rebecca/update

I consider "diets" as starting points, and we need to tailor them to our own needs. I dislike the notion of a "rule book" to follow of good and bad foods. Since we are individuals, we will have individual tolerances. Best to relax restrictions to your own tolerance levels (in order to maximize your variety and nutrition), and restrict foods that specifically are troublesome to you. I think the most difficult (and frustrating) thing, is the fact that tolerances can change in the same person. Plus, I imagine food combinations may play a role in tolerances...

So, I shoot for an overall feeling of health and wellbeing, rather than a specific bowel function. It has worked pretty well for me. Too well, since I have a hard time keeping weight off! However, I have not struggled with chronic pouchitis or SIBO, just occasional symptoms. Just shows that we are all different.

As for the Imodium; you can safely take much more than 8 per day, but studies failed to show any further benefit after that amount. The more you take, the more you risk side effects (like drowsiness or obstruction).

Jan

Check out the university of mass IBD diet
It is very similar to what I eat and so far I'm doing good on it. Based on SCD with new additions

UMASSMED.EDU

will check it out..always interested in tweaking ...

Here is the direct link to the article on the UMass Medical School IBD diet (there is a link in the article to the study that was done):

http://www.umassmed.edu/news/n...atory-bowel-disease/

barrister,allykat.. yeh more good news on diet..with u.of mass..ibd-aid can either of you gee me a rundown on the additions to scd..in searching have not found lists as i have had in dcd book..i understand oats are allowed..does that mean like oatmeal?or is there a gluten free one..

i and others who are sure diet is the way to avoid or cut down on our drug use could use a better detailed description of what one can or cannot have as different from scd..

is there a way of getting it from umass?

would appreciate more ibd-aid details..

would be lovely if there was possibility of adding some things to diet like oatmeal..

thanks
rebe

Here is the itemized recipe list for the IBD-AID diet developed by UMass Medical School. The grains are gluten-free:

http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=148562

thank you...barrister have you tried umass yet added on to scd? have to admit i am a little hesitant as i am doing fairly well..no antibiotics..i would love to cut down how often i go but not sure add ons will get me that..i will need also to better understand why those gluten free grains for example do not feed bad bacteria..advantage i suppose is increasing what one can eat..so one could of course add one at a time to see but need to review it first ...possibly since scd they have been better able to differentiate between offending carbs?is that the idea?

maybe i will try to speak to someone at umass to get better understanding...

most importantly is clearly good things are happening with diet not drugs being able to control pouchitis and sibo..this is a big breakthrough and maybe the best news we could hope for..its not as easy as popping a pill but so much better if we can do it in this natural way..

I don't know or really understand the thinking behind the diet. Some of the breads they allow, like the banana bread, are made with almond flour and honey, while others like the corn bread are made with white flour and sugar. I do not have a degree in the culinary arts and sciences and therefore cannot answer the question of why all the breads are not made with almond or some other nut flour. It seems to me that white flour and sugar are unnecessary ingredients in some of the recipes, but there may be reasons for them having to do with culinary science and baking of the bread. I really do not know. These are good questions for UMass.

I have not tried the UMass diet, because what I am doing right now is working. I am basically on a diet with no processed carbs and sugar free and also taking a hi potency probiotic with every meal and it is working. I am off antibiotics for 2 weeks now.

http://www.nutritionj.com/cont...f/1475-2891-13-5.pdf

Has anyone more experience with this diet? What about tea/coffee?
Its looks a lot of work, but antibiotics are not working so well anymore.. no grains except oats.
good to see some research into dietary options

winter wish,

The article you have posted is about the UMass diet which is discussed above in this thread and in other threads. The banana bread recipe and other recipes I mentioned are all from this diet. The questions I raised in this thread are in relation to this diet and the recipes posted on the UMass website. Not sure if you read the rest of this thread, but this is what we have been talking about.

If you cull through the recipes carefully you will see that there is not so much continuity as far as cooking breads go.....and I am not sure why. I have experimented with the banana bread recipe using different gluten free flours, but the almond flour is substantially lower in carbs than oat or sorghum flours are. We are talking more than half the carbs.

CT Barrister: If I am understanding you correctly, you were wondering why some of the recipes would include wheat flour and grains etc. My reading of this site is that the IBD Anti Inflammatory Diet (IBD AID) recipes are found only in the IBD section of the website. The other RECIPE section is for just regular 'healthy eating'.
I had some communication with one of the authors who told me that bean flours, almond flours and coconut flours are ok as well as oats. This is my understanding anyway.