Product Description

Covers what Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is and why it happens. The author explains how stress, diet, your family history and even your general approach to life all play a part in IBS. For each factor, she suggests ways in which you can solve the problem or learn to live with it more easily.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163952 in Books
• Published on: 1989-06-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

Very useful
Does what it says on the tin! Helps you assess if you have IBS. Also then goes on to provide the kind of lifestyle advice your GP doesn't have time to get into. The detail on different kinds of foods and how they affect your digestive system from day to day is also invaluable, e.g. which kinds of food and drink aggravate wind, bloating... The different roles played by dietary fibre... Frank and down-to-earth.

Plenty of good advice but sometimes patronising
This is a comprehensive book about irritable bowel syndrome, its causes and remedies. As the author points out, "irritable" and "bowel" do not generally conjure up the image people would like to have of themselves, which is why it is a little-understood, but very common, condition. The book includes plenty of information on diet, relaxation and alternative medicine. There is also a chapter on stress, but this is marred by some very outdated, patronising comments, such as "If a working woman has a husband and children, she may feel additional guilt at neglecting her traditional role as home-maker" (actually we're not in the 1950s any more!) and "Have confidence that to touch someone of the same sex does not mean that you are gay, and that you can hug someone of the same sex without any sexual overtones" (those of us in the modern world know that already, thanks). Unfortunately the stress caused for a modern person reading these gems of traditionalist twaddle will possibly outweigh the many good suggestions for stress-relief in the book. But it is generally a well-written and informative guide to IBS and what can be done about it.

Quick easy read and quite informative
Which says it all really.

Recommended first read if you need to find out about IBS and have an "it's all in your mind" GP.