Fermentation Made Easy By Holly Howe
Fermentation Made Easy! Mouthwatering Sauerkraut: Master an Ancient Art of Preservation, Grow Your Own Probiotics, and Supercharge Your Gut Health By Holly Howe Library and Archives Canada Holly […]
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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 […]
The History of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic By Heather Fraser
The History of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic By Heather Fraser CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Recently, the famous Home Alone movie actor Macaulay Culkin posted a funny quip to […]
Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers, RD and Robb Wolf
Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet By Diana Rodgers, RD and Robb Wolf BenBella Books, […]
Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers & Robb Wolf
Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet by Diana Rodgers & Rob Wolf BenBella Books They […]
Low Thiol Recipes: A Diet for Mercury Toxicity By Jillaine Williams
Low Thiol Recipes: A Diet for Mercury Toxicity By Jillaine Williams The Wise Traditions diet is a set of principles; while following these principles, the foods you actually […]
The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments By Nigel Palmer
The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments By Nigel Palmer Chelsea Green Publishing Soil life is […]
The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS Diet By Monica Corrado
The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS Diet By Monica Corrado Selene River Press When it comes to healing and food, if anybody can make a daunting, challenging […]
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control By Sarah E. Hill
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences By Sarah E. Hill, PhD Avery Many women have […]
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 […]
The Case Against Masks: Ten Reasons Why Mask Use Should be Limited
The Case Against Masks: Ten Reasons Why Mask Use Should be Limited By Judy A. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively, JD Best-selling writers Mikovits and Heckenlively, authors of Plague […]
Virus Mania By Torsten Engelbrecht and Claus Köhnlein
Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion-Dollar Profits at Our Expense By Torsten Engelbrecht and Claus Köhnlein Trafford Publishing It may seem that the […]
Plague of Corruption By Dr. Judy Mikovits & Kent Heckenlively
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science By Dr. Judy Mikovits & Kent Heckenlively, JD Skyhorse Publishing Plague of Corruption is an autobiography by a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
$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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]