Interesting Links
Other web sites with Diet information (some of this is repeated in the Introduction section)
- My other blog with diet information
http://zarkme.blog.com/ - AS Food Guide:
http://www.kickas.org/asfood.shtml - No Starch Diet Forum
http://www.kickas.org/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=0&Board=starch - The Low Starch Diet - a book by Carol Sinclair with a forward written by the prominent professor of immunology Alan Ebringer.This book is written from the purpose of treating IBS, another disorder which is helped by a diet low in starch.
http://lowstarchdiet.net/author.html - AS Dietary Primer. Quite heavy on medical terminology. Explains the role of gut flora in AS.
http://www.kickas.org/as_dietary_primer.shtml - Joel Godin has evidently taken the existing No Starch Diet and written a book on this matter so as to profit from this information. Unlike kickas.org he does not give this information out freely.
http://www.ankylosingspondylitishelp.com/ - Here is a web site with a food list that is in Dutch. You can get the translated version of the site here. .. Or click here for the translated food list.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~dfd1/ - The story of John Merchant (aka dragonslayer) who played a key role in spreading the word about the link between AS and diet. Actually I haven't read this one yet :-). I am pretty sure John also wrote a book on AS, but I have not been able to find it [sigh]
http://www.kickas.org/stories/john_ca.shtml
- Excellent forum :-). Lots of wonderful and knowledgable people here that are eager to help out
http://www.kickas.org/ - NASS Forum
http://www.nass.co.uk/forum/default.asp - Another good AS forum
http://bbs.spondylitis.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi - A baby AS community here
http://www.as-assist.org/
- Encyclopedia entry for Ankylosing Spondylitis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankylosing_spondylitis
