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Bloat, Bloat On: Don’t let these 6 common dietary causes of bloating ‘full’ you.

October 18, 2017 By Dr. Ed McDonald 5 Comments

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“My belly looks like I’m pregnant.” As a gastroenterologist, who treats bloating, I hear this daily. I hear it from women who’ve been pregnant and those who have not. I even hear it from my male patients—I typically respond to the guys with a Different Strokes‘,”Whatchu talking about Willis?” Bloating is a common problem with common causes. For most people, bloating is just an annoying sensation of fullness. For others, it can be a distressing source of pain and mental anguish. Unfortunately, I’ve even seen spouses ridicule their partner’s appearance for bloating. Although bloating is a frequent complaint, I often see patients who’ve had previous doctors that never addressed any of the common dietary causes of bloating. Many of these patients had colonoscopies, upper endoscopies, and CT scans to evaluate bloating. They’ve had every test a doctor can order when the solution was as simple as avoiding gum-chewing. I’m not claiming to be the ‘belly whisperer,’ but avoiding, or at least reducing, certain foods has a helped a significant portion of my patients. I want to discuss bloating and a share few simple dietary approaches for addressing it.

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Dr. Ed McDonald
Dr. Ed McDonald

I am a physician and trained chef. I specialize in gastroenterology and nutrition. Currently I work as the Associate Director of Adult Nutrition at the University of Chicago.

Filed Under: Articles, posts Tagged With: abdominal pain, bloating, carbonated beverages, Dairy, distension, gas, GI problems, gum, lactose intolerance, low FODMAP, pop, soda, sugar substitute

The Doc’s Date Paste Is The Healthiest Sugar Alternative You Aren’t Using

September 15, 2017 By Dr. Ed McDonald 15 Comments

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Nowadays, sugar is the boogeyman in our cupboards since research shows it may cause a variety of health problems. If foods were criminals and diseases were crimes, sugar is going to fit a lot of descriptions.  Despite today’s preoccupation with sugar, the health concerns regarding sugar aren’t entirely new.  The connection between sugar and disease may have begun in the 1600s when Thomas Willis, an English physician, noted that a diabetic patient’s urine tasted “sweet like sugar or honey.”  He subsequently added ‘mellitus,’ meaning “from honey,” to the term diabetes—coining the condition’s present-day name. I’ve heard health professionals correct patients for saying “sugar diabetes,” but technically the term does mean ‘sugar’ diabetes and Latin went out of style 1000 years ago. Regardless of terminology, I’m just grateful that drinking urine isn’t part of a doctor’s job description anymore. If it were, my site’s name would just be “thekitchen.com.”

Billboard showing bai drink and text saying "Left-swipe sugar"

To my wife: I know nothing about tinder, but I thought this was hilarious

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Dr. Ed McDonald

I am a physician and trained chef. I specialize in gastroenterology and nutrition. Currently I work as the Associate Director of Adult Nutrition at the University of Chicago.

Filed Under: posts, Recipes Tagged With: date, date paste, sugar, sugar substitute, sweeteners

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