Synopses & Reviews
The Diet Designed Just for YouCould the toast you ate for breakfast bring on your afternoon headache? Could the milk in your coffee cause joint pain and brain fog? Could your healthy tofu stir-fry slow your metabolism?
Yes-there is an age-old, powerful connection between what you eat and how you feel. Just as no two bodies are the same, no two diets work for everyone. The only way to discover your ideal diet is to follow an elimination diet that will help you link foods to symptoms and customize a diet that works for you.
Known for their ability to radically improve overall health, elimination diets are growing in popularity. But there's no definitive book that explains how to follow one safely and effectively-until now. Written by two authors who are revered in the alternative health market and functional medicine community, THE ELIMINATION DIET guides you through a proven three-phase program that detoxifies the body and promotes fast healing:
- Phase 1: Detoxification-A 2-day green smoothie and juice fast calms the immune system and removes toxins from the body.
- Phase 2: Elimination-For 2 weeks, you will eliminate potentially inflammatory foods from your diet, which will ease symptoms quickly.
- Phase 3: Customization-For 2 months, you will test different foods to see what works for you and what doesn't, resulting in a tailored diet you can enjoy for life.
Complete with over 100 delicious recipes, shopping lists, and meal plans, THE ELIMINATION DIET is a complete resource for you to improve your health and feel better, naturally.
Review
"I'm a strong proponent of elimination diets, and The Elimination Diet makes it easier than ever to customize your diet for improved health and wellness."-Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Blood Sugar Solution
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"I've seen time and time again how eating the wrong foods can cause weight gain and fatigue. The Elimination Diet makes it easy to pinpoint what foods work best for you-this book is a life changer!"-JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and JJ Virgin's Sugar Impact Diet
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"The most well-explained and evidence-based elimination diet that I have seen. I would highly recommend the program outlined in The Elimination Diet for anyone struggling with unexplained symptoms of anxiety, chronic pain, or poor digestion."-Alan Christianson, NMD, author of The Adrenal Reset Diet and founder, Integrative Health
Synopsis
This proven 28-day elimination and detoxification program helps readers identify the most common irritating food that are likely contributing to their decline in health including gluten, dairy, soy, and processed foods. The program begins with a 2-day smoothie fast that will calm the immune system and clear out the gut. Phases one through three of the program offer clear instructions regarding what foods to include in the diet for optimal results and how to slowly add foods back to determine which ones are irritating the body. Complete with more than 125 delicious recipes as well as helpful case studies, THE ELIMINATION DIET will guide readers on a path to increased energy, calm bowels, improved mood, clear skin, a sharpened mind, reduced pain and headaches, and movement toward a whole foods diet.
About the Author
Alissa Segersten has had a fascination with cooking and nutrition from a young age that inspired her to pursue a bachelor of science in nutrition from Bastyr University and start her own personal chef business. She empowers people with cooking skills and knowledge of whole foods through her live classes and online programs, so that they may reconnect with the pleasure in eating delicious, nourishing food. Her popular recipe blog, NourishingMeals.com, is filled with healthy, wholesome, gluten-free recipes.
Tom Malterre, MS, CN, holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in nutrition from Bastyr University, has advanced training from the Institute for Functional Medicine, and has over a decade of clinical experience. Tom is a current faculty member of the Autism Research Institute and was a medical affairs member of Thorne Research. He has lectured on nutrition and supplementation across the United States and Canada. He currently coaches doctors and other health-care practitioners on Functional Medicine protocols in his Progressive Practitioner Coaching Programs, while doing interviews and blogging on a vast array of health topics.