Nourishment Made Simple
Nourishment Made Simple: A Concise Beginner’s Guide Self-published by Amy De Vernon, NTP This forty-five-page booklet gives practical advice for transitioning to a Wise Traditions diet. Written by […]
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Healthy 4 Life
Healthy 4 Life: Dietary Guidelines from the Weston A. Price Foundation for Cooking and Eating Healthy, Delicious, Traditional Whole Foods By the Weston A. Price Foundation This colorful […]
Eating Locally & Seasonally
Eating Locally & Seasonally: A Community Food Book for Lopez Island (and All Those Who Want to Eat Well) By Elizabeth Simpson and Henning K. Sehmsdorf S & […]
Eat Like a Human By Dr. Bill Schindler
Eat Like a Human: Nourishing Foods and Ancient Ways of Cooking to Revolutionize Your Health By Dr. Bill Schindler Little, Brown and Company For the past sixteen years, […]
Real Food For Rookies By Kelly Moeggenborg
Real Food For Rookies By Kelly Moeggenborg AKA Kelly the Kitchen Kop Having trouble getting started with a healthier diet? Not convinced it’s worth all the trouble and […]
Beyond Labels By Sina McCullough & Joel Salatin
Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion One Bite at a Time By Sina McCullough, PhD and Joel Salatin, Farmer Chelsea Green Publishing What happens […]
Nourishment by Fred Provenza
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom By Fred Provenza Chelsea Green Publishing For every book I review, I read two, three and sometimes […]
The Salt Fix by James DiNicolantonio
The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong—and How Eating More Might Save Your Life By Dr. James DiNicolantonio Harmony Isak Dinesen once said, “The cure […]
Nourishing Diets By Sally Fallon Morell
Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate By Sally Fallon Morell Grand Central Life & Style There are a lot of funny ideas about how […]
The Hacking of the American Mind by Dr. Robert H. Lustig
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains By Dr. Robert H. Lustig Avery Publishing Group Dr. Robert Lustig […]
Fat Head Kids by Tom Naughton
Fat Head Kids: Stuff About Diet and Health I Wish I Knew When I Was Your Age by Tom Naughton Many of you have seen Tom Naughton’s […]
Eat Beautiful by Megan Stevens
Eat Beautiful: Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, And Loving It by Megan Stevens from EatBeautiful.net “Our passion for eating well was born out of our health adversities—trials I no longer regret! […]
Death by Calcium by Thomas E. Levy
Death by Calcium: Proof of the Toxic Effects of Dairy and Calcium Supplements Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD Medfox Publishing Since the 1950s recommendations for calcium intake for […]
Death by Food Pyramid by Denise Minger
Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics, and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health by Denise Minger Primal Nutrition, 2014 Death by Food Pyramid contains […]
Truth about Food By Gillian Drake
The Truth about Food By Gillian Drake Shank Painter Publishing Before most of us were born science learned that all living things emit a weak radiation. Every particle […]
Beyond Broccoli by Susan Schenk
Beyond Broccoli: Creating a Biologically Balanced Diet: When a Vegetarian Diet Doesn’t Work by Susan Schenk, LAc Awakenings Publications, 2011 It was only in the last year […]
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 […]
Fad-Free Nutrition by Stare & Whelan
Fad-Free Nutrition By Fredrick J. Stare M.D., Ph.D. & Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., MPH Hunter House Publishers The authors of this 1999 book, now out of print, get […]
Honest Nutrition by Ira Edwards
Honest Nutrition By Ira Edwards Trafford Publishing, 2006 The subtitle of this book sums up the situation well: “A descent into the Ocean of Nutritional Prattle, and Coming […]
Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human By Richard Wrangham Basic Books Catching Fire extensively documents the fact that cooking is not a recent, modern development. Wrangham traces […]
Understanding Nutrition by Ellie Whitney and Sharon Rolfes
Understanding Nutrition 10th Edition by Ellie Whitney, PhD, and Sharon Rady Rolfes, MS Thomson Wadsworth, 2005 With over a million copies sold, Understanding Nutrition casts a major influence […]
Sunlight Solution by Laurie Winn Carlson
The Sunlight Solution: Why More Sun Exposure and Vitamin D are Essential to Your Health By Laurie Winn Carlson Prometheus Books Review by Tim Boyd The Sunlight Solution […]
Whole Foods Primer and Sweetener Trap by Beatrice Trum Hunter
A Whole Foods Primer and The Sweetener Trap & How to Avoid It By Beatrice Trum Hunter Basic Health Publications, 2007 Reviewed by Kathy Kramer, CN Beatrice Trum […]
Minerals for the Genetic Code by Charles Walters
A Thumbs Down Book Review Minerals for the Genetic Code: An Exposition & Analysis of the Dr. Olree Standard Genetic Periodic Chart & the Physical, Chemical & Biological […]
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
A Thumbs Down Book Review In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan Penguin Press, 2008 Reviewed by Ellen Ussery Michael Pollan is an elegant and […]
Politically Incorrect Nutrition by Michael Barbee
A Thumbs Up Book Review Politically Incorrect Nutrition: Finding Reality in the Mire of Food Industry Propaganda Vital Health Publishing, 2004 By Michael Barbee, C.D.C. The truth is […]
Real Food by Nina Planck
A Thumbs Up Book Review Real Food: What to Eat and Why By Nina Planck Bloomsbury Publishing Review by Sally Fallon It’s great to get the Weston A. […]
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter Willet
A Thumbs Down Book Review Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating By Walter Willet Review by Sally Fallon In case you’re […]
Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine by Ron Schmid
A Thumbs Up Book Review Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine By Ron Schmid Review by Sally Fallon First published in 1997, then reissued under the title Native […]
Nutrition and Evolution by Michael Crawford and David Marsh
A Thumbs Down Book Review Nutrition and Evolution By Michael Crawford and David Marsh Review by Sally Fallon We hate to give this book a Thumbs Down as […]
Nutrition in Biblical Times by Ruth F. Rosevear
A Thumbs Up Book Review Nutrition in Biblical Times By Ruth F. Rosevear Review by Beatrice Trum Hunter “The bible is a storehouse of wisdom on foods and […]
Optimum Health by Stephen Sinatra
A Thumbs Down Book Review Optimum Health By Stephen T. Sinatra, MD Review by Sally Fallon Dr. Sinatra says to forgive yourself and avoid sugar, caffeine, MSG and […]