Dietary Recommendations for Nutrition-Related Anemia Nutrition-related anemia can occur due to the inadequate intake and malabsorption of certain vitamins and minerals, including iron, vitamin B12, folate, and copper. The most common form of nutrition-related anemia is iron-deficiency anemia, particularly among women of child-bearing age, vegans and vegetarians, and people with malabsorption (e.g., gastric surgery, short [...]
Free Recipe Book – IBD Kitchen When you have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, it can be difficult to come up with meals that taste good and fit your nutrition goals. Created by a chef and three registered dietitians, The IBD Kitchen cookbooks provide recipes with carefully selected ingredients that [...]
What is an Anti-Inflammatory Diet? What is an anti-inflammatory diet? There is currently no widely-accepted definition but three examples are plant-based diets, the Mediterranean diet, and the Okinawan diet. The good news is that you do not need to follow any of these diets if you don’t want to. There are so many anti-inflammatory foods [...]
Minerals: We are what we absorb Introduction We are what we eat? Well, “we are what we absorb” might be the more precise statement. It is possible to eat enough to meet the recommended nutritional needs on paper, but if your body is not absorbing those nutrients, then it is simply not enough nourishment, and [...]
Nutrition and Stomach Cancer: Prevention Nutrition and lifestyle factors play a major role in the prevention and management of cancer, including stomach cancer. Stomach cancer is the third most common cause of cancer-related death1 and, unfortunately, diagnosis often comes too late, when the cancer has already progressed. This article will discuss which lifestyle factors may [...]
The Simplified Low FODMAP Diet Did you know that there is more than one way to do the low FODMAP diet? The low FODMAP diet involves removing certain fermentable carbohydrates from the diet for several weeks and then slowly reintroducing these foods to tolerable levels. It has shown great success in treating many individuals with [...]
Five Fun Facts About Fruit and the Gut 1. Apples Organic apples have a wide variety of probiotic strains living on their skins. These probiotics vary from the ones found on conventional apples and might even affect the flavour of the fruit.1 2. Bananas Bananas are easy to digest and contain lots of potassium, which [...]
Click here to download a PDF of this information. Dietary Fibre What you need to know to maintain a healthy gut What is Dietary Fibre? Fibre is a type of carbohydrate that we cannot digest. With other types of carbohydrates, such as sugars and starches, our digestive system breaks them down into absorbable simple [...]
Click here to download a PDF of this information. Probiotics, Prebiotics, and the Microbiome Did you know that all multicellular organisms, including every animal and plant, are covered in a vast array of microorganisms? Microorganisms, also known as microbes, are extremely small (microscopic), living organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, yeast, parasites, and more. They [...]
Hunger and Appetite The complex systems that encourage us to eat Every action in the body – whether it is the heart beating, leg muscles contracting when a person walks, the brain processing the contents of a conversation, or an arm moving to scratch a nose – requires energy. We get this energy from the [...]
