I found my colleague, Jennifer Rackley's Sharpost about Cruciferous veggies and the gut - http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/c/70966/149211/healthy-vegetables/?ic=4027 - a very important post and wanted to expand on it a bit.
First, know that there are now two names for this family of vegetables -cruciferous is... Read more
When I tell people that I am eating gluten-, grain-, sugar-, and dairy-free first they look at me like I'm crazy. Then they ask me what I can eat.
If you're a regular reader of my blog then you know I've been eating according to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for the past 5 months. The first month or two were hard - cutting back on... Read more
If you have Inflammatory Bowel Disease then you know that the more you can do to keep your body healthy the better off your disease control can be. In the past years a new acronym - BPA - has come into wide use and I thought it would be a good idea to discuss just what this is.
BPA stands for bisphenol A. Bisphenol A is a chemical... Read more
Since receiving my certification as a Natural Foods Chef in August I have a lot of people asking me why everything is gluten-free all of a sudden and should they be eating gluten-free themselves.
This isn't so easy or straightforward a question to answer, but I'll do my best.
First we need to know what gluten is. Gluten is a... Read more
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/26/us-antibiotic-crohns-idUSTRE78P4Z320110926
This is a must read article if you have IBD and have taken antibiotics in the past. While antibiotics can be helpful, even life saving in the right circumstances, they can also be devastasting to the good/bad bacterial flora balance we have and need in... Read more
