Learn to Feel Better by Eating Better. The Diverticuliculitis Diet Cookbook will teach you how to prevent diverticulitis flareups from occurring. The book includes a 30 day meal plan and more than 110 easy to make, delicious recipes designed to heal your body. I would like to share with you my experience with Diverticular disease. Several years ago, my mother was diagnosed with Diverticulitis. We had never heard of this medical condition before, and at that time there was very little information about it. When we asked the doctor how to prevent a Diverticulitis attack from occurring again, his advice was don't eat nuts and seeds! Over the next few years, she followed her general practitioner's well-meaning advice, but still suffered several Diverticulitis attacks and had no relief from the pain. Sick and tired of the pain and being afraid of her next attack, both of us embarked on a journey to take her health into our own hands. Working with the esteemed Andrea Johnson, a well-known, registered clinical dietician and researcher, we developed a cookbook and meal plan that actually worked! The recipes were compiled based on their health value, high fiber content and because they taste really good. We wouldn't have been able to get my picky-eater mom to eat our recipes if they weren't absolutely yummy!! Not only that, they are easy to make. You don't have to be a master chef or have loads of time to prepare these meals.
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Denalee Bell is a health and wellness coach who helps people to achieve their health and fitness goals. An avid nutritional researcher, Bell is dedicated to teaching others how to take control of their health through nutrition and lifestyle changes. Her company, Healthy Living Company, offers coaching services for people who have a desire to increase their energy, decrease stress, and reach their healthy weight by natural means.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Wow, this cookbook is wonderful! My poor parents were each diagnosed with Diverticulitis and Diverticulosis and both went to the hospital prior to this diagnosis, with terrible pain. I ordered this book for them and prior to contrary belief, that eating seeds is never allowed. This book gives recipes and information that my doctor at the time did not keep himself up to date on. Mayo Clinic now has new information, so make sure your doctor recommends this book to others. The recipes are easy and fun and you don't have to eat bland or outrages fatty meals, that some doctors suggest after an attack. They both have been feeling so much better after using this book for the past month! This is a must by if you have any friends or family that have this. Great Christmas present! I am buying a few more as I am now 38 and I have friends that have been diagnosed now with this problem.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I reserve judgement on the book until after I recover from yet another attack. I do want to say that I totally disagree with the use of raspberries in one recipe, the big hard seeds in those nasty things are what started me along this path. Never again.
I will try some recipes and see if it helps when I recover.
But, I was hoping for some help with low residue eating during and after an attack and it would appear that the book is incomplete. I'm trying hard to recover and I want to cook for my family and make some good food that is easy on me. If I had authored this book, I would have had a beginning chapter with "attack help" and recipes for low residue foods that one can serve a family. It will be awhile before I can make any of the things in this book.
I'm sure lots of the recipes I will try are good ones but if you want something to help cure you when you
are in pain, this is not the book.
I don't mean to sound really negative as perhaps this book will help me down the road, but when you are in pain and have just stopped antibiotics and are sick of the same old stuff, it would be nice to have something that could address recovery needs. I'm having a hard time knowing when to reintroduce fiber and how mow. I just got the book from Amazon in today's mail, so maybe I'm being too hard on it too soon, but I did want to share my initial reaction. I need help NOW... not a month or two from now when I am better.
I will try some recipes and see if it helps when I recover.
But, I was hoping for some help with low residue eating during and after an attack and it would appear that the book is incomplete. I'm trying hard to recover and I want to cook for my family and make some good food that is easy on me. If I had authored this book, I would have had a beginning chapter with "attack help" and recipes for low residue foods that one can serve a family. It will be awhile before I can make any of the things in this book.
I'm sure lots of the recipes I will try are good ones but if you want something to help cure you when you
are in pain, this is not the book.
I don't mean to sound really negative as perhaps this book will help me down the road, but when you are in pain and have just stopped antibiotics and are sick of the same old stuff, it would be nice to have something that could address recovery needs. I'm having a hard time knowing when to reintroduce fiber and how mow. I just got the book from Amazon in today's mail, so maybe I'm being too hard on it too soon, but I did want to share my initial reaction. I need help NOW... not a month or two from now when I am better.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Overall I found this book worth the money. The recipes I've tried so far have all been quite yummy and easy; however, since a great deal of people don't trust that nuts and seeds aren't off limits for diverticulitis sufferers, there should be less recipes that contain nuts and seeds. Also, since the whole point of a diverticulitis diet is fiber, it would be helpful if the recipes indicated which ingredients contain fiber.
Probably my biggest complaint about the book is portion size / nutrition information. For instance, there's a snack recipe that has the nutrition information for 1/20 of the recipe. This means that when you make the recipe you have to do your best to divide it up into 20 equal size portions - not the easiest way to measure portions. It would be significantly easier if the portion sizes were by cup size (or bar size for granola bars and desserts, etc.). There are some gray areas about nutrition information, like the guacamole and chips. First there's the recipe for the guac, then there's the nutrition information, then there's the recipe for the chips...Is the nutrition information for just the guac, or is it for the guac and the chips? I think some of the calorie information may be figured a little on the low side. The greek chicken and pasta was beyond yummy, but that recipe says it makes six portions. Six portions of that recipe are HUGE, so I can't completely believe that the calorie count per serving is accurate.
When you buy this book through Amazon or another etrader, there's a website shown in the beginning of the book where you can go with the receipt number and get a low residue diet to follow when you're having an active diverticulitis flare-up which is very helpful.
This book is definitely a good starting point.
Probably my biggest complaint about the book is portion size / nutrition information. For instance, there's a snack recipe that has the nutrition information for 1/20 of the recipe. This means that when you make the recipe you have to do your best to divide it up into 20 equal size portions - not the easiest way to measure portions. It would be significantly easier if the portion sizes were by cup size (or bar size for granola bars and desserts, etc.). There are some gray areas about nutrition information, like the guacamole and chips. First there's the recipe for the guac, then there's the nutrition information, then there's the recipe for the chips...Is the nutrition information for just the guac, or is it for the guac and the chips? I think some of the calorie information may be figured a little on the low side. The greek chicken and pasta was beyond yummy, but that recipe says it makes six portions. Six portions of that recipe are HUGE, so I can't completely believe that the calorie count per serving is accurate.
When you buy this book through Amazon or another etrader, there's a website shown in the beginning of the book where you can go with the receipt number and get a low residue diet to follow when you're having an active diverticulitis flare-up which is very helpful.
This book is definitely a good starting point.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not what I expected
I bought the book expecting a little more info on the medical condition. This "thin" book contains about 1 paragraph on the condition (which you can see in the sample pages on... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Penny Lazalde
waste of money
I got more information on the internet while waiting for my cookbook to arrive. Also found a website that sends a recipe-a-day (for diverticulitis sufferers)free of charge. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Meema
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