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Well, as always, I think you need to pick your guru. Heather's diet is low-fat because fat is a terrible trigger for IBS. I know there was a fad for the "Nourishing Traditions" idea where we were all supposed to eat soups made with marrow bones and I suspect that - having exhausted the public's enthusiasm for whole grain/olive oil/soy - alternative medicine gurus are now recycling those ideas. (What can I say? I'm old. Fads come, they go, they come back.) That was of eating certainly sounds yummy, but it would just kill my stomach.

Heather recommends no more than 25% of calories from fat. I don't think that's super-low. Dr. Dean Ornish, who's about as alternative as they get, would probably faint at the thought of getting that much fat.

I suggest you try following Heather's diet and see if your IBS gets better. You can get fat from a variety of sources other than the trigger foods and if you stay at or below 25% per meal/snack, I think you'll be getting plenty of fat and still be able to manage your IBS.

And I agree with Myra - I'd probably be dead if I ate what you described.

HTH.

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