Many of these biscuits, especially those orange colored ones,
use tartrazine, or E102, as a synthetic coloring. Also called Sunset Yellow 5.

Tartrazine is actually made from ..... coal tar. So it would not
be surprising if it caused allergies and triggered off asthma
in humans.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine#Se...and_intolerance



Another culprit is Sunset Yellow FCF, or FD&C Yellow 6, or E110.

You will find E110 in fruit juices, ice creams, biscuits, snacks,
candies, etc.


Both caused cancer in animal studies.

Tartrazine also causes ADD in children.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Yellow..._health_effects

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-risk-artificia...nd-9421515.html

http://eatthis.menshealth.com/content/11-m...rticle=1&page=1



You probably have constipation-type IBS.


So it would not be surprising if Oreo biscuits worsened your bloating
(flatulence) and constipation.

Senna is a stimulant laxative. It forces the muscles of your intestines
and colon to go into spasms, so pushes the stools out.

If you take it chronically, your colon is going to become dependent
on it, i.e. addicted, and so will become lazy sooner or later.




Try eating at least one purple-type dragonfruit a day.

You will be sure to run to the toilet more often with softer stolls.
The downside will be they will appear dark and purplish


Order some artichoke tablets from here. Take one daily.
Your stools will be more, softer and also yellowish.

http://www.healthspan.co.uk/products/artichoke-extract


Artichoke makes your gallballer secrete more bile, which in turn
causes more yellowish stools.

It will also reduce flatulence or bloating.


The cynarin in artichoke is also a powerful cancer fighter, so if you
take it regularly, you will be unlikely to get liver or colon cancer.



Here too :

http://www.iherb.com/Nature-s-Way-Artichok...0-Capsules/1824


I've taken both of the above before. Still have a couple more capsules
of Nature's Way.

Try chewing one simethicone tablet (Gastyl, Disflatyl) once
in a while.

This breaks up the gas into smaller bubbles, so makes it easier
to pass out.

You will also find simethicone in antacid tablets and liquids
like Alucid, Maalox, etc.


Dragonfruit can be found in many supermarkets and fruit shops.
It's a pink or reddish/purple fruit, oval shape, about 4 or 5 inches across.

Giant has some, but they usually stock the type with white flesh.

A bit difficult to tell the white and purple flesh varieties from the outer
skin actually, but the purple type usually has slightly darker or more
purplish skin. You have to ask the supermarket or fruit shop people.

The ''Sang Mark'' fruit shop in Jalan 21/17, Sea Park, PJ usually has
the purple type. A bit expensive, about $10 a kilo, or about two fruits.
Once in a while, they will cut it and sell at $1.20 each in the fridge at
their front left side.


You can't buy Healhspan and Nature's Way artichoke extracts here,
that's why I gave you the links.

This particular probiotic, Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086 looks like
it will help your IBS and bloating, and maybe constipation too.


http://www.probiotics-lovethatbug.com/prob...nstipation.html


http://www.iherb.com/Ganeden-Digestive-Adv...-Capsules/53523


http://www.iherb.com/Thorne-Research-Bacil...ggie-Caps/18588



http://www.digestiveadvantage.com/digestiv...psules-30-count




Bacillus coagulans significantly improved abdominal pain and bloating in patients with IBS.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19332970