Recommended Reading List
Recommend Reading List
(Use links to purchase at amazon.com)
BABIES, CHILDREN & TEENS
Child Health Guide: Holistic Pediatrics for Parents by Randall Neustaedter, OMD. If you’re seeking sensible alternatives to prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines for your children, consider Child Health Guide. It provides the information parents need to make educated decisions about natural treatments. Based upon 30 years of pediatric experience, Dr. Neustaedter offers his practical, common sense basics in an easy-to-read but informative tone. It covers from prenatal through middle childhood periods and emphasises a natural foods diet, homeopathic medicines and herbs.
Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods by Cynthia Lair.
Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutriton Made Easy for Players and Parents by Cynthia Lair.
Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Infants and Children, by Janet Zand, Robert Rountree, Rachel Walton.
COOKBOOKS
Eat Fat Lose Fat by Dr. Mary Enig and Sally Fallon. For over 50 years, Americans have been misinformed that fat makes you fat. Dr. Mary Enig, world-renowned biochemist and fats expert, and Sally Fallon, president of the non-profit Weston A. Price Foundation, have correctly identified a primary culprit—the so-called “healthy” vegetable oils like canola and soybean oil. If you’re wedded to the status quo, this book will challenge you. If you’re interested in upgrading your health, Eat Fat provides reputable information and excellent recipes.
The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones: A Holistic Approach by Annemarie Colbin.
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon. Excellent material, however it contains a faulty primary premise (that lactose-intolerant people can tolerate raw dairy products).
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison.
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz. Self-described "fermentation fetishist", Katz is a long-term HIV/AIDS survivor and considers fermented foods to be an important part of his healing. Wild Fermentation is an inspiring and sometimes hilarious account of the value of cultured foods.
Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook by Alissa Segersten and Tom Malterre, MS, CN. Acomplete nutritional and cooking guide for every stage of life, including over 200 gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free recipes.
INFORMATION
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. A great read no matter your dietary persuasion. Pollan (author of The Botany of Desire) is funny, wonderfully self-honest and a no-holds-barred adventurer. As a naturalist, he astutely examines the ingredients in four different meals and leaves it up to you to draw your own conclusions. The Omnivore’s Dilemma will inform your food awareness and choices.
Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck. If, from fear of high cholesterol, you’ve avoided steak, butter and cream, here’s your passport to satisfaction. Nina Planck builds a sound case as to how and why traditional foods not only maintain and improve our health, but pleasure us as well. She details why much of what we have learned about nutrition in recent decades is either misinformed or dead wrong. Furthermore, almost all of the foods invented in the last century are toxic. Planck’s alternative view of what constitutes sound nutrition happens to be the very foods—the real foods—that our grandmothers thrived upon.
The Real Food Revival: Asile by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel by Sherri Brooks Vinton, Ann Clark Espuelas. Real Food Revival details the problems with commercial foods, but doesn’t stop there. It empowers you with knowledge and strategies to make informed choices. Yes! Your every day foods can be tastier and healthier.
The Tao of Healthy Eating:: Dietary Wisdom According to Traditional Chinese Medicine by Bob Flaw, Blue Poppy Press, paperback, 132 pages, $14.95. If you wish to understand basic principals of healthy eating; if you’re ready to modify your diet for maximum well being then The Tao is an invaluable guide.
To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What you Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-friendly Food by Cindy Burke. New York: Avalon Publishing Group, 221 pages, paper, $14.95. Have you ever yearned for asparagus or blueberries but didn’t buy them because when organic they’re too pricey? I have. But thanks to a new book by Cindy Burke, To Buy or Not To Buy Organic, I’m now relishing some non-organic produce. For more details, see the May 16 2007 Newsletter.
REFERENCE BOOKS
Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition by Paul Pitchford. An invaluable reference; however, omnivores must read it with a grain of salt as it's skewed for the vegetarian.
Herbal Remedies for Dummies by Christopher Hobbs.
Smart Medicine for Healthier Living: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Adults by Janet Zand, James P. Lavelle.
Vitamins for Dummies by Christopher Hobbs, Elson Haas.
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