The Healthy Gut Cookbook: How to Keep in Excellent Digestive Health with 60 Recipes and Nutrition Advice. Marguerite Patten

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      contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

1 marguerite patten’s personal story

2 the healthy gut

How the Gut Controls Your Health

Absorption and Malabsorption

Love Your Liver!

3 maintaining a healthy gut

The Pleasure of Eating

Water – the Foundation of Life

Fibre – a Rough Guide

Food and Cancer

Probiotics

Food Combining

The BRAT Diet

What Not to Eat and Drink

Lifestyle and the Gut

The Ageing Gut

Food Allergies, Intolerances and Sensitivities

4 good foods for a healthy gut

       5 when things go wrong

       What is Making You Ill?

       Coeliac Disease (Malabsorption Syndrome, Sprue)

       Colitis

       Constipation

       Crohn’s Disease (Regional Ileitis)

       Diarrhoea

       Athlete’s Diarrhoea

       Diverticulitis

       Flatulence

       Gallstones

       Gastric Ulcers (Peptic Ulcers, Duodenal Ulcers)