The Hemochromatosis Cookbook: Recipes and Meals for Reducing the Absorption of Iron in Your Diet

Forward section gives good breakdown of food iron contents and other things to watch out for. Each recipe has the heme and nonheme iron contents along with other substances that can lower iron absorption. This is the type of information I've been looking for.

This is a down to earth cookbook with very easy to follow recipes and everything is available at your local grocery store

If you are living with elevated iron in your system, this information helped.

THIS BOOK IS AN ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS! I WANT TO THANK MS CHERYL FOR CREATING SUCH AN INFORMATIVE BOOK. I HAVE DONE SO MUCH RESEARCH ON ABSORPTION OF IRON AND I FELT ALL OVER THE PLACE. MY HUSBAND SUFFERS FROM EXTREME IRON OVERLOAD, HE WAS DIAGNOSED IN HIS TEENS WITH POLYCYTHEMIA VERA HOWEVER CURRENTLY HE IS THE VICTIM OF HEMOCHROMATOSIS. NOW HIS LIVER IS SUFFERING FROM IRON OVERLOAD AND I HAVE BEEN FRANTICALLY SEARCHING FOR HELP WITH WHAT HIS DIET SHOULD BE, HE HAS TO HAVE LOW PROTEIN, WHICH HAS JUST CONFUSED THE HECK OUT OF ME IN PLANNING HIS MEALS. HE MUST ALSO LOSE WEIGHT AND DO IT FAST. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR HELP IN LOWERING IRON ABSORPTION YOU ARE LOOKING AT WHAT YOU NEED TO DO SO. I WENT THRU THIS BOOK AND FOUND SO MUCH INFO THAT WAS ACTUALLY SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND! NOW I HAVE ALL THE NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF EACH FOOD AND WHEN AND HOW TO CONSUME IT. BY SEEING THE PROTEIN, I CAN MAKE SURE WE ARE GOOD THERE TOO. NOT ONLY THAT THE RECIPES ARE AMAZING AND THE SAMPLE MENUS ARE THINGS HE ACTUALLY LIKES, WHICH IS A BATTLE IN ITSELF.THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BOOK ITS WORTH CANNOT BE VALUED AS MY HUSBAND IS PRICELESS AND I HOPE THE AUTHOR READS THIS:)

This cookbook is a great place to start if you want to understand iron absorption in your diet and gain a sense of contol over your iron intake. Like the old adage about teaching a man to fish, it provides real tools for those of us with HHC. The authors don't just present a buch of recipes. Instead they take the reader through a layman's overview of iron absorption and how it can be blocked. There is enough information in here that the experienced or adventurous cook can even extrapolate and create his/her own iron-blocking recipes (although there are enough recipes in the cookbook that there is no "need" for this). 3 members of my family have been diagnosed with HHC (including my mother), and my mother was cutting all kinds of things out of her diet (meat, certain vegetables, etc.) because they contained "too much" iron. I gave her The Hemochromatosis Cookbook for Christmas and she has called me numerous times to tell me how thrilled she is with the information and recipes, what she's making now, etc. The Hemochromatosis Cookbook showed her that she didn't have to give up any particular foods; she just has to combine her intake of iron rich foods with iron-blocking foods/nutrients. The Hemochromatosis Cookbook really gives one a sense of power over that rusty little element, providing multiple options for controlling and blocking dietary iron absorption.

This book is chockful of science based information. The recipes are tasty and use familiar ingredients, nothing exotic here. If you want to feel that you are contributing to and impacting your treatment, this book will help. I bought the book used. It shows no wear. It arrived very quickly and well packaged. An excellent purchase for me.

This book has been a great resource of information for my recently diagnosed husband and myself. The recipes are easy to readand we love the pictures. Thr condition information is more helpful than anything we found on the internet and a big bonus.

I bought this book for my daughter's boyfriend that was diagnosed with hemochromotosis quite a few years back. He along with my daughter are thrilled with the book (he's the cook). In the first part of the book there is a deep enough explanation of the disorder that is written in layman's terms.When it first arrived, I flipped through and was quite surprised at how many recipes are in it and was amazed at how many recipes called for tea.It seems to have opened up a new world for him. He eats well, sticks to the diet and has been exercising. The last time I saw him he looked like he was in tip-top shape. Of course he still goes for his blood-letting sessions, but he has also taken charge of his diet and overall health.I highly recommend this book to anyone that has this disorder or has a loved one that does. Great gift item!

This book has some really helpful information in it about Hemochromatosis and the charts about how much iron is in certain foods is really good. However the recipes let it down, some of them sound ok but nearly all of them have brewed tea or coffee in them. Don't get me wrong I love my tea and coffee and am glad that it's useful for the absorption of iron but I don't want to see every recipe with it and to be honest I would probably only do about a handful of the recipes for this reason. If you stick to a good healthy diet and limit the amount of red meat that you have you will do just as well.

Written in USEnglish so difficult to understand.

Not really great.

A good variety of recipes also very informative regarding hemochromatosis condition. It has been very helpful to me regarding my husbands illness.

Very informative reading. Had to get this book after my partner was diagnosed with Hemochromatosis. Very helpful...