Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Confused about Drs and NDs

You might find Heather's discussion Won't eating all these high carb soluble fiber foods make me fat?.

If it quite possible to have problems with wheat particularly with an indigestible component in wheat called a fructan. You can read more about in the first link in my signature on The FODMAP Approach. Usually it doesn't require elimination of wheat from the diet but rather a reduction of foods containing wheat to about the equivalent of 2 thin slices of bread a day.

As Heather says it best to avoid whole foods that contain cereal bran such as whole wheat. It has been reported in the IBS research a few times over the past 20 years that cereal bran can exacerbate IBS symptoms. Here is a link to one of the first articles that reported this problem in 1994. It has been confirmed many times since.

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