Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. What Is IBS?

2. How Do I Know I Have Irritable Bowel?

3. How the Gut Works, and Sometimes Doesnâ??t.

4. What Causes Irritable Bowel?

5. Want Relief? Start with Healthy Eating.

6. Foods and Habits That Irritate.

7. Healthy Eating Adjustments for Specific Symptoms.

8. What Is Stress, and Does It Affect Irritable Bowel?

9. Stress Management.

10. What Do I Do about the Pain?

11. Are You Ready? Making Change Happen.

12. Irritable Bowel Is Not My Only Worry.

13. Working with Your Doctor.

14. Living with Irritable Bowel.

Appendix: High-Fiber, Low-Fat Recipes.

Index.

About the Author

Dawn Burstall, R.D., T. Michael Vallis, Ph.D., and Geoffrey K. Turnbull, M.D., work together in the gastroenterology program at Capital Health, a large teaching hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia.