If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Nutrition You Can Live with (Tell Me What to Eat) [Paperback]

Elaine Magee (Author)

Book Description

Series: Tell Me What to Eat | Publication Date: August 2000

If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), you must be pretty familiar with the link between your condition and nutrition. Instead of adding another voice to the chorus of people telling you what you shouldn't eat, Elaine Magee gives you positive advice about what foods you should be having almost every day.

Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome begins with an overview of IBS. Readers get a detailed yet completely understandable picture of the disease- a picture that is based on the latest medical information. Readers gain a better understanding of what IBS is and what they can do to limit the impact of its symptoms.

Also included are dozens of healthful, mouth-watering recipes, plus supermarket and restaurant advice and sample weekly menu plans that are totally grounded in reality.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Books in the Tell Me What to Eat series inform readers not only about what foods are good (or bad) for them, but explain what causes the problem, the symptoms, and what they can do about it. In this volume, after those issues are discussed, there is a chapter entitled, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask Your Dietician about IBS,” which includes questions about lactose intolerance and whether IBS can lead to colon cancer. The next chapter offers 10 food-related steps to freedom; readers are advised to keep food diaries and limit high-fat meals. Practical advice, such as suggestions of what to eat at various restaurants, is present throughout, and students will learn more about fiber than most teens could swallow, literally or figuratively. Magee, who writes a column called “The Recipe Doctor,” also suffers from bouts of IBS, and her friendly tone brings readers into the book, despite a somewhat dull format. A list of books and Web sites where students can find more information is appended. Grades 8-12. --Ilene Cooper --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

About the Author

Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, is the author of the celebrated syndicated column, "The Recipe Doctor." She is a frequent guest on Portland's morning show, "AM North-west." Elaine is a regular contributor to Parenting magazine and the author of 10 previous books on nutrition and cooking, including the best-selling Fight Fat and Win as well as the three previous books in the Tell Me What to Eat Series: Tell Me What to Eat to Help Prevent Breast Cancer, Tell Me What to Eat As I Approach Menopause, and Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Diabetes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 137 pages
• Publisher: Career Press (August 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564144445
• ISBN-13: 978-1564144447
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #323,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Irritable Bowel Syndrome

More About the Author

I'm THE RECIPE DOCTOR and my motto is...changing the way America eats, one recipe at a time! My other motto is...healthy food isn't going to do anyone any good if no ones eating it--it HAS to taste good and be easy to make.

So, are you with me? I spent a year researching all the research examples of FOOD SYNERGY (how components within food and between food work together in your body for maximum health benefit) and the result was one of my favorite books: FOOD SYNERGY (Rodale, 2008). If you don't have a lot of time, read the introduction and go straight to chapter 7. This chapter will blow your mind...it's the "aha" chapter and it puts everything together and shows you how the 10 synergy superfoods can transform your diet. The rest of the book is filled with fun and easy to make recipes and each recipe includes "food synergy notes" which list for you the various food synergy partnerships represented in that recipe (and there are usually at least 3 in each).

My next book is coming out in Spring 2010, TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I SUFFER FROM HEART DISEASE, and it's going to help anyone who is at risk of heart disease or has heart disease. I'm really excited about this book because it includes and makes sense of the latest research advancements. I had several well known cardiologists review the book and I'm thrilled that they loved it and thought it would help their patients greatly.

On a lighter note... I often get asked what my favorite type of cooking is and hands down it's good old homestyle cooking...you know...fruit crisps, lasagna, oven-fried chicken, chocolate chip cookies, etc. Nothing too fancy, just delicious! So, imagine how much fun I had working on my cookbooks "Comfort Food Makeovers" and "Fry Light, Fry Right!."

I love to "makeover" all your favorite recipes into healthful versions that taste just as great but have less calories, fat, and saturated fat and more smart fats (like omega-3s), and fiber and nutrients.

Please join my FREE Recipe Doctor club where I email you one of my all-time favorite recipe makeovers each month (just go to my website, www.recipedoctor.com and look in the upper right-hand corner).

If you've made it this far down the page, I'll let you in on a little secret--My big professional hope is to have a cooking show (a healthy one of course). In my books I try to write so that you feel like I'm right there with you holding your hand as we talk about whatever the subject of the book is (diabetes, menopause, IBS, etc...) Maybe with a cooking show, I really can be there with you!

Customer Reviews

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82 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book if it's not the only one you read., August 28, 2002

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Sue Cummings (Kalispell, MT USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Nutrition You Can Live with (Tell Me What to Eat) (Paperback)

This book focuses too much on just fiber and not enough on the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber. Insoluble fiber and even a low-fat meal can be a deadly combination for an IBS sufferer. The recipes that the author considers invaluable for an IBS diet contain fat that is far in excess of what I could tolerate. I have a master's degree in nutrition and have also studied food chemistry and baking properties. There are other alternatives to the relativly high-fat and high insoluble fiber that this author recommends.

56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars same ole, same ole, July 28, 2001

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This review is from: If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Nutrition You Can Live with (Tell Me What to Eat) (Paperback)

I read two books on IBS today. One, Good Food for Bad Stomachs by Dr. Henry Janowitz was excellent. Tell Me What To Eat was just another book that tells us to eat more bran -- which is often exactly the wrong thing to do if you have IBS - diarrhea and is often not the right thing to do if you have alternating constipation and diarrhea. And, there is only token coverage of IBS - diarrhea.

There really is a need for accurate information from a registered dietician on IBS. Unfortunately, this isn't it.

80 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Same useless information, September 8, 2000

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Teddi (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Nutrition You Can Live with (Tell Me What to Eat) (Paperback)

I am so tired of reading IBS books that promise to help and don't deliver. The book had the standard "eat bran" and "keep a food diary" advice that my doctor gave. This doesn't help me. I also don't want recipes for hamburgers and alfredo sauce when I KNOW that high fat foods make me sick. The author claims she has IBS but if she eats the way this book suggests I doubt it. I didn't learn anything new or helpful for controlling my symptoms.