Product Description

The recipe for improving the quality of your life with IBD… What you eat can make a big difference in how well you live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Since poor-nutrition, and even malnutrition, is common among people afflicted with the disease, it’s essential that IBD sufferers eat a well-balanced diet. If you’re confused by the often conflicting information about what you should and shouldn’t eat, it’s time to finally get the facts. Guiding you through the maze of diet and nutrition, this comprehensive nutritional primer gives you the practical knowledge necessary to make wise food choices-in addition to over 75 delicious recipes and valuable techniques for incorporating nutritious foods into your diet. In this important guide, you’ll find out:

• Why people suffering from IBD need good nutrition. Learn the function of essential nutrients in the body and the reasons for malabsorption of nutrients in IBD sufferers.
• How to make it easy to eat a balanced diet. Discover over 75 easy and appetizing recipes, tables listing food sources of key nutrients, ideas on food preparation, and tips for retaining the optimum nutrition. There’s also a section on vitamin/mineral and other types of commercial supplements.
• If you are a candidate for a high fiber, restricted lactose, or other type of modified diet, learn the symptoms and situations that may apply to you. Sample menus show you how to adjust your diet and maintain a balanced nutritional intake.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1451055 in Books
• Published on: 1992-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
The author offers comprehensive nutritional and dietary guidance for those who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in order to reinforce the importance of eating well; provide practical information necessary to make wise food choices and to promote the achievement of good nutrition. Topics such as normal digestion and absorption; essential nutrients and their role in relationship to IBD; excellent dietary sources and methods for incorporating them into the individual's diet are thoroughly explored. Packed with recipes, food lists, tables, charts, an extensive resource section plus advice on how to select/contact a nutrition professional.

From the Back Cover
The recipe for improving the quality of your life with IBD… What you eat can make a big difference in how well you live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Since poor-nutrition, and even malnutrition, is common among people afflicted with the disease, it’s essential that IBD sufferers eat a well-balanced diet. If you’re confused by the often conflicting information about what you should and shouldn’t eat, it’s time to finally get the facts. Guiding you through the maze of diet and nutrition, this comprehensive nutritional primer gives you the practical knowledge necessary to make wise food choices-in addition to over 75 delicious recipes and valuable techniques for incorporating nutritious foods into your diet. In this important guide, you’ll find out:

• Why people suffering from IBD need good nutrition. Learn the function of essential nutrients in the body and the reasons for malabsorption of nutrients in IBD sufferers.
• How to make it easy to eat a balanced diet. Discover over 75 easy and appetizing recipes, tables listing food sources of key nutrients, ideas on food preparation, and tips for retaining the optimum nutrition. There’s also a section on vitamin/mineral and other types of commercial supplements.
• If you are a candidate for a high fiber, restricted lactose, or other type of modified diet, learn the symptoms and situations that may apply to you. Sample menus show you how to adjust your diet and maintain a balanced nutritional intake.

About the Author
JAN K. GREENWOOD, R.D.N., C.N.S.D., is a Clinical Dietician/ Nutritionist at Vancouver General Hospital, British Columbia. She is a winner of the 1990 Ross Award for her outstanding contribution to clinical dietetics.

Customer Reviews

Author Doesn't Know Much About Subject
I could tell right away that the author, a general nutritionist, knew little about IBD before being commissioned to write this book. There's a little text (rather stiffly written) at the beginning that sounds like the boilerplate stuff you'd find in any introductory book on IBD. Most of the book, though, is made up of recipes, which don't sound much different from recipes you'd find in any cookbook. All in all, not a good match between writer and subject.

Some good ideas and recipes - a little technical
Unlike Dr. Scala's book, this book actually does address the topic of inflammatory bowel disease as it pertains to nutrition and Greenwood does a good, if technical job, of outlining the major issues of nutrition in the role of IBD. She outlines numerous diets for different IBD situations and has many recipes available (pretty much the bulk of the book). My criticism centers around two points: 1) for me as a vegetarian, many of the diets were inaccessible due to their reliance on meat (a common occurrence in IBD books since meat is very low-residue) and 2) the recipes are very hard to read since she has detailed metric and standard measurements (which are laid out oddly) and each recipe is followed by a very technical breakdown of its elements - even to the kilojoule of energy! If you are a carnivore, I think this could be a very useful book to have - or at least to read.

Does NOT work for me.
The recipes have milk and cheese -- IBD makes many people lactose intolerant. Also, recipes include nuts and mayo and beans, etc. Virtually no recipes I can have. This book may work for someone, but it was a big disappointment for me.

The Heather Van Vorous book, Eating for IBS, is great.