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The
following books are excellent resources of
information for you and your family on a variety of
health topics. Self-education is an important and
empowering process for your healthcare, prevention,
and recovery. Good resources serve as guide-posts
for the wise investment in your and your family's
health and well-being. Enjoy and share what you
know!
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& Nutrition |
Grain & Gluten Free |
Fats & Cholesterol
Soy |
Lifestyle |
Biofeedback/ Neurofeedback
FOOD
AND NUTRITION
The Crazy-Makers: How the Food Industry is
Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children,
Carol Simontacchi, 2001
The
Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet and
Cookbook, Rachel Albert-Matesz and Don Matesz,
2004
This
cookbook is a great resource on Paleolithic-type
whole foods nutrition and provides very tasty
recipes.
Going Back to the Basics of Human Health,
Mary Frost, 2004
A
short, informative book explaining why whole and
unprocessed foods and food-based supplements
protect your health.
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges
Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet
Dictocrats, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, 1999
An
educational resource and cookbook on whole foods
and the healthiest preparation methods.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston
Price, 2003
This
book (originally published in 1939) is the
culmination of over 10 years of study on the
diets and health of traditional-living cultures,
detailing the inextricable link between
nutrient-dense foods and health - and the
rampant decline in health with the introduction
of refined foods. Price's book used to be
required reading in Harvard medical-anthropology
classes, and remains unparalleled today.
Traditional Foods are Your Best Medicine,
Ronald Schmid, 1997
A
very readable introduction to the nutritional
research of Dr. Weston Price on foods and the
traditional diets of healthy and long-living
peoples world-wide.
Perfect Pasture: The Far-reaching Benefits of
Consuming Meats, Eggs and Dairy Products from
Grass-Fed Animals, Jo Robinson, 2004
This
book discusses the tremendous health benefits of
consuming pasture-raised meats and eggs. With
over 500 resources for these foods nation-wide,
the author lists them on the web-site:
www.eatwild.com
Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not
Sick, You're Thirsty, F. Batmanghelidj, 2003
GRAIN-FREE AND GLUTEN-FREE
Breaking the Vicious Cycle, Elaine
Gottschall, 1994
Elaine describes the carbohydrate-specific diet
(CSD) and its usefulness in Autism and GI
disorders.
Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding
Grains Can Revitalize Your Health, Melissa
Diane Smith, 2002
The Gluten-Free Bible, Jax Peters Lowell,
2005
Kids with Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising
Happy, Healthy Gluten-Free Children, Danna
Korn, 2001
Life Without Bread: How a Low Carbohydrate Diet Can
Save Your Life, Christian Allen and Wolfgang
Lutz, 2000
Living Gluten-Free for Dummies, Danna Korn,
2006
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing the
Detrimental Impact of Grains on Human Health, a
Nutritional and Evolutionary Perspective,
Noël Thomas, 2006
Dr.
Thomas' manuscript can be purchased through this
website.
Click here for more information.
Wheat-Free, Worry-Free: The Art of Happy, Healthy
Gluten-Free Living, Danna Korn, 2002 |
FATS AND CHOLESTEROL
The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that
Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease,
Ufe Ravnskov, 2000
Written by an MD and PhD scientist who
thoroughly presents the research to prove that
the so-called studies showing these correlations
are incorrect and falsified.
Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for
Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and
Cholesterol, Mary Enig, 2000
A
detailed explanation of the different types of
fats and their nutritional qualities from a
seasoned nutritional chemist renowned for her
exposure of the ill-effects of trans fats.
Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans
Fats, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, 2006
This
book discusses the health benefits of saturated
fats, especially coconut fats.
Saturated Fat May Save Your Life, Bruce Fife,
1999
Written by a naturopathic doctor who describes
the various fats and their health properties.
SOY
The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's
Favorite Health Food, Kaayla T. Daniel, 2005
Facts About Soy the Industry Doesn't Want You to
Know: With Kaalya Daniel, the author of "The Whole
Soy Story" on digital by Kaayla Daniel and
Elizabeth Lipski, 2005
LIFESTYLE
Energy Medicine, Donna Eden, 1999
A
great resource to explore how the body responds
to basic energy techniques for self-healing,
with information on charkas, meridians and other
energetic aspects of the body.
Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival, T.S.
Wiley, 2001
Discusses why quality sleep is so important for
health.
Your Inner Pharmacy: Taking Back Our Wellness,
Robert Blaich, 2006
A
chiropractor from Denver, who practices applied
kinesiology, advocates for a paradigm shift in
health care away from dependence on the medical
system to personal responsibility. He guides the
reader through essential and easy everyday steps
(diet, stress reduction, exercise) for an
optimally healthy and balanced body.
What the Bleep Do We Know!?: Discovering the Endless
Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality,
William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, 2005
The
funky book from the funky paradigm shifting
movie. If you haven't seen the movie, you need
to.
BIOFEEDBACK/NEUROFEEDBACK
ADD: The 20-Hour Solution, Mark Steinberg
and Siegfried Othmer, 2004
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The
Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety,
Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsivity,
Daniel Amen, 1999
Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can
Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder
Without Drugs, Robert Hill and Eduardo
Castro, 2002
Mindfitness Training: Neurofeedback and the Process,
Adam Crane and Richard Soutar, 2000
A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New
Brain Wave Biofeedback, Jim Robbins, 2001
A
very readable story of Neurofeedback, personal
accounts, its potential, and how it evolved from
the labs of UCLA in the 1970s.
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