A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Acid Reflux Through Diet and Nutrition

Jessica A.: It seems like it has some good ideas but I find it quite contradictory. There are a lot of ingredients on the eliminate list which are then in the recipes such as mushrooms, asparagus and leeks. In fact some of the recipes are predominantly mushroom or asparagus when it says to eliminate them, how does that work? I will try it but I might avoid some of the recipes which don’t make sense.

United Kingdom on Sep 10, 2023

JL2012: Lots of information and explanations of Gerd. I liked the separation of the different aspects of the meal plan. Stop, heal, reintroduce. Recipes are ok. Really difficult the make large meals 2-3x/day in addition to throwing together snacks. I am not making an entire dish stew to eat for lunch when I have to go to work. Felt like a full time job. I started looking through the meal plans and pulling those that I can make and eat for a number of days. Wish there was a shopping list based on the meals plans. A pain to flip to all the recipes and pull the ingredients to get.
FYI hope you like lamb. A number of recipes use lamb Ground lamb smells awful cooking.

United States on Aug 28, 2023

Amazon Customer: This was really helpful to me in understanding how reflux works and what to eat to avoid it. The author is very encouraging which I very much appreciated - I was overwhelmed by the dietary changes I needed to make and reading this helped me feel like I could do it and it would be worth it.

The recipes are easy to make (at least the ones I tried). My faves are the herb dressing, pesto, and green beans amandine.

Recipe notes:
- the corn porridge makes 5 servings (not 2)
- the chicken stew took 1+hrs to cook (listed as 30 minutes total)
- For the mushroom omelet, that's too much salt and oil. Lower the temp a bit before adding the eggs
- baked chicken tenders: makes enough coating for 2x this amount of chicken

United States on Aug 08, 2023

Nancy J. Bond: Nicely laid out and delicious sounding recipes! Very pleased and can't wait to try them all. Definitely recommend.

Canada on Jun 15, 2023

Ashley D. Roeder: I’ve been suffering from heartburn pretty intensely for the last year. Most of my adult life I’ve been predisposed to heartburn but it was always manageable up until last year. I took a long round of antibiotics as well as ibuprofen etc for an extended period of time. My gut was shot and I was miserable. Enter PPIs which offered some relief but after 3 months the heartburn was worse than ever. My doctor ran all the tests and prescribed PPI 2x a day. I was nauseous and miserable barely able to find foods that worked for me. Finally, I found this book. I took my time getting started and planned to begin when I knew I had an open month with no serious social commitments. I pre bought the pantry staples listed in the book. I planned each weeks snacks and meals on a calendar and ordered my groceries. I would double and even triple recipes, eating the same lunch or dinner for multiple days. I found the recipes easy to follow, simple and really tasty. Some of my favorites for ease and meal prepping were the chia pudding, bone broth, burgers, meatballs, salmon and meatloafs. I kept my snacks simple, hard boiled eggs, banana, seeds/nuts etc. I’m now one month in and I feel so much...

United States on Feb 25, 2023

Emil: They propose to start with soft meals, that's good, but if you use carbs or sugar (which is proposed there) which is in honey, sweeteners, bananas, whole grains it will make you hungry again because of craving, and you will eat most probable again what causes that you add to your stomach more food and more probable that it will be too much and acid will go up ! I understand that this kind of 'solutions' are there to make our poor lives a bit easier, but it is not effective in this case what only cause that the procedure is useless.

Germany on Dec 29, 2022

Marsha K. Owen: I just started the HEAL part of the plan. So far I have been impressed with the recipes. They're much tastier than I thought they would be. I'm using some new spices and leeks, fennel, etc that I haven't eaten before. I like the concept and am trying to follow it just as she set it up but I am noticing a couple of things. She says not to drink anything 30 minutes before and an hour after eating. That meals should be 3 to 4 hours apart, etc. That's been hard because I feel like I am eating all day and have to stay up late so I don't lay down on a full stomach. I have decided that snacks might not count as being a meal. I get super hungry sometimes after eating the amount of food she calls one serving. Also, I am just an average sized woman but what if I were a 6 foot 5 man? one small taco and then wait until morning? I ate two tacos tonight and hope I'm not endangering the lining of my esophagus. :-) I'm trying hard though and really hope this eating will heal my gut. Also, I put a little aloe vera in my melon smoothie. It tasted like poison. I'm going to still drink the rest of my smoothie toorrow because I know it's good for me but, from now on I think I'll just swallow a chunk...

United States on Feb 03, 2021

Suzie: This book has completely changed my life in just five days. In Jan of this year, I started to get a sore throat along with heartburn. After suffering from a bout of heartburn and acid reflux many years ago, I never associated a sore throat with acid reflux or silent reflux as I’d never had it before. In March my throat flared up that bad that I thought I had tonsillitis as I had lumps on my tonsils, and my throat was so inflamed I could hardly swallow. We were in lockdown at the time, so I couldn’t get my throat looked at, but the doctor prescribed me antibiotics. After seven days of taking the antibiotics, my throat was getting worse, so they prescribed me some stronger antibiotics, which I took for a month to try and irradiate my sore throat. After the month passed, my throat was a little better but still red, and my tonsils were still swollen with marks on. The doctor said it will go away on its own now and to just drink honey and lemon. which I did. Two weeks passed and my throat flared up yet again, so I called the doctor back and he asked me if I had ever suffered from acid reflux, which I replied yes, but it was a long time ago and I did have some heartburn in...

United Kingdom on Jul 07, 2020

joan sennington: i would have liked to give a five rating for this book due to the successful results I have gained from reading the book and endeavouring to follow the dietary requirements. Having suffered acid reflux for quite a long period and finding increased medications was not working for me, in
I needed to take stock of what was the real route cause. I was fortunate to finds this book on Kindle. After the initial Stop Plan, which I did for one week I felt better, my energy levels increased and I have lost weight. However, I have issues with the foods mentioned which are often unrecognisable or not available in the UK. I understand the book is to be released here shortly and as good and well written as it is, both the measuring and ingredients need careful reviewing. All too often amounts mentioned are for more than one person and whilst one can half or quarter the amounts given, it would be so much simpler to assume only one person in a household will be on the regime(as is my situation), allowing easier doubling up where necessary. I have attempted to follow the conversion tables-as I personally like to weigh ingredients rather than use the American ‘cup’. MAny busy people with...

United Kingdom on Jul 13, 2018