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The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children
By: Carol Simontacchi
This book has been a long time coming, and its information is both timely and badly needed by all parents and non-parents alike. You will learn which foods contain ingredients or chemicals that can greatly affect and harm the emotional and physiological health of your children. If you know a day care provider or any body that feeds children, give them this book. We have got to stop feeding our children poison.
Empty Harvest
By: Bernard Jensen, Mark Anderson
Do you ever wonder why we have such a prolific cancer epidemic? Why there is so much arthritis, allergies, and other chronic disease? Take a look at the link between our food, our immunity and our planet. Empty Harvest discusses the demineralization of the soil, the declining nutritional values of our food supply, as well as the resulting weakening of our bodies’ immune systems and much more. This book contains information that every one needs to know.
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
By: Russell L. Blaylock
Excitotoxins are chemical agents added to our food under the guise of natural flavors, spice, hydrolyzed protein and more. These all too common additives disrupt brain function and contribute to headaches, ADD, depression, insomnia, Alzheimer’s and more. Be informed and learn about the dangers of what is in most packaged foods.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
By: Eric Schlosser
Use this book for discussion/study groups for high school students. It is a MUST read for anyone that eats fast food. American fast food is indicted as a crime against humanity. Take a look at how fast food is manufactured and all the chemicals that are added to fool your brain into thinking that you are eating something that tastes good.
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture
From Foundation for Deep Ecology
Agriculture for profit at the expense of people and the environment and all of the illness that entails. Full of amazing photographs and in depth research, this book also looks at how we can create a better future with different farming practices. I have the hard back edition and keep it on the coffee table. Even people that could care less about organic food are surprised by the facts and photos in this great piece of work.
Sweet Gratitude: A New World of Raw Desserts
by Matthew Rogers
I love the pies in this book. Do you have people in your life that are gluten-free and dairy free but still want to serve cheese cake? Well, this book is your answer. Super delicious desserts, that are rich, healthy and definitely crowd pleasers!
Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity
By: Bob Flaws
This book focuses on oriental principles of health preservation. The search for longevity is an integral part of Chinese medicine and this easy to read book outlines lifestyle practices that promote increased health and wellbeing.
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back
By: Ann Vileisis
Ask children where food comes from, and they’ll probably answer: ‘the supermarket’. Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected from the sources of our breads, beef, cheeses, cereal, apples, and countless other foods that nourish us every day? Ann Vileisis’ answer is a sensory-rich journey through the history of making dinner. “Kitchen Literacy” takes us from an eighteenth-century garden to today’s sleek supermarket aisles, and eventually to farmer’s markets that are now enjoying a resurgence.
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
By: Sally Fallon, Mary Enig
This book is dog-eared, torn and tattered on my kitchen shelf. I have favorite recipes, I try new ones often and while I am cooking I can read for a few minutes about some great nutritional tip or fact. Find out how toxic boxed cereal is, even the organic ones. Find out how to feed your immune system. I love this book and use it all the time. It has healthy snacks for kids, yummy fermented foods and good recipes for every meal of the day.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
By: Weston A. Price
This is the detailed research of Dr. Weston Price a dentist who worked to discover why Americans had such bad teeth and ailing health. Traveling the world he found people with strong bodies and healthy teeth that ate diets traditional to their ancestors. He chronicles the degeneration of health in the modern world in association to the food we eat. This is a classis work that provides us with the foundation of how to apply the ancient wisdom of indigenous cultures to our modern day life.
Nutritional Herbology : A Reference Guide to Herbs
By: Mark Pedersen
Have you ever wondered which herbs are good sources of Iron, Chromium, Selenium or Calcium? Well, this book is for you. Mark Pedersen’s Nutritional Herbology is a one-of-a-kind resource book giving you a comprehensive summary of what nutrients are in herbal supplements and how they work!
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?–A Scientific Detective Story
By: Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peter Meyers
Synthetic chemicals that mimic natural hormones cause birth defects and reproductive failure. This is valuable scientific information that needs to be at the center of our discussion about what how we are to proceed living on this planet.
The Safe Shoppers Bible A Consumers Guide to Nontoxic Household Products, Cosmetics, and Food
By: David Steinman, Samuel S. Epstein
As the toxic chemical burden in our body increases, the path to health and healing includes getting the carcinogenic substances out of your life as much as you possibly can. This bible rates thousands of household, food and personal products based on their toxicity factor. Which hair products contain cancer causing ingredients? Also you will find information on the safest products for your everyday use.
The Simple Path To Health: A Guide To Oriental Nutrition and Well-Being
By: Kim Le
Learn how to apply Chinese medicine principles to your everyday food preparation and consumption. This is a great recipe book full of remedies and dishes for seasonal wellness and supporting a balanced lifestyle. How to eat when you are sick, diet plans for rejuvenation and how to assess the energetics of which foods are best for you at which time of year.
Sprout Garden – Revised Edition
By: Mark Mathew Braunstein
Sprout Garden, now is in its sixth printing, presents a comprehensive guide to the art and science of home sprouting. From aduki beans to wheat kernels, it explains the best methods and optimal conditions for growing and preparing the many varieties of fresh sprouts, and offers essential advice so that even beginners can succeed.
The Tao of Healthy Eating: Dietary Wisdom According to Traditional Chinese Medicine
By: Bob Flaws
Learn to understand your food from an energetic approach, not just what vitamins and minerals it contains. In this excellent little book, 150 commonly eaten foods are described giving you the basis of understanding what foods are cooling or create heat or dampness in the body. Go beyond eating organic, learn to select foods that build and restore balance based on your seasonal and constitutional needs. Gain a deeper understanding of food allergies, raw foods and when to eat foods cold or hot.
Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition
By: Ronald F. Schmid
This book is a good synopsis of the work of Dr. Weston Price and his research with traditional diets around the world. This book is easier to read than Dr. Prices original works and is a very good book for anyone interested in nutrition and health.
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
By: Sandor Ellix Katz
Fermented foods are integral to our digestive health and overall well being. Most Americans do not integrate fermented foods into their diet. Learn about the nutritional and health benefits of the miracle of fermented foods and how to make them. Fermented vegetables, beans, dairy, breads, wine, vinegars and more are given to you in this groundbreaking recipe book.
