This is mainly due to the fact that the digestion may lack proper amount of water in order to make the stools flaccid and easy to let off. c) Abnormality in the movement of bowel- A person who suffers from IBS-C finds it difficult to defecate even 3 times in a week. When frequency of defecation becomes less it could lead to danger as it will build up toxic substances in the body mainly in the digestive tract. This is not of the meaning that you are not powerful enough to control the illness. You have to just remember that there exist certain kinds of foods which are liable to trigger the illness. You should necessarily avoid these classes of foods: a) Fatty b) Coffee (both decaffeinated and caffeinated) c) Having high content of insoluble fiber d) Carbonated drinks e) Alcohol The right diet for irritable bowel syndrome exempts foods that come under these classes due to the reason that they will induce the symptoms of the syndrome. Some alternate cures available to the people are: 1) Acupuncture - This therapy is based on the life force and is known as Qi (comes from chi of Chinese) It is proved that the imbalance in a person's Qi can result in various ails. Acupuncturists try to remove this imbalance with the help of thin needles especially used for this purpose. As the condition is supposed to be a syndrome, it is qualified with several symptoms for which the main problem is not known. Though it is quite common among people of America, there is no indication that will help to deliver effective remedy. Due to want of research in this area regarding Irritable Bowel Syndrome, people are lacking knowledge about it. Thus If people name this specification as disease, then others will feel that they will get this diseases from the sufferers of the disease. Due to this fact, they will avoid any type of relationship with those people who experience this syndrome. Thus it will become such that the person having this Irritable Bowel Syndrome not only will suffer from the symptoms of syndrome, but also will have to suffer from isolation among his peers. Now thanks to the researchers, who have now grounded certain measures to check whether a person is really suffering from the Irritable Bowel Syndrome? With Rome process (Rome I, Rome II, ROME III), now at least a foundation has been formed whether the person suffering or feeling is really Irritable Bowel Syndrome.