Hello Friends. Just wanted to be sure you knew that I have uploaded a free FODMAPs 101 educational handout.  This is an introductory guide about FODMAPs.  For dietitians in practice, you may find this guide works well for educating your patients.  It works well with my other FODMAP educational tools found here.  For those with […]

About a week and a half ago, I had the pleasure of attending DDW:Digestive Disease Week 2015, an annual US conference devoted to the GI tract. {Sorry poor photo quality!!} To be completely honest, to me, being at DDW felt like being at Disney World. So much to see and do, and yet, too little […]

Hello. I thought it would be nice to talk about bile acid today, are you with me? Bile acid diarrhea is also known as BAD. Perfect acronym, right? You might have BAD if you have been experiencing IBS-D like symptoms: chronic diarrhea, urgency, incontinence, bloating and discomfort. Unfortunately, bile acid diarrhea or malabsorption of bile is […]

I receive numerous questions weekly about portion sizes and the low FODMAP diet. Portion size does matter on the low FODMAP diet.  Strawberries, for instance, are low FODMAP but NOT low FODMAP if you eat a full bowl the size of your head of them! Make portion control more inviting…such as serving low FODMAP fruit kabobs! […]

As a FODMAP sensitive runner, I know that food choice can make a big difference in your running experience.  Adequate and healthy fueling is important for the endurance athlete. When intolerant to FODMAPs, diet for the serious athlete can be a bit challenging as many commercially available or commonly recommended re-fueling options contain FODMAPs. Having […]

Two news items:  The UK Dietitians have organized a twitter chat on FODMAP topics.  You can follow this chat by putting in hashtag: #RDUK in your search bar on twitter.  The chat is scheduled for TODAY at 3 PM EST in the US, 8 PM in UK/London and 5 AM Tuesday, Melbourne, Australian time!  Key FODMAP experts […]

In honor of National IBS Awareness Month, I thought it would be fun to do (yet, another)  low FODMAP cookbook give-a-way.  My colleague and FODMAP expert, Patsy Catsos has generously offered to give her cookbook Flavor without FODMAPs to one of my lucky blog followers. Patsy is one of the US experts on the low […]

We have been busy at katescarlata.com working on some new educational handouts, packaging up and mailing balanced boxes, working individually with clients with IBS, helping dietitians out in the field with numerous FODMAP questions, outlining a new book (Yay!), and interviewing some smart GI docs for upcoming topics for the blog and articles I hope […]

Since 2009, I have been educating people with IBS about the low FODMAP diet.  It has been the most rewarding work I have done in my 25 plus years as a registered dietitian.  From a science nerd perspective, I love how the low FODMAP incorporates concepts from my key nutrition degree classes from food science, […]