Not being a Medscape Member, I can't read that article unfortunately.
Thanks for all your informative answers to my oft-silly questions.
I very rarely eat pasta, but bread is a staple, so would not be very happy if I had to forgo that. Don't want to bore you or any other person on this message board, but my main motivation for trying out this diet is the following. I'm in my mid-twenties and have had IBS-C for 3 years and it has become a lot better over the years, esp as I don't ever eat IF on its own anymore, the worst offender in my case, experience tells me.
The constipation is usually not overly bad, my IBS these days is characterised by irregularity and bloating. I don't actually mind the former that much (esp since I eat very frequently and small amounts so won't be having the kind of bowel movements that normal people have, normal people eat say 3 times per day, I eat 8 times per day. sorry for the explicit detail but pre-IBS with that I did have (back then) perfect bowel movements 3 times a day as opposed to normal people who only go once I imagine).
Anyway the greater evil is bloating/gas, which can be inordinately annoying and I have always been prone to bloating even prior to IBS sometimes! A third problem is the weight issue, I am a girl, mid-twenties and pre-IBS used to have an amazing body (without bragging). Now when I have constipation, since I am quite slim by nature, if there is constipation I can practically see the fat on me immediately, with food retained and my digestion blocked as it were. Maybe I am vain, but this is bothering me intensely as well and I am longing to be as slim as I used to be. As I said it would also be heavenly to get rid of the bloating. That is why I am vowing to strictly enforce this recommended diet, esp when I'm back in the UK and will be entirely cooking for myself again (in mainland Europe now, back with family for the summer). Now I can without problem live with this diet (cutting out bread would be painful however, I'm sure it does not have an adverse effect on my IBS constipation-wise, but since I have the bloating all the time, I can't be sure whether bread causes/contributes to the bloating??), but my other main concern is those cell salts that I'm taking which do contain lactose, even if tiny doses of it. That should go then as well, right? oh sigh, they are for all sorts of problems and help me a lot.
Last question, you say you are stable, that means you don't have any digestive problems as long as you abide by the rules? (which for me sounds ideal, for not having any digestive problems I would give anything in the world. but those cell salt tablets and the 250 mg of lactose in them is not good news, is it?)
thanks for your thoughts in advance, have another question which I shall post in a separate thread 
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Susie, born in 1985,
(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable
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