IBS Is Not IBD
Not Sure If You Have IBS or IBD? It’s Worth Finding Out Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are inflammatory diseases of the bowel (IBD, for Inflammatory Bowel Disease). There’s a lot of...
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Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) consists of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. IBD is very different from IBS, which stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome,...
View ArticleUlcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis: The Basics Ulcerative Colitis is a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or IBD. The other form of IBD is called Crohn’s Disease, which you can read about here. Read more about IBD...
View ArticleRoutine Heath Maintenance for IBD
Routine Health Maintenance for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Routine health maintenance for people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is very important. IBD consists of Crohn’s Disease...
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Crohn’s Disease: The Basics Crohn’s Disease is a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or IBD. The other form of IBD is called Ulcerative Colitis, which you can read about here. Read more about IBD in...
View ArticleScrew the Flu: Getting the Flu From Your Flu Shot
Think you got the flu from your flu shot? Think again. Did you know that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the PHAC (Public Health Agency of Canada) now recommend the flu...
View ArticleDon’t Eat That!
Food For Thought: The Role of Food in Irritable Bowel Symptoms “Food For Thought” is a recurring column on bellyblog.ca, where we will share a well-curated collection of high quality,...
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Want to Save a Life? Now’s Your Chance
Screw the Flu: Help Protect Ramona Ramona is my oldest friend in the world – we’ve been friends since birth (seriously!). The pic above is one of us taken sometime in the 80s. And here’s a...
View ArticleBeefmageddon: Understanding the WHO Warning About Meat
Understanding the WHO Statement: Are Red and Processed Meat as Evil as They Seem? Social media was alive with ravenous carnivores (and smug vegetarians) after the WHO released a statement on the...
View ArticleWhy Dr. Google Doesn’t Always Have Your Back
Why Dr. Google Doesn’t Always Have Your Back Let me start by saying that I love Google. Just yesterday Google taught me how to distress a pair of jeans and fix my dishwasher. But Google didn’t go...
View ArticleVaccine Myths, Explained
Busted! Top 3 Myths About Vaccines In a previous blog post, I talked about a recent study describing the characteristics of physicians who refused to care for families who declined vaccines for their...
View ArticleWhat You Don’t Know About Vaccines
Is it OK for doctors to refuse to take care of people who refuse vaccines? Last week, the journal Pediatrics published a study describing the characteristics of physicians who dismiss families for...
View ArticleProject Snowman: Teaching My Kids To Give
How do you teach your kids to give? The topic of gift-giving has come up recently in my family. I love seeing the smile on my kids’ faces when they get something they like. That something doesn’t...
View ArticleOh, Canada: The Controversy Over Neonatal Eye Ointment
Neonatal Eye Ointment and the Canadian Controversy Local mommy groups are abuzz this week after Canadian news outlet, Global, reported that the mandatory application of prophylactic eye ointment...
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Highlight on Hiatal Hernia
Hiatal Hernia – What You Need to Know I get asked about hiatal hernias a lot – what are they, can they be fixed, and most importantly, are they the cause of my symptoms. Chances are, if you’ve been...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Take Parenting Advice From Celebrities
La traduction en français de cet article est ci-dessous Every few months, I’ll stumble upon something on my Facebook feed about a celebrity, and their opposition to vaccinating their children. When...
View ArticleYou Really Are What You Eat
You Really Are What You Eat: Can Food Actually Have an Impact on Health and Disease? I get a lot of questions from patients about food. There’s a lot of interest lately in using food to treat...
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