A helpful and well-researched plan for improving gut health, reducing inflammation, and avoiding disease triggers.
In this guide to holistically handling psoriasis and arthritis, the author provides keys to healing and wellness through nutrition.
Fett (It Starts with the Egg, 2016, etc.) has more to offer than sound research and tested principles touting the curative power of food. From the beginning of the book, she shares her own personal journey of managing psoriasis and arthritis from age 18. As a determined student who became a busy attorney at a fast-paced law firm, Fett realized by 30 that psoriasis and arthritis were not temporary conditions but lifelong battles that she would have to find alternative approaches to to win. In this conversational title, she explores the science behind these conditions and their connection to gut health—the key she learned that would turn her suffering around and give her control of the maladies. The book explains in simple, well-articulated terms how deterioration of the intestinal barriers creates inflammation and pain and how the gut is the body’s center for immunity cells and microbes. Quite simply, eating a diet that targets these issues and heals rather than disturbs the gut can make the difference between lifelong pain and strong recovery. Fett covers the Mediterranean diet in detail, teaching the reader about the dangers of a “Westernized” regimen lacking fiber and the importance of polyphenols in fruits and vegetables. She even offers recipes at the end of the book. The author thoroughly explains the impact that probiotic supplements and dietary changes can have on an individual suffering from psoriasis and arthritis. With an in-depth discussion of fats like olive oil, fish oil, and coconut oil, the author surveys the studies available and promotes small amounts of animal protein in lieu of saturated fats, which may increase endotoxin levels in the blood. Further, Fett examines the problematic nature of grains and legumes and prescribes a balanced Mediterranean diet with plenty of statistics to back her position. For readers who want to learn more about the way diet can change their quality of life, this manual is easy-to-understand, full of relevant data, and well-organized.
A helpful and well-researched plan for improving gut health, reducing inflammation, and avoiding disease triggers.Pub Date: June 13, 2017
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 626
Publisher: Franklin Fox Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 30, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
BOOK REVIEW
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
Riveting and exquisitely crafted.
Musician, poet and visual artist Smith (Trois, 2008, etc.) chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and ’70s, when both artists came of age in downtown New York.
Both born in 1946, Smith and Mapplethorpe would become widely celebrated—she for merging poetry with rock ’n’ roll in her punk-rock performances, he as the photographer who brought pornography into the realm of art. Upon meeting in the summer of 1967, they were hungry, lonely and gifted youths struggling to find their way and their art. Smith, a gangly loser and college dropout, had attended Bible school in New Jersey where she took solace in the poetry of Rimbaud. Mapplethorpe, a former altar boy turned LSD user, had grown up in middle-class Long Island. Writing with wonderful immediacy, Smith tells the affecting story of their entwined young lives as lovers, friends and muses to one another. Eating day-old bread and stew in dumpy East Village apartments, they forged fierce bonds as soul mates who were at their happiest when working together. To make money Smith clerked in bookstores, and Mapplethorpe hustled on 42nd Street. The author colorfully evokes their days at the shabbily elegant Hotel Chelsea, late nights at Max’s Kansas City and their growth and early celebrity as artists, with Smith winning initial serious attention at a St. Mark’s Poetry Project reading and Mapplethorpe attracting lovers and patrons who catapulted him into the arms of high society. The book abounds with stories about friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, William Burroughs, Sam Shepard, Gregory Corso and other luminaries, and it reveals Smith’s affection for the city—the “gritty innocence” of the couple’s beloved Coney Island, the “open atmosphere” and “simple freedom” of Washington Square. Despite separations, the duo remained friends until Mapplethorpe’s death in 1989. “Nobody sees as we do, Patti,” he once told her.
Riveting and exquisitely crafted.Pub Date: Jan. 19, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-621131-2
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Ecco/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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