Dear Mig,
I appreciate you taking time to reply to my request. I understand and accept your decision, though I do not completely agree with it. My main concern is that there may be a group of people on this forum who are in natural remission , who are therefore on a quite restrictive diet unnecessarily , and the diet MAY have unknown side effects ( for example, resistive starches are considered good for colon health). In this context, the forum may unintentionally actually be causing harm. When one is offered a treatment, one needs to balance the advantages versus risks. e.g. the pain relief of NSAIDS versus the risk of gastric bleeding /renal toxicity of NSAIDS. Most doctors (those doing their job correctly) would be expected to tell you both, the positive and negative, and let you decide, after all it is your body, not theirs. However, if you look at the diet section of kickas, you will see that the design of the forum encourages success stories, which therefore gives less exposure to failure stories. In that sense, the forum is not being supportive to those AS sufferers who want to hear both sides of the coin before embarking on the diet. It is like a doctor telling that NSAIDS will relieve your pain, but not telling you about gastric and renal problems. We would consider such a doctor not fit to practice. Now, if you take a look at this forum, that is what it is doing, encouraging one side of the story only. Perhaps a suggestion that may work would be to have a sticky topic titled simply "Ongoing diet reports". That way, everyone will be encouraged to write their story, without the emotive term "failure". Please do not take my comments as being non appreciative of your and others hard work. It is great that people like yourself spend so much of your personal time to help others. You and me are speaking from the same side of the fence, i.e. we both want to support AS sufferers. What we disagree is only on how best to do it.
