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"[T]horoughly researched and well-thought out and executed resource for patients and practitioners alike. I
know I'll reference the book the next time I work with a client needing FOD restriction."
--Today's Dietitian
"In this book, Patsy Catsos has done an exemplary job of helping people both identify and then manage IBS. For some,
this may be a miraculous shift. Thank you, Ms. Catsos, for your clear delivery, excellent organization and empathic
writing style. Your book with be a blessing for many, and can also serve as a handy reference for the professional as
well."
--Brenda Watson, CNC, New York Times bestselling author of The Skinny Gut Diet
"As a digestive dietitian and IBS expert, I can attest to the low FOD diet as an effective tion solution
for the majority of those who suffer with IBS. The low FOD diet can truly be a life changer! Patsy Catsos unravels
the complexities of the low FOD diet for the reader providing all the details of the low FOD elimination and
re-introduction diet in this comprehensive guide. The Q and A format that Ms. Catsos provides throughout the book will
answer all the reader's burning questions and more."
--Kate lata, RDN, New York Times Bestselling Author and IBS Expert
"Dietary triggers are the most notorious provocateurs of IBS symptoms. The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook by Patsy
Catsos, a leading tionist and FOD expert, is a must-have survival guide. Her delightful book is an authoritative
but user-friendly resource of how to use the right food as powerful medicine for IBS."
--Gerard E. Mullin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and author of
The Gut Balance Revolution, The Good Gut Guide and The Inside Tract
"Long a leader in IBS and low FOD education, Patsy Catsos dives deeper than ever before in this book, with up-to-date
medical in and real world strategies. This is an invaluable resource for my IBS patients."
--Miechelle O'Brien, MD, PhD, co-Founder TrueSelf Foods (Low-FOD Foods Made Easy)
"Whether you're a care professional or a consumer trying to filter through the flood of information on IBS, you
definitely want to pick up a copy of The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook. Patsy does a wonderful job getting right
down to exactly what you need to know to get your IBS symptoms under control with a tious and varied diet that is
manageable and gets results.... Beautifully referenced with a scientific based bibliography, you will find yourself
coming back to this gem of a resource over and over!"
--Dr. Sheila Dean, DSc, RDN, CCN, CDE, IFMCP, Integrative & Functional tion Academy, Co-Founder
About the Author
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PATSY CATSOS, MS, RD, LD, is a leader in the field of low-FOD diet. A tionist based in Portland, Maine, with a
BS in tion from Cornell University and a master's degree in tion from Boston University, she completed her
internship at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and now maintains a private practice. She also speaks at conferences for
other tionist and doctors.
She was first to publish a book about the low-FOD diet, IBS--Free At Last! in 2009. Before long, it was adopted not
only by IBS sufferers, but by care professionals and major medical centers. Her step-by-step elimination diet is
updated for ultimate usability and effectiveness in this new edition, The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook. It helped
set the standard of care for patients using diet, not medicine, and continues to be the most recommended by doctors.
She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, Paul.
www.ibsfree.net