The Hemochromatosis Help
Cookbook
Discover New Recipes and Cooking Strategies to Reduce Your Iron Absorption:
You Don’t Have to Give Up Tasty Food When You Have Hemochromatosis!
Cooking for Hemochromatosis by Dr. Kristina Lewis, ND
Recipes, Menus, and Culinary Strategies to Lower Iron in Your Diet
The Easy-to-Use Cookbook for People Who Have Hemochromatosis
My name is Dr. Kristina Lewis, and I am a Naturopathic Doctor married to a husband who has a a genetic predisposition to iron overload.
Cooking for Hemochromatosis: Recipes, Menus, and Culinary Strategies to Lower Iron in Your Diet is based on extensive research on how iron affects the diet.
In this book, I expertly guide you through the major food groups, outlining what to look for and what to avoid. I also show you how foods combine with one another in a meal to help you understand how to lower iron in your diet while still being able to eat healthy and delicious food.
This comprehensive cookbook, a companion to my husband Dr. Eric Lewis’s book, Holistic Help for Hemochromatosis, offers more than 100 research-based, wholesome and easy-to-follow recipes.
Inside you’ll find meal ideas for breakfasts, salads, appetizers, entrées, sauces, and desserts. There’s something for everyone, featuring cuisines from around the world, and including dishes adaptable for diets ranging from vegan to Paleo, low-carb to low-fat, and gluten-free to dairy-free.
With Cooking for Hemochromatosis, you’ll be empowered to shop and cook with confidence – and enjoy eating again! With a little preparation and some easy-to-understand advice, it is possible to manage your iron overload and live life on your own terms.
Your Comprehensive, Science-Based Guide for Buying and Preparing Food When You Have Hemochromatosis
Discover more than 100 healthy recipes and foundational cooking strategies to reduce your iron absorption and enjoy eating again!
Cooking for Hemochromatosis: Recipes, Menus, and Culinary Strategies to Lower Iron in Your Diet is a comprehensive guidebook to help you plan, shop, and cook to reduce iron in your diet. Much more than just a cookbook, it will teach you how to decide what to eat, plan meals, and enjoy food again when facing iron overload.
Explore Recipes and Cooking Strategies for Hemochromatosis in our One-of-a-Kind Cookbook
Hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common – and most commonly misdiagnosed – genetic conditions. If you suffer from this condition, you may also have a great deal of confusion about what to eat. Conflicting advice can make you feel as if you’ll never be able to enjoy food again. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Seeing her husband face similar challenges, Dr. Kristina Lewis was inspired to learn how to combine both her research and cooking skills to help him. Her training as a naturopathic doctor, love of creating delicious meals, and desire to help her husband has inspired her to share what she’s learned with the world through this unique resource guide.
In This Book You Will Learn
- The best and worst foods for iron overload
- How to eat Vitamin C-rich fruits safely
- How to cook foods without destroying their iron-blocking qualities
- How to read labels to identify where enriched iron may sneak into your meal
- How to identify common ingredients and condiments that may be destroying your efforts to eat for low iron
- Six key substances nutrients to keep in mind when planning meals and recipes
Excellent cookbook, the best one out there. I have learned so much about what is good and what is bad and the foods that should not be combined and why. I like how I can take a recipe and modify a ingredient or two and you have a different meal.
Who Needs to Read Cooking for Hemochromatosis?
- Do you know what to eat when you have hemochromatosis?
- Have you been given confusing advice, limiting advice, or no advice at all about nutrition and iron overload?
- Would you like clear, simple, practical and easy-to-understand guidelines for how to eat to help reduce iron overload?
- Do you wish you had curated recipes, meal plans and food lists to help you in your daily food planning?
- Are you seeking advice on how to modify favorite recipes to contain less iron?
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An Extensively Researched, Comprehensive Cookbook
To Help You Reduce Iron Overload
In This Book, You Will Discover:
- Recipes – Try more than 100 easy-to-follow, diverse and high-quality recipes ranging from breakfast to dessert, from meat to vegan dishes
- Nutritional Analysis – See detailed nutritional information for each recipe and an explanation of why the recipe works for hemochromatosis
- Special Dietary Needs – See recommendations for strategically adapting recipes for plant-based, paleo-, keto-, lowfat and other diets
- Key Combinations – Learn about the six critical substances to keep in mind when trying to eat a low-iron diet and how those substances occur naturally in food
- Food Reference List – Use a comprehensive table with detailed food group information along with the best and worst foods for each to help you make meal plans and adapt your own recipes
- Meal Plans – Explore four sample meal plans that include breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack for an entire week
- Grocery Shopping – What to watch out for on labels, and find brands and products to incorporate into your meals
- Enriched Foods – How to spot critical information on standard nutrition labels that suggests iron-enriched foods to watch out for, as well as information about how enrichment laws vary in different countries
- Metric and US Instructions - Every recipe, chart, and measurement appears in both the Metric and US-based systems, allowing everyone from around the world to use this book without having to make your own conversions
- And much, much more!
The other Hemochromatosis cookbook I bought does little of this and the recipes are not the types of food we eat. I was sorry I bought this other cookbook as I will never really use it. Your cookbook is very useful and I thank you for writing it. You did a great job.
I loved all your explanations. I want to learn all I can about eating real food again. The pictures are great.
Pairs Well with the Hemochromatosis Help Diet Book
Holistic Help for Hemochromatosis
By: Dr. Eric Lewis, ND
Holistic Help for Hemochromatosis is a complete guide to the use of diet and supplements in healing from iron overload. With Dr. Eric’s unique perspective of being both a practitioner and a patient, he brings new insight into holistic approaches to iron overload, providing new understanding about the best diet and supplementation strategies to help support health with hemochromatosis.
Learn More Here: The Hemochromatosis Help Diet Book
Thank you, Dr. Kristina Lewis!!
to this book.
It's abundantly clear on every page that this is a labor of love for your readers and that you've put so much time and effort into making this a helpful text for a very diverse audience.
About the Author
Dr. Kristina Lewis, ND
Dr. Kristina Lewis is a naturopathic physician in practice with her husband, Dr. Eric Lewis, in Asheville, North Carolina. When her husband discovered he had hereditary hemochromatosis and founded the website HemochromatosisHelp.com, she became very involved in researching, writing, and teaching about this condition both as a health-care practitioner and as a concerned wife.
After the publication of Dr. Eric’s book, Holistic Health for Hemochromatosis, it became clear that a companion guide with recipes and cooking instruction was what the readers of Hemochromatosis Help needed next. As someone who naturally loves to cook and who finds inventing tasty and healthy recipes a fun challenge, Dr. Kristina decided to take on the challenge of creating a cookbook for hemochromatosis from a holistic perspective. Little did she realize at the time what an involved project this would become! More than two years and countless hours later, she is excited to finally share her recipe inspirations with the world in Cooking for Hemochromatosis.
Dr. Kristina Lewis is an honors graduate holding a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona. In her private practice she works with women on a wide range of health issues, including iron overload. She and Dr. Eric have two young children and she is fully enjoying being a mother as well as a doctor!