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9780071668996

Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fourth Edition

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    9780071668996

  • ISBN10:

    0071668993

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-09-13
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

Now updated! The bestselling book (over 63,000* sold in previous editions) by expert Elizabeth Lipski, Ph.D, CCN, CHN, shows readers how to heal digestive problems and prevent diseases through nutrition and natural therapies.

About the Book

Since 1996,Digestive Wellness by Elizabeth Lipski Ph.D., CCN, CHN has helped thousands of people achieve overall health by providing natural remedies, recommendations, and therapies for restoring wellness. Dr. Lipski brings together all the latest clinical studies on digestion in this groundbreaking book. The completely revised and updated edition includes:

-New information about probiotics and their primary role on intestinal health and how our overall metabolism runs. Updates on how advice on low-fat vs. healthy fat diets have changed.

-New research and information about how food can be inflammatory and how food can be healing.

-New information about auto-immune diseases like, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and their connection to digestive health.

-New information about Nurtrigenomics (how food interacts with our genes).

-New section about diabetes and how there is an enormous digestive component and celiac component related to this disease.

Key Selling Features

Strong Track-Record: The combined sales of previous editions total over 63,000* copies sold and still going strong! Digestive Wellness is considered a classic book on the topic and is used by integrative nutrition schools as a textbook. Respected and Established Expert: Author is nationally known for her expertise in the fields of nutrition, integrative health, and digestive and auto-immune conditions. She often speaks to health professionals and has been interviewed for professional and public teleseminars, radio shows, and magazines on digestive health.

The author has also created and co- taught a 20 hour course on Advanced Practice Training Module/ Restoring Gastrointestinal Equilibrium. Author has increased online presence, directly reaching consumers. Author is founder of innovativehealing.com, a site that gives people research based information that will empower them to make better decisions about health through monthly teleseminars and free health tips, ebooks, podcasts, podcast videos, etc.

Innovative healing.com has a mailing list of 10,000 people; audio podcasts have been downloaded by nearly 200,000 people; video podcasts have been downloaded by about 32,000 people.

Learn to identify and treat digestive complications like IBS, GERD, gas and bloating, inflammatory bowel diseases and more.

Step-by-step plan for making healthful changes in your lifestyle, including self-care strategies for digestive and related health problems.

An expanded section on an Elimination Diet program for finding food sensitivities and promoting digestive health.

Market / Audience

The 60-70 million affected by digestive illness as well as health professionals.

Author Biography

Author Profile
Elizabeth Lipski, Ph.D., CNN, CHN is board certified in Clinical Nutrition and Holistic Nutrition. Dr. Lipski has been working in the field of holistic and complementary medicine for over 25 years. The author of Digestive Wellness, Digestive Wellness for Children, and Leaky Gut Syndrome, she's also the Director of Doctoral Studies in Holistic Nutrition at Hawthorn University. Dr. Lipski is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Nutrition Professionals and the Nutrition Advisory Board for the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Throughout the year Dr. Lipski frequently appears on radio. She is a Nutritional Commentator for the PBS TV cooking show Harvest Eating. Numerous magazine interviews include: Newsweek, Women's World, Alternative Health, Let's Live, Men's Health, Natural Pharmacist, Bottom Line Health, and Vegetarian Times. In addition to her own books, Dr. Lipski has been interviewed for Rodale's Alternative Cures and The Women's Doctor's Guide to Alternative Medicine. Dr. Lipski is the founder of Access to Health Experts, a web-based holistic health membership site, and Innovative Healing, a web site offering the latest information in integrative healthcare. She is a consultant to the pharmaceutical company Nutricia North America. She is nationally known for her expertise in the fields of nutrition, integrative health, and digestive and auto-immune conditions. Dr. Lipski is currently in practice in Asheville, NC, offering private counseling in person and over the phone.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The American Way of Life is Hazardous to Our Health; Chapter 2. A Voyage Through the Digestive System; Chapter 3. The Bugs in Your Body: Intestinal Flora; Chapter 4. Dysbiosis: A Good Neighborhood Gone Bad; Chapter 5. Leaky Gut Syndrome: The Systemic Consequences of Faulty Digestion; Chapter 6. Functional Medicine and Functional Testing; Chapter 7. Moving Toward a Wellness Life; Chapter 8. First Things First: Detoxification; Chapter 9. Diet Means "A Way of Living"; Chapter 10. Natural Therapies for Common Digestive Problems; Chapter 11. Natural Therapies for Diverse Consequences of Faulty Digestion

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