- and disaccharides, as well as polyols, travel from the small intestine into the bowel where they are fermented by the resident bacteria. Various positive and negative compounds are formed during this bacterial fermentation process.
On the one hand, fermentation produces short chain fatty acids with have in recent years been identified as beneficial to health with potentially protective properties relating to prevention of gastrointestinal disorders, cancer and cardiovascular disease (Hijova & Chmelarova, 2007).
On the other, possibly more negative side, the fermentation produces considerable quantities of various gases such as hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. This is thus, the reason why patients with IBS tend to suffer bloating which increases over the course of the day until some patients complain that they look as if they are nine months pregnant by suppertime. These gases, particularly methane and hydrogen sulfide are also particularly noxious, which is another aspect of IBS that causes great distress......"
As you can see ,the article seems to cover the basic reasons why symptoms related to IBS start.The fact that 75% of IBS sufferers get relief from their problems is a good reason for you to take a closer look!Please read the rest of the article here:
http://www.health24.com/Diet-and-nutrition/Nutrition-basics/Beating-IBS-with-the-low-fodmap-diet-20130506
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