FOOD - good, bad, how do we keep track?
There was some news this week that has made me wonder about the food we're told to eat, then told could be bad for us. I'm talking about the fish, Tilapia. The news is that the farm-raised fish we've all be snarfing down these past years is, apparently, very high in Omega-6 essential fatty acids... Read more
Ten years ago, when I first became seriously ill but didn't know what was wrong with me I felt that if I could just "find out" what I had then I could do whatever was necessary to cure myself.
After a few months of different doctors and different testing the day I'd been waiting for came, I was given a diagnosis of colitis. However, as... Read more
Even people who don't have IBD will get an upset stomach when stressed or nervous. That whole "butterflies in the stomach," and urgent need to "go" is actually pretty natural and normal. In fact, a gastroenterologist once told me that the gut is the center of the body and the gauge of our emotions. Even people without IBD or IBS, he told me, will... Read more
Last week my husband and I went on a well-earned vacation to the beach. After working for 10 straight months without more than a couple of days off we decided to do something that we don't do often enough - we did nothing. Okay, we ate, we laid on the beach, we swam in the ocean, and we walked along the shoreline, but other than that, and... Read more
New Study:
There was a new study published in the May 29, 2008 issue of Nature, a science and medicine journal, which may point researchers and pharmaceutical companies in a new direction of how to treat IBD. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School teamed up to conduct a study using mice and one of the... Read more
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