A Diet For Ulcerative Colitis

THE COLITIS COOKBOOK is a group of original recipes created from a highly restrictive diet that will help you deal with Ulcerative Colitis.

If you have Colitis and go to a regular doctor who practices Western medicine, he will tell you in all honesty, he cannot cure your disease. If you are lucky, he can control it with drugs, but he cannot make it go away.

Five years ago, my wife's Ulcerative Proctitis turned into raging Ulcerative Colitis. After dealing with a gastroenterologist whose only solutions were steroids and surgery, neither of which were acceptable, my wife and I went to a doctor of Oriental medicine.

He gave her a diet that was very restrictive. She could eat no meat or meat products including beef, chicken, fish, pork or turkey. No wheat or wheat products including breads, cake and pasta, no corn, no rice, no potatoes, no dairy, no fruit or fruit juices, no nuts, vinegar, tomatoes or tomato products including ketchup and spaghetti sauce, no peanuts or peanut butter, no alcohol, including wine and beer, no oats, no barley, no mushrooms, no sugar, no candy or chocolate, no caffeine including coffee and tea, no spices, no egg yolks, no canola oil, corn oil or palm oil.

What she could eat were all soy products (tofu, soy flour, tofu cheeses), all beans, all millet products, buckwheat, miso, olive oil, garlic, all vegetables, sweet potatoes, herbs, avocados, herbal teas, vegetable juices, Egg Beaters and egg whites and sea salt.

From these limited ingredients I created recipes and fashioned a diet that not only tasted good, but, I believe, gave her control of her Ulcerative Colitis.

Today she looks great, feels terrific, takes no drugs and is totally asymptomatic as long as she stays on the diet.

Please, don't be depressed by this diet. You will be able to live a fairly normal life. You will have to pay attention to the diet, of course, but we have since added rice, chicken, turkey, fish, some cheeses, milk, sour cream and a carob covered Rice Dream ice cream bar for dessert to what she can eat.

Here is a sample recipe:

SOY, MILLET AND BUCKWHEAT KUGEL

One cup soy flour
1/2 cup millet flour
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
One and 1/3 cup water
Five tablespoons olive oil
Seven garlic cloves
Two small to medium zucchini
1/2 medium onion
Sea salt
Four sprigs rosemary
Grated tofu parmesan cheese

Whisk together soy, millet and buckwheat flour with water, salt and two tablespoons olive oil. Grate in garlic with coarse grater. Chop zucchini and onions into small pieces. Add to batter. Chop rosemary very fine and add. Mix all together.

Coat 12" by 6" casserole dish with olive oil. Pour in batter. Bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Remove and sprinkle with tofu parmesan cheese. Let cool. Eat. Enjoy.

If you'd like a copy of THE COLITIS COOKBOOK, containing over 60 original recipes, send me a check made out to The Colitis Cookbook at the above address for the amount of $15.95. (CA residents add $1.30 for tax). International orders please add an additional $5.00 for postage and send via an international money order. Copyright © 1996 Hal Heisler

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