EAT to beat IBS

year, many of us fill up on immune- boosting veg, such as garlic and onions, to ward off colds. However, for people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), simple carbs from foods such as these don’t always sit well in their stomachs. This has led to increasing research into the way some foods, usually fruit, veg and dairy, cause individual reactions, and from that, the FODMAP diet has emerged. It stands for fermentable oligosaccharides,