Grain of Truth by Stephen Yafa
Grain of Truth: The Real Case for and against Wheat and Gluten by Stephen Yafa Hudson Street Press, 2015 Proponents of countless health-aspiring camps have joined the cacophony […]
About Katherine Czapp
Long Way on a Little By Shannon Hayes
Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies, and Living Deliciously By Shannon Hayes Left to Write Press, 2012 Author of Grass-fed […]
Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World Hachette Book Group, 2011 By Joel Salatin Joel Salatin is well known […]
Making Supper Safe by Ben Hewitt
Making Supper Safe: One Man’s Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety By Ben Hewitt Rodale Books 2011 Ben Hewitt sets out to examine the public health […]
Could It Be B12 by Sally Pacholok and Jeffrey Stuart
Could It Be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses By Sally M. Pacholok, RN, BSN and Jeffrey J. Stuart, DO Linden Publishing, 2005 (1st ed.) Sometimes it is the person […]
Art of Living Long by Luigi Cornaro
The Art of Living Long (1917 translation of La Vita Sobria in Four Discourses) By Luigi Cornaro Arno Press reprint, 1979 “Now, Sir, to begin my discourse, I shall […]
Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic by Pam Killeen
Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic Common Sense Solutions for Our #1 Health Problem By Pam Killeen Xlibris Corporation 2010 It is a common belief that those who struggle with […]
Magnificent Magnesium
The importance of magnesium ions for all life itself, as well as for overall vibrant health, is hard to overstate. Every single cell in the human body demands adequate magnesium to function, or it will perish.
Rosedale Diet by Ron Rosedale
The Rosedale Diet: Turn Off Your Hunger Switch! By Ron Rosedale, M.D. and Carol Colman Harper Collins, 2004 Ron Rosedale enjoys a popular reputation as a leading authority […]
GAPS Guide by Baden Lashkov
GAPS Guide Simple Steps to Heal Bowels, Body and Brain One Hill Productions, 2009 By Baden Lashkov Baden Lashkov, a young mother who lives in British Columbia, has […]
Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael and Mary Eades
Protein Power Lifeplan A New Comprehensive Blueprint for Optimal Health By Michael Eades, MD and Mary Dan Eades, MD Warner Books, 2000 In 1996 weight-loss doctors Michael and […]
Primal Body – Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas
Primal Body—Primal Mind Empower Your Total Health the Way Evolution Intended (…and Didn’t) By Nora T. Gedgaudas, CNS, CNT Primal Body—Primal Mind Publishing, 2009 Nora Gedgaudas, a nutritionist […]
Spent by Frank Lipman
Spent- End Exhaustion and Feel Great Again By Frank Lipman, MD, with Mollie Doyle Fireside (Simon and Schuster) 2009 I first learned of this book through Liz Lipski, […]
Instinct Based Medicine by Dr. Leonard Coldwell
Instinct Based Medicine How to survive your illness…and your doctor By Dr. Leonard Coldwell Strategic Book Publishing, 2008 Leonard Coldwell, NMD, ND, PhD, CNHP lives in Charleston, South […]
Real Food for Mother and Baby by Nina Planck
Real Food for Mother and Baby The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods By Nina Planck Bloomsbury, 2009 Nina Planck’s landmark book, Real Food: What […]
Our Daily Meds by Melody Petersen
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs By Melody Petersen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 […]
The Good Scots Diet
The healthy Scots diet of two hundred years or so ago consisted of a fairly limited bill of fare composed of local foods: oats as chief cereal grain; […]
Fat: It’s Not What You Think by Connie Leas
Fat: It’s Not What You Think by Connie Leas Prometheus Books, 2008 Reviewed by Katherine Czapp This useful and educational book by Connie Leas provides a great service […]
Everything I Want to Do is Illegal by Joel Salatin
A Thumbs Up Book Review Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front By Joel Salatin Polyface Publications, 2007 Reviewed by Katherine […]
Achieving Culinary Success With Grass-Fed Beef
Cattle raised and finished on pasture represent a tiny proportion of the beef produced for the table in the United States. Most grassfed beef producers are family farmers […]
Eating by the Seasons in Russia
Like all great national cuisines, the Russian tradition developed as a unique response to its climate, geography and history. Over the centuries its culinary richness evolved as it […]
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease By Gary Taubes Knopf, 2007 Reviewed by Katharine Czapp “There is always an easy […]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver With Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver HarperCollins, 2007 Reviewed by Katherine Czapp In 2004 novelist Barbara […]
Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Insert photo In the summer of 1933, Weston Price set out to locate native peoples still living on this continent who might shed light on the health and […]
Diet of Mongolia
“In His Footsteps” explores the diets and health of native peoples, as experienced by Westerners who have visited them, much as Weston A. Price did in the 1930s. […]
Something from the Oven by Laura Shapiro
A Thumbs Up Book Review Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America By Laura Shapiro Viking, 2004 Reviewed by Katherine Czapp Laura Shapiro’s graceful, well-researched, and […]
Conserving the Digestive Fire
What to Do When Traditional Foods Cause Digestive Problems Because of the media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, […]
High Blood Pressure Hoax by Sherry A. Rogers
A Thumb Up Book Review The High Blood Pressure Hoax By Sherry A. Rogers, MD Sand Key Company, 2005 Reviewed by Katherine Czapp The first thing to understand […]
Putting the Polish on Those Humble Beans
Legumes comprise a family of some 13,000 species characterized by their ability to absorb nitrogen from the air and convert it into protein within the plants’ seeds. They […]
Cooking with Blood: Boudin Noir and Czarnina
The practice of utilizing all parts of an animal killed for food has existed since the earliest ages, and this has traditionally included blood, which is highly nutritious, […]
Going with the Grain
A Healing Protocol for Celiac Disease When a patient receives a diagnosis of celiac disease or gluten intolerance, either via laboratory testing or by process of elimination by […]
Against the Grain
The Case for Rejecting or Respecting the Staff of Life Gluten intolerance, wheat allergy and celiac dis- ease are all related categories of digestive and immune system disorders […]
Naked Oats
“Dear folks at the Weston A. Price Foundation,” began the handwritten letter. “This year we grew a crop of oats on our farm, thinking to have our breakfast […]
Troubled Waters, Dutch Translation
Kwikvervuild water. De opbouw van kwik in de zee: Waar deze kwik vandaan komt en wat het in de voedselketen veroorzaakt. Original English Version Door Katherine Czapp Vertaling […]
Inflammation Nation by Floyd H. Chilton
A Thumbs Down Book Review Inflammation Nation: The First Clinically Proven Eating Plan to End Our Nation’s Secret Epidemic By Floyd H. Chilton, Ph.D. Fireside, 2005 Review by […]
Maine Shrimp, Pandalus Borealis
As winter in Michigan crawls through the long, dark month of January, there arises in the mind of this mufflered and down-smothered land mammal the small, bright memory […]
Sourdough Egg Noodles
In the case of many mothers of young children who are in various stages of transforming their families’diets to one wise in traditional nutrition, often the last vestiges […]
Troubled Waters: Mercury Build-Up in the Seas
Read this article in: Dutch Where it Comes From and What It’s Doing to the Food Chain Early in 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced dramatically […]
Our Daily Bread
My father Vasilii was diagnosed with celiac disease, or gluten intolerance, three years ago after nearly 30 years of suffering from chronic digestive and absorption problems that no […]
