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For years I knew that eating white bread and jacket potatoes caused me problems; I would have severe bloating, wind, diarrhoea and stomach cramps. I guessed that starch was the problem rather than wheat, as there is no wheat in potatoes. I managed this problem by only eating brown (wholemeal) bread, and avoiding jacket potatoes. Over the years though the bloating had got worse, until one day I decided to cut wheat and starch out of my diet. The difference was amazing!! Within one day I felt so much better, no bloating or diarrhoea, and I felt much more alert than normalJ My tummy was the flattest it had ever been, and my bowel movements returned to normal. While researching starch on the internet, I came across your book, and ordered a copy straight away.
Wow, it was like an epiphany!!! I suddenly realised I wasn’t alone, and that I may be suffering from AS. I plan to have a blood test next time I see my doctor, but for years have been troubled with a bad back, and muscles tightening up for no reason. My sister suffers from severe IBS, and at one point was diagnosed with fibromyalgia . Since cutting out wheat, starch and diary products, she has not only controlled her IBS, but her aches and pains have disappeared! My mother also suffers from painful joints, and once I have finished your book, I will be passing it on to her!
Your explanation about the effect starch has on us makes so much sense; I’m surprised no one has come up with it before!! As a fellow sufferer I want to thank you for writing this book, and persuading me that I am not a hypochondriac!! I am only half way through the book (after receiving it today!), and I just can’t put it down.
As an insulin dependant diabetic (since the age of 5; I had a bad case of flu just before I was diagnosed, leading me to think an auto-immune issue was the cause) I have always been told that starchy carbohydrates were best for me. Thanks to you I now realise this is not the case. I had also found that following a ‘healthy’ diet caused me to gain weight, contrary to popular belief. Although I have only been on a low starch diet for just under a week, I can understand by cutting out starch that I should loose weight, and this is an added bonus!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us! You are truly a wonderful person!!! (I’m not normally this gushing towards strangers, but feel you have changed my life for the better. |
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Carol Sinclair’s
new book The IBS Low-Starch Diet
has opened a new world of opportunities for sufferers
of IBS. In this section you will find reviews of the book
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Reviewer: A customer from Wellington,
New Zealand is a sufferer of Ankylosing Spondylitis.
"I had been following with some success a hunter-gatherer/caveman
diet for the last two years. Results included getting
my weight down close to my ideal weight (within 1kg
by BMI) and a reduction in the peaks of arthritic pain
in the back and associated joints.
However, it wasn't until reading Carol Sinclair's book
that I began to realise how much of the 'bad carbs'
had still been getting through, and causing unexpected
and painful flare ups. Sinclair identifies with her
readers in a way only a fellow sufferer can. Her plain
sense approach to the issue is refreshing in an area
frequently bogged down by experts touting their own
carpetbagging medicine. Recipes are simple and perhaps
a little less gourmet than one might want, but they
are there to be improved upon, and have been by this
reader.
I would recommend this book to anyone with a chronic
condition like rheumatoid arthritis, IBS etc. Learn
the problems that starch has for your body, and take
up where 2.5 million years of evolution left us before
10,000 years of agriculture took its toll."
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Reviewer: A customer from Brisbane,
Australia.
My wife literally tripped over this book in a bookstore.
As avid bookreaders we both read the beginning of the
book in absolute amazement, as the story could have
been hers (my wifes) , not the authors'.
In clear, concise language this author has unveilled
what medical science was unable to do for far too many
years. It explains what the problem is, what causes
it, what effects it has on the human body, what the
symptoms are, and why the myriad symptoms are regularly
mis-diagnosed by the medical profession.
By following the changes in this book, my wife was restored
to good health after more than a decade of pain, discomfort
and lethargy. I also benefitted through weightloss and
generally better health.
Buy this book. I do not have any reservations in reccomending
it to you wholeheartedly. Buy this book!!
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Reviewer: Miri from The North, England.
Buy this book. I tend to be over-elaborate and unnecessarily
loquacious when writing reviews, and I know that no-one,
except the very, very bored, will read to the end of
my self-indulgent soliloquy here, so I thought I'd get
the most important thing in first.
You really must buy it - if you have all or any of the
symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, I can't recommend
it highly enough. I have had crippling IBS for over
four years, and have seen doctors, specialists, herbalists,
even therapists, I have taken supplements, I have taken
things out of my diet, and I have taken a lot of abuse
for the amount of time I spend being in a disgusting
mood because of the unrelenting pain, bloating, and
terrible toilet traumas. Nothing has helped me.
Until last November when I stumbled across this book...
I know this sounds to be a nauseatingly clichéd
claim, but it really, really can change your life -
i.e. it can give you control of your back - in a very
short period of time. I started to see an enormous reduction
of symptoms within days, and after two weeks. I had
a complete remission. The low-starch diet is surprisingly
easy to adapt to once you've got over the first few
days when you want to shout a lot and throw things (invest
in paper plates), and, furthermore, really rather nice.
Chocolate, cheese, and alcohol are all allowed, and
positively encouraged, and the book includes a comprehensive
recipe book with loads of lovely meat and fish dishes,
salads, and deserts.
The book is very well written, with lots of interesting
information about digestion and nutrition. The diet's
nutritional virtues are extolled very convincingly and
credibly, and the book includes a fascinating account
of how the contemporary 'normal' Western diet developed
, and why it is so bad for both IBS sufferers and health
in general. It is all scientifically validated, and
very accessible, so everyone, even those like me with
no scientific knowledge whatsoever, can understand it.
Furthermore, the author herself suffered with the disease
for many years, so you really feel she understands exactly
how bad it can be - and how enormously better life is
once you have a cure. She has been symptom free for
years.
You can also expect a general health increase after
a month or so - more energy, better skin and hair, and
an improved ability to withstand the cold (I was always
freezing until I started this diet, but no longer).
Apparently, it is sort of similar to an Eskimo diet,
although I have not started to resemble one. I was not
overweight before I started the diet, but I have lost
weight and it has remained off. Anybody overweight who
did it would return to a normal weight and stay at it.
So, incase you have not even bothered to read the first
line and have just scrolled down to the end, I just
have one thing left to say - buy the book!
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Reviewer: Helene from London, UK.
Fantastic and helpful book that has given me a guide
in surviving this new food problem. The book is educated
for those suffering from starch allergies, teaching
you what doctors do or don't want. A total support to
this new discovery of food allergy, illness, etc.
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Definite destruction of Digestive Demons
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Much better than any NSAID.
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