For book lovers, seekers, health enthusiasts and thinkers
How “Innocent” Wheat Is Ruining Your Health by Drs. Vikki & Richard Petersen, D.C., C.C.N. Gluten plays a role in more diseases than you can imagine Food that enters the intestine goes through a complex digestive process. It must be broken down to molecules that can pass through the intestinal wall. The intestine is also [...]
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The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter An entertaining adventure in raising livestock in the inner city This book tells two stories: Novella Carpenter’s education in urban farming and what it’s like living in an Oakland ghetto. However, the focus is on livestock, not gardening. Carpenter and her boyfriend Bill move from Seattle [...]
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Inside America’s Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz A great book looking for a better title Sandor Katz writes about the many avenues available for procurement of food, such as buying locally at farmers’ markets, joining underground co-ops, growing our own, foraging for wild plants, reclaiming vacant city lots to garden in, saving seeds, [...]
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The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig Comprehensive reference book for understanding dietary fats The paradigm under which most of us live teaches that fats from animals and tropical nuts are unhealthy because they’re saturated, and that we need to consume mostly polyunsaturates from plants, such [...]
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The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body by Jon Gabriel Excellent advice for those wishing to make major dietary and body changes The Gabriel Method isn’t just another weight loss book about “thinking yourself thin.” It’s a fantastic compilation of advice that covers the mental, spiritual and physical aspects of body identity and [...]
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By Paul A. Stitt Nutrition and atruism not found in the center aisles of your grocery store Paul Stitt, a biochemist working for Tenneco with a desire to end world hunger, sets out to create an economically feasible process whereby protein from bacteria can be grown on natural gas. Tenneco was happy to advertise this [...]
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A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. How fasting helps reversal of chronic, degenerative diseases When you’re suffering from a chronic, degenerative disease, and the doctors you trust are recommending drugs or surgery, it’s hard to believe that simply going without food could be of any lasting benefit. This is also [...]
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The Hygienic System: Volume III by Herbert Shelton Everything you wanted to know about fasting for health Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education and “natural hygiene.” He supervised over 30,000 fasts of chronically ill and terminal patients, losing only three. Shelton’s teachings on fasting inspired Ghandi as well as [...]
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Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Sources of True Healing by John Robbins Great book. Fabulous writer. This book is really about the relationship between the American medical establishment and Americans. We’ve grown up trusting doctors, the FDA, AMA, and other agencies to help us stay healthy and fight disease. Robbins writes about the [...]
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Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman Personal account of a cattle rancher This is an excellent book by a fourth-generation Montana cattle rancher turned vegetarian. Lyman writes about how he inherited his father’s farm and destroyed it through chemical agricultural practices he learned in college. Right before [...]
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