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What Nurses Know...Gluten-Free Lifestyle
Series: What Nurses Know
Sylvia A. Llewelyn Bower, RN
Published 04/2011
236 pp Paperback
ISBN13 9781936303076
Price: $16.95
eISBN 9781617050527 |
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Description
Celiac disease and gluten intolerance are sensitivities to the gluten in wheat. People with celiac disease have a genetic predisposition, causing the proteins in wheat, barley and rye to create an inflammatory process in the small intestine. For a person with celiac disease, it is absolutely mandatory to maintain a strict diet for life. Currently there is no other treatment. The gluten-free lifestyle may also reduce the risk of many other diseases, including cancer, caused by the inflammatory process. What Nurses Know . . . Gluten-Free Living provides medical-based advice with a common sense leaning that people expect from nurses. The book explains the differences between celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and gluten allergy. Tips and suggestions are provided for setting up a gluten-free kitchen, what to watch for in medications, how to safely dine out and travel. The book includes a One Week Simple Healing Meal Plan to introduce how to eat gluten free and be healthy. Written in a user-friendly style, it will be easy for people to access the information they want and need without dealing with complex data or details. About the Series Nurses hold a critical role in modern health care that goes beyond their day-to-day duties. They share more information with patients than any other provider group, and are alongside patients twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, offering understanding of complex health issues, holistic approaches to ailments, and advice for the patient that extends to the family. Nurses themselves are a powerful tool in the healing process. What Nurses Know gives down-to-earth information, addresses consumers as equal partners in their care, and explains clearly what readers need to know and wants to know to understand their condition and move forward with their lives. - return to top -
Reviews "Complete with a sample meal plan, What Nurses Know...Gluten-Free Lifestyle is a sage and recommended resource, not to be missed."-Midwest Book Review
"People with celiac disease can face many challenges in their journey to getting diagnosed. Sylvia Bower has put together a book that beautifully illustrates and provides solutions for these challenges."-Mary K. Sharrett, MD, RD, LD, CNSD, Dietitian Advisor to the Gluten-Free Gang Clinical Dietitian, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
"For the vast majority of human beings eating is another automatic activity. Not for celiacs for which eating is a very engaging task of their daily routine. With this book, Sylvia is giving us the tools to address these challenges with a creative approach that brings gluten-free lifestyle back to human dimensions. The book is fresh, easy to follow and, most importantly, full of "useful condiments" for the reader." -Alessio Fasano, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Physiology, Director, Mucosal Biology Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine
"This book provides easy to understand information about the labs used to screen for celiac disease, as well as patient testimonials which puts you right at the heart of what patients are going through."-Marlisa Brown, MS, RD, CDE, CDN, President of Total Wellness Inc Bay Shore, NY and author of Gluten-Free, Hassle-Free - return to top -
Contents Foreword
Preface
1 What Is Happening, and Why
2 What Is Celiac Disease
3 How Do You Know Whether It Is Celiac Disease or Gluten Intolerance
4 Everything You Wanted to Know About Your Intestines and Other Organs But Were Afraid to Ask
5 What Is Gluten, and Why Can't I Eat It
6 How Can I Make This a Lifestyle
7 Want to See a Difference A One-Week Simple Meal Plan
8 Kitchen Readjustments to Make Your Life Easier
9 What Happens When I Eat What I Want Can I Cheat
10 Gluten in Medications and Other Pitfalls to Watch For
11 Raising a Gluten-Free Child: Stories From Parents Who Have Been There
12 Dining Out: Safely and Enjoyably
13 Travel Tips
Glossary
Resources
Bibliography
Index- return to top -
About the Author
Sylvia A. Llewelyn Bower, RNSylvia Bower, RN lives with celiac disease and has been a practicing nurse for 43 years. She has been an active participant in the Gluten Free Gang, one of the first gluten-free support groups. She is the author of Celiac Disease: A Guide to Living with Gluten Intolerance, a member of the Ohio Nurses Association, and has made numerous presentations at the National Annual Celiac Conference. She has published articles in a variety of outlets including the Gluten Intolerance Group Magazine. She lives in Powell, OH.
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