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Food-Diary Detective
One of the best ways to determine information that could be asso-the source of your bloating is to ciated with bloating, such as the
keep a food diary, says Lin Chang, timing of your menstrual cycle if
M.D., codirector of UCLA’s Center you’re premenopausal. You may
for Neurobiology of Stress. “For four discover that you feel bloated a few
to five weeks, write down what you days a month around your period,
eat at each meal and when you feel which would tell you that hormones
bloated,” she says. Include any are the problem. But if the feeling is
worse after popcorn night at the
movies, food may be your trigger.
If self-help solutions don’t work,
see your doctor—and bring your
diary with you, says Dr. Chang.
“Bloating can be hard to diagnose,
but knowing a patient’s habits is
very helpful.”
