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Acknowledgments

THIS BOOK IS TRULY AN EXAMPLE OF ART IMITATING LIFE. THROUGH A mysterious sequence of events, I had the opportunity, during the writing of this book, to experience just about all the ailments I write about. Needless to say, it provided me with a newfound respect and admiration for all the people I met and consulted with who are in some degree of daily pain from gut-related issues.

I am very grateful to my publisher, Megan Newman, for seeing the need for a book like this and for inspiring the entire Avery team to make it a reality and a passion. My profound thanks go to Miriam Rich, assistant editor; to Ann Kosmoski, publicity manager; and to Amanda Tobier, marketing director, for being on top of all the related news articles and publicity.

As always, I am very indebted to my literary agent, Coleen OShea, who has been a staunch advocate of the topic and of my thirty books in general. Coleen encouraged, cajoled, and persisted in making me see the light when I was feeling out of sorts because of my own gut-flush saga during the writing of this book.

Mariska van Aalst was the creative force behind much of the books organization and creative punch. She is an angel to work with, and I would welcome the opportunity to work with her again. Carl Lowe provided lots of cutting-edge research, which was very helpful and relevant to the topic, while Karen Jarmon lent a helping hand in directing operations for a while. Our wonderful recipes and menu plans came from my own personal chef, Pamela Wright. Linda Sue Shapiro later lent her most capable and professional expertise in testing all the Gut Flush recipes in her professional Gut Flush kitchen and in tweaking menus, recipes, and shopping lists for publication.

Kudos to my personal team of supporters on the home front: to James William Templeton, for everything in every way; to Pamela Wright, who fed me the most wonderfully nutritious and delicious meals la Gut Flush; to my team of chiropractors, who kept my head on straight from coast to coast: Dr. Natalie Engelbart, Dr. Brad Reed, Dr. Paul Schutz, Dr. Allan Joubert, and Dr. Roy Speiser; to my bodyworkers, Laura Evenson, Marjanna Ylitalo, and Leslie Mulvihill; to my naturopathic associates, Dr. Roger Rowse and Dr. Bruce Blinzler; to my local dentists, Dr. Armand DeFelice and Dr. Robert Stephan; to my dear colonic therapists, Kathie Moe, Lolyn Pobram, and Georgia Cold; to my invaluable office staff: Stuart Gittleman, director of operations and business manager; Tami Oliver, personal assistant; moderators Linda Sue Shapiro, Carol Ackerman, Janine Forbes, Sue Durand, Cathy Young, Mandy Troxell, Linda Pankhurst, Jackie Scott, Charli Sorenson, Michelle O., and Nina Moreau; and my amazing Web guru, Amelia Kleymann.

My most sincere thanks to Dr. Hal Huggins, Dr. Stuart Nunnally, Dr. Lane Freeman, and the entire staff at Healthy Smiles for Life for making me realize that it really was all in my head after all!

Finally, I wish to thank my readers and professional associates for allowing me the time to reflect and create this work. My blessings and thanks to everyone.

To the millions of GI sufferers, who I pray will be encouraged to take
the road less traveled because of this book.

Introduction: Food Fright

TODAY, MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, OUR BODIES ARE BOMBARDED BY chemicals, environmental pollutants, nasty bacteria, and parasites. These toxins can spread far beyond the digestive tract and, in some cases, turn deadly. Even the produce aisle, where fruits and veggies had always been a safe haven for health-conscious and calorie-concerned consumers, is getting scary. You know what I mean because practically every day, we see headlines like these:

Melamine in Pet Food...
Salmonella Contaminates Peanut Butter in 26 States...
Bagged Spinach Tainted by E. coli...
Contaminated Beef Recalled in 22 States...
The Parasite Cryptosporidium Survives Chlorination and May Contami
nate Tap Water...
Parasite in Tap Water May Cause Blindness...

Its enough to make you feel queasy and never want to drink straight from the tap again.

Dodging dangers at the dinner table seems to be a full-time job nowadays. And as a professional nutritionist and author of thirty books on health and healing, Im not just worried by the disturbing trends in food safety, Im downright alarmed. I have been in the health care field for more than three decades and I cant recall a time when Ive seen more people suffer with so many problems related to food.

And, recently, I became one of them.

I thought I had been doing everything right, following my own protective protocols, taking daily probiotics and digestive enzymes. Yet, for months, I suffered from bloating, abdominal cramping, embarrassing gas, and anxiety. After several trips to Urgent Care, I was diagnosed with acid reflux based on my symptoms. I then decided to try every natural remedy I was familiar with for heartburn, GERD, and digestive illsall to no avail.

I became so desperate that I resorted to commonly prescribed medications like Protonix, Prevacid, and Nexium, which only made me feel worse and very disoriented. When an upper GI scope showed that I was as clean as a whistle, I was even more upset. Here I was, the First Lady of Nutrition, not knowing what was going on in my body and finding no answers. I was sick, suffering, and stymied.

After six full months of major discomfort, I decided to follow the advice that I would normally have given to a client or a reader who presented the same baffling array of symptoms that I was experiencing: I did a stool test. Finally, I was able to get to the root cause of what was really going on in my body.

My expanded GI panel stool analysis revealed that I was harboring abundant Candida albicans and rarifed yeast, abundant inflammatory bacteria with exotic names like Klebsiella and Citrobacter species as well as some rare alpha-hemolytic Streptococcus. Not your ordinary bacteria, by any means. So how did I, of all people, manage to pick up all of these bugs? You will be shocked to find outit may be something you do every day but dont really think about how you put your body at risk.

Ill talk more about this experience later in the book, but I share this story now to let you know that we are truly all in this together. This experience was one of the inspirations behind the development of The Gut Flush Plan. I am deeply concerned about unsafe food handling and the dangers in our food supply and in our environment. With this book and this plan, I want to prevent what happened to me from happening to you.

We are supposed to have the safest food and water supply in the world, but as a nation we seem to be sick and getting sicker with every meal. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that more than two hundred thousand Americans get food poisoning every single day. On a yearly basis, almost 80 million of us get sick, and more than three hundred thousand go to the hospital, for food-related illness. And these are just the unfortunate victims we know about. Many more people may actually be contracting food-borne illnesses and simply dont realize their food and drink could be making them ill.

Worse still, were importing the problem at an increasing rate. In the first four months of 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seized about three hundred food shipments from China. The seafood, candy, and other items had been contaminated with chemicals such as pesticides, antibiotics, antifungals, and formaldehyde. But despite all the problems with imports, the FDA, hampered by personnel and budget constraints, inspects only about

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