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IBS Cookbook For Dummies
A unique guide to decreasing symptoms of IBS through delicious foodDo you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? You're not alone; it is estimated that about 35 million Americans experience the symptoms of IBS. "IBS Cookbook For Dummies" provides those affected by IBS with easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand recipes to create meals using foods and methods that decrease the risk of experiencing the discomfort of symptoms associated with the disorder.
Inside you'll find the dietary tips and information you need to decrease your symptoms and discomfort simply by watching what you eat. You'll find more than?100 tasty recipes you can easily make at home. And since individuals with IBS often suffer from various complications-including bowel obstructions, sores and ulcers within the intestinal tract, and malnutrition or the presence of nutritional deficiencies-"IBS Cookbook For Dummies" provides a nutritional meal plan that will help alleviate these complications.Presents more than 70 delicious, easy-to-make recipes designed to ease the symptoms of IBSHelps you avoid "trigger" foods and choose healthier alternativesIncludes tips for menu planning, including healthy meals and snacksExplains what to eat when traveling and dining out
No need to suffer when you have IBS; just get this handy guide to start eating-and feeling-better
Inside you'll find the dietary tips and information you need to decrease your symptoms and discomfort simply by watching what you eat. You'll find more than?100 tasty recipes you can easily make at home. And since individuals with IBS often suffer from various complications-including bowel obstructions, sores and ulcers within the intestinal tract, and malnutrition or the presence of nutritional deficiencies-"IBS Cookbook For Dummies" provides a nutritional meal plan that will help alleviate these complications.Presents more than 70 delicious, easy-to-make recipes designed to ease the symptoms of IBSHelps you avoid "trigger" foods and choose healthier alternativesIncludes tips for menu planning, including healthy meals and snacksExplains what to eat when traveling and dining out
No need to suffer when you have IBS; just get this handy guide to start eating-and feeling-better
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337 pages, Paperback
First published October 29, 2009
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About the author
Carolyn Dean
166 books45 followersDr. Carolyn Dean MD ND is the author of over 50 books including best seller The Magnesium Miracle and other noted publications including IBS for Dummies, Hormone Balance, Death by Modern Medicine, and 110+ published eBooks to date. Dr. Dean is committed to helping anyone understand more about nutrients, their requirements in the body, and ways to promote health and vitality in a proactive manner.
In 2015, Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND launched the RnA ReSet brand based on nutrient protocols she built through 40+ years of experience in private healthcare practice. Dr. Dean’s career as a medical doctor and naturopath resulted in a collection of unique, proprietary formulations that support precise applications while remaining safe for everyday use.
Dr. Dean continues to provide her leadership and vision for enabling people to take control of their own health. This includes her 45+ years of educational resources including guidebooks, presentations, and a history of other audio, video, and written assets for anyone wanting to learn more about nutrients and their health.
In 2015, Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND launched the RnA ReSet brand based on nutrient protocols she built through 40+ years of experience in private healthcare practice. Dr. Dean’s career as a medical doctor and naturopath resulted in a collection of unique, proprietary formulations that support precise applications while remaining safe for everyday use.
Dr. Dean continues to provide her leadership and vision for enabling people to take control of their own health. This includes her 45+ years of educational resources including guidebooks, presentations, and a history of other audio, video, and written assets for anyone wanting to learn more about nutrients and their health.
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November 26, 2018
A very good guide, with good recipes for those who are lactose and gluten intolerant like me.
February 21, 2025
After reading both the IBS for Dummies and IBS Cookbook for Dummies - I've discovered I dont have IBS but I love the ideas and the advice in both of these books.
May 31, 2013
This book was just not good. There is so much conflicting, bad and misleading information here.
This book recommends so many unhealthy foods and even foods which are known to cause a leaky gut issue or prevent you from healing it. This book is not really about healing gut issues, just modifying the symptoms slightly maybe.
This book thinks soy products including soy cheese are wonderful and also recommends rice milk and rice cheese, rice cakes, rice chips, canned soup, baked potato chips, instant oats, puffed cereal products and lots of other heavily processed, unhealthy, low-nutrient foods. Soy milk and cheese are not remotely healthy foods, as books like ‘The Whole Soy Story’ explain. Advising people to cut right back on sugar but then telling them to eat tons of white bread and refined carbs – which the body instantly turns into sugar/glucose – is illogical.
Highly allergenic foods such as soy milk are allowed on the 2 week dairy tolerances test diet, making the test useless and very misleading. Readers are told that if they don’t feel better avoiding dairy for two weeks they are safe to drink it again – but they completely ignore the huge possibility that drinking soy milk in this two weeks could easily account for a lack of improvement in many very dairy sensitive people.
A quiche recipe in this book uses egg whites only and also a bought pie crust. How healthy! Any nutrition book which is ignorant enough to tell you to throw out the yolk of an egg - the healthiest part of it and one of the healthiest foods we have albeit one surrounded by propaganda by the cholesterol myth supporters – well, fails as a nutritionist really. It is such ignorant advice. Use whole eggs to make a crustless quiche instead!
The raw food diet is recommended and the same old nonsense about how high the enzyme content is and how this means you’ll digest raw foods so easily. But it is absolute nonsense! Raw veggies are extremely difficult for those with digestive issues to digest, and can cause massive pain and bloating. It can feel like you have eaten rocks or pebbles to eat a bowl of raw veggies. Far easier to digest are slow cooked vegetables that are very soft such as those in soups and stews. Adding something that really is super high in enzymes such as homemade sauerkraut or kefir to your meal will help digestion significantly, but it is a myth that raw veggies do this. It’s quite the opposite.
There is a tiny amount of vitamin and mineral information, with a big focus on magnesium. There is also some information on herbs and also homeopathy and this information is given as much weight as the vitamin and mineral information. This could lead readers to waste all lots of time and money on these unnecessary extras rather than the essential vitamins and minerals which can actually treat the cause of a health issue and not just suppress or modify some symptoms.
Forget this book and look into the GAPS diet book instead or the book by Dr Sherry Rogers on healing your gut and identifying food allergies etc. or Primal Body Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas. They each run rings around this book and are very well referenced and solid.
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)
This book recommends so many unhealthy foods and even foods which are known to cause a leaky gut issue or prevent you from healing it. This book is not really about healing gut issues, just modifying the symptoms slightly maybe.
This book thinks soy products including soy cheese are wonderful and also recommends rice milk and rice cheese, rice cakes, rice chips, canned soup, baked potato chips, instant oats, puffed cereal products and lots of other heavily processed, unhealthy, low-nutrient foods. Soy milk and cheese are not remotely healthy foods, as books like ‘The Whole Soy Story’ explain. Advising people to cut right back on sugar but then telling them to eat tons of white bread and refined carbs – which the body instantly turns into sugar/glucose – is illogical.
Highly allergenic foods such as soy milk are allowed on the 2 week dairy tolerances test diet, making the test useless and very misleading. Readers are told that if they don’t feel better avoiding dairy for two weeks they are safe to drink it again – but they completely ignore the huge possibility that drinking soy milk in this two weeks could easily account for a lack of improvement in many very dairy sensitive people.
A quiche recipe in this book uses egg whites only and also a bought pie crust. How healthy! Any nutrition book which is ignorant enough to tell you to throw out the yolk of an egg - the healthiest part of it and one of the healthiest foods we have albeit one surrounded by propaganda by the cholesterol myth supporters – well, fails as a nutritionist really. It is such ignorant advice. Use whole eggs to make a crustless quiche instead!
The raw food diet is recommended and the same old nonsense about how high the enzyme content is and how this means you’ll digest raw foods so easily. But it is absolute nonsense! Raw veggies are extremely difficult for those with digestive issues to digest, and can cause massive pain and bloating. It can feel like you have eaten rocks or pebbles to eat a bowl of raw veggies. Far easier to digest are slow cooked vegetables that are very soft such as those in soups and stews. Adding something that really is super high in enzymes such as homemade sauerkraut or kefir to your meal will help digestion significantly, but it is a myth that raw veggies do this. It’s quite the opposite.
There is a tiny amount of vitamin and mineral information, with a big focus on magnesium. There is also some information on herbs and also homeopathy and this information is given as much weight as the vitamin and mineral information. This could lead readers to waste all lots of time and money on these unnecessary extras rather than the essential vitamins and minerals which can actually treat the cause of a health issue and not just suppress or modify some symptoms.
Forget this book and look into the GAPS diet book instead or the book by Dr Sherry Rogers on healing your gut and identifying food allergies etc. or Primal Body Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas. They each run rings around this book and are very well referenced and solid.
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)
April 16, 2017
Very helpful information.
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