An alternative treatment to the low-FODMAP diet was tested by Swedish researchers, with encouraging results for gut symptoms.
Irritable bowel syndrome sufferers who followed a low-sugar, low-starch diet for one month improved their gut symptoms and lost weight, according to a study, suggesting it could be as effective as a more restrictive regime.The starch- and sucrose-reduced diet was compared by scientists at Lund University in Sweden against the current standard recommended diet for IBS: the low-FODMAP diet.
Ohlsson was inspired to undertake this research after geneticists discovered that IBS patients were particularly likely to have a rare genetic variation that hinders the breakdown of sugars and starches in the gut.This genetic variation—enzymatic sucrase-isomaltase deficiency—could lead to dietary sugars remaining undigested by the body and fermenting in the colon, leading to digestive symptoms like those in IBS.
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