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How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis: More Than 200 Healthy, Delicious Recipes the Whole Family Will Love |  | Author: Brenda Roscher
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581825927
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.3440654
EAN: 9781581825923
ASIN: 1581825927
Publication Date: September 10, 2007
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Product Description
How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis is a cookbook for anyone who suffers from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, not to be confused with irritable bowel syndrome) or cooks for someone who has the disease. While there is no known cure for Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, their symptoms can be controlled in part by following the dietary guidelines of the American Dietetic Association and those outlined in Dr. Fred Saibil's Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Everything You Need to Know and by other experts.
Brenda Roscher provides sound nutritional advice and outlines the unique dietary needs of people with IBD, showing how to incorporate this information to make healthy choices about which foods to eat.
The recipes in How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis are designed for the home cook, with easy-to-understand directions and ingredients found in local grocery stores. Because they are simple, many of the recipes can be prepared quickly, which makes them convenient for busy cooks. Finally, the recipes are designed with families in mind, to create meals that everyone can enjoy.
How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis also contains informative sidebars on such topics as: Tips on Dining Out, Organic vs. Non-Organic Foods, How to Read a Nutrition Label, Kneading Bread Dough, and Tips on Skimming Fat from Broth. It also contains a reading list for anyone who wants to learn more about IBD and nutrition, plus a comprehensive index.
The recipes are organized into the following categories: appetizers, chili-chowders-soups, salads and salad dressings, sandwiches, breads savory and sweet, beef and pork, poultry, fish and seafood, past and sauces, side dishes, condiments and sweets.
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 Taking Advantage of Crohn's Sufferers, Once Again January 6, 2010
S. Williams
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm sad to speak ill of a fellow Crohnie, but Brenda Rocher is doing the same thing most people do with Crohn's cookbooks: irresponsibly generalizing. Like a few other reviewers, I picked this book up thinking, "Ooh, recipes without insoluble fiber or complex sugars," but nope. It's just your typical "as long as it's low fat and talks about nutrition a lot, it's a Crohn's diet," book. I couldn't believe it when I saw recipes calling for ingredients that are known, common agitators for Crohn's - red bell peppers, beans, tomatoes, white sugar, just to name a few.
Crohn's disease has notoriously immense inconsistencies from patient to patient; while I cannot eat any raw vegetables, popcorn, spices or sugar, a good friend of mine with Crohn's could not eat any grains but all the vegetables he wanted. I have trouble losing weight (hello, all-carb diet!) and he had trouble gaining it. The problem here is that there is NO SUCH THING as a Crohn's cookbook. You can only be guided through establishing your own boundaries for food, something this book doesn't help with. It really freaks me out to think about family members buying this book for their loved ones with Crohn's and thinking, see, if you just ate right, you'd be all better! It's like telling someone with severe diabetes that if they could just regulate their blood sugar, they'd be fine. It's a hell of a lot more complicated than that.
 Just as promised November 27, 2009
Susan R. Dager (Fortuna, CA)
My son, who likes to cook and has colitis, found a new lifestyle with this book.
Misguided advice makes it worse than useless September 8, 2009
J. Seidman (Illinois, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The recipes in this book are standard cookbook fare. If you can eat spicy Creole dishes and a tossed salad with baby spinach, tomatoes, and sliced onion, you hardly need a special cookbook! If you can't eat those things, you'll be picking through this looking for appropriate recipes just as you would with any other cookbook.
The only difference between Roscher's recipes and traditional versions lies in her paranoid avoidance of saturated fat. For example, she recommends replacing butter with a butter/canola oil blend to reduce saturated fat. Bad advice for anyone with a diseased ileum: the shorter fat chains in butter are much easier to absorb than the longer fats in canola oil.
Not being a doctor or dietitian, she's also bought into some ridiculous health hype. She recommends that we use only omega-3 eggs. She clearly hasn't done the research to learn that the omega-3 fat in those eggs is mostly ALA, which has very little health value. (Like many non-professionals, she may have been confused by a study about liquid eggs enriched with the important omega-3 fats DHA and EPA, a totally different product from in-shell omega-3 eggs.) Given the high medical costs many of us suffer, I don't appreciate suggestions like these that simply waste money.
You can get recipes and bad nutritional advice for free on the Web, so there's really no reason to pay for this book.
 Crohn's Cooking July 4, 2009
Linda Brackett (Green Valley, AZ USA)
The cookbook is very informative and the meals look very easy to plan and make. Picture of the menus looks very inviting.
Title is a misnomer! March 21, 2009
SuzzyM (New York, NY United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. It is terrible, and completely not as advertised. The title led me to think that this was a book of recipes for those suffering flareups of Crohn's or ulcerative colitis. However, most of the recipes have ingredients that are NOT good for IBD patients at least during flare-ups. Red meat, frying, spices and insoluble fiber are spread throughout these recipes and anyone who knows anything about this knows that these are not advised. Maybe these things work for you Brenda, and that's great, but they don't work for everyone and at a minimum, your book does not really give full disclosure on this. I would suggest that the next edition have a better more accurate title and better disclaimers on the individual to individual variation in ability to tolerate the types of food ingredients I have noted here.
For a really GOOD book for IBD patients, I'd refer you all to What to Eat with IBD by Tracie Dalessandro, MS, RD, CDN. She really gets it right.
Happy eating and recovery all.
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