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The forward is written by Dr. Dayrit, M.D., a prominent researcher from the Philippines, and the stories are incredible. There are so many stories, and there is so much information in this book, anyone interested in Coconuts and anyone interested in their health needs to read this book.

Believe me, you will not be able to put it down.

160 Pages, Illustrated

Do you love breads, cakes, pies, cookies, and other wheat products, but can’t eat them because you are allergic to wheat or sensitive to gluten? Perhaps you avoid wheat because you are concerned about your weight and need to cut down on carbohydrates. If so, the solution for you is coconut flour. Coconut flour is a delicious, healthy alternative to wheat. It is high in fiber, low in digestible carbohydrate, and a good source of protein. It contains no gluten.

Coconut flour can be used to make a variety of delicious baked goods, snacks, desserts, and main dishes. It is the only flour used in most of the recipes in this book. These recipes are so delicious that you won’t be able to tell that they aren’t made with wheat. If you like foods such as German chocolate cake, apple pie, blueberry muffins, cheese crackers, and chicken pot pie, but don’t want the wheat, you will love the recipes in this book!

These recipes are designed with your health in mind. Every recipe is completely free of wheat, gluten, soy, trans fats, and artificial sweeteners. Coconut is naturally low in carbohydrate and recipes include both regular and reduced sugar versions. Coconut flour provides many health benefits.

These fats, derived from coconut oil, are now routinely used in hospital IV formulations and commercial baby formulas. They’re also used in sports drinks to boost energy and enhance athletic performance.

Some of the benefits of coconut oil:

- Promotes weight loss

- Provides an immediate source of energy

- Supplies fewer calories than other fats

- Supplies important nutrients necessary for good health

- Is highly resistant to spoilage (long shelf life)

- Is heat resistant (the healthiest oil for cooking)

Coconut oil has been called the "healthiest dietary oil on earth." If you’re not using coconut oil for your daily cooking and body care needs you’re missing out on one of nature’s most amazing health products.

We live in a toxic world. Environmental pollution and disease-causing germs assault us continually day after day. Our food is nutrient deficient and our water supply dangerously contaminated. People today are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than were previous generations. Thousands of tons of man-made chemicals and industrial pollutants are poured into our environment and our food supply daily.

With such a massive attack on our health we should all be sick from toxic overload. And we are! In no other time in the history of the world has degenerative disease been as prominent as it is today. Diseases that were rare or unheard of a century ago are now raging upon upon us like a plague. Millions are dying from diseases that were virtually unknown in the past. Experts tell us that by the time we reach middle age, each one of us will have already been affected by either cancer, cardiovascular disease, or some other degenerative condition. Conventional medicine has no sure cure. Drugs, surgery, and radiation treatments can be as dangerous and debilitating as the disease they attempt to cure. Nature, however, has provided us with the solution.

Our bodies are amazingly resilient. If the disease-causing toxins are removed, the body will heal itself. Removing years of toxic accumulation requires proper guidance and a conscious effort. This book outlines the steps you need to take to thoroughly detoxify and cleanse your body from these disease-causing agents. You will also learn how to reduce your toxic exposure and how to strengthen your immune system. Through detoxification you will free yourself from the chains of pain, reverse degenerative conditions, gain more energy, feel and look younger, improve your memory, and be happier. Virtually all diseases of modern society, including many infectious illnesses, can be avoided by sensible systematic detoxification.

Although we live in a toxic world you can take control of your health. This book will show you how.

A cookbook filled with more than 225 original, kitchen tested recipes. All of them are yeast free. Most are free of gluten and wheat, casein and milk, and eggs. All are free of soy, rye, corn, additives and preservatives. The recipes are easy to follow, designed so a 10 year old can use them!

A complete guide to making the transition to yeast free, and, if necessary wheat (gluten) free and milk (casein) free living. We give you simple steps to follow, in four stages, eliminating only the most necessary foods to improve your health. You will get a list of the foods you can eat and those you can't eat. Plus, every recipe is keyed to the Stages, so you know exactly what you can cook at all times.

A question was raised on Amazon.com, is this book really valuable for people following a yeast free, gluten free, casein free diet?

The answer is YES! Feast Without Yeast is 100% yeast free, and is "mostly" free of wheat and milk. There are 228 recipes in the book. All are free of yeast and fermented and moldy foods. Approximately 190 of the 228 are free of milk and wheat as well. The reviewer states only a handful of recipes are gluten/casein free. We fail to see how he or she can come to that conclusion. For example, 11 of the 14 "Mainly potato" recipes are free of wheat and milk; 17 of the 21 "Mainly Vegetable" recipes are free of wheat and milk; and 100% of the meat, fish and poultry recipes are. The count is similar in all chapters except desserts, "Sweets & Treats." Although all of the cakes and cookes have wheat and milk, we do have milk and wheat free pies, sorbets (a frozen dessert), frostings, candy and even a pudding. The reviewer states that most of the gluten and casein free foods are "beverages." Only 3 of the 228 recipes are for beverages, and 2 of those three are milk and wheat free. We hope that all of our customers will be happy and will find this book useful and helpful, and regret any confusion that this review may cause.

Who should use Feast Without Yeast?

Everyone who loves great food!Although this is a cookbook designed primarily for people with health and allergy issues, the recipes are delicious and easy to make for everyone. You will be surprised at how great you feel after you eat the food you cook.

Everyone looking for cholesterol free food. Most of the recipes are cholesterol free.

Everyone with a yeast problem! All recipes are free of yeast, mold and fermented foods. Passover, including a menu for a Passover Seder. Feast Without Yeast includes wheat free, egg free and milk free latkes, kugels and other delicious dishes.

Everyone coping with common food allergies, to milk, eggs, soy, corn, rye, wheat and other foods. Feast Without Yeast contains no corn, soy, or rye. Milk, wheat and egg free recipes are clearly labeled.

Everyone avoiding artificial preservatives, table sugar, colors and additives. Feast Without Yeast is totally natural, using whole grains, and sweetening with unprocessed honey.

Everyone suffering from any of these health conditions: Headaches, including migraine; fatigue; chronic ear infection; Fibromyalgia; chemical sensitivity; depression; abdominal pain; bloating, diarrhea; constipation; eczema; psoriasis; rashes; hives; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Crohn's Disease; Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD); Autism; pain or numbness in hands or feet; Multiple Sclerosis; Rheumatoid Arthritis; and many more.

About the Authors:

Dr. Bruce Semon is both a board certified psychiatrist and child psychiatrist and nutritionist practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his M.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. in Nutrition from University of California-Davis. Dr. Semon was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Nutritional and Molecular Regulation, of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He received his adult psychiatry training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Semon also was a Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Semon has published several academic papers relating to nutrition, and is a contributing author to Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD, by Dr. William Shaw.

As a complement to Dr. Semon's regular psychiatry practice, Dr. Semon has treated many patients for yeast-related illnesses, including eczema, psoriasis, depression and autism, with remarkable results.

To contact him personally, or to make an appointment to see Dr. Semon, please call (414) 352-6500. To learn more about his practice, click here.

Lori Kornblum is an attorney practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has published scholarly and popular articles relating to law. Ms. Kornblum regularly advises parents and others how to implement yeast free, milk and wheat free diets. She teaches cooking classes, too.

Dr. Semon and Ms. Kornblum are married and live in Milwaukee with their three children, one of whom has an autistic disorder.

The authors created all of the recipes in this book to help their son, as well as Dr. Semon's other patients, with disorders related to yeast, wheat, dairy and other food sensitivities.

Dr. Semon has appeared on numerous radio programs and internet programs. Both Dr. Semon and Ms. Kornblum are available to speak at conferences, teach classes, and for consultation. Call 877-332-7899 to schedule a date.

Not only do yeast chemicals--present in people's intestines and in the foods we eat--cause many major medical problems, but the immune system cannot properly respond to yeast. In An Extraordinary Power to Heal, Dr. Semon explains how our immune system is supposed to function to get rid of foreign invaders, and describes all of the ways that scientists have discovered that the yeast Candida albicans thwarts and evades the immune system. Because the immune system cannot clear yeast, the immune system fights yeast in many ways that actually cause major health problems.

An Extraordinary Power to Heal answers these questions and presents information in a way that lay people can understand. However, one of the most important functions of the book is to answer these questions for health care practitioners as well.

The most common question people ask is, "can my doctor do this for me?" The answer, with this book, is "yes."

Dr. Semon and Ms. Kornblum have carefully provided all of the scientific information underpinning these observations in footnotes that health care practitioners can read for a more thorough understanding of how yeast causes problems and why yeast problems should be taken seriously. This book, then, is written for both lay people and their health care practitioners.

An Extraordinary Power to Heal has a comprehensive treatment section, explaining in greater detail than in Feast Without Yeast how to implement our 4 Stages diet, what nystatin is and how to prescribe it. It discusses other anti-yeast treatments as well.

The book is organized into six sections. The first section explains how the foods we eat can trigger illness. The second section explains how yeast chemicals cause illness and devotes specific chapters to specific problems that yeast chemicals cause or make worse. These problems include Autism, ADD and ADHD, Depression, Allergies, Food Addiction, Tourette's Syndrome, headaches, and other problems.

The chapter on Autism is particularly comprehensive. In that chapter, Dr. Semon explains how the "gluten free casein free" diet really is part of a good anti-yeast diet. The companion cookbook to An Extraordinary Power to Heal, Extraordinary Foods for the Everyday Kitchen, is completely wheat/gluten and milk/casein free as well as yeast free.

The third section explains how the immune system is supposed to work to destroy foreign invaders such as yeast, but how yeast thwarts and evades the immune system. This section gives full explanations for how yeast causes or makes worse medical conditions associated with immune problems, including Multiple Sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis, eczema, psoriasis, ear infections, chronic vaginal yeast infections and other conditions.

The fourth section explains anti-yeast treatment in great detail. This section gives you a step by step, day by day and week by week plan for changing your life and your health.

The fifth section addresses theoretical and policy issues. Finally, the last section gives specific information for informed consent for treatment, nystatin dosing, how to include this diet on an IEP (individualized educational plan), travel tips, and other information.

We hope that you enjoy this book, and that reading it helps you or someone you know take charge of their health and feel better.