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Autoimmune Protocol Made Simple Cookbook

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I believe only a person who has a knowledge of AIP would be able to explain this complex condition in an understandable way, and Sophie Van Tiggelen does exactly this. Not only suggesting foods to eat and stay away from, she also makes great suggestions for lifestyle change as well.

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Creative and interesting recipes as well as great information are in this cookbook. This is a helpful cookbook for anyone not just those with an autoimmune protocol reason. This is a well written cookbook.

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The Autoimmune Protocol Made Simple Cookbook offers 100 tasty and healing recipes to help reverse chronic illness. This is the first such guide for beginners, with tips for cooking and living well using the Autoimmune Protocol Diet. Also includes helpful pantry lists and shopping guides for ease of preparation. 5/5
 
Grateful to the Quarto Publishing Group - Fair Winds Press and NetGalley for the early copy, in exchange for my true review.

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I am currently going through getting my diagnosis but my drs suspect lupus or another auto immune disease. This book gives some info on why this diet may help and what to eat and what to avoid as well as some meal plans and general info. Then it obviously has the recipes. I haven’t tried them yet but they actually don’t look bad. The lack of eggs makes me kinda sad but the meals look pretty tasty. I’m interested to see the results of eating following the meal plan.

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There is lots of important information in this book! If you are seeking to boost your autoimmune system through good food then look no more! This book provides all the needed information

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I don't necessarily agree with the underlying philosophy of this cookbook--that eating certain foods will reverse chronic illnesses such as MS--but this is a well-written book with clearly delineated recipes and beautiful illustrations. I will purchase a copy for our library, and I'm sure it will do well.

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As a sufferer of Autoimmune conditions myself, I was excited to be accepted to read this recipe book and hopefully be able to follow the protocol.
The book begins with some details on the protocol and what happens to your body when you have autoimmune conditions and the symptoms you may or may not suffer from.
Reading the book I was a little disappointed that many of my favourite foods were on the no go list (typical!) But having said that it won't stop me following the plan and hopefully resetting my system and seeing benefits. Full of recipe ideas and pictures, I would recommend this to fellow sufferers, or those looking for a healthy diet plan. Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for allowing me to read.

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This book is a significantly above average cookbook. It is much closer to to what I consider healthy than other cookbooks. On the other hand, there are some dubious foods like nutritional yeast, bacon and coconut aminos which don't seem to belong in a healthy diet. Many of the more interesting recipes contain these ingredients. That's not to say there aren't lots of healthy recipes in there but as a bit of a cook book collector there wasn't much new in here to me that was still healthy. That being said, this book did turn me on to some good paleo-ish flours and had a very interesting cracker recipe.

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While I don't have an autoimmune disease (I have irritable bowel syndrome), I've become quite the reference in my entourage in question to food intolerances. I like to keep myself informed, this is why I was happy to receive this book through NetGalley from Quarto Publishing. The book begins with a lot of information on how to heal your body. There are a lot of recipes that can be perfect for me, so I can’t wait to try them!

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While I would still recommending using this book in tandem with the help of your autoimmune specialist or his/her medical staff, this cookbook is a great guide to resetting your system and finding which foods work for you and which foods are making your system worse. So much of autoimmune diseases are comprised of our bodies' reactions to the things we put into them that having a guide to taking those things out of our body and reintroducing them slowly is incredibly important.

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This is not just a dietary cookbook, it is a book that shall help you to follow the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) to increase your health on a longterm basis. The AIP and autoimmune diseases are explained in easy to understand language. The benefits of the AIP are explained but also the caveats, which foods to eat and which to avoid, and which foods, when and how to re-introduce them into your diet.

Let me stress here, following the AIP is not easy, but this book is supposed to help make the transition more easy for you with weekly meal plans, including shopping lists, and yummy looking recipes.

To be honest, I was browsing through the book before I read the introduction. A lot of the recipes looked so good, I wanted to try them at once. Then, I started reading and read the words: fish, seafood and organ meat. Ugh! Those have put me off potential AIP diets before, though mainly because I had no idea how to incorporate them into my life. This book offers intersting recipes that I can see myself trying, like the Liver Paté recipe.

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If you’re looking to radically change your life and sick of being sick, then this cookbook is for you. Having an autoimmune disease means multiple trips to doctors, multiple prescriptions, and usually becoming withdrawn from society.
This book offers a comprehensive way to eliminate foods (like nightshade) that promote inflammation and other triggers. The downside is that this diet is expensive and could mean you’re the only one in your household eating the foods from the recipes. But if you’re frustrated with the progression of your disease, maybe it’s time to shake things up.

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Sophie did such an amazing job with the development of this book. It shows how truly passionate she is, especially being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. The shopping list and weekly menus really help make this change simple. I can't wait to try these recipes, and the beautifully taken photos made my mouth water!

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I was very excited to receive this book since I suffer from autoimmune disorders.

This cookbook was very good about going over what foods are good and bad for many with autoimmune disorders. While certain foods affect people differently, it gives a great starting point to figure out which foods you can or cannot handle well.

Many of the recipes sound quite appetizing, yet some did not appeal to me. I would love to have seen more pictures throughout , though the ones used were beautiful. It was very easy to read with clear ingredients and directions. It would have been nice to see nutritional information for each of the recipes, but they are unfortunately not present in this cookbook.

However, despite there being a few things I would change, I feel like this is a great cookbook and I am very excited to try out some of the new recipes in here. I especially am interested in trying some that utilize cauliflower rice since I love using cauliflower rice in recipes. There were many other new recipes that I will definitely be adding to my arsenal of staple meals as well!

I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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I received an Advanced Reader Copy from Fair Winds Press for my unbiased opinion of the book. I enjoyed this book loved the layout, pictures, and recipes. Such as Crispy Yucca Fries, Gut-Healing Turmeric Gummies, Fluffy Plantain Pancakes. I would consult a doctor before taking this book word for word. With that said, I found many ideas formulas, recipes great in helping me manage my Rheumatoid Arthritis. I look forward to trying all the ideas as well as recipes going forward!

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It has decent recipes and a well-planned out diet regiment. That said, it's very similar to other autoimmune and / or removal diets that are out there, and there isn't much new here. The pictures are beautiful. I found it entirely too stringent, and short of having the choice to either follow this diet or not survive, would never be able to follow something so incredibly strict. There are too many people choosing to remove gluten from their diets completely who don't actually need to do so....cutting down is one thing; complete removal is another. We have no idea how that will affect people who didn't need to make the change in the long run. It might benefit them greatly. It might lead to other dietary issues as their bodies become completely intolerant to it, where they weren't before. We don't know.

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I requested this book as I enjoy healthy recipes and am always looking for new "staples" or ideas to add to the mix.

First, I found the recipes straight-forward, no-nonsense and didn't mean I had to invest in lots of different powders and potions I didn't already have in my cupboard (admittedly, speaking as someone who already has things like coconut flour, for example).

Second, I love that I can give this book to a friend of mine who does suffer with various allergies and intolerances and know she will like the book because it has gorgeous pictures of the food, so it's simple to use AND pretty.

My one suggestion is that it would have been useful to have more recipes for vegetarians here. Most were readily adaptable but I do like to have the option from the outset.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing and Sophie Van Tiggelen for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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I clicked on this book to read more about it on Netgalley and it automatically put it on my 'to read' list (which has never happened to me before). I thought I would go ahead and get access to it but I just couldn't get the epub thing to work. Am very sorry it didn't work out and wish the author success with this book. Sounds like it could be a real help to many people.

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As someone with an autoimmune disease I would have loved to read this book but due to the pdf format I was (as with several acsm pdfs in the past), unable to download. I have tried with Adobe Digital Editions, Bluefire Reader and Aldiko, uninstalling and reinstalling numerous times. I am sorry so many publishers choose to use the acsm format. I am sure I am not the only one with issues. Since I saw a few pages and read a bit (2 pages) before Bluefire Reader quit working, this book appears to be another quality book from Quarto Publishing Group. Beautiful pictures and valuable information.

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There are over 100 Autoimmune diseases and these diseases effect over 50 million people. Only about 1/3 of these diseases are genetic, the rest are from environmental exposures, like infection, toxins, and pollutants. It has been found that some of these diseases can be helped if not cured with the right diet and lifestyle changes. This book features 100 recipes to help with the diet changes. There is also a lot of information on how changing your diet can help. How to get started, what you can eat, and even when ad how to start re-adding foods to your diet. There is also meal plans

These recipes are great for anyone even those not suffering from a autoimmune disease. The recipes look very tasty so you wont miss the foods you should not eat.

The recipes are broken into sections. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, small bites, veggies, meats and so much more.

I received this book from the Author or Publisher via Netgalley.com to read and review.

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