UP & COMING : BOOKS.``Vim & Vinegar,'' by Melodie Moore (Harper Perennial; $10). Like aspirin, ordinary vinegar is a wonderworker that doesn't get respect. It's cheap by the gallon, but you can also make your own at home (including flavored vinegars for cooking, using instructions here). About half the text amounts to a vinegar cookbook, with recipes for more than a dozen pickle variations and more exotic fare such as ``wacky vinegar cake.'' Household cleaning, personal hygiene and medicinal uses fill the rest. Are you ready to take a tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar a day to keep the doctor away? We doubt that claim has been researched. ``Good Food for Bad Stomachs,'' by Dr. Henry D. Janowitz (Oxford University Press; $21.95). Janowitz follows the human intestinal tract from its upper reaches (home of heartburn heartburn, burning sensation beneath the breastbone, also called pyrosis. Heartburn does not indicate heart malfunction but results from nervous tension or overindulgence in food or drink. and ulcers) around the gallbladder and pancreas (where malabsorption malabsorption /mal·ab·sorp·tion/ (mal?ab-sorp´shun) impaired intestinal absorption of nutrients. mal·ab·sorp·tion n. Defective or inadequate absorption of nutrients from the intestinal tract. and food allergies Food Allergies Definition Food allergies are the body's abnormal responses to harmless foods; the reactions are caused by the immune system's reaction to some food proteins. cause problems) to the colon (inflammatory bowel diseases, diverticulitis diverticulitis /di·ver·tic·u·li·tis/ (-li´tis) inflammation of a diverticulum. di·ver·tic·u·li·tis n. and cancer) looking at the ailments' causes and dietary changes that can ease them. He rounds things out with chapters on intestinal gas and the ``aging gut.'' In general, this is another anti-fat, smoking, coffee and alcohol book, and pro fruit and fiber. But the former head of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is a medical school found in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. takes pains to single out useful information from the noise - distinguishing, for example, between dietary practices probably related to colo-rectal cancer (high-fat, low-fiber diets), those that are possibly related and those that are probably protective (high-fiber diet high-fiber diet High-residue diet, high-roughage diet Nutrition A diet with ≥ 13–20 g/day of crude dietary fiber. Cf Low-fiber diet. ) vs. possibly protective. |
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