While a healthy diet includes a wide range of nourishing foods, individuals who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may experience issues with certain foods, which can lead to digestive symptoms. The specific types of foods that cause IBS are different for everyone, therefore, it isn’t possible to create a solid list of foods [...]
Do you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or ulcerative colitis (UC)? Do you also suffer from anxiety or depression? If so then you are not alone; a new study presented at Digestive Disease Week describes how depression and anxiety rates are increased in patients who suffer from IBS or ulcerative colitis. Though researchers and doctors cannot definitively say whether IBS [...]
For a long time it was believed that the causes of gastric ulcers were diet and stress. This was recently disproven with the discovery that 70-90% of stomach ulcers were in fact caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Usually the high acid content of the stomach does not allow bacteria to survive. [...]
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