Clear, clinical-minded guides on identifying food reactions: what the common triggers actually are, how symptom timing works, and how to log in a way that produces answers rather than pages of notes.
Onion and wheat top every list, but IBS triggers are personal. Here are the twenty foods that come up most often, plus the logging method that separates your real triggers from the noise.
Bloating is not one symptom with one cause. Match how your bloating behaves, including how fast it arrives and what relieves it, to the foods most likely responsible.
A food diary either finds your triggers in two weeks or it never will. The difference is four details most people leave out, plus one habit that guarantees a useless log.
Fat is the usual suspect after cholecystectomy, but it is rarely the whole story. Here is what most often causes trouble, what the evidence says about post-surgery diarrhea, and how to identify your own triggers.