Recommended Reading

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• (Francis Pottenger, Jr., M.D.) Presents Dr. Pottenger’s long-term nutritional studies on felines. Covers the effect of nutrients on the adrenal and thyroid glands and on the growth and development of musculoskeletal structures.

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• (Francis Pottenger, Jr., M.D.) This study demonstrates the devastating effects of heat-treated foods upon the growth and development of cats.

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• (Paul Pitchford) Brings together authentic traditions of Asian medicine with current Western research on health and nutrition to create the most detailed sourcebook available on planning and preparing an optimal diet.

• (George Matelijan) George Mateljan's new book takes healthy eating to a whole new level. It presents a unique nutrient-rich approach to the "Healthiest Way of Eating" with 500 Mediterranean-style recipes, most of which take 7 minutes or less to prepare. This book answers the question about what to eat to keep healthy. It focuses on the World's Healthiest Foods, 100 delicious foods that are nutrient-rich, providing the maximum number of nutrients for the least amount of calories. The book is an inspiration not only for those who want to achieve vibrant health and energy but for those who also want a healthier way to lose weight by making the World's Healthiest Foods the foundation of their "Healthiest Way of Eating." The World's Healthiest Foods are among the most flavorful foods in the world - so you can now eat healthier without sacrificing taste! George also explains why it is not any more expensive to eat healthy. The book complements the material on the whfoods.org website with innovative new ways to maximize the nutritional value of the World's Healthiest Foods and minimize preparation time using quick and easy recipes that anyone can make.

• (Gary Nabhan) In Why Some Like It Hot, an award-winning natural historian takes us on a culinary odyssey to solve the puzzles posed by "the ghosts of evolution" hidden within every culture and its traditional cuisine. As we travel with Nabhan from Java and Bali to Crete and Sardinia, to Hawaii and Mexico, we learn how various ethnic cuisines formerly protected their traditional consumers from both infectious and nutrition-related diseases. We also bear witness to the tragic consequences of the loss of traditional foods, from adult-onset diabetes running rampant among 100 million indigenous peoples to the historic rise in heart disease among individuals of northern European descent.
  
  In this, the most insightful and far-reaching book of his career, Nabhan offers us a view of genes, diets, ethnicity, and place that will forever change the way we understand human health and cultural diversity. This book marks the dawning of evolutionary gastronomy in a way that may save and enrich millions of lives.

• (Dr. Bernard Jensen) Based on 60 years of patient studies, this book provides specific dietary guidelines for proper bowel maintenance, along with a colonic cleansing system and effective exercise program. 25 color photos. 10 charts.

• (Elizabeth Lipsky) Sixty percent of the population has suffered from a digestive ailment in the last three months. Acid reflux, heartburn, gastritis, ulcers, lactose intolerance, and food allergies are among the many ailments caused by faulty digestion. Digestive Wellness was designed to help you understand the complex relationships between gastrointestinal physiology, diet, and health.

• (James Braly, Ron Hogan & Jonathan Wright) Dangerous Grains turns the U.S. Food Guide Pyramid upside down by exposing the myriad health risks posed by gluten grains (wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, and triticale). The authors, leading experts in the field of food allergies, and celiac disease, present compelling evidence that our grain-centered diet is to blame for a host of chronic illnesses. Largely misunderstood and frequently misdiagnosed, these disorders can be prevented and reversed by the useful program outlined in this important new book.
  
  

• (Michael D. Gershon, M.D.) A groundbreaking new understanding between mental health and digestion. Dr. Gershon does a very good job of helping us understand the digestive system and the relationship between enteric nervous system and our overall mental well being.

• (C. B. Allen, PhD, W. Lutz, M.D.) Discover how a low carbohydrate/high protein diet can prevent—and even cure—heart disease, diabetes, and gastrointestinal disorders. This book will illuminates how to feel better and live longer by changing the way you eat.

• (William Dufty) This book, inspired by the crusade of Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, is the classic, best-selling expose that unmasks our generation’s greatest medical killer—yet, at the same time, shows how a revitalizing, sugar-free diet can not only change your life, but quite possibly save it.

• (Stephen Cherniske) Get ready to give up that morning latte and kiss cola goodbye. Here comes Caffeine Blues, by Stephen Cherniske, M.S., the first book to expose the dark side of America's No. 1 drug: caffeine. If you are one of the nearly 80 percent of Americans hooked on caffeine--a natural component of coffee, tea, and chocolate and a common ingredient in drugs, soda, candy, and other products--this book will be a wake-up call. In Caffeine Blues, Cherniske, a nutritional biochemist with more than 25 years of academic research and clinical experience and author of the bestsellerThe DHEA Breakthrough, reveals the truth about caffeine and explains how to kick the habit forever. Cherniske discusses how caffeine affects the body and brain and why it can increase your risk of dozens of health disorders ranging from osteoporosis, diabetes, and PMS to hypertension and heartburn. --Ellen Albertson

• (Nora Gedgaudas, CNS, NTP) Finally, a sane and science based departure from conventional thinking about nutrition. In this book, author and nutritional therapist, Nora Gedgaudas outlines the basic principles of how our bodies and brains function, and the role that diet plays in physical and emotional health. Based on fundamental human physiology and the selective pressures that have shaped it over time, Gedgaudas goes beyond low-carbohydrate 'caveman diets' and incorporates scientific research on food, exercise, brain function, aging, weight loss, nutritional supplements and emotional health to connect the dots between what we eat and how it affects us. Primal Body-Primal Mind busts the nutritional myths, takes on the revered food pyramid and puts all the pieces together in one simple formula for total health.

• (Michael & Mary Dan Eades, M.D.’s) Offers a clinically proven way to lose fat, feel fit and stop aging. A pioneering husband and wife team shows readers how their groundbreaking, protein-rich eating plan can succeed where low fat diets fail. This program helps take off weight without counting fat grams or giving up favorite foods.

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• (Mary Enig, Ph.D and Sally Fallon) Based on more than two decades of research, Eat Fat, Lose Fat flouts conventional wisdom by revealing that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as corn and soybean) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crisis, while the saturated fats traditionally considered "harmful" (from such foods as coconut, butter, and meat) are essential to weight loss and health.

  Just in time for the FDA’s new mandatory trans fats labeling, the three programs in this book, which features delicious recipes, show that eating healthy fats is the answer to losing weight and achieving good health for a lifetime.

• (Udo Erasmus) Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill exposes the manufacturing processes that turn healing fats into killing fats, explains the effects of these damaged fats on human health, and discloses the information that enables you to choose health-promoting oils.

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• (Steven Meyerowitz) Water is an elemental part of our bodies’ make-up and a crucial ingredient of the human diet. Meyerowitz outlines the impact of dehydration on the human body and how his relates to diseases and dysfunction.

• (Elliot D. Abravanel, M.D.) This book will show you a personalized diet plan for losing weight and keeping it off. With simple, easy-to-follow illustrations and the Body Type Questionnaire, you’ll learn which body type you are and the downfall foods to avoid for your body type, as well as a way to lose weight quickly and safely.

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• (T. Colborn, D. Dumanoski, J. Myers) This groundbreaking work gives an utterly gripping account that traces birth defects, sexual abnormalities, and reproductive failures. It is indispensable for those concerned about the profound human impact on the environment, the well being of our children, and the survival of our species.

• (Moberg, Francis & Uvnas-Moberg) From the world's leading authority on oxytocin, a ground-breaking look at "the love hormone" and its role in everything from childbirth and bonding to human relationships.

  In recent years there have been exciting scientific discoveries about a powerful hormone whose role in the human body has long been neglected. Oxytocin is the hormone involved in bonding, sex, childbirth, and breast-feeding, as well as in relaxation and feelings of calm. It is the mirror image of the stress hormone (adrenaline), which triggers the "fight or flight" systems in the body. Much has been written about the latter but the many-sided importance of oxytocin is currently known only to specialists in obstetrics, physiology, and psychiatry. The Oxytocin Factor, by Dr. Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, is the first book on the subject for a general audience. The new research findings, as well as the potentially beneficial applications of this hormone in reducing anxiety states, stress, addictions, and problems of childbirth, are not only fascinating but of great significance to all our lives.

• (Authur Coca) This classic bestseller shows readers how to find their personal allergies and avoid illness. The Pulse Test shows readers step-by-step how to discover their pulse pattern and test themselves to find out what foods and/or inhalants cause their pulse to work beyond its regular capacity.

• (Kilmer S. McCully, MD) More than 30 years ago, a young Harvard pathologist offered the medical community a theory for the cause of one of today's biggest killers-- heart disease. It is called the Homocysteine Theory and is the medical breakthrough that inspired Andrew Weil to label Dr. McCully as "a visionary medical pioneer well ahead of his time". This discovery has the potential to save millions, yet ironically destroyed Dr. McCully's medical career. Homocysteine, a byproduct of metabolism, has been discovered to be a better risk indicator of heart disease than high cholesterol. A simple B6 vitamin and folic acid play a major role in controlling homocysteine levels. This proven theory will change the way the medical establishment views and treats heart disease. Today, the medical community is beginning to accept Dr. McCully's findings transforming his story from medical heresy to legitimate medicine. Updated and revised, complete with a new introduction by Walter Wilett, this eye opening book combines Dr. McCully's personal story and scientific philosophy with a fascinating exposition of his discovery and a special program to make use of this information to improve overall health.

• (Carol Simontacchi) Have you ever wondered how the food you eat affects the way your brain functions? The Crazymakers explores this question by looking at todays modern diet and how it interacts with an infant through elderly adults mind. Simontacchi supplies evidence identifying how the latest food products might be driving us crazy.

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• (Bruce Fife) We live in a toxic world. Environmental pollution and disease-causing germs assault us continually day after day. Our food is nutrient deficient and our water supply dangerously contaminated. People today are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than were previous generations. Diseases that were rare or unheard of a century ago are now raging upon us like a plague. Millions are dying from diseases that were virtually unknown in the past. Experts tell us that by the time we reach middle age, each one of us will have already been affected by either cancer, cardiovascular disease, or some other serious degenerative condition. Conventional medicine has no sure cure. Drugs, surgery, and radiation treatments can be as dangerous and debilitating as the diseases they attempt to cure. This book outlines the steps you need to take to thoroughly detoxify and cleanse your body from these disease-causing agents. You will also learn how to reduce your toxic exposure and how to strengthen your immune system.

• (Ann Louise Gittleman) Once again, renowned health pioneer and bestselling author Ann Louise Gittleman has a quick, no-strings-attached solution that is also good for you. She is always on the cutting edge of developing new methods to rejuvenate the body and facilitate weight loss and she’s done it again in The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet. Gittleman takes the age-old method of fasting and incorporates it into a safe and healthy one-day plan that helps you lose weight fast, gets rid of toxins, and gives your body a cleansing boost to prepare it for even more weight loss down the road.
  
  

• (Mitch Stargrove) Understand herb, nutrient, and drug interactions for the safest, most effective clinical outcomes for your clients or patients.

• (Eric Schlosser) Schlosser uncovers some unsettling truths about America’s reliance on fast food as an integral part of their diet. Covering history, present day and expansion of this powerful industry and how it impacts health, economy and culture.

• (Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S.) The breakthrough carb-controlled diet that: melts fat from hips, waist, and thighs in just two weeks and reshapes your body while detoxifiying your system.

• (William Wolcott & Trish Fahey) Customize your diet to: free yourself from food cravings, achieve your ideal weight, enjoy high energy and robust health & prevent and reverse disease.

• (Dr. Lawrence Wilson) For anyone in the helping or healing professions, Legal Guidelines For Unlicensed Practitioners will show you how to: Stay out of most legal trouble, present yourself and your practice to clients and the public in a professional manner, understand occupational laws and our current legal environment, know your rights and obligations as a practitioner...

• (Joe Kennedy) An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly lookup information in the midst of a crisis.

• (Theodore W. Robinson) This book will help you become the professional you can be in the burgeoning field of alternative health care. It contains marketing information, credit repair advice and a host of other things you will need to open your own practice or to improve an existing practice.

• (Bill Collier) Finally - an "Owner's Manual" for your small business!
  
  Put your business on "auto-pilot." Learn how to ...
  
  - Use your business as a tool to enhance your personal life
  - Set ambitious goals and achieve them
  - Develop a real,working business plan
  - Use values to provide guidance to your staff - even when you're not at the office
  - Get the right people on your team ... and keep them there
  - Delegate effectively
  - Create a "self-healing" culture that practically fixes its own problems
  - And much more
  
  20 chapters. Each is a lesson in setting goals, making plans for achieving your goals, and executing your plans. Includes a free self-assessment!
  
  

• (David Allen) In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:
  
  € Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty
  € Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
  € Plan projects as well as get them unstuck
  € Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
  € Feel fine about what you're not doing
  
  From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.

• (Rick Frishman & Jill Lublin) Networking Magic is a revolutionary concept that shows you how to find the best in all aspects of life. Whether you're looking for the most lucrative job, the highest-rated child care facility, the leading medical specialist-and virtually anything else-this is the one book that gets you on the inside track to the top experts, the highest quality services, and the least-expensive products.

  Filled with resources, checklists, and step-by-step instructions that readers can easily follow and apply, Networking Magic is a motivational reference that gives all the information they need to succeed.

• (Guy Kawaski) What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

  The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies—whether you are dreaming of starting the next Microsoft or a not-for-profit that’s going to change the world. It also shows managers how to unleash entrepreneurial thinking at established companies, helping them foster the pluck and creativity that their businesses need to stay ahead of the pack. Kawasaki provides readers with GIST—Great Ideas for Starting Things—including his field-tested insider’s techniques for bootstrapping, branding, networking, recruiting, pitching, rainmaking, and, most important in this fickle consumer climate, building buzz.