Living with Crohn's & Colitis Cookbook

Nutritional Guidance, Meal Plans, and Over 100 Recipes for Improved Health and Wellness

Part of Living with

Foreword by Sarah Choueiry
Introduction by Jessica Black, N.D.
$9.99 US
Hatherleigh Books | Hatherleigh Press
On sale Nov 18, 2014 | 9781578265114
Sales rights: World
For the millions of people afflicted with irritable bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s and colitis, it can be a daily struggle to find nutritious meals that won’t aggravate symptoms or cause a flare-up. The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook is your essential nutrition guide with over 100 recipes and meal plans expertly designed to improve daily functioning and help relieve symptoms of Crohn’s and colitis.

The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook contains everything you need to plan your meals, balance your diet, and manage your symptoms, including:
• A guide to keeping a food journal
• Sample meal plans
• Tips for shopping for an IBD diet
• Gentle and nutritious recipes to help soothe flare-ups
...and much more!

The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook features over 100 recipes, including Zucchini Buckwheat Banana Bread, Homemade Almond Milk, Dr. Lang’s Healing Soup, Garlic-Herbed Scallops, Coconut Curry Chicken over Brown Rice, Mushroom Risotto with Cashews and Parmesan, Crabapple Walnut Cake, and many more. The book also features Paleo recipes.
Foreword
Introduction
Author’s Note

Chapter 1: Learning to Love and Heal Your Body
Chapter 2: Creating Balance in Your Diet
Chapter 3: Following a Holistic Lifestyle
Chapter 4: Keeping a Food Journal
Chapter 5: Shopping Tips for an IBD Diet
Chapter 6: Weekly Recipe Guide
Chapter 7: Recipes
- Remedies for When You Have a Flare-Up
- Breakfast
- Soups
- Salads and Side Dishes
- Seafood Entrées
- Meat and Poultry Entrées
- Vegetable Entrées
- Staples
- Desserts

Conclusion
Resources
Appendix
Recipe Index
About the Contributor
My publishing story is not unique: I wanted to buy a book that would help me as a lifestyle guide for the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) I suffered from. I searched for a book that would incorporate both the knowledge that comes from Western medicine (i.e., high-tech, science based), along with a naturopathic approach that could readily be integrated into a healthy, active life.

This kind of book didn’t exist in 2006, so I set out to write my first book, Living with Crohn’s & Colitis: A Comprehensive Naturopathic Guide for Complete Digestive Wellness. What sets my first book apart, I think, is that it explains the disease, and attempts to help sufferers live with the disease, both by understanding it better and also, more practically, by providing lifestyle strategies (such as yoga, recipes, etc.).

By the spring of 2010, Living with Crohn’s & Colitis was released and began to stimulate very positive reactions. A writer for Prevention magazine’s story “4 Screening Tests Women Fear” interviewed me and the article was reprinted widely; another article about my struggle to overcome Crohn’s disease appeared in MORE magazine, and my co-author Dr. Jessica Black, and I have since been on numerous radio shows. I built a website, started a blog, and began Twitter and Facebook pages, which have increased exposure, and book sales are growing with the book now helping many patients, medical professionals, and caregivers alike.

Ultimately, for me, although the book that emerged is mainly about disease and recovery, it is also about confronting pain courageously and living life to celebrate it.

This book is my story, but it is also a way for me to aid others who are either newly diagnosed with these lonely and debilitating diseases of the bowel or who have a loved one who is living with inflammatory bowel disease. The book is also a wellness guide and I am grateful to my co-author, Dr. Jessica Black, who offered the perfect balance to my patient story by offering a comprehensive naturopathic approach to achieving and maintaining health and longevity.

In the spirit of hope, espoused by Jerome Groopman, M.D., in his groundbreaking book, Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness I offer this companion cookbook to our readers, as a way to lend more support and compassion, and yes, hope. It is hope, I also believe, that a patient truly needs in order to survive and even to thrive.

I hope this cookbook becomes a vital and inspirational addition to everyone’s kitchen bookshelf!

—Excerpt from the Author's Note by Dede Cummings
“The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook is about simplifying foods and engaging in more meditative habits; practices that our society as a whole has nearly forgotten.”
Jessica Black, N.D., author of The Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book

About

For the millions of people afflicted with irritable bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s and colitis, it can be a daily struggle to find nutritious meals that won’t aggravate symptoms or cause a flare-up. The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook is your essential nutrition guide with over 100 recipes and meal plans expertly designed to improve daily functioning and help relieve symptoms of Crohn’s and colitis.

The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook contains everything you need to plan your meals, balance your diet, and manage your symptoms, including:
• A guide to keeping a food journal
• Sample meal plans
• Tips for shopping for an IBD diet
• Gentle and nutritious recipes to help soothe flare-ups
...and much more!

The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook features over 100 recipes, including Zucchini Buckwheat Banana Bread, Homemade Almond Milk, Dr. Lang’s Healing Soup, Garlic-Herbed Scallops, Coconut Curry Chicken over Brown Rice, Mushroom Risotto with Cashews and Parmesan, Crabapple Walnut Cake, and many more. The book also features Paleo recipes.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Author’s Note

Chapter 1: Learning to Love and Heal Your Body
Chapter 2: Creating Balance in Your Diet
Chapter 3: Following a Holistic Lifestyle
Chapter 4: Keeping a Food Journal
Chapter 5: Shopping Tips for an IBD Diet
Chapter 6: Weekly Recipe Guide
Chapter 7: Recipes
- Remedies for When You Have a Flare-Up
- Breakfast
- Soups
- Salads and Side Dishes
- Seafood Entrées
- Meat and Poultry Entrées
- Vegetable Entrées
- Staples
- Desserts

Conclusion
Resources
Appendix
Recipe Index
About the Contributor

Excerpt

My publishing story is not unique: I wanted to buy a book that would help me as a lifestyle guide for the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) I suffered from. I searched for a book that would incorporate both the knowledge that comes from Western medicine (i.e., high-tech, science based), along with a naturopathic approach that could readily be integrated into a healthy, active life.

This kind of book didn’t exist in 2006, so I set out to write my first book, Living with Crohn’s & Colitis: A Comprehensive Naturopathic Guide for Complete Digestive Wellness. What sets my first book apart, I think, is that it explains the disease, and attempts to help sufferers live with the disease, both by understanding it better and also, more practically, by providing lifestyle strategies (such as yoga, recipes, etc.).

By the spring of 2010, Living with Crohn’s & Colitis was released and began to stimulate very positive reactions. A writer for Prevention magazine’s story “4 Screening Tests Women Fear” interviewed me and the article was reprinted widely; another article about my struggle to overcome Crohn’s disease appeared in MORE magazine, and my co-author Dr. Jessica Black, and I have since been on numerous radio shows. I built a website, started a blog, and began Twitter and Facebook pages, which have increased exposure, and book sales are growing with the book now helping many patients, medical professionals, and caregivers alike.

Ultimately, for me, although the book that emerged is mainly about disease and recovery, it is also about confronting pain courageously and living life to celebrate it.

This book is my story, but it is also a way for me to aid others who are either newly diagnosed with these lonely and debilitating diseases of the bowel or who have a loved one who is living with inflammatory bowel disease. The book is also a wellness guide and I am grateful to my co-author, Dr. Jessica Black, who offered the perfect balance to my patient story by offering a comprehensive naturopathic approach to achieving and maintaining health and longevity.

In the spirit of hope, espoused by Jerome Groopman, M.D., in his groundbreaking book, Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness I offer this companion cookbook to our readers, as a way to lend more support and compassion, and yes, hope. It is hope, I also believe, that a patient truly needs in order to survive and even to thrive.

I hope this cookbook becomes a vital and inspirational addition to everyone’s kitchen bookshelf!

—Excerpt from the Author's Note by Dede Cummings

Praise

“The Living with Crohn’s & Colitis Cookbook is about simplifying foods and engaging in more meditative habits; practices that our society as a whole has nearly forgotten.”
Jessica Black, N.D., author of The Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book