Food Allergy Field Guide : A Lifestyle Manual for Families [Paperback]

Theresa Willingham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2000

Eat Different without Seeming Different.
Help for Children Who Can't Eat Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Corn, Soy, or Nuts.

That's the goal of this positive, upbeat guide for the families and caregivers of children with food allergies, which helps families and children learn manage food sensitivities to wheat, dairy, eggs, corn, peanuts, soy, and other common food allergens in an empowering way.


Written by a mother whose child can't eat wheat or dairy, this book offers practical advice for families of allergic or celiac children, including:

• Latest research and discoveries on food sensitivities
• Advice on reading labels, grocery shopping, and eating out
•  Tips on emotional, social, and psychological considerations so your child doesn't feel set apart from others by his food sensitivities
• Pointers to help your child enjoy parties, field trips, and outings
• How to avoid hidden food allergens (Did you know that licorice contains wheat?)
• 100 kid-tested & approved recipes that make your child's food look and taste just like everyone else's

Plus valuable cooking advice on successfully using substitutes for wheat, gluten, dairy, or eggs. (For example, did you know that flaxseed meal boiled in water makes a great egg substitute in baking?)

Extensive resources such as mail-order addresses for hard-to-find ingredients, Internet sites, and discussion groups.

The end result is one convenient, easy-to-read, resource-filled volume gleaned from parents of food-sensitive children around the world, as well as the children themselves, who have found that a diet that doesn't make them sick shouldn't make them feel different, either.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Breezy, uplifting, yet “meaty” and informative. -- Nancy Carol Sanker, OTR, Director of Educational Support Groups, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)

I ... agree with one main goal of this resource, which is to help your child ‘eat differently without feeling different.’ -- Janet Rinehart, Chairman, Houston Celiac Sprue Support Group, and Past President, National CSA/USA, Inc.

This book will be a welcome addition to references recommended by health care professionals to their food-sensitive patients. -- Kenneth Fine, M.D., Intestinal Health Institute, FinerHealth and Nutrition

From the Publisher

Some things are inevitable. When Carol Fenster, Ph.D., discovered she couldn’t eat wheat ten years ago, she started her own publishing company to share her wheat-free living skills with others. When author Theresa (Terri) Willingham learned her son, Chris, was gluten-intolerant, she wrote a book about raising a healthy, gluten-free child. It was inevitable that the two would eventually meet. They collaborated and the end result is Savory Palate’s fourth book: Food Allergy Field Guide: A Lifestyle Manual for Families.

“Terri and I know we need more books for children with food sensitivities which, according to the Centers for Disease Control, affect 1 in every 6 children,” says Fenster, who has authored three books of her own. “This is especially true for Celiac Disease, a form of gluten-intolerance that was presumed to be quite rare but is now thought to affect as many as one in every 120 children (University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2000).” Gluten, a protein in wheat, barley, rye, and spelt, is the culprit because it prevents celiacs from absorbing nutrients from food. The result is malnutrition, anemia, small stature, and other complications.

Terri knows from first-hand experience what it's like to raise a child with food sensitivities. “I focus on helping families manage children’s food sensitivities, especially helping them to “eat different without seeming different”, says Willingham. “Children want to fit in and sometimes a special diet sets them apart.” She offers practical advice to build a child’s “health-esteem” while assuring that the child and family, friends, school, and other caregivers are prepared to handle the occasions in a child’s life––school events, parties, field trips, and eating out.

Savory Palate Press is proud to add the Food Allergy Field Guide to its list of offerings for those with food sensitivities. Physicians, dietitians, nutritionists, and ohter health professionals welcomed the new book with praises, saying it was a valuable addition to resources they recommend for food-sensitive families.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Savory Palate; 1 edition (September 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889374075
• ISBN-13: 978-1889374079
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a writer and photographer, I strive to create thought provoking and informative content that inspires community engagement, and empowers individuals to live intentionally and meaningfully in our world, which is also my own personal goal in life.

My professional writing career spans more than twenty-five years. My first book, The Food Allergy Field Guide: A Lifestyle Manual For Families, was released in its second edition in 2006. My second book, the Florida Allergy Handbook, published by University Press of Florida, is due out spring 2012. A third book, the Power of Love Notes, is currently in progress.

I also have more than eight years experience in non-profit Knowledge Management, serving on the Board of Directors of Learning is for Everyone as both vice president and president for the last four years, working with the FIRST Tech Challenge organization in Florida as Communications Coordinator for the last two years, and current Assistant Regional Director of FIRST in in Central Florida. I am also lead curator for TEDxYouth@TampaBay 2010 and 2011.

Visit my website at www.TMWillingham.com to see more of my work.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Handbook for People With Food Sensitivities, November 13, 2000

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Dr. J. Abbott (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Food Allergy Field Guide : A Lifestyle Manual for Families (Paperback)

I have read the Food Allergy Field Guide and I believe the author has provided a wonderful resource of information for parents of food sensitive children or anyone coping day to day with a food allergy or food intolerance. The book's clear and easy reading style makes it my first choice when recommending literature on the subject of living comfortably with a food sensitivity. There are wonderful stories, tips, substitution tables, and recipes, all underscored by a rich collection of footnoted references.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Up-to-date information on food sensitivities, March 2, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Food Allergy Field Guide : A Lifestyle Manual for Families (Paperback)

Food Allergy Field Guide: A Lifestyle Manual For Families offers practical, "reader friendly", up-to-date information on food sensitivities; advice on reading labels, grocery shopping, eating out for those with food allergies; tips on emotional, social and psychology considerations stemming from food allergies; pointers for parents on helping their food allergy sensitive child to enjoy parties, field trips, and outings; how to detect hidden food allergies; one hundred kid-tested and approved recipes along with valuable cooking advice; and an extensive resource list. Food Allergy Field Guide is a "must" for anyone who must deal with food allergies for themselves or members of their families -- especially their children.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and Reassuring, November 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Food Allergy Field Guide : A Lifestyle Manual for Families (Paperback)

The Food Allergy Field Guide is one of the most comprehensive books of its type that I've ever seen. Since we're dealing with a couple of different food sensitivities in our family, it's great to have a one stop resource for shopping, eating out and cooking. It puts food sensitivities in the right perspective, too, reminding us that having a food sensitivity isn't the end of the world, but can be the start of a whole new world of healthy eating. I find that very reassuring and comforting.