Product Description

This is a timely new addition to the top-selling "First Year" series - a patient-expert's step-by-step guide to living well with coeliac disease. A staggering one percent of the population suffer from coeliac disease, a condition with major lifestyle implications. Coeliacs are unable to digest gluten (a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye) as it triggers an autoimmune response in the body - meaning that common foodstuffs like bread, pasta, cereals and numerous products which include hidden gluten-containing products in their ingredients are out of the question.Now, in "The First Year: Celiac Disease and Living Gluten-Free", coeliac sufferer Jules Shepard explains everything you need to learn and do upon a coeliac diagnosis, including the questions to ask your doctor, how to cope with coeliac symptoms (which are wide-ranging), how to change your diet, the foods you can eat, brands and restaurants that offer gluten-free foods, sources of hidden gluten, and what to expect every step of the way to lead a healthy, full life. The book also covers coeliac disease in children and includes easy gluten-free recipes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45538 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
A lawyer and parent of two, Jules E. D. Shepard was diagnosed with coeliac disease in 1999 and prior to that, suffered through nearly ten years of misdiagnoses. Transitioning from a diet of pizza and pasta was difficult with few cookbooks at that time to guide her, so Jules, an avid cook, developed her own gluten free flour mix and gluten free recipes. She is the author of a cookbook, Nearly Normal Cooking for Gluten-Free Eating. Jules now teaches gluten-free cooking classes and is a spokesperson for the Centre for Celiac Research at University of Maryland. Visit her Web site at www.nearlynormalcooking.com.

Customer Reviews

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This is a very good book and a very easy read. Although a lot of the information is what I knew already it would have been a great start if this had been the first book I had ever read on the subject.

Interesting and useful...
This book starts with what coeliac disease is and then moves on to how to survive and thrive on a gluten free diet, using the author's own experience and extracts from other coeliacs.

My only (minor) critcisms of this book is that
a) it is written from an American view point - so some of the ingredients used in the recipes are not available in the UK and the recipes measure quantities using American cups.
b) the author doesn't stint on mentioning her website, her other book and her consultancy work throughout the book.

However, I think this is a very useful book for anyone who has just been diagnosed as Coeliac. Buying Gluten Free cookery books just don't help with questions about eating out and having a normal life, which this book addresses.