Sunday, February 12, 2012

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Expert_badge Jennifer Rackley

Jennifer Rackley

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Nutritionist

Lactose Intolerance and IBD

What does lactose intolerance have to do with Inflammatory Bowel Disease?  For those of you who don't suffer from it, maybe nothing.  However, for anyone dealing with both issues at the same time it can prove quite challenging.    Lactose intolerance is not the same thing as being allergic to milk.  Lactose intolerance... Read moreChevron
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What is meant by "pale" or "clay" colored stools?

I have light brown, sometimes yellowish brown, very loose stools and have had for a long time.  I keep reading to be concerned about "clay colored stools".  What does "clay colored" mean?  Very light brown? Reddish brown? Or gray? Or something else?   When they say "pale" stools, does that mean grayish?  or light... Read moreChevron
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Natural Foods Chef / Author / IBD Patient

Know What Triggers Your IBD Flares

For me, one of the hardest parts of living with IBD is not knowing what triggers a flare or episode. Over the years of living successfully despite having Ulcerative Colitis I've pretty much accepted the fact that I never really know why my gut "goes off," as I've come to call it. And today, is just such a day. I've been fine, no, perfect, actually... Read moreChevron
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Elizabeth Roberts

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Natural Foods Chef / Author / IBD Patient

Preservatives in Meat

Let me start this week's blog by admitting that I love pork - pork chops, pork roast, pork spare ribs, you name it if it's pork I like it. And since I haven't been able to eat beef (without big, bad repercussions) for nearly 10 years, pork helps to put some variety in my mainly chicken and fish diet. But, for the past few months I've been noticing... Read moreChevron
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Hope Trachtenberg-Fifer

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RN, Health Educator & Medical Writer; Mom of 3 Children w / IBD

When You Gotta Go, and They Tell You, "No."

So, I drive, two hours, straight, between Roanoke and Charlottesville. And, I'm feeling pretty smug and full of myself (literally), because I didn't stop even once--not to fill up my cute, little, blazing red, Jeep Liberty Sport, or to unfill my little, now bursting, middle aged bladder.   I'm proud of myself because, by not stopping, I had... Read moreChevron