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Constipation, Diarrhea, Gas, and the Intestine

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Nutrition and Diet Therapy in Gastrointestinal Disease

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The topics of this chapter are grouped together because they often result in abdominal pain or cramps, increased flatus or eructation, or diarrhea or constipation. At times an etiology is found, but most often the patient is plagued and a nutritional approach to the symptoms is sought. The nutritional advice given such patients can be of enormous help or useless, but should always be on a sound physiologic basis. The following, I hope, is a rational approach to using the diet as the treatment of these patients.

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  1. Yale University School of Medicine, USA

    Martin H. Floch M.S., M.D., F.A.C.P. (Clinical Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Chief)

  2. Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Norwalk Hospital, USA

    Martin H. Floch M.S., M.D., F.A.C.P. (Clinical Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Chief)

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Floch, M.H. (1981). Constipation, Diarrhea, Gas, and the Intestine. In: Nutrition and Diet Therapy in Gastrointestinal Disease. Topics in Gastroenterology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3791-1_14

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