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You don’t have to let IC limit your holiday menus and socializing.

Read how a top chef is helping people with IC love their meals again. Get the holiday recipe secrets of IC diet experts. Learn how research is getting to the bottom of the connection between diet and IC. You don’t have to let IC limit your holiday menus and socializing.

This summer, ICA Diet Bytes columnist and author Julie Beyer, MS, RD, ICA Executive Director and dietitian Barbara Gordon, RD, author of the first IC cookbook Bev Laumann, IC Network President and Founder Jill Osborne, MA, and IC diet researcher Barbara Shorter, EdD, RD, CDN, worked together to develop the new Eating with IC guide. They relied on their extensive experience and research to identify what foods are truly problematic for many IC patients and which are the least. The result is a guide of expanded food choices that you can use to build a tasty, nutritious, bladder-friendly diet that fits you.

This issue of ICA Update brings you menu ideas and recipes that celebrate this new approach so your meals can bring you excitement, great taste, and good times. Daniel Norton, one of Colorado’s top chefs, has made it his mission to help people with IC bring flavor and excitement into their lives with food. We’ve posted his holiday recipes from the issue, as well as a bonus recipe here. The IC diet experts and IC cooking blogger Lauren Tuttle share their favorite, flavorful holiday recipes with you. And Dr. Shorter tells you how to be your own diet detective and lets you in on the latest research that’s uncovering the connection between diet and symptoms.

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Revised November 13, 2009