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Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically by Paul Dettloff

Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically: Natural Ways of Farming, Feeding and Treating Cattle and Other Ruminants By Paul Dettloff with Megan Dettloff-Meyer Acres USA […]

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Hands Off My Food! by Dr. Sina McCullough

Hands Off My Food! How Government and Industry Have Corrupted Our Food and Easy Ways to Fight Back By Dr. Sina McCullough Watchdog Works Dr. McCullough’s story, told […]

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The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By Deborah Blum Penguin Books This is first and foremost a […]

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Quench By Dana Cohen, MD and Gina Bria

Quench: The New Science of Optimum Hydration By Dana Cohen, MD and Gina Bria Hachette Book Group Eat your Water! Quench by Dana Cohen, MD, and Gina Bria […]

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The Invisible Rainbow By Arthur Firstenberg

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life By Arthur Firstenberg Chelsea Green Publishing At the heart of Arthur Firstenberg’s The Invisible Rainbow is a simple question: […]

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The Great Prostate Hoax by Richard J. Ablin, PhD and Ronald Piana

The Great Prostate Hoax By Richard J. Ablin, PhD and Ronald Piana St. Martin’s Press LLC The more quotes I read from Ben Franklin, the more I like […]

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Agricultural Policy in Disarray

Agricultural Policy in Disarray Vincent H. Smith, Joseph W. Glauber, and Barry K. Goodwin, Editors American Enterprise Institute Imagine being an investigative journalist tasked with digging into the […]

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Fibershed By Rebecca Burgess

Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy By Rebecca Burgess with Courtney White Chelsea Green Publishing A few years ago, […]

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The Mercury Detoxification Manual By Rebecca Rust Lee and Andrew Hall Cutler

The Mercury Detoxification Manual: A Guide to Mercury Chelation By Rebecca Rust Lee and Andrew Hall Cutler Andy Cutler Publishing Do you have brain fog? How about anxiety, […]

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Childbirth Wisdom From The World’s Oldest Societies By Judith Goldsmith

Childbirth Wisdom From The World’s Oldest Societies By Judith Goldsmith Judith Goldsmith researched this wonderful book in the 1970s in the Cal State Long Beach and UC Berkeley […]

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Ending the War on Artisan Cheese By Catherine Donnelly

Ending the War on Artisan Cheese: The Inside Story of Government Overreach and the Struggle to Save Traditional Raw Milk Cheesemakers By Catherine Donnelly Chelsea Green Publishing When […]

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Ideological Constructs of Vaccination By Mateja Cernic, PhD

Ideological Constructs of Vaccination By Mateja Cernic, PhD Vega Press Ltd Vaccination is the sacred cow at the center of a storm of controversy today. When the two […]

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Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies By Neil Z. Miller

Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers By Neil Z. Miller New Atlantean Press The first book I ever read […]

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The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs By Nicolas Pineault

Here is Nick Pineault’s description of popular pseudo-science: “Science is not a thing, or a person. If it were a real person, it would be the weirdest bipolar […]

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Miracle on Montgomery Farm by Landis and Shelly

Miracle on Montgomery Farm: The Almost True Story Of How An Orphaned Calf And A Crippled Lamb Helped Save The Family Farm By Cynthia K. Landis and Michelle […]

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Fat Heals, Sugar Kills By Dr. Bruce Fife

Fat Heals, Sugar Kills: The Cause of and Cure for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, and Other Metabolic Disorders By Dr. Bruce Fife Piccadilly Books Another great book by […]

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Unconventional Medicine By Chris Kresser

Unconventional Medicine: Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love By Chris Kresser Lioncrest Publishing Today’s health care system in the […]

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Body Belief By Aimee E. Raupp

Body Belief: How to Heal Autoimmune Diseases, Radically Shift Your Health, and Learn to Love Your Body More By Aimee E. Raupp Hay House Many people come to […]

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Cancer and the New Biology of Water by Thomas Cowan

Cancer and the New Biology of Water: Why the War on Cancer Has Failed and What That Means for More Effective Prevention and Treatment By Thomas Cowan, MD […]

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Dosa Kitchen by Patel & Scheintaub

Dosa Kitchen by Nash Patel and Leda Scheintaub A lot of cookbooks come across my desk for review, most of them very good, but not many make me […]

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The Frugal Homesteader By John Moody

The Frugal Homesteader By John Moody New Society Publishers More and more Americans are becoming dissatisfied with the routine of working a meaningless job just to collect a […]

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The Collagen Diet by Pamela Schoenfeld

The Collagen Diet by Pamela Schoenfeld, MS, RD, LDN WAPF board member and registered dietitian Pam Schoenfeld has many clients who are new to the subject of nutrition, […]

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The Solution—Homeoprophylaxis by Birch & Whatcott

The Solution—Homeoprophylaxis: The Vaccine Alternative By Kate Birch, RSHom(NA), CCH, CMT and Cilla Whatcott HD (RHom), CCH CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Vaccines are a very volatile topic these […]

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Fighting the Migraine Epidemic By Angela Stanton

Fighting the Migraine Epidemic—Complete Guide: How to Treat & Prevent Migraines Without Medications By Angela A. Stanton, PhD CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Very few people could read this […]

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GMO Myths and Truths By Robinson, Antoniou, Fagan

GMO Myths and Truths (3rd edition) By Claire Robinson, Michael Antoniou and John Fagan Earth Open Source Over the past few decades, industrial agriculture has taken a number […]

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Eat. . . Think. . . Heal by Margaret Bridgeford

Eat. . . Think. . . Heal by Margaret Bridgeford, Balboa Press Dominating nature is an obsession for humans, says Bridgeford, and we are paying the price. In […]

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Dinner Plans: Easy Vintage Meals By Jennifer Calihan and Adele Hite

Dinner Plans: Easy Vintage Meals By Jennifer Calihan and Adele Hite Eat the Butter The first page of Dinner Plans: Easy Vintage Meals advises us to get over […]

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Dare to Question By Ted Kuntz

Dare to Question: One Parent to Another By Ted Kuntz CreateSpace Independent Publishing There are many books on vaccines out there. Thankfully so. But it can be a […]

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How to End the Autism Epidemic By J.B. Handley

How to End the Autism Epidemic By J.B. Handley Chelsea Green Publishing It is great to see a new wave of books exploring vaccines, autism and autoimmune issues […]

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Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness by Tom Cowan

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness By Dr. Thomas Cowan Chelsea Green Publishing Many years ago, as I sat down to enjoy breakfast at the […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Nature’s Garden By Samuel Thayer

Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants By Samuel Thayer Forager’s Harvest With spring just around the corner (at least as I write […]

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Cancer is Natural, So Is the Cure by Tedd Koren

Cancer is Natural, So Is the Cure By Dr. Tedd Koren Koren Publications Philosophy is a subject that for many people (like me) inspires images of wizened professors […]

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The Carnivore Cookbook by Jessica Haggard

The Carnivore Cookbook: Zero-Carb Recipes for People Who Really Love Animals by Jessica Haggard Many people have been duped into fearing meat, and the recent escalation of propaganda […]

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The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility By Lisa Hendrickson-Jack Hendrickson-Jack is a certified fertility awareness educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner who has […]

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Offal Good by Chris Cosentino

Offal Good: Cooking From the Heart, With Guts by Chris Cosentino with Michael Harlan Turkell In the introduction to this beautifully photographed cookbook that anyone who is curious […]

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Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance by Tommy John

Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance: A Sports Parent’s Survival Guide By Dr. Tommy John with Myatt Murphy Da Capo Press If you are a baseball fan, you have heard […]

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Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated By Charles Michael Higgins

Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated By Charles Michael Higgins The De Vinne Press Originally published in 1920, this book is thankfully available in various formats via Amazon. […]

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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 […]

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Fifty Shades of Grain by Caroline Angel

Fifty Shades of Grain: The Naked Truth About Eating Bread and Feeling Great By Caroline Angel In the modern era, many people have a love-hate relationship with bread. […]

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Hippie Food by Jonathan Kauffman

Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed The Way We Eat By Jonathan Kauffman William Morrow and Company When my family take our normal Sunday drive […]

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Silvopasture by Steve Gabriel

Silvopasture: A Guide to Managing Grazing Animals, Forage Crops, and Trees in a Temperate Farm Ecosystem By Steve Gabriel Chelsea Green Publishing Our farm consists of thirty-five […]

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GAPS Stories By Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride

GAPS Stories: Personal Accounts of Improvement and Recovery through the GAPS Nutritional Protocol By Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride Medinform Publishing Do you need encouragement to continue on the […]

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Sustainable Medicine: Whistle-Blowing on 21st-Century Medical Practice By Dr. Sarah Myhill

Sustainable Medicine: Whistle-Blowing on 21st-Century Medical Practice By Dr. Sarah Myhill Chelsea Green Publishing A few times a year, I have to do something that I don’t […]

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A New Path By Arthur Haines

A New Path By Arthur Haines V.F. Thomas Co. Modern humans who are immersed in Western civilization are getting weaker. This is a somewhat controversial statement, so […]

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What’s Making Our Children Sick? by Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams

What’s Making Our Children Sick? How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About ItBy Michelle Perro and Vincanne […]

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The Dorito Effect By Mark Schatzker

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and FlavorBy Mark SchatzkerSimon & Schuster Paperbacks Since the 1960s, Americans have spent a lot of time and money […]

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Pure Charcuterie By Meredith Leigh

Pure Charcuterie: The Craft and Poetry of Curing Meats at HomeBy Meredith LeighNew Society Publishers There are many books on making bread and similar items at home. The […]

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God-Given Food by Celia Maria

God-Given Food: A Bible Study and Beyondby Celia Maria Anyone who has participated in a church supper or snacks after a church service will recognize the need for […]

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The Dental Diet By Dr. Steven Lin

The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural HealthBy Dr. Steven LinHay House, Inc. Teeth are a strange thing in the […]

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Mercury-Free By Dr. James E. Hardy

Mercury-Free: The Wisdom Behind the Global Consumer Movement to Ban Silver Dental FillingsBy Dr. James E. HardyGabriel Rose Press The World Health Organization recognizes mercury as one […]

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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 […]

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Mercury Poisoning By David Hammond

Mercury Poisoning—The Undiagnosed Epidemic: Sources of Mercury and How to DetoxBy David HammondCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform As a young man in the 1970s, David Hammond labored in […]

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Gardasil: Fast-Tracked and Flawed By Helen Lobato

Gardasil: Fast-Tracked and Flawed By Helen Lobato Spinifex Press According to SaneVax, a website run by an international group of concerned individuals, over fifty thousand adverse events have been reported […]

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The Craving Cure By Julia Ross

The Craving Cure By Julia Ross Flatiron Books The subtitle of this book is Identify Your Craving Type to Activate Your Natural Appetite Control and the author, Julia Ross, […]

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Vaccination is Not Immunization By Tim O’Shea

Vaccination is Not Immunization: The War on Children By Tim O’Shea Immunition Ltd Vaccination continues to be a hot topic, and more books come out on the subject every […]

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Big Chicken By Maryn McKenna

Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World EatsBy Maryn McKennaNational Geographic A decade ago, I remember picking up The Omnivore’s Dilemma […]

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$tatin Nation By Justin Smith

$tatin Nation: The Ill-Founded War on Cholesterol, What Really Causes Heart Disease, and the Truth about the Most Overprescribed Drugs in the World By Justin Smith Chelsea Green Publishing If […]

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Rising from the Dead By Suzanne Humphries

Rising from the Dead By Suzanne Humphries Here we have a very detailed view of the medical industry from the inside. This book gives us not just a […]

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Vegetarianism Explained By Natasha Campbell-McBride

Vegetarianism Explained: Making an Informed Decision By Natasha Campbell-McBride Medinform Publishing Recently my social media was overrun with questions about the documentary, What the Health. Honestly, after years […]

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Conquering Cancer By Nicholas Gonzalez

Conquering Cancer: Volume I and Volume II By Nicholas J. Gonzalez New Spring Press If you ever heard Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez speak, you couldn’t help but notice that […]

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Six-Foot Tiger, Three-Foot Cage By Felix Liao

Six-Foot Tiger, Three-Foot Cage By Felix Liao, DDS What happens when the jaw bones, the maxilla and the mandible, do not develop to their full size? For one […]

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The Metabolic Approach to Cancer By Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies By Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley Chelsea Green Publishing Cancer. So much […]

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Cancer as a Metabolic Disease By Thomas N. Seyfried

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer By Thomas N. Seyfried Wiley The first question cancer victims may ask is, “Why did […]

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The Paleo Approach by Sarah Ballantyne

The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body by Sarah Ballantyne, PhD Victory Belt Publishing Inc. What goes on in the human body is incredibly complex, […]

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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! […]

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The Fermented Man by Derek Dellinger

The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution by Derek Dellinger The Overlook Press If you think that Derek Dellinger felt deprived during […]

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A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan

A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD, with Kristin Loberg HarperCollins Publishers There is something about upset apple carts that I find very entertaining so I […]

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The Lean Farm by Ben Hartman

The Lean Farm by Ben Hartman Chelsea Green Publishing The standard American paradigm for success is to keep getting bigger. That’s the theory. In practice what seems to […]

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Nourishing Space Within by Alegra Hart

I learned a new word from this book. If someone had asked me how my emunctories are, I wouldn’t have known whether I was being insulted or should […]

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Slim Businez by Mark Cupples

Slim Businez by Mark Cupples Herald Books There must still be a few people out there who want to lose weight because books on how to lose weight […]

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Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime by Peter C Gøtzsche

Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare by Peter C Gøtzsche Radcliffe Publishing The author, Peter Gøtzsche, graduated with a Master of Science degree […]

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Pregnancy and Fluoride Do Not Mix by John D. MacArthur

Pregnancy and Fluoride Do Not Mix: Prenatal Fluoride and Premature Birth, Preeclampsia, Autism by John D. MacArthur Exposure of the fetus to fluoride (mostly from fluoridated water) is […]

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Drowning in 8 Glasses

Drowning in 8 Glasses: 7 Myths About Water Revealed by Adrienne Hew, CN: Did you know that too much water can make you go into a coma? That […]

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Just Breathe Out by Betsy Thomason

Just Breathe Out: Using Your Breath to Create a New, Healthier You Betsy Thomason, BA, RRT North Loop Books Just as the Weston A. Price Foundation has helped […]

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Mastering Stocks and Broths By Rachael S. Mamane

Mastering Stocks and Broths: A Comprehensive Culinary Approach Using Traditional Techniques and No-Waste Methods By Rachael S. Mamane Chelsea Green Publishing Reviewing books about food and cooking is […]

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The Hungry Brain By Stephan Guyenet

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts that Make Us Overeat By Stephan J. Guyenet Flatiron Books Why is it so hard to turn down tasty foods? Why, once […]

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The Alzheimer’s Antidote By Amy Berger

The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline By Amy Berger, MS, CNS, NTP Chelsea Green Publishing Alzheimer’s is […]

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The Case against Sugar By Gary Taubes

The Case against Sugar By Gary Taubes Alfred A. Knopf In 1934, statisticians estimated that two or three people out of every one thousand Americans had diabetes. They […]

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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! […]

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Short Reviews, Spring 2017

THE HERBALIST’S KITCHEN: Brittany Wood Nickerson has put together a beautifully illustrated book full of imaginative recipes, all in line with Wise Traditions principles. You’ll have fun with […]

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Adventures with Jodi

Adventures with Jodi: How One Girl Stopped Migraines and Chronic Pain and Accidentally Improved Her Family’s Health! Jodi Ledley WAPF member Jodi Ledley, from the Hardin County, Ohio, […]

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Your Baby’s Microbiome by Harman and Wakeford

Your Baby’s Microbiome —The Critical Role of Vaginal Birth and Breastfeeding for Lifelong Health Toni Harman and Alex Wakeford Chelsea Green Publishing Science has begun to realize that […]

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Short Reviews, Winter 2016

Eat to Energize by Leah E. McCullogh Maybe this book should have the subtitle, “The Liver Book.” Leah McCullough, “the Fibro Lady” cured herself of chronic fatigue by […]

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Nourishing Fats By Sally Fallon Morell

Nourishing Fats: Why We Need Animal Fats for Health and Happiness By Sally Fallon Morell Grand Central Life & Style We have been hearing about how unhealthy saturated […]

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Human Heart, Cosmic Heart by Thomas S. Cowan

Human Heart, Cosmic Heart Thomas S. Cowan, MD Chelsea Green Tom Cowan is a student of the esoteric philosopher Rudolf Steiner, and since his first introduction to Steiner’s […]

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Modified by Caitlin Shetterfly

Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future by Caitlin Shetterfly G. P. Putnam’s Sons Around 90 percent of food seeds are owned by […]

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The Green Revolution Delusion by Walt Davis & Tony Winslett

The Green Revolution Delusion: A False Promise Written and published by Walt Davis & Tony Winslett The term “green revolution” can be a little confusing because it sounds […]

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The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack

The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack Chelsea Green With the growing interest in moving animals back to their natural diets, especially pasture and other such […]

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Eat Right by Nick Barnard

Eat Right Nick Barnard Eat Right very categorically lives up to its name. The first category is dairy—kefir, yogurt, butter, ghee, curds and whey—and why you should prefer […]

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Vegan Betrayal by Mara J. Kahn

Vegan Betrayal: Love, Lies and Hunger in a Plants-Only World Mara J. Kahn Little Boat Books The most potent argument for vegetarianism is the premise that avoiding animal […]

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Vaccination and Naturopathic Medicine

Vaccination and Naturopathic Medicine edited by Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE NCNM Press Vaccination is a hot controversy today but it is not a new controversy. The debate has […]

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50 Human Studies By Jim West

50 Human Studies In Utero, Conducted in Modern China Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography By Jim West Western medical authorities insist that diagnostic ultrasound […]

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One Straw Revolutionary by Larry Korn

One Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka by Larry Korn Chelsea Green There are many approaches to farming—organic, biodynamic, permaculture, hydroponic, aquaponic, chemical factory farming, […]

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The LDN Book by Linda Elsegood

The LDN Book edited by Linda Elsegood Chelsea Green Publishing The introduction gives a very telling glimpse into the world of medical practice. Dr. Cottel of California found […]

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Fields of Farmers By Joel Salatin

Fields of Farmers: Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating By Joel Salatin Polyface Farms, Inc. All of us admire Joel Salatin for his pioneering work in pasture-based, multi-species agriculture. As […]

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The Big Book of Kombucha by Hannah Crum and Alex La Gory

The Big Book of Kombucha Hannah Crum and Alex La Gory Oh, kombucha! How do we love thee? Let us count the ways! This is exactly what Hannah […]

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Psychiatry Under the Influence by Robert Whitaker and Linda Cosgrove

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform Robert Whitaker and Linda Cosgrove Palgrave Macmillan 2015 Psychiatry Under the Influence is the third in […]

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