Posted on 09/20/2024 7:13:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar and starch as for those who followed FODMAP—the diet currently recommended to patients.
Bodil Ohlsson is a professor. Her choice to investigate the role of sugars and starches in IBS is linked to a geneticist's discovery: a genetic variation that hinders the breakdown of sugars and starches in the gut is overrepresented among IBS patients.
A few years ago, she led a study involving 105 people with IBS. For four weeks, they ate significantly less sugar and starch, known as the starch and sucrose-reduced diet (SSRD).
The results of that study showed that the SSRD diet greatly reduced IBS symptoms. The most common symptoms of IBS are recurring pain and tightness in the abdomen, and diarrhea and/or constipation.
The current stud addresses a question that no other research has previously: How does SSRD compare to the current dietary recommendation for IBS, the FODMAP diet? FODMAP is a stricter, more regulated diet where lists of foods that are allowed/not allowed must be consistently followed. This diet also excludes gluten and lactose.
Participants in both groups had to follow the basic principles of each diet. But they chose how often or regularly they ate. In both groups, regardless of diet, IBS symptoms improved in 75%–80% of the patients, which according to Ohlsson "was even better than expected."
In addition, weight loss after four weeks was greater in the SSRD group. Sugar cravings also decreased the most in this group, which is positive, as IBS patients weigh more on average than healthy people, says Ohlsson.
"We wouldn't really even call SSRD a diet. It's how everyone should eat, not just those with IBS. And unlike Low FODMAP, SSRD is easy to understand and easier to follow," says Ohlsson.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
IBS, UBS, we all . . .
So cutting back sugar consumption is good for you.
Who would have thought?
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