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Discover the pros of probiotics
Also known as "friendly" or "good" bacteria, probiotics are fast becoming an important component of a successful health program. This hands-on, friendly guide gives you everything you need to make informed decisions about adding probiotics to your daily diet.
Put the "pro" in probiotics find out the scientific foundations for probiotics' role in combating disease and promoting health
Microbes 101 get the scoop on how your digestive system works and the ways friendly and unfriendly microbes affect your body
Here's to your health discover how probiotics may fight a wide array of ailments and diseases, such as heart disease and cancer
Start cookin' try two dozen delicious, probiotic-rich entree, snack, and dessert recipes
Open the book and find:
How prebiotics and probiotics work together
The scoop on digestive health
Advice on balancing probiotics and nutrition
More than 20 recipes and a plan for infusing probiotics into your diet
Common misperceptions about probiotics
The role of probiotics in allergies, infections, gastrointestinal disorders, women's health and more
Learn to:
Bolster your immune system against disease
Alleviate allergies and asthma
Keep a proper bacterial balance
Improve the health of your digestive tract
Synopsis
Probiotics—friendly bacteria—are the cornerstone of any successful health program because they restore a healthy balance between friendly and bad bacteria in the intestinal tract, a balance that is critical for the health of the entire body.
Probiotics For Dummies features 20 probiotic recipes, and sheds light on the extraordinary benefits of probiotics. It also gives readers a step-by-step plan for infusing probiotics into their diet, as well as:
- Improving gastrointestinal health
- Alleviating allergies and asthma
- Restoring reproductive and urinary tracts
- Bolstering the immune system against disease
- Enhancing weight loss
- Fighting the effects of aging
- Introducing probiotics to family and children
- Keeping beneficial bacteria happy with Prebiotics (non-digestible foods that help good bacteria grow and flourish)
Synopsis
Discover the pros of probioticsProbiotics are beneficial, live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are similar to those found naturally in the human intestine. Also known as "friendly" or "good" bacteria, probiotics are the cornerstone of any successful health program because they restore a healthy balance between friendly and bad bacteria in the intestinal tract, a balance that is critical for the health of the entire body. Probiotics are associated with treating everything from IBS to certain forms of cancer, allergies, eczema, and even the effects of aging.
Probiotics For Dummies reveals how taking the right probiotics—in the form of food and supplements— as part of a total health program benefits one's overall health, as well as improving specific conditions. This hands-on, essential guide features 20 probiotic recipes and gives you a step-by-step plan for infusing probiotics into your diet to improve the health of the GI tract, alleviate allergies and asthma, restore reproductive and urinary tracts, bolster the immune system against disease, enhance weight loss, and more.
- Advice on how to ingest the right probiotics
- 20 probiotic recipes from breakfast to dessert
- Information on naturally occurring probiotic compounds as well as the effectiveness of supplements
Probiotics For Dummies gives you everything you need to make informed decisions about adding probiotics to your daily diet.
About the Author
Dr. Shekhar K. Challa is president of Kansas Medical Clinic. Board Certified in Gastroenterology, he is an award-winning author and co-creator of the first probiotic video game (MicrowarriorsVideoGame.com). Find out more about Dr. Challa at DrChalla.com.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Living in the Microbial World 7
Chapter 1: Getting a Handle on the True Nature of Bacteria 9
Chapter 2: Looking at Bacterial Behavior in Your Body 19
Chapter 3: Discovering Prebiotics and Probiotics 31
Part II: Preserving and Improving Health with Probiotics 45
Chapter 4: Starting with the Obvious: Digestive Health 47
Chapter 5: Exploring Allergies and Probiotics 65
Chapter 6: Getting to the Bottom of Urinary Infections 75
Chapter 7: Using Probiotics in Women’s Health 81
Chapter 8: Understanding Children’s Health and Probiotics 87
Chapter 9: Applying Probiotics to Other Health Issues 93
Chapter 10: Exploring the Promise of Probiotics 105
Part III: Adding Probiotics to Your Lifestyle 113
Chapter 11: Filling Your Diet with Probiotics 115
Chapter 12: Cooking Up Delicious Probiotic-Rich Meals 125
Part IV: The Part of Tens 153
Chapter 13: Ten (Or So) Ways Probiotics Promote Good Health 155
Chapter 14: Ten Misconceptions about Probiotics 161
Chapter 15: Ten (Or So) Famous Bacteria 167
Index 175