The Book of Food and Digestive Disorders: Table of Contents

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Book of Food and Digestive Tract Disorders

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This book should be read by people with... Crohn's Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Functional Dyspepsia, GERD, Ulcerative Colitis or any combination of the above.

Digestion Center

Please Note: The Book of Digestive Disorders is intended to be used with the Alpha Nutrition Program. Both books are bundled with Alpha ENF in the Digestion Rescue Starter Pack.

A food holiday on Alpha ENF is often the best way to begin recovery from digestive disorders and the Alpha Nutrition program is an ideal way to design a safer, healthier long-term diet.

Preface

Introduction
Sensing and Reacting
Redefine “Normal”
Alpha Nutrition Rescue
Gastrointestinal Tract
Basic Ideas
Motility
Digestion & Absorption
Digestive Secretions
Gall Bladder
Bile
Pancreas
The Large Bowel - Colon
Candida Yeast Theory
Dietary Fiber
The Digestion of Protein
Digestion of Carbohydrate
Fat Digestion
Digestive Symptoms
Abdominal pain
Intestinal Gas
Diarrhea
Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux
Constipation
Nausea
Psychosomatic Beliefs
Stress
Autonomic Nervous System
Consumer Guide
Immune Mechanisms of Disease
Surface Sensing & Reacting System
Tolerance for Food
Loss of Tolerance
Allergy, Name Confusion
Allergy to Food
Irritable Bowel - Reactive Bowel
Infant's Reactive Bowel
Gastrointestinal Tract Permeability
Distribution of Proteins as Antigens
IgA Deficiency
Delayed Food Allergy Patterns
Immune Complexes
GIT surface Mechanisms
Allergy to Cow's Milk
Functional Disorders
Heartburn and Functional Dyspepsia
GERD, FD Management
The Irritable Bowel Syndrome
The Reactive Bowel
Drug Treatments and Disaster
IBS - the Center of the Storm
The Evolving Nature of Hypersensitivity
Staging the Severity of the Problem
Level 1: Adaptive Dysfunctional
Level 2: Chronic Symptoms
Probiotics
Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease - A Prototype of Food Allergy
Celiac Prevalence
Celiac Diagnosis
Celiac Mechanisms
Celiac Disease, Lifelong
Celiac Nutrition
Celiac - Increased Gut Permeability
Liver Disease
Crohn's Disease
Is Crohn's Food Allergy?
Malabsorption and Nutrient Deficiency
Genetic Disposition
Crohn’s Disease Immune Mechanisms
Studies - ENF and Diet Revision
Crohn’s Diagnosis
Consequences
Staging the Disease by Intensity
Level 1: Mild - Adaptive Dysfunctional
Level 2: Chronic Inflammation
Total Parenteral Nutrition
Crohn’s Drug Treatment
Imunosuppressants
Etanercept & Infliximab
Natalizumab
Surgery
Diet Change Is Required
Ulcerative Colitis

Nutrition
Elemental Diets
Iron
Magnesium
Copper
Colon Cancer
Solving Digestive Problems
The Raw and the Cooked
Case Histories
Examples
IBS, Headache & Constant Flu
Fatigue, Diarrhea, Cognitive Dysfunction
Bloating, Cramps, Spaced-Out
Eczema, Abdominal Pain, Depression
Diarrhea, Depression, Bingeing
Diarrhea, Weight Gain, Irritable bowel
Diarrhea, Weight loss, Disability
Abstracts
Intestinal epithelial cells in mucosal immunity.
Diet and inflammatory bowel disease
Elemental diets for intestinal lesions
Food allergy, coeliac disease and chronic inflammatory bowel disease in man.
Nutrition More Effective Than Steroids in Children With Crohn's Disease
Immunoglobulin deficiency in gastrointestinal allergies.
Crohn's disease and nutritional therapy.
Nutritional therapy for Crohn's disease.
Elemental Diet Treatment of Crohn's Disease
Diet in the management of Crohn's disease
Comparing prednisolone with an elemental diet
TPN and elemental diet & remission of Crohn's disease
Oral nutritional supplementation in Crohn's disease.
Evaluating the profile of selected cytokines in patients with food allergy and chronic gastritis.
Clinical aspects of gastrointestinal food allergy in childhood.
Home enteral nutrition with formula diets.
Gut barrier failure prevented by nonfermentable fiber.
Elemental diet improves growth failure in children
Steroids and bowel rest versus elemental diets
Improvement of Crohn's Disease by an elemental diet.
Clinical remission after oligopeptide diet treatment.
Gastroduodenal permeability in Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease, upper gastrointestinal tract.
Anti-rheumatic drugs, gut permeability
Nutrient intake of patients with Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease: maintenance of remission by diet.
Remission by an elemental diet in Crohn's disease.
Elemental diet …inflammatory bowel disease.
Comparing elemental diet with prednisolone
Ten years' experience with an elemental diet
A defined-formula regimen in Crohn's disease
Elemental diet, intestinal permeability and inflammation
Effects of elemental diets for Crohn's disease.
Elemental diet in Crohn's disease during pregnancy.
Elemental diet in Crohn's disease.
Improved growth… with a defined formula diet
Enteral or parenteral feeding after total gastrectomy
Diet and inflammatory bowel disease
Crohn's, elemental diet or prednisolone.
Treatment of active Crohn's disease by exclusion diet:
Treatment of Crohn's disease with elemental diet.
Remission following an elemental diet
Abnormal colonic fermentation in irritable bowel
Milk hypersensitivity in adults.
The influence folic acid on colon cancer in women
Folate and carcinogenesis: an integrated scheme.
Glutaminase and glutamine synthetase in the gastrointestinal tract.
Colonic bacteria in experimental colitis.
Dietary modulation of the human colonic microbiota
Infliximab and delayed severe systemic reaction.
Remicade does not abolish the need for surgery
Two types of tumor necrosis factor antagonists