The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook: The Proven Low-FODMAP Plan for Eating Well and Feeling Great

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From the leading expert in FODMAPs and IBS, this is the go-to guide and cookbookfor overcoming IBS by discovering your FODMAP sensitivities and eliminating them from your diet. Originally self-published as IBS--Free at Last!and now expanded with 50 recipes,this is the bible of the low-FODMAP lifestyle. FODMAP isan acronym for a group of difficult-to-digest carbohydrates found in wheat, milk, beans, and soy, as well as some fruits, veggies, nuts, and sweeteners ("fermentable oligo-, di-, mono-saccharides and polyols"), and this book walks you through eliminating all of them from your diet, and then adding them back in one by one to discover your unique sensitivity fingerprint. Originally developed by researchers at Monash University in Australia, the low-FODMAP diet offers relief to IBS sufferers (estimated 64 million in the US), as well as those with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and nonresponsive celiac disease. The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook offers the theory along with a step-by-step elimination program, comprehensive Q&A's, delicious recipes, and 25full-color photos.

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"[T]horoughly researched and well-thought out and executed resource for patients and practitioners alike. I know I'll reference the book the next time I work with a client needing FODMAP restriction."
Today's Dietitian

"In this book, Patsy Catsos has done an exemplary job of helping people both identify and then manage IBS.For some, this may be a miraculous shift. Thank you, Ms. Catsos, for your clear delivery, excellent organization and empathic writing style. Your book with be a blessing for many, and can also serve as a handy reference for the professional as well."
Brenda Watson, CNC, New York Timesbestselling author of The Skinny Gut Diet

"As a digestive health dietitian and IBS expert, I can attest to the low FODMAP diet as an effective nutrition solution for the majority of those who suffer with IBS. The low FODMAP diet can truly be a life changer! Patsy Catsos unravels the complexities of the low FODMAP diet for the reader providing all the details of the low FODMAP elimination and re-introduction diet in this comprehensive guide. The Q and A format that Ms. Catsos provides throughout the book will answer all the readers burning questions and more."
Kate Scarlata, RDN, New York Times Bestselling Author and IBS Expert

Dietary triggers are the most notorious provocateurs of IBS symptoms. The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook by Patsy Catsos, a leading nutritionist and FODMAP expert, is a must-have survival guide. Her delightful book is an authoritative but user-friendly resource of how to use the right food as powerful medicine for IBS.
Gerard E. Mullin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and author of The Gut Balance Revolution, The Good Gut Guide and The Inside Tract

Long a leader in IBS and low FODMAP education, Patsy Catsos dives deeper than ever before in this book, with up-to-date medical insight and real world strategies. This is aninvaluable resource for my IBS patients.
Miechelle O'Brien, MD, PhD, co-Founder TrueSelf Foods (Low-FODMAP Foods Made Easy)

Whether you're a health care professional or a consumer trying to filter through the flood of information on IBS, you definitely want to pick up a copy of The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook. Patsy does a wonderful job getting right down to exactly what you need to know to get your IBS symptoms under control with a nutritious and varied diet that is manageable and gets results. Beautifully referenced with a scientific based bibliography, you will find yourself coming back to this gem of a resource over and over!
Dr. Sheila Dean, DSc, RDN, CCN, CDE, IFMCP, Integrative & Functional Nutrition Academy, Co-Founder

Author Bio

PATSY CATSOS is a leader in the low-FODMAP diet. A nutritionist based in Portland, Maine, with a BS in nutrition from Cornell and a masters in nutrition from Boston University, she completed her internship at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and now maintains a private practice. She also speaks at conferences to other nutritionists and doctors. She was first to market with a self-published low-FODMAP book called IBS--Free at Last, which established her as the leading expert on the diet--and her book continues to be the most recommended by doctors even as other books have entered the arena.