The Healthy Gut Cookbook: How to Keep in Excellent Digestive Health with 60 Recipes and Nutrition Advice
Cookery expert Marguerite Patten and nutritionist Jeannette Ewin tell you everything you need to know about eating for a healthy gut. Includes information about a wide range of gut problems, practical advice on the best food choices and 60 healthy gut recipes.This invaluable new collaboration between favourite British cookery expert Marguerite Patten and nutritional scientist Jeannette Ewin, authors of the bestselling Eat to Beat Arthritis, takes a look at how diet and nutrition are key factors in creating and maintaining good gut health.Gut disorders such as IBS and Crohn’s disease, as well as more general complaints such as constipation are on the increase. Many of these conditions are due to, or exacerbated by, poor nutrition.Marguerite Patten, in her introduction, describes her own recent experience of the highly common condition, IBS. She offers 60 delicious recipes that show you how to create tasty and nutritious meals following the nutritional guidelines to ease such digestive disorders.Jeannette Ewin gives invaluable advice on nutrition for a healthy gut, an explanation of how and why things go wrong and information on self-treatment using probiotics and how medications can affect the gut.
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the healthy gut cookbook
How to Keep in Excellent Digestive Health with 60 Recipes and Nutrition Advice
MARGUERITE PATTEN OBE & JEANNETTE EWIN PH.D.
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contents
1 marguerite patten’s personal story
How the Gut Controls Your Health
Water – the Foundation of Life
Food Allergies, Intolerances and Sensitivities
4 good foods for a healthy gut
Coeliac Disease (Malabsorption Syndrome, Sprue)
Crohn’s Disease (Regional Ileitis)
Gastric Ulcers (Peptic Ulcers, Duodenal Ulcers)
Heartburn/Indigestion (Gastro-oesophageal Reflux)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS, Spastic Colon)
6 marguerite patten’s healthy gut recipes
According to the Digestive Disorders Foundation, one in ten people suffer pain and distress from illnesses involving the stomach and intestines. These conditions account for approximately one in sixteen deaths in the United Kingdom.
This book is about a remarkable, often misunderstood and frequently embarrassing part of the human body – the gut. The message is simple: eat to take care of your gut and it will take care of you.
While the gut, or digestive system, usually works so well we ignore and often abuse it, things can go terribly wrong. As sufferers of Crohn’s disease or irritable bowel syndrome know, a damaged gut can seriously reduce your quality of life. Fortunately, most digestive problems are minor and self-limiting, but even repeated bouts of these can interfere with normal good health and lead to more serious conditions.
Avoiding digestive disasters often requires little more than changing dietary habits. Here is one example of how a poor diet can lead to problems: failure to eat enough high-fibre fruits and vegetables each day can lead to constipation; repeated bouts of constipation may stretch the delicate walls of the lower bowel which, over time, encourages the formation of pockets – or diverticula. These pockets may be trouble-free for years. Then infection and inflammation suddenly develop and cause a serious condition known as diverticulitis. It might have been avoided. Instead of risking pain and illness, why not follow medical advice and change your diet? When it comes to fruit and vegetables, the ‘five-a-day’ slogan is a good one.
The Healthy Gut Cookbook aims to change attitudes about diet and the gut. Thanks to Marguerite Patten’s story in Chapter 1, concerning her work and her personal experience with irritable bowel syndrome, we have first-hand information about how food has been used over the decades to combat ailments of the digestive system. At the heart of this book are more than 60 recipes Marguerite has written to promote foods that help maintain a healthy gut – and restore one that is flagging.
