The Yeast Connection Cookbook [antikvár]

ForewordAs a health care team involved in diagnosing, treating and counseling people with candida-related health problems, vv^e've helped many patients by changing their diets. Yet, accomplishing needed changes is a difficult task not only for the patientbut for the physician and nurse as well. Fortunately, this book by William Crook, M.D., and Marjorie Hurt Jones, R.N., helps to answer this difficult and perplexing question.This book is clearly written, well organized and richly illustrated; it helps the person with candida-related health problems, including those with food sensitivities, answer the question "What foods can I eat and which ones must I avoid?"In addition. Crook and Jones offer practical guidance on a wide variety of dietary issues through an easy-to-understand question-and-answer format. Although dietary advice is given in general terms, we feel this book also addresses the unique needs of individual patients with their own nutritional requirements and allergic profile. This is unfortunately not often the case with many diet cookbooks.We personally feel this book also puts the anti-candida diet in proper perspective. In our experience, most patients with Candida-Related Complex also suffer from other sensitivitiesoften to other common foods or food additives. Patients often narrow their diet to avoid obvious food allergens, without properly diversifying their diet. This carries a threefold risk of poor nutrition, new food sensitization and boredom.We think one of the most outstanding features of this book is the emphasis on diversification of foods. A wide variety of foods not only offers optimal nutrition, but lessens the likelihood of new food sensitivities from developing in the future.Food diversification is emphasized through the extensive recipe section, which offers many recipes for the allergic patient in search of good nutritional hypoallergenic meals. Recipes that are offered are personally appetizing and interesting as well. Recipes are given for difficult situations such as breakfast planning. A particularly helpful section on food preparation is offered for those unaccus-