Food Allergy Survival Guide
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Become informed about
how food allergies and sensitivities play a role in your health.
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Discover which foods
you can tolerate,
and which you cannot.
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Learn how to
find hidden
sources of
problem ingredients in your food.
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Eat out, go to parties, and live
life to its fullest—
with or without food sensitivities.
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Cook familiar as well as new
delicious foods
free of wheat,
gluten, soy, eggs, dairy, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, and
yeast.
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Food Allergy Survival Guide
By Vesanto Melina, MS, RD, Jo Stepaniak, MSEd
and Dina Aronson, MS, RD.
ISBN13-978-157067-163-0
Reviewed by Dan Balogh |
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I propose a few rules concerning books on vegetarian nutrition. First, if a book
is written by Vesanto Melina, co-author of such well-regarded classics as “Becoming
Vegan” and “Becoming Vegetarian”, it’s worth getting. Second, if a
book is written by Jo Stepaniak, author of undisputed gems like “The Vegan
Sourcebook”, “Being Vegan”, as well as a slew of wonderful vegan
cookbooks, it’s worth getting. Finally, if a book is written by both of them, a
review like this is not necessary. Just get the book!
Melina and Stepaniak team up once again (their last effort together was the
book “Raising
Vegetarian Children”)
to create what might be the most comprehensive layman’s guide for understanding
and dealing with food sensitivities and allergies on the market. This time
they’re joined by nutritionist Dina Aronson, co-author of “Minerals
from Plant Foods: Strategies for Maximizing Nutrition”.
It’s really two books in one. The first 160 pages methodically explain the
science behind food sensitivities and allergies; how to determine if you have
them (you experience symptoms like headaches or hives, for instance); and how to
determine what specific foods are the culprits. In this last discussion you’ll
find, for instance, a description of the do-it-yourself elimination diet, where
individual foods or groups of foods are eliminated from one’s diet until it’s
clear which is the offender.
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