Food avoidance in irritable bowel syndrome leads to a nutrition-deficient diet

Objective: The objective was to assess the dietary intake of subjects with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and to compare it to that of international recommendations. The hypothesising assumption of this study was that a situation in which subjects insist that diet or trigger foods play a part in symptom generation may lead to an unbalanced dietary intake.Design: This was a descriptive observational study, with an analytical component.Setting: A...