Gluten-Free For Dummies

Living Gluten-Free for Dummies, Australian Edition
Written by Danna Korn and Margaret Clough
Publication date: Jan 09
Price: $NZ38.99

When it came to knowing about the gluten-free diet I certainly wasn't clued up - that is until I flipped through a copy of Living Gluten-Free For Dummies. This 400-page reference book has everything you need to know from what it means to live gluten-free to how to identify gluten-free foods in your supermarket aisles.

Whether you have a mild gluten intolerance or full-blown coeliac disease Living Gluten-Free For Dummies caters to all types. Despite its weighty exterior, this book is incredibly easy to negotiate your way through. The reader is even encouraged to skip straight to the parts that interest them if they happen to be in a hurry.

This book is jam-packed with interesting facts, nutritious recipes, and hot tips for those who like to skim read but still get the benefit reading a great book.

Authors Danna Korn and Margaret Clough know firsthand what it means to live with coeliac disease so you can rest assured the content of this book is top-notch. You can pick up a copy of Living Gluten-Free For Dummies from all good bookstores.

Reviewed by Jasmine Pearson, January 2009.

More about the book: 

If you have a wheat allergy, gluten intolerance, coeliac disease, or you just want to enjoy the benefits of a diet free of wheat, barley, and rye, then there’s a new guide for you: Living Gluten-Free For Dummies, Australian Edition, helps you make a smooth and successful transition to your new lifestyle.

Living gluten-free involves more than cutting gluten out of your diet. It also affects other aspects of your life — including ordering at restaurants, attending social functions and dealing with emotional challenges. With Living Gluten-Free For Dummies, Australian edition, you can embrace all aspects of the gluten-free lifestyle and make a smooth and successful transition to better health.

Covers how to:

𐂃 Spot the tell-tale signs of gluten intolerance

𐂃 Relieve the symptoms of coeliac disease

𐂃 Decipher Australian food labelling

𐂃 Cook tasty breakfasts, lunches and dinners

𐂃 Stay on track with your gluten-free diet

𐂃 Raise happy, gluten-free kids

About the authors:

Donna Korn is also the author of Wheat-Free, Worry-Free: The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Living and Kids with Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy Gluten-Free Children. Respected as one of the leading authorities on the gluten-free diet and the medical conditions that benefit from it, she speaks frequently to health care professionals, coeliacs, parents of coeliacs, and is a consultant to retailers, manufacturers, testing companies, dietitians, nutritionists, and people newly diagnosed with gluten intolerance and coeliac disease. She has been invited twice to be a presenter at the International Symposium on Celiac Disease and founded R.O.C.K. (Raising Our Celiac Kids), a support group for families of children on a gluten-free diet, in 1991 after her son was diagnosed with coeliac disease.

Margaret Clough is the public officer for the Coeliac Society of Australia and the travel editor for The Australian Coeliac magazine. She was a co-founder of the ACT Contact Group of The Coeliac Society in 1981 and has been an active member of The Coeliac Society of Australia since 1990.