The Melbourne scientists behind the low FODMAP diet, which brings relief to millions of people, fear they are losing control of their eating plan to Instagram influencers and celebrities using it for other, unscientifically proven goals
One social media user has taken to testing food on his rabbit, insisting that if the animal eats it, that means it’s low FODMAP.“There is all this inaccurate information out there. It’s extraordinary. We have spawned an industry."
Monash's official FODMAP app has been downloaded in more than 130 countries. There are now more users in the United States than Australia. The program is earningThe diet, says Professor John Furness, one of Australia’s leading digestive scientists, is “a major advance ... a major Australian science contribution”.in 2002, there were few effective treatments for irritable bowel disease.
Professor Gibson and Dr Muir changed all that with an idea that seems so simple you wonder why nobody thought of it before. “All these things do similar things in the gut,” says Professor Gibson. “So why don’t we add them all together?” It seems to work. Patients with IBS using the diet see their symptoms improve by about 50 per cent on average,
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