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    User's Guide to Healthy Digestion
    User's Guide to Healthy Digestion
    User's Guide to Healthy Digestion
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    User's Guide to Healthy Digestion

    By Victoria Dolby Toews

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    User's Guide To Healthy Digestion is an easy-to-read information-packed book that will teach you how to put an end to your digestive problems. Heartburn, indigestion, bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhoea, and other digestive problems affect nearly everyone at one time or another. Health writer Victoria Dolby Toews describes the most common digestive problems and diseases and recommends safe dietary, herbal, and nutrition remedies to improve digestive health.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
    ISBN9781591206620
    User's Guide to Healthy Digestion
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    Victoria Dolby Toews

    n school, Victoria Dolby Toews studied health and received her Master of Public Health degree, but she always knew she wanted to write, as well. Her solution? She became a health journalist. For the past two decades she's been reading highly scientific literature and learning about hot-off-the-presses medical discoveries and then incorporating all of the best parts into her writing. She's the author of several books, including The Green Tea Book. She has written hundreds of magazine articles about achieving wellness through natural medicine and dietary supplements. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, and daughter.

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      User's Guide to Healthy Digestion - Victoria Dolby Toews

      I NTRODUCTION

      The enjoyment of a good meal is one of life’s pleasures. When the gut works right, as with most organs, we don’t notice it. Unfortunately, trouble can start brewing as soon as a mouthful of your favorite dish is swallowed. Faulty digestion causes a lot of unnecessary discomfort due to heartburn, bloating, gas, and sour stomach. Digestion problems also contribute to many gastrointestinal and related health problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome, peptic ulcer, and Crohn’s disease.

      Everything we eat must be broken down, absorbed, assimilated, and finally eliminated. Problems at any of these steps bring the whole digestive process to a grinding halt, leaving the body vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies, toxic buildup, and overall poor health.

      Digestion-related illnesses exert a considerable toll on comfort, health, quality of life, and your pocketbook. If you feel like food (and your body’s processing of it) has become your enemy, this book is for you.

      You’ll learn how to prevent and manage indigestion in Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 will cover the exceedingly common problems of constipation, diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome. Move along to Chapter 3 to learn about food allergies, lactose intolerance, celiac disease, and leaky gut syndrome, and then to Chapter 4 to relieve your nausea and vomiting. Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 will review natural treatments for gallstones, liver health, hiatal hernia, cancer-risk reduction, ulcers, gastritis, and inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis). Finally, you’ll want to turn to Chapter 9 if you’re concerned about diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, or excessive intestinal gas.

      Located at the end of the book are two helpful appendices. Appendix A is a handy chart detailing all of the dietary supplements and herbs that are useful for digestive complaints. The amount to take for each supplement or herb, as well as potential side effects, are listed. In case your high-school biology is a little rusty, Appendix B provides a refresher of how the digestive process works.

      Certainly, there is much to gain from reading this book cover to cover, but if you are currently suffering from a particular problem and want to get right to it, the following index will show you which chapter to turn to for your specific health complaint:

      Health Complaint                                                 Chapter

      Cancer of digestive tract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      6

      Celiac disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3

      Colon therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9

      Constipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2

      Crohn’s disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      8

      Diarrhea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2

      Diverticulitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9

      Enema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9

      Food allergies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3

      Food poisoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4

      Gallstones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5

      Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9

      Gastritis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7

      Gastroenteritis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4

      GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      1

      Heartburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      1

      Hemorrhoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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