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
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The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
Well-told and admonitory.
Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around; once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies. He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). The two also frequently bedded down in a public restroom. After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. He got the cool duds, hot car and fine ladies so coveted from afar back in the day. He even had a meeting with Nelson Mandela. Through it all, he remained a prideful parent. His own no-daddy blues are gone now.
Well-told and admonitory.Pub Date: June 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-06-074486-3
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2006
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