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IBS Starter Kit ~ Learn IBS Causes, Symptoms, Triggers, & Treatments!

IBS Treatment - Starter Kit

Help for all IBS symptoms and answers to your IBS questions!

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3 Items - For All IBS Symptoms

* Eating for IBS book
  In-depth dietary help and recipes
  Addresses multiple IBS symptoms

* Tummy Fiber™ Organic Acacia
  Relieves diarrhea AND constipation
  100% acacia senegal, NOT seyal

* The First Year: IBS book   Comprehensive IBS management
  Covers all proven treatments!

Kit Description

This kit offers comprehensive and tangible help for IBS and teaches you every way possible to successfully manage your symptoms, so that you can start feeling better today. The kit includes:

Eating for IBS, by Heather Van Vorous
Diet plays a direct role in gut function, and the abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, and bloating from bowel disorders can be directly controlled through diet. This is true not just for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but also for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis, plus diverticulosis and diverticulitis. The Eating for IBS diet can make the difference between living a normal, happy, outgoing life versus spending every day stuck in the bathroom enduring pain, bowel dysfunction, and misery.

Contrary to what many believe, eating for IBS and IBD does not mean deprivation, never going to restaurants, boring food, or a limited and therefore unhealthy diet. It does mean learning to eat safely by realizing how different foods physically affect the GI tract, and how foods can help or hurt both diarrhea AND constipation, as well as abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and nausea. Foods can either prevent or trigger IBS or IBD symptoms.

For example:

* There are two kinds of fiber...one soothes the colon and regulates gut function but the other can cause severe attacks

* Dairy is a common trigger...even in people who are not lactose intolerant

* Peppermint, chamomile, and fennel can prevent pain, spasms, and bloating better than some drugs

* Bland foods are not automatically safe foods

In Eating for IBS, Heather Van Vorous, who has suffered from IBS for over 20 years and gradually learned to control her symptoms through dietary modifications, offers sympathetic information tailored specifically to the needs of IBS and IBD sufferers. She provides a comprehensive overview of IBS, explicit eating and cooking strategies, travel and restaurant advice, daily menus, supermarket ideas, and 175 delicious recipes. How delicious? Eating for IBS was a finalist for the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Health and Special Diet Award - also known as the "Julia Child" award.

IBS and IBD sufferers will be thrilled to discover that they can enjoy traditional homestyle cooking, ethnic foods, rich desserts, snacks, and party foods - and don't have to cook unusual or special meals for themselves while their families follow a "normal" diet. Eating for IBS will forever revolutionize the way people with bowel dysfunction eat - and live.

Wondering if the Eating for IBS diet really helps? Click here to see what people have to say about this book.

Tummy Fiber™ Organic Acacia Senegal
A Medical Food for the Dietary Management of IBS

* 1 lb. can (453 grams) ~ approximately 180 one-teaspoon servings
* Dietary soluble fiber; not insoluble fiber
* Certified organic by QAI ~ Kosher certified
* Has a prebiotic effect; increases good gut flora
* Has no additives, fillers, colors, or flavors
* Tasteless, odorless, colorless, grit-free
* Will not thicken on standing - No choking risk!
* 100% acacia senegal, NOT low grade acacia seyal

* Add Acacia to cup, then add liquid.
* Or, add Acacia to moist foods.

* 1 level teaspoon = 2 grams soluble fiber
* Start with a low dose and gradually increase.
* Take 1-3 times a day.

Heather's Tummy Fiber™ Acacia is a natural, pure, organic, soluble dietary fiber produced from the gum of the Acacia tree (also known as gum arabic). Acacia is a natural plant water-soluble fiber that has been harvested for millenia in Africa; its recorded dietary use dates back to the Egyptian pharaohs.

Soluble fiber supplements have a traditional and historical use for:

* Soothing and regulating the digestive tract
* Helping to prevent cramping by stabilizing intestinal contractions
* Promoting normal bowel function
* Alleviating BOTH diarrhea and constipation

Acacia soluble fiber supplement also:

* Increases good gut flora - it's considered a prebiotic, and significantly bifidogenic
* Has excellent gastrointestinal tolerance
* Slows down colonic fermentation (decreasing gas and bloating)
* Is completely safe and healthy for daily, lifelong use
* Is a traditional remedy for pregnancy/post-partum nausea & bowel dysfunction
* Is safe for use in children
* Has no gluten, sugar, salt, artificial sweeteners, citric acid, or yeast

How does soluble fiber work to prevent pain, constipation, AND diarrhea? The "soluble" in soluble fiber means that it dissolves in water (though it is not digested). This allows it to absorb excess liquid in the colon, preventing diarrhea by forming a thick gel and adding a great deal of bulk as it passes intact through the gut. This gel (as opposed to a watery liquid) also keeps the GI muscles stretched gently around a full colon, giving those muscles something to easily "grip" during peristaltic contractions, thus preventing the rapid transit time and explosive bowel movements of diarrhea as well.

By the same token, the full gel-filled colon (as opposed to a colon tightly clenched around dry, hard, impacted stools) provides the same "grip" during the muscle waves of constipation sufferers, allowing for an easier and faster transit time, and the passage of the thick wet gel also effectively relieves constipation by softening and pushing through impacted fecal matter. If you can mentally picture your colon as a tube that is squeezing through matter via regular waves of contractions, it's easy to see how a colon filled with soluble fiber gel is beneficial for both sides of the IBS coin.

As a glorious bonus, normalizing the contractions of the colon triggered by your gastrocolic reflex (from too fast or too slow speeds), prevents the violent and irregular spasms that result in the lower abdominal cramping pain that cripples so many IBS patients.

Clinical studies have also shown that Heather's Tummy Fiber™ has some special benefits, and advantages over other types of soluble fiber supplements. In the large intestine, Acacia stimulates the development of bifidobacteria and lactic acid bacteria, leading to the production of large amounts of short chain fatty acids which play numerous beneficial roles in the physiology of the human body. In addition, consumption of Heather's Tummy Fiber™ at dose levels lower than 15 grams/day caused none of the gastro-intestinal symptoms seen with other soluble fiber supplements (gas, bloating, cramps).

* This product is a medical food for the dietary management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and is intended to be used under medical supervision.

The First Year: IBS, by Heather Van Vorous
The essential guide for IBS! The First Year: IBS offers a comprehensive and sympathetic approach to managing irritable bowel syndrome (whether you're newly diagnosed or have been struggling for years). Whether you suffer from constipation, diarrhea, alternating bowel dysfunction, pain, bloating, gas, or nausea, this book gives you the information you need to take control of your symptoms today.

An easy-to-follow daily/weekly/monthly calendar structure teaches you about the physical pathology behind IBS while giving a multitude of ways to successfully live with it, with a constant focus on symptom prevention.

The research for The First Year: IBS incorporates suggestions, concerns, and personal stories from many Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers, and offers:

* in-depth diagnostic and medical information for IBS treatments, drugs, and research
* detailed information about yoga and hypnotherapy for IBS
* extensive suggestions for using supplements and herbs to prevent symptoms
* innovative and successful IBS stress management techniques
* suggestions for dealing with friends and family members
* concise and accurate IBS diet guidelines with sample recipes
* effective alternative therapies for a spastic colon, including acupuncture
* IBS support group resources
* traveling and socializing suggestions

There are also special sections throughout the book just for children with IBS and their parents. These chapters draw extensively from the author's own perspectives, experiences, and memories from childhood, and address the unique concerns that children with IBS often face.

**Customer Reviews**
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Product	Karen from cuyahoga falls, OH Purchased on 12/3/2011 Reviewed on 12/26/2011
I refer to the cook book often. Love having the fiber with drinks etc! I am nearly 60 & have dealt with IBS all my life- your products and info have been a great help . Now if I could just get my 2 kids to join me ! Thanks

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Product	Robin R. Reviewed on 10/19/2011
My Weightloss Story
Hi Heather - My life has completely changed in the past 18 months since I found your website. I was in agony with I went online, searching for help. And I immediately found it. Not knowing what to eat to stop my pain, I found a simple answer on your website – and it worked. Just eating a small bowl of plain oatmeal began to relax all of my spasms. I immediately bought both of your books and within days I’d eliminated all of the recommended foods. The biggest challenge was letting go of artificial sweeteners. I was frightened to eat sugar again. I’ve been fat all of my life despite my total devotion to whatever diet I was on. I never cheated – often for up to a year. But I never could lose more than 25 pounds. I was at my heaviest – 150 pounds over my “ideal” weight and considering surgery - so letting go of my beloved sweeteners was terrifying. Would I immediately gain 25 pounds? And what about all of the potatoes and bread? I’ve been avoiding those foods for decades? Instead, something miraculous happened. I began to lose weight. And lose, and lose and lose. Even though I went a little crazy with sugar for the first few months, I still kept losing. (And like someone working in an ice cream store, I soon lost my passion for sugar. I still have a sweet tooth, but it’s more easily satisfied with safe fruits – and a little chocolate!) I think that letting go of chemical sweeteners was the key that unlocked my ability to lose weight. I am never hungry and my portions have slowly shrunk. My eyes are bigger than my appetite now – I still don’t trust that such a small amount will satisfy me. But it does. Plus, I’m not on a diet – if I want more, I have more. As of this morning, I have lost 69 pounds – and it’s still coming off. I’m losing more slowly now, but still about 2 pounds a month. I’m not in any hurry anymore. But this is my favorite part of eating this way: if I waiver or go off my eating plan – I get sick! It’s great! I no longer have any choice but to eat this way. Talk about incentive. As I’ve lost, I’ve been able to walk again. My lower back pain from my IBS made walking almost impossible at my high weight. Now, I am able to walk my dog for up to 40 minutes, twice a day. I can’t say I’ll ever really like any form of exercise, but I can do it! And it’s a key to more weight loss. Aside from eliminating foods from my daily eating plan, switching to the special teas and using the Tummy Tamers have been great helps when I do get attacks (rarely, but they still do occur – usually because I’m eating something I shouldn’t.) All my life, I dreamed I’d find a solution to my weight. I knew it was there – I just had to find it. My dreams have come true. Thank you so much, Heather. I’m turning 55 in a few weeks, and I thought I’d be in a wheelchair by now. Instead, I have a healthy future ahead of me. Sincerely, Robin R. Laguna Woods, Ca

Product	Kathleen K. Reviewed on 7/30/2011
My IBS story
Heather, I certainly appreciate your newsletter and all your products. Living and working in community development in Peru for more three years, I have contracted a number of intestinal bacteria and parasites through my work in rural communities. I was prescribed numerous strong (broad spectrum) antibiotics to rid myself of the critters, which I believe eventually triggered my IBS symptoms. For over a year I thought I had parasites that couldn't be detected in a lab, as all my results came back negative. I had typical intestinal symptoms of gas, bloating and diarrea. I was feeling rather concerned untill I found your website, read your articles, bought your books, and started using your products. I have since changed my diet to reduce IBS triggers. I can now keep myself mostly symptom free through taking your products and watching my diet. I still have stress-related IBS symptoms at times, but at least I know what is causing them. Thank you for the good work you are doing to help people with IBS throughout the world. Kathleen PS: You may use my story if you want, as I'm sure there are other people living abroad that might have the same thing happen to them. I have already shared your website with a number of people here in Peru.

Product	Sarah Reviewed on 5/20/2011
How thankful I am for your IBS diet and products
Hi Heather! I’m not sure if this is the right place to email you, but I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am for your IBS diet and products. I’m fourteen years old, and have had IBS to some degree ever since I was six years old (after a recurrent C.diff infection). When I was eleven I got recurrent C.diff again, this time a much more resistant strain. It took over six months to get rid of the infection, and by then my colon had basically “had it”! I was in constant pain for a long time, and finally one morning I just broke down; I couldn’t take it anymore. I prayed asked God if he could please, please take the pain away, or show me something I could do or take to help it. That very night I found your website! :) Now I have both of your IBS books, I follow the IBS diet very carefully, and I take peppermint capsules and Tummy Fiber. I’m doing so much better! I only have episodes of pain or diarrhea/constipation every few days, and even then they’re very mild. Thank you thank you thank you for sharing your strategies with the world Heather – they have helped so many people so much! J Sarah M. PS – My little sister with chronic diarrhea has also found almost complete relief with your diet.

Product	Robin Reviewed on 1/16/2011
This is remarkable
So sorry to hear you too have had this deplorable problem. I too never thought that there were so many people with this same IBS. Thank you so much for your input. I tried your simple directions, and poof........ no pain, for 2 days. This is remarkable. I purchased your Starter Kit with the Acacia - can't live without it. Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I have to tell you that I never thought I would be without pain. I have had this problem since I was born, and no one knew what it was. Unfortunately, doctors don't always know what is best. Medication only hinders and masks the true problems. Just your simple information has given me a wealth of pain free days. I plan to spend lots of time enjoying your products and great recipes and valued information.

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