BRAT diet
04/12/07 07:27 AM
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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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As for as I know, the bananas, rice, applesauce, toast diet isn't recommended because it's constipating but because it's soothing. That is, it doesn't actively slow down colonic motility; rather it doesn't further irritate an already annoyed gut.
As Maria explained so well, it's the combination of SF to soothe and IF to move things along that's important under Heather's guidelines. So if you eat only bananas, for example, you're getting the SF to soothe your gut but not the IF to tell it to get moving. The combinations Andrew gave seem like excellent balances of SF and IF (assuming he eats some SF with his omelet).
HTH.
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