EAT TO BEAT IBS by Dr Sarah Brewer & Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Dr Sarah Brewer investigates what IBSactually is and why you may get it. She
then suggests ways to control symptoms, useful supplements and gives some sensible
dietary and lifestyle advice. Her suggestions are filled out with 60 delicious
recipes by Foods Matter editor, Michelle Berriedale Johnson.
Published by Thorsons - ISBN - 0-00-712413-9
Recommended Retail Price: £9.99
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SICK AND TIRED
Dr Nick Read on the many conditions that seem to defy modern medical
science
Dr Nick Read has spent many years
working with irritable bowel syndrome patients and although IBS
is not the subject of his new book, it is typical of the conditions
that he writes about.
Dr Read has long favoured a psychotherapeutic approach to intractable
conditions such as IBS, seeing the condition as a sickness of both
spirit and body. The
more conventional medical approach seeks a purely physical or organ- based
cause for the condition - which, in many cases, simply does not
exist.
And this is the thesis on which Sick and Tired is based. Although we are living
longer and the rates of identifiable disease continue to fall, increasing numbers
of us are suffering from debilitating conditions - IBS, ME, post-traumatic
stress disorder and many more - which our GPs are unable to cure.
Dr Read calls these ‘functional’ illnesses and sees their causes
as rooted in modern lifestyles: our disconnection from our local communities,
and often even our
native countries,
the breakdown of individual family groups and the family support network, the
replacement of cultural and spiritual values and aspirations by purely material
ones.
This is not in any way to suggest that ‘functional’ illnesses are
not real physical illness - but that their cause lies not in some organ failure
or acquired virus, but in the disquiet of the minds, soulsand
spirits of the sufferers. Because mind, body and spirit are inextricably linked,
spiritual disquiet causes a physical disquiet which manifests as IBS, allergies,
ME
or degenerative conditions like arthritis or MS.
Only by recognising this link and tackling the underlying spiritual malaise
along with the physical symptoms of illness can this epidemic be stemmed.
Sick and Tired is an inspiring book and will, hopefully, encourage both practitioners
and patients to search deeper and more holistically for the cause of their
illness.
For practitioners and the medically minded, there are over 60 pages of references
and notes.
Sick
and Tired published by Orion Books @ £16.99
ISBN 0-297-60705-7
HARD TO STOMACH by Dr John McKenna
Naturopaths have always seen a poorly functioning digestion as the root cause
of most health problems and John McKenna, conventional doctor turned naturopath,
is no exception. In this fascinating book he looks at how digestive function
can be disrupted not only by outside agents such as bacteria or antibiotics,
but by long term stress and emotional problems - a disruption which can, in
turn, lead to anything from aching joints to poor memory.
The commonest digestive disorders he sees as dysbiosis (when good gut flora
are outnumbered by bad), fermentation, parasites, leaky gut syndrome, and food
intolerances.
Conventional diagnostic techniques are invasive and yet fail to reach the small
intestine, where the serious work of digestion takes place and where problems
are most likely to arise. Dr McKenna's diagnoses depend on examination, history
and saliva, urine and stool.
Treatment is equally non invasive – diet, natural remedies, probiotics,
and herbal, vitamin and mineral supplements. Easy to read, easy to grasp and
easy, once you put your mind to it, to put into practice.
Published by New Leaf - ISBN 0-7171-3369-9
Recommended retail price: £ 8.99
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STOP BELLY ACHING by Dr Peter Mansfield
An excellent, easily read but thought provoking addition to the library of
IBS book to be found on most shelves these days.
Returning to the medical authorities of the late 19th and early to mid 20th
century who so clearly saw a direct relationship between what their patients
ate, drank, breathed and did, and their health, Peter Mansfield follows the
rise of chemical medicine, denatured and processed food and our declining health
through from the 1950s to today.
A lucid explanation of the digestive journey of our food through the gut is
followed by manageable dietary suggestions which share the principles which
underlie food combining. An A-Z of relevant foods and practical suggestions
for eating out and special diets complete the book.
Published by Souvenir Press - ISBN - 0-285-63618-9
Recommended Retail Price: £9.99
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Also see -
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF FOOD COMBINING by Kathryn Marsden – in Food Combining section
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