IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME - THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE by Sarah Dawson
50 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY TO MANAGE IBS by Wendy Green
EAT TO BEAT IBS by Dr Sarah Brewer & Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
SICK AND TIRED by Dr Nick Read
HARD TO STOMACH by Dr John McKenna
STOP BELLY ACHING by Dr Peter Mansfield
Also see :-
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF FOOD COMBINING by Kathryn Marsden – in Food Combining section
BOOKS
Irritable Bowel Syndrome – The Essential Guide by Sarah Dawson
This informative guide from Need 2 Know Books explains everything you might need to know after you have been diagnosed with IBS. Because Irritable Bowel Syndrome is an umbrella term for all sorts of symptoms relating to disturbance in the bowel, the sufferer needs to be proactive in finding a solution that eases his/her own symptoms, and this is where The Essential Guide comes in handy. This book guides sufferers from spotting their IBS through to getting treatment.
The guide includes a diary to help you map your diet and symptoms, plus chapters on what IBS actually is, who is prone to the symptoms and what causes it. Because IBS could relate to more serious irregularities in the bowel it is essential to go and see your doctor, but you will also need to regulate your diet and make other changes to your personal life.
With chapters on food and nutrition, some useful recipes, and some management techniques, Irritable Bowel Syndrome – The Essential Guide is a useful book for anyone who has just been diagnosed with IBS.
Sarah Dawson is a freelance journalist who has suffered from IBS since the age of 19, and after trying many different remedies has settle on yoga and stress management as the most effective antidote to her own IBS symptoms.
Recommended price: £8.99
Available from: Need-2-Know Books: ISBN 978-1-86144-073-0
01733 898 103 or sales@n2kbooks.com
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50 things you can do today to manage IBS by Wendy Green
For a condition that can be hard to diagnose, this pocket-sized book has chapters on the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, how to determine whether you may have IBS and even a check list to take to your GP. She includes lists of foods to be avoided, and foods that may help, kitchen cupboard remedies like caraway seed and cardamom, many different types of medication, complementary therapies that you can try yourself and some ideas for reducing the stress in your life that may contribute to IBS.
The last couple of chapters contain a glossary of unfamiliar terms, a list of useful books and relevant organisations from which to seek advice, as well as a chapter of useful products that may help with the symptoms of IBS.
Wendy Green’s 50 things you can do today to manage IBS is an invaluable and concise reference book.
Published by Summersdale RRP £5.99
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Eat to Beat IBS by Dr Sarah Brewer & Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Dr Sarah Brewer investigates what IBS actually 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
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Sick and Tired by
Dr Nick Read
Dr Nick Read on the many conditions that seem to defy modern medical
science.
Dr 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, souls and
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
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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
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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
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