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Pamela Rice Hahn
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Breaking the Vicious Cycle:
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Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet
by Elaine Gloria Gottschall |
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CookingWithPam NOTE:
This book
details the Specific Carbohydrate Diet™ (SCD™), purported to help
those who suffer from inflammatory and irritable bowel conditions
like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Ulcerative Colitis (UC),
Crohn's Disease, Celiac Disease, and others. The Specific Carb
Diet™ has also been shown to help many who are diagnosed with
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM); IBS is
oftentimes an accompanying condition of those syndromes.
Related links of
interest:
Details on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet™
Recipe for SCD™-Style Homemade
Yogurt
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From reviews for
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet
on Amazon.com: "After being diagnosed with Crohn's disease ... [t]his
diet has allowed me to be symptom-free and medication-free for
well over a year."
"With a great deal of skepticism, I read this book over five
years ago. Ulcerative colitis was bleeding me to death, not that I
had a life much worth living at the time. My world revolved around
pain and I could be no further than 30 seconds from a bathroom.
Ms. Gottschall, her book, and the diet completely vanquished all
my symptoms of UC, saved my life and restored my intestinal
health...."
"After a year and a half on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet™, I
finally followed my gastroenterologist's request to get a
colonoscopy. After all, it had been over four years since the
last time anyone had given me any sort of exam of the gut, and
18 years with Crohns. My doc said 'We got all the way to the
cecum. No evidence at all of Crohns. No scars. No inflammation.
Nothing. You look completely normal.' ... This dietary
modification is far better than a drug-induced remission for me
because even in past drug-induced 'remissions' my past exams
have showed indication of disease. Now there are no drugs, no
side effects. I believe this diet is a superior way to bring on
a controlled remission." |
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Other Books that Promote Intestinal Healing
(and cover what foods are safe to eat): |
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically
Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
by
Sally Fallon, Mary G. Enig |
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically
Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats is a nutritional
guide and cookbook that also advocates making your own yogurt and
Kefir (fermented milk), both of which can be made in a dehydrator.
The book cuts through the diet hype -- and even debunks downright
junk science passing as credible health studies.
The philosophy of this book is to avoid processed fats, starches,
sugars, and proteins; eat animal protein and their accompanying
fats; eat whole grain products; and eat foods prepared in such a way
that avoids loosing important nutrients. It does vary in philosophy
in some aspects from the SCD™-based
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet;
however, its recipes on making your own homemade yogurt, Kefir, and
other more healthful foods make it a worthy companion volume to
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet. |
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The New Eating Right for a Bad Gut: The Complete Nutritional Guide
to Ileitis, Colitis, Crohn's Disease, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
by James Scala |
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In this completely revised
and updated edition of his classic book on treating "bad gut"
diseases, Dr. James Scala presents a new dietary plan that has been
proven to help inflammatory bowel disease go into remission. Scala
firmly believes that nutrition is preventative medicine and food is
the vehicle of its practice. His drug-free food and lifestyle
program offers relief from the pain and embarrassment of living with
these mysterious and chronic ills while providing reassuring
step-by-step guidance on:
- Developing a personal-testing program
- Identifying "safe foods"
- Fitness and stress-reduction techniques
- Dietary and vitamin supplements
The New Eating Right for a Bad Gut offers a solid program
for health that is uniquely focused on an area of major concern to a
wide segment of the population.
"Frank and concise . . . Scala provides straightforward
recommendations for healthy eating that's easy on the gut. He knows
his subject well and always comes across as hopeful and
helpful-without preaching."-Publishers Weekly
"...Dr. Scala strongly encourages the IBD patient to stay away
from foods high in saturated fats and to eat lots of rice, potatoes,
fish (for the omega 3 fatty acids that the IBD patient needs to
promote healing in the colon), chicken, turkey, vegetables, and
fruit without the skin on it. During the initial stages of a flareup,
he recommends a liquid supplement to solid food, such as Encare."
-excerpt from an Amazon.com review |
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Self Help Way To Treat Colitis and Other IBS Conditions,
Second Edition
by DeLamar Gibbons |
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The Colin Club research
diet first presented in the Saturday Evening Post; the "villian"
foods this book says to avoid are:
- Fructose
- Sorbitol and Mannitol
- Fiber
- Beans
According to a reader of this site (thanks Patsy Everson!), the
"friendly" foods allowed on this semi-restricted diet include:
- Sucrose
- Glucose (Dextrose)
- Starch
- Several Artificial Sweetening Agents
- Potatoes
- Protein
- Fats
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Available Now:
Sample Recipes Index
(No artificial sweeteners used in the
recipes -- anywhere, anytime!)
Lazy About Grilling:
the feet up, hands down easiest ways to barbecue
by Pamela Rice Hahn
Lazy About
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