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I was recently diagnosed with IBS and have since been modifying my diet to include more soluble fiber. However, this often includes various breads, potatoes, whole cereal, corn based products, carrots, etc. These things are not good for weight loss or for someone wishing to stay on a low glycemic diet. What can I do? What foods do you recommend for low glycemic/IBS diet? Thank you for your help!
Rachel,
For an IBS diet, good sources of soluble fiber include oatmeal and oat bran, psyllium seed, pectin, and guar gum.
Oat bran bread has GI=68 and oatmeal (not instant!) is low in GI: 40.
Read more about GI of different foods here:
http://dietandbody.com/plan/gi.html
Hope it helps,
TZ
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Tanya Zilberter, PhD
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I am in neurophysiology since 1972, my research started with studies of neuronal interactions in the hypothalamic centers of hunger and satiety. I worked for 20 years in interdisciplinary teams, with physicists and mathematicians, as an expert in neuroscience preparing conceptual models of brain regulatory systems for their further implications in larger-scale mathematical and computer modeling. Since 2007, I focus on the metabolic aspects of neuroprotection.
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- Neuronal activity in vitro and the in vivo reality: the role of energy homeostasis.
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