Inflammatory Bowel Disease Diet
So, you have Inflammatory
Bowel Disease and were wondering if there is an inflammatory bowel disease
diet. Your doctors have probably told you there isn’t an inflammatory bowel
disease diet and as a matter of fact, they probably said diet has nothing to do
with your condition. But, you know better, don’t you?…and so do I. Stay tuned
and I’ll describe how to determine YOUR inflammatory bowel disease diet.
There is no one specific
inflammatory bowel disease diet that would work for everyone, but I can provide
the plan for you to determine what is safe and not safe to eat. Certain foods
are pro-inflammatory meaning some
foods will promote the inflammatory process in your body. We can in general
learn about known foods that are probably pro inflammatory for everyone and
then we can also test you to learn what foods are pro inflammatory specifically
for you.
First, I assume that anyone who has a chronic health condition
probably knows it’s best to control your diet by making most of your food
yourself and trying to eat “whole” foods. That means fresh food. Fresh meats,
chicken, fish. Fresh vegetables and fruit and limited, but certainly fresh
grains, rice and potatoes. I’m not trying to give you a complete list, just an
idea of what whole fresh foods are.
There are two food groups that are known to
be pro-inflammatory: dairy products and gluten containing foods. Avoid them
100%. Stay away from all the milks, cheese and ice cream. Avoid sour cream,
cottage cheese, cream cheese and also yogurt. If a product has an ingredient
list on its package, read it and look for the words milk, cheese, lactose, whey
and casein. When you go out to eat, ask lots of stupid questions about what’s
in the food you’re ordering. Do the same for gluten containing foods, avoid
anything made from or containing wheat, oats, barley and rye. This advice is
the foundation of everyone’s inflammatory bowel disease diet.
But now let’s get
specific for you. We have available to you by calling my office a food allergy
test. This is a test for 88 foods that when consumed, cross over into your
blood stream, triggering antibodies you have created to that food that then
generate chemistry that promotes the inflammatory process in your body.
It is
this test that solves the riddle many very intelligent and informed people have
as to why they can’t determine what foods are causing their symptoms. You can
eat something on Tuesday for lunch and not have symptoms till Friday after
dinner…and that symptom is the creation of the inflammatory process, which you
cannot feel happening. Other symptoms may also occur, but the inflammatory
process…building up over time…is the one that is behind your condition.
Read
more about the test I recommend by visiting DrDahlman.com, clicking on “Conditions”
in the upper right side of the page and then click on “Lab Tests”. Any
inflammatory condition can be conquered by reading my free 35 page report about
Crohn’s and Colitis, available for download from any page on my website. Don’t
suffer from any Inflammatory Bowel condition. Take control with a plan that
makes sense.
