Cooking for the Sensitive Gut: Delicious, soothing, healthy recipes for every day

by Dr Joan Ransley, Dr Nick Read

Overview

About one in five of the population are intolerant to the food that they eat. Most have sensitivities to a range of different foods making preparing food a nightmare and sitting down to a meal can be torture.

What can they eat without getting ill or running the risk of nutritional deficiency? What can they cook for their family and friends? Cooking for the Sensitive Gut is the perfect guide to how you can restrict the ingredients that cause you problems and still prepare a whole range of recipes that are simple and fun to cook and delicious to eat.

From fresh and healthy breakfast ideas, to wholesome mains such as Butternut Squash and Coconut Laksa, cooking for the sensitive gut has never been so easy. Straightforward and authoritative advice from a gastroenterologist and nutritionist means it's never been so easy to learn how to treat your tummy well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911624103
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/03/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,082,728
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Joan Ransley is a nutrionist, cook, food writer and honorary lecturer in Nutrition at the University of Leeds. She is an active member of the Guild of Food Writers, writes a column on food, nutrition and cookery in the Yorkshire Post.

Dr Nick Read is a gastroenterologist and a psychotherapist. For many years he was Professor of Human Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Physiology at Sheffield University before becoming Professor of Integrated Medicine. He is the Chair and Medical Adviser for The IBS Network, an independent charity that supports, informs and advises people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and facilitates the concept of self care of IBS in the community. He has a longstanding interest in food and cooking.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

You are what you eat 8

How the gut works 10

What is a sensitive gut? 16

What upsets a sensitive gut? 18

Managing your sensitive gut 24

Eating for a senstitive gut 25

Why 'cooking for the sensitive gut'? 27

Gut-friendly foods 30

Basics 35

Bread 50

Breakfast 58

Mains 72

Fish 73

Meat 96

Vegetarian 114

Side dishes 136

Puddings and cakes 142

Drinks 162

DIY herb teas 170

Index 172

IBS Network 174

Footnote references 175

Suppliers 175

Additional resources 175

Acknowledgements 176