• Brand New! A friend of a friend has just published a new cookbook especially for folks with CD, IBS, diabetes and heart disease. (She wrote for those conditions specifically because she's personally familiar with them all. She felt she doesn't know enough about UC to say anything about it.) It's called Elizabeth's Healthy Home Cooking. I had some small input in the book, making some suggestions, including the addition of a food diary to help folks keep track of problem foods. The book is beautifully done, with lots of color photos of the recipes, and detailed substitutions for each of the diseases mentioned. Here's a local news paper article about her and the book.
  
  
• Carol Sveillich (who facilitated an IBD support group in San Diego for years, and was instrumental in encouraging me in the early days of running this web site) has a new book out, "Just Fine: Unmasking Concealed Chronic Illness and Pain". In it she profiles 55 people from all walks of life who live with illnesses and conditions such as Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, IBS, Lupus, diabetes, and more. There is lots of information about the conditions, as well as a wealth of coping tools from real life.
  
  
• Know Your Rights: A Handbook for Patients with Chronic Illness.. Written by Jennifer Jaff, Crohn's patient, CCFA member, and attorney from Hartford, CT, the Handbook addresses many of the legal issues patients with chronic diseases face every day. Jennifer acquired her knowledge of these issues not only through her own struggles, but through years of providing free legal advice and assistance to patients with IBD. The Handbook is her attempt to answer all of the questions that she has been asked over the years in as thorough a manner as possible while avoiding confusing 'legalese'. The expanded, second edition is available now.
  
  
• Darryl D. Helems has written a book, Check Your Pride at the Door, about how he has lived with IBD for 20 years and it is due out this coming Fall (2006).Ê At this time, the site contains a press release, author information, book content, and IBD Resource page.
  
  
• Living Well with an Ostomy, by Elizabeth Rayson is a day-to-day guide to the care and feeding of an ostomy, with tips on coping with all aspects of living with one. Useful and reassuring information for folks of all ages.
  
  
• The Colitis Cookbook has its pages online. It's a collection of recipes from a highly restrictive diet, developed expressly to deal with ulcerative colitis.
  
  
• Peter Waite's Crohn's Disease Resource Center at HealingWell.com has some significant revisions, including illustrations, online articles, and the IBD-IBS Bookstore at WellnessBooks.com (which includes book reviews & abstracts on Crohn's, IBD, and chronic illness).
  
  
• Heather Van Vorous has a web site announcing her new book, Eat Without Fear. It's a comprehensive look at how diet can affect IBS. She's got recipes, too.
  
  
• Some Book Reviews by Sheila Ruffel. She's read the books listed in the Info Resources FAQ, and gives a couple of paragraphs on them. This item was first published in the IBDList, a moderated mail list dedicated to issues arising from living with various inflammatory bowel diseases. (2/7/96)
  
  
• Here's an excerpt from a book by Edward N. Siquel, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher at Boston University Medical Center. The book, "Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease," reports results of Dr. Siquel's research into the health effects of essential fats and saturated fats, and corresponding dietary guidelines based on his findings. (Excerpted and submitted by the author.)
  
  
• Crohn's, Colitis, Hemorrhoids, and Me, by Kathlene J. O'Leary, is a new book written by a Crohn's patient, describing her experience with the disease, surgery, and recovery. They sent me a review copy, and it's pretty good.
  
  

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