Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27666 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
Explains how diet therapy can help manage Crohn's disease and colitis and includes an overview of both diseases, treatment options, and recipes.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic
Found this book really helpful as my partner suffers with crohn's and we were given little to hno help by the hospital and by his doctors about what to eat, apart from a dreadful diet sheet from the hospital, have had no problems sourcing ingredients most stuff we have got from sainsburys and some stuff from holland and barrett. A great guide to get us started on what was better for him to have without him missing out on nutritional value. Yes only to be used as a guide, we have to following the "low residue" diet bit in it which involves eated soluable fibre but not insoluable which has been working really well for my partner. I love the muffin recipes in the book to and I have enjoyed alot of the recipes to and so has our daughter.

Some good dietary information
A good basic guide to the nutrition for colitis and crohn's sufferers.
The recipes, however, are aimd at the American market, so sourcing some of the ingredients may be a little difficult.
Overall, the book is a very helpful addition for the bookshelf for both the patient and health professional providing it is used as a guide only!

A "Must Have" for anyone catering for a Crohn's sufferer
Everyone's experience of IBD seems to be different so I have found it difficult to find any effective guidance on diet, as the wife of an acute Crohn's sufferer, to ensure that what we're serving up is going to help rather than hinder.
The other multitude of books in my "Crohn's library" all seem to contain conflicting advice, and some even recommend ingredients which really should be avoided altogether, particularly during a flare-up.
This book is different in that it really fits with my husband's illness, and it provides medical explanations for it's recommendations. It has enabled me to cook with confidence a far greater variety of food than we had felt safe to enjoy previously. It also provides some really useful tips for how to modify other recipes and make some potentially aggravating ingredients safer.
Some of the ingredients are American (or are given American names), but I've not come across anything that can't be found or replaced easily.
Following the advice in this book has had an amazingly positive impact on my husband's condition - I wish I had found it as soon as he was diagnosed and saved myself a lot of worry (and money wasted on other books), and him a lot of discomfort!