Danielle Walker’s Cookbooks- learning to cook and eat without grains and bread!

What I learned easily on my own made a lot of sense. I learned that most of our immune system is in the digestive system where our good bacteria and bad bacteria live in perfect balance. Antibiotics to kill off bad bacteria certainly affect the good bacteria as well, and as that good bacteria helps to keep the lining of our colons protected, it makes sense that killing that off would cause problems like bleeding! When I asked my doctor about that he said he had never heard that before, but in several ulcerative colitis forums I read the stories of ulcerative colitis patients who started to bleed AFTER taking antibiotics. How could it not have an affect?

I also read some scary things about Asacol. It was expensive first of all. But it didn’t seem to keep working for a lot of patients, which meant that they had to escalate to different and harsher drugs. There were also side effects like hair loss and kidney failure. Would I be trading one set of problems for another by taking this medication?

Something on one of the forums I read really struck a cord with me. It was something like, “Modern medicine is an important tool, but it is the everyday choices that I make for myself and my family that is the most important factor in good health. The only person responsible for my health is me.”

It wasn’t easy though. This went completely against everything I knew about how to cook and bake and eat!  About that time I discovered Danielle Walker and read about her same struggles with ulcerative colitis. This young woman battled herself back to good health through nutrition and then went about learning to fix all of those foods she loved WITHOUT using any grains.  Her books became my bible in the kitchen.

As Amazon celebrates its Prime members, Danielle Walker’s newest cookbook, Celebrations is only $2.99 on Kindle for a limited time.