Holy Chocolate?!?

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Once again, Google comes through with another interesting read, short AND sweet!  Actually, there is no legitimacy to the following article, other than it’s a parody that struck a chord with me. Click on the link to read it and I’ll explain: Chocolate Jesus Offends Lactose Intolerant Catholics

There are so many things that are funny about this (to me) but to really twist it around, let me point out something that gets under my skin: Lactose Intolerance does NOT equal IBS. It’s really very annoying to those of us with IBS when people say something like, “Oh, I had a case of IBS over the weekend.” or “That Chinese food gave me irritable bowel syndrome last night.” 

Let me make this VERY clear:  You DO NOT give, catch, or receive IBS! Eating or drinking dairy products does not GIVE you IBS.  Yes, there are many people who are Lactose Intolerant in addition to having IBS, oh what fun!! (Yes, that includes me) 

The cause(s) of IBS have yet to be clearly identified; only the symptoms have been defined.  These symptoms, which I have described a fraction of in a previous blog, are a day in day out struggle, not something you got because you ate one too many Jesus Bars! 

I know, I’m probably making a mountain out of a mole hill and while this article if funny in other ways, what isn’t so funny is the very clear ignorance that exists about what IBS really is and what it isn’t. This only fuels my passion for awareness, so that in the future, when someone wants to write a spoof article or use irritable bowel syndrome in a joke they can at least do it with some intelligence. J

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