Lectin-Free Cookbook: Quick And Tasty Lectin-Free Recipes To Lower Inflammation And Prevent Diseases

By Penny Reynolds

Lose Weight, Lower Inflammation, Prevent Diseases!
Lectins are a class of proteins that bind to cell membranes. They are found in many foods we eat, especially in legumes and grains. They can be harmful to us. When eaten in concentrated amounts, they cause digestive distress and when eaten frequently, they cause chronic illnesses. For instance, most of the toxin lectins found in tomatoes, beans and potatoes leads to inflammation, leaky gut, weight gain and more.

This book provides a detailed explanation of what lectins are and how to reduce them from your diet. It helps you to understand how lectins, originally in plants as a form of defense, can break down your immune system and cause several health issues and diseases. You need the information that this book presents to help you to effectively address this problem and prevent any future occurrences.

You will also be able to make quick, delicious and healthy meals with affordable recipes that are easy to find. Additionally, you will have access to a comprehensive list of what's allowed in this diet and what's not, to take the guesswork out of cooking lectin-free meals. There is also valuable information on how to substitute a common lectin ingredient with a lectin-free ingredient and still prepare tasty and nourishing meals.

Other valuable information in this book includes:
• An Understanding on How What Lectin Affect Our Health
• A detailed List and Explanation of Foods with High Lectin Content
• A detailed List and Explanation of Lectin-free foods
• Benefits of Lectin-Free Diet
• Substituting ingredients
• Cooking methods to reduce lectin content
• Delicious lectin-free Breakfast, Chicken, beef, pork and seafood Recipes
• As well as recipes for Soups, Vegetables, Snacks and Desserts  
• Nutritional Information for Each Recipe

This book is your one- stop resource, with loads of simple and flavorful healthy lectin-free recipes as well as plentiful information to make healthy and tasty meals that won't  compromise your body's immune system.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Mayorline
• Release date: Jun 26, 2018

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INTRODUCTION

Lectins And Our Health

Lectins are a class of proteins that bind to cell membranes. They are found in many foods we eat, about 30 %. They are particularly abundant in raw legumes and grains. Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins because they bind to the sugar molecules, known as polysaccharides; and these sugar molecules cover the surface of most of the cells in our body. Many varieties of lectins are found in nearly all plants and animals. They bind to different carbohydrates and as a result, they all perform different functions. Lectins are involved in various important biological functions, such as helping cells and molecule stick and interact with each other. Scientists have used lectins for hundreds of years in medical testing labs because they stick well to red blood cells.

In plants, lectins are usually found on the seed coat or the cotyledon, the first leaf produced by the seed of a sprouting plant. Leaves usually contain fewer lectins. Plants are stationary. They cannot move or run and have to use the natural chemistry in them to protect themselves; and from whom? Predators and humans like us who would want to eat them or misuse them. Lectins are the defense mechanisms that plants put up. Lectins in plants help to ward off insects. Some lectins are so strong that they can paralyze certain bugs. Talk about a working defense mechanism!  Although lectins perform various biological functions, they can be harmful to us. When eaten in concentrated amounts, they cause digestive distress and when eaten frequently, they cause chronic illnesses.

Consuming large amounts of lectin is dangerous to our health, because we don’t have the right enzymes to digest them. They remain unaltered even as they pass through the stomach and when they get to the intestine, they can attach themselves to the gut lining. Lectins attach themselves to our cells, and make it difficult for the cells to communicate effectively with our immune system. Our cells have little holes that line our intestines. Lectins can perforate these holes and bring about the ailment known as Leaky Gut Syndrome. This is just one example. Overexposure to lectins may cause autoimmune diseases. Lectins are antinutrients as well; this means that they can reduce the body’s capacity to absorb nutrients, causing nutritional deficiencies.

Plants containing lectins cause stomach upset when eaten uncooked. This is one of the reason why eating uncooked legumes is dangerous. For instance, red kidney beans contain a lectin called phytohaemagglutinin. This lectin causes food poisoning when red kedney beans are eaten raw or undercooked. Statistics from The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that just 4 raw red kidney beans can cause diarrhea, severe abdominal pain and vomiting. Concentrated consumptions cause digestive problems and long term health issues. They cause other symptoms such as joint pain and skin rashes. Humans— and even animals are vulnerable to lectin’s toxicity in varying degrees. As a matter of fact, lectins are at war with our bodies, dropping their little bombs and destroying our intestines as well as our immune systems.

Lectins are one major source of food sensitivity. Digestive complaints are commonly reported after consumptions of grains, cereal, soybean, peanut and diary due to the abundant of lectins in them.  Most lectins are pro-inflammatory, immunotoxic and neurotoxic. Their binding process can result in inflammation and the formation of compounds called AGEs (advanced glycation end products), which have been linked to numerous age-related diseases. In fact, Lectins play a role, either directly or indirectly to many diseases and ailments that we suffer.

Lectins have also been identified as an impediment to weight loss. Remember that they are sugar-binding plant proteins and are present in most of the plant foods we eat. Therefore, if we have been trying unsuccessfully to rid ourselves of that extra weight and/ or that stubborn health problem, even when on a healthy food diet, then we may have to try a lectin-free diet.

THE LECTIN-FREE DIET

The lectin-free diet is an elimination diet.  It eliminates high lectin foods like legumes, grains, nightshade vegetables, diary and quinoa. It helps you to know the inflammatory foods to avoid and the ones to eat. With the exception of corn, milk and free-range meats, the following foods should be consumed in moderation:

Foods High In Lectins

1. Beans And Pulses: Beans, peas and other pulses or legumes contain the highest amount of lectin than any

Reviews for Lectin-Free Cookbook

[sandi6stiles · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good recipes if following Plant Paradox and paleo I think.