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# Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Life saver.
  

*by C***O on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2013*

This book is a must for healthy eating, my son was very ill, if I hadn't come across this book I don't know where he would have ended up. He had diarrahoea, infact it was like water, he lost over a stone in weight in the space of a few weeks, and nearly made me ill with the worry of it all.  Until I read this book, and I should point out I go back to it for reference over and over again, that I've had to order another copy as the pages are now coming loose.I couldn't believe the advice was quite simple and yet very effective, and Elaine Gottschall the biochemist whos advice was to say, was a life saver.  In my sons case I cut out mostly refined sugar, and fed my son mainly meat, fish, eggs, and home made yoghurt (24 hour yoghurt to get rid of the sugar) and bananas which I found out by the book are really digestable when they go spotty, Simple things like this helped out. I didn't realise eating sugar and the foods which this book tells you about could be so bad for you. It shows you how to feed the good bacteria, and lessen the bad bacteria. The book is an eye opener to say the least.I recommed this book, it's really worth reading and maybe make some notes as you go through it, or pencil in or dog ear the pages, so you can refer back to them without spending too much time looking for the advice again that you require.If you've got celiac, colitis, IBS, Autism, these sort of illnesses then this book is for you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    better than countless visits to the doctor!
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2002*

I have been ill with stomach problems for a good few years now and as anyone who experiences similar things will know, this really gets you down when there doesn't seem to be a solution. The diet contained in this book worked wonders for me after my body had got over the inital adjustment period of about 5 days. I felt like I had much more energy, the stomach pains had gone, my whole digestive system worked better and I generally felt a lot less sluggish aith fewer headaches. I would recommend it to anyone who is as sick of struggling on trying to sort out their health problems as I was. It does take a bit of adjustment - appetite, food preparation and purchasing, etc., but it's worth it. I started to notice a marked difference after a month, and stayed on it for 3 months. I repeated it after returning to normal foods for about 18 months and it has worked again. A nice side-effect is weight loss, although that is not my motivation.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Educational, but listen to your "gut instinct"
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2015*

I bought this book after experiencing my first flare up of ulcertative colitis (in my 30s). The doctors told me that diet didn't matter, but I'd noticed when I cut out bread, my symptoms improved, and suspected they might be wrong. This book helped me to understand why, and has been a great guide for what I should and should not be eating to heal my colitis. I found it very readable - things are explained clearly and logically without unnecessary medical jargon. I've used a couple of the recipes as well.That being said, the diet the author proposes is extremely restrictive, and in order to follow it 100% you'd need to be a housewife (or have a housewife) to have time to prepare everything. Want to eat yoghurt? Allowed, but it must be home-made. Chicken soup? Allowed, but make your own stock. Bread? You can make it with almond flour, but don't buy the flour in the supermarket, no, you must grind your own almonds. And no nuts for the first 3 months, except for peanut butter, but did I mention you can't buy the one from the store because it contains corn syrup which is illegal, so you better grind your own peanuts.  Sorry but I have a full time job and other commitments, I live in a small apartment without an oven, and this type of fuss is really not possible for me. Also, as pointed out by some of the other reviewers, a lot of the recipe ingredients are very specific to north america and difficult to get hold of in europe. Try buying spaghetti squash in the netherlands, for example... (and if you know where to buy it, please let me know).The author's main hypothesis is that all inflammatory disorders of the intestines - be it colitis, crohns, ibs, caeliacs - are caused by an inability of the body to break down complex carbohydrates, with the undigested materials feeding the "bad" microbes in the gut, which then produce toxins and symptoms of the disease. I am sure that there is something in this hypothesis, but it's not the full story. For example, it doesn't explain exactly what happens with colitis (inflammation of the large intestine) because she focuses on the small intestine (and I know from colonoscopy that my small intestine is healthy). Further, the diet is based on what worked for her 7 year old daughter, and I suspect that everyone's body is a bit different with what foods they can and can't absorb, and a child's body is not the same as an adult's. Her diet probably won't work if you are lactose intolerant (because it includes yoghurt and cheese) or fructose intolerant (it's full of fruit). There's no details of how to modify the diet if there are components that you don't like or can't eat (e.g. if you're vegetarian/vegan). At the same time, it always errs on the side of caution with regard to what carbohydrates are allowed/banned. When you remove an entire food group from your diet you're at risk of acquiring nutritional deficiency, and in that respect this diet could be unnecessarily restrictive. So although I used the food list as a guide, I have also tried to listen to my own body for what it does and does not like. I removed all grains from my diet - except for soft white rice, because in my gut feeling, this food was soothing for my digestive system. Also, there's a lower incidence of colitis in asia - and they are eating a ton of white rice. The diet is very very similar to the paleo diet, so if something is "allowed" on one system but banned on the other I always assume it's safe to eat it (e.g. sweet potatoes - highly nutritious and my body seems to like them, but banned in this book, allowed on paleo).Overall I'm really happy that I read this book, and I'm sure the authors work has changed thousands of people's lives for the better. 83 5* reviews speak for themselves. however I think the point is not that you have to follow *this* very specific, fussy, north american regime, but to find the diet that works for your body and stick to it religiously, taking into account that grains and refined sugars tend to be inflammatory or hard to digest. I cannot comment yet how much my dietary restrictions have helped my colitis in the long term because i only got diagnosed 2 months ago, and I'm still taking medication. That being said, I am following a strict dietary regime and my symptoms have been heading towards remission, relatively fast, and I hope that I am safeguarding my gut for the future.

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