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 […]
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Sugarmaker’s Companion
The Sugarmaker’s Companion by Michael Farrell Subtitled, “An Integrated Approach to Producing Syrup from Maple, Birch, and Walnut Trees,” The Sugarmaker’s Companion provides easy-to-understand and nicely illustrated instructions […]
Guide to Healing Chronic Pain
Guide to Healing Chronic Pain: A Holistic Approach by Karen Kan, MD Karen Kan, a holistic physician and medical acupuncturist based in Lake Placid, New York, used natural, […]
Grain Brain
Grain Brain. The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar, Your Brain’s Silent Killers by David Perlmutter, MD, with Kristin Loberg Little, Brown & Company, 2013 David Perlmutter, […]
Skin, Tongue and Nails Speak
The Skin, Tongue and Nails Speak: Observational Signs of Nutritional Deficiencies by Donna Burka Wild Many of you remember Donna Wild’s seminar on reading the skin, tongue and […]
Eating on the Wild Side
Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health By Jo Robinson Little, Brown and Company 2013 When you walk into the typical supermarket produce section […]
Low Cholesterol Leads to an Early Death
Low Cholesterol Leads to an Early Death: Evidence From 101 Scientific Papers By David Evans This book is a sequel to Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease: […]
Foraging & Feasting By Dina Falconi
Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook By Dina Falconi, Illustrated by Wendy Hollender We have been eagerly waiting for this book, by longtime chapter […]
Why Stomach Acid is Good for You by Jonathan Wright and Lane Lenard
Why Stomach Acid is Good for You by Jonathan Wright, MD and Lane Lenard, PhD M. Evans and Company Tums, Rolaids, Nexium, the purple pill: if the endless […]
Let Magic Happen By Larry Burk
Let Magic Happen By Larry Burk, MD, CEHP Let Magic Happen recounts the journey of a radiologist from conventional to holistic medicine. His journey includes discovery of the […]
Squeezed by Alissa Hamilton
Squeezed: What You Don’t Know about Orange Juice By Alissa Hamilton Yale University Press, 2010 Ever stop to think why we drink orange juice in the mornings? Or […]
Keeping a Family Cow by Joann S. Grohman
A Thumbs Up Book Review Keeping a Family Cow By Joann S. Grohman Coburn Press, 2002 Review by Sally Fallon This is a practical guide to keeping a […]
Young for Life by Marilyn Diamond and Dr. Donald “Rock” Schnell
Young for Life: The Easy No-Diet, No-Sweat Plan to Look and Feel Ten Years Younger By Marilyn Diamond and Dr. Donald “Rock” Schnell Rodale Books, 2013 In the […]
CAFO Reader by Daniel Imhoff
The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories Edited by Daniel Imhoff Published by The Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media, first edition 2010 […]
Biggest Estate on Earth By Bill Gammage
The Biggest Estate on Earth How Aborigines Made Australia By Bill Gammage Allen & Unwin When the Europeans came to Australia, they were amazed at what they found―a […]
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back by Esther Gokhale
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back Esther Gokhale, LAc Pendo Press, 2008 Back pain is yet another malady that is more common in industrialized countries than elsewhere. We […]
Whole Soy Story By Kaayla Daniel
The Whole Soy Story By Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN New Trends Publishing 2005 Originally published in 2005, this book is not new, and our readers will know that […]
Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard
Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard Pritchard is a seventh generation farmer from the Shenandoah Valley who […]
Get it Up By Sydney Ross Singer & Soma Grismaijer
Get it Up! Revealing the Simple Surprising Lifestyle that Causes Migraines, Alzheimer’s, Stroke, Glaucoma, Sleep Apnea, Impotence… and More! By Sydney Ross Singer & Soma Grismaijer ISCD Press […]
Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease by David Evans
Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease: Evidence from 101 Scientific Papers by David Evans Critics of the cholesterol theory of heart disease will find this compendium an […]
Relief from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea By Tess Graham
Relief from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea By Tess Graham Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books We have had a flurry of books about sleep dysfunction lately. There must […]
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 […]
Dirty Electricity by Samuel Milham
Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization by Samuel Milham, MD, MPH iUniverse, Inc. We have polluted land, air, sea and even outer space. I recently stumbled […]
Cows Save the Planet by Judith D. Schwartz
Cows Save the Planet, and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz Chelsea Green Publishers Many of you have seen Allan […]
Extra Virginity By Tom Mueller
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil By Tom Mueller W.W. Norton and Co., 2011 Even if olive oil is not part of your regular […]
Fat Revolution By Christine Cronau
The Fat Revolution: Why Butter and Real Fats Actually Make us Slim By Christine Cronau Purple Lotus Publishing America has been on a lowfat diet for decades now […]
An Epidemic of Absence By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases By Moises Velasquez-Manoff Scribner 2012 Moises Velasquez-Manoff is a science writer who has taken on […]
Stop Autism Now! By Dr. Bruce Fife
Stop Autism Now! A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Reversing Autism Spectrum Disorders By Dr. Bruce Fife Piccadilly Books, Ltd. We have heard from a number of sources […]
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 […]
Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality by Harris Coulter
Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain Harris Coulter North Atlantic Books In Vaccination Social Violence and Criminality, medical historian Harris Coulter attempts […]
Meals That Heal By Karen Maidment
Meals That Heal By Karen Maidment Published in the U.K. (available at www.endibsnaturally.com), this colorful cookbook chronicles the author’s journey from irritable bowel syndrome to radiant health by […]
GAPS Stories by Medinform
GAPS Stories Compiled by Medinform Publishing Most expectant parents look forward to raising a healthy child, never imagining any serious problems; they picture a happy family life and […]
While Science Sleeps By Woodrow C. Monte, PhD
While Science Sleeps – A Sweetener Kills By Woodrow C. Monte, PhD The title of the book summarizes my impression that except for a few isolated points of […]
Real Food Fermentation by Alex Lewin
Real Food Fermentation by Alex Lewin Quarry Books If you have no experience with real food, and many don’t, one of the first things you will learn when […]
Solution: Homeoprophylaxis By Kate Birch and Cilla Whatcott
The Solution: Homeoprophylaxis: The Vaccine Alternative A Parent’s Guide to Educating Your Child’s Immune System By Kate Birch and Cilla Whatcott Balboa Books I’m worried for authors and […]
Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn
A Thumbs Up Book Review Our Stolen Future By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers Review by Sally Fallon What begins as a scientific detective story–the […]
Herbal Antibiotics By Stephen Harrod Buhner
Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria By Stephen Harrod Buhner Second edition, Storey Publishing, 2012 Those who own the first edition of Buhner’s excellent Herbal Antibiotics […]
Prepared Family Guide to Uncommon Diseases By Enola Gay
The Prepared Family Guide to Uncommon Diseases By Enola Gay Paratus Family Press Imagine waking up one day to a world filled with people suffering from tuberculosis, whooping […]
How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol by James Yoseph and Hannah Yoseph, MD
How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol and Kill You One Cell at a Time by James B. Yoseph and Hannah Yoseph, MD Published by James B. Yoseph and […]
Living as Nature Intended by Dr. Shagufta Feroz
Living as Nature Intended by Dr. Shagufta Feroz Nastalique Publications One common, off-the-cuff mainstream criticism of alternative medicine is that it is not evidence-based. It is not possible […]
Emperor’s New Drugs By Irving Kirsch, PhD
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth By Irving Kirsch, PhD Random House, 2009 Dr. Irving Kirsch originally set out innocently enough to investigate the placebo effect […]
Tender Grassfed Barbecue by Stanley A. Fishman
Tender Grassfed Barbecue by Stanley A. Fishman From the author of the classic Tender Grassfed Meat comes Tender Grassfed Barbecue, a great addition to any collection for the […]
SuperNutrition for Babies by Erlich and Genzlinger
SUPERNUTRITION FOR BABIES by Katherine Erlich, MD and Kelly Genzlinger, CNC, CMTA This badly needed book provides a blueprint for feeding your baby based squarely in the […]
Meat Fix by John Nicholson
The Meat Fix: How a Lifetime of Healthy Eating Nearly Killed Me! By John Nicholson Dialogue Press, 2012 Funny, angry, insightful, informative and narrative—these are the five words […]
True and False About Diet by Anita Supe
True and False About Diet by Anita Supe I’m very excited about the release in Croatia of the book True and False about Diet. This is a book […]
Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012 If there is one method of preparation that marks the divide between traditional and modern foods, […]
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fermenting Foods by Wardeh Harmon
The Complete Idiot‘s Guide to Fermenting Foods by Wardeh Harmon Alpha Publishers, 2012 The Complete Idiots Guide To Fermenting Foods, by Wardeh Harmon, is a perfect accompaniment to […]
Wheat Belly by William Davis
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD Rodale Press, 2011 Preventive cardiologist, Bill Davis, throws down […]
Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson University of California Press, 2006 When the early European explorers and […]
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 […]
Happiness Diet by Tyler Graham and Drew Ramsey, MD
The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood, and Lean, Energized Body by Tyler Graham and Drew Ramsey, MD Rodale Books, 2011 Scattered throughout […]
Polluters by Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter
The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment by Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter Oxford University Press, 2010 According to an industry spokesman, “Pollution is the price […]
Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal by Jennifer McLagan
Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal by Jennifer McLagan Ten Speed Press, 2011 The rediscovery of traditional foods may face no greater challenge than […]
What about Immunizations? by Cynthia Cournoyer
What about Immunizations? Exposing the Vaccine Philosophy by Cynthia Cournoyer Better Books, 2010 Many parents invest more time and scrutiny in selecting house paint or a new car […]
Gall Bladder Survival Guide
The Gall Bladder Survival Guide by J. Bernal EVL Media Limited If you think the gall bladder is just some obscure, throw-away body part that sometimes causes people […]
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth by Eric Herm
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth by Eric Herm Dreamriver Press, 2010 Eric Herm grew up on a cotton farm in Texas and now is a […]
Secrets of How to Feel Twenty Years Younger in 90 Days or Less! by Dr. Pete Hilgartner
The Secrets of How to Feel Twenty Years Younger in 90 Days or Less! by Dr. Pete Hilgartner Hilgartner Chiropractic Clinic (e-book) When you take your canary into […]
Radical Medicine by Louisa L. Williams
Radical Medicine Louisa L. Williams, M.S., D.C., N.D. Healing Arts Press The adjective “radical” modifying the noun “medicine” may worry some people, but look up “death by medicine” […]
Poisoned for Profit by Philip and Alice Shabecoff
Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins are Making Our Children Chronically Ill By Philip and Alice Shabecoff Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010 Healthy people depend on healthy animals and produce. […]
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 […]
Stop Alzheimer’s Now by Bruce Fife, ND
Stop Alzheimer’s Now! By Bruce Fife, ND Piccadilly Books, Ltd., 2011 I was privileged to receive a free copy of this book and became absorbed in its easy-to-understand, […]
Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011 The foreword to The Small-Scale Poultry Flock is written by Joel Salatin, which is always a good way to start […]
Compromised Generation by Beth Lambert
A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children By Beth Lambert with Victoria Kobliner Sentient Publications, 2010 Teachers who have been around a few decades […]
Vaccine Epidemic by Louise K. Habakus and Mary Holland
Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children By Louise K. Habakus and Mary Holland Skyhorse Publishing, […]
Perfect Health Diet by Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet
Perfect Health Diet: Four Steps to Renewed Heath, Youthful Vitality, and Long Life By Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet YinYang Press, 2010 Creating a diet that can be described […]
Sleep Interrupted by Steven Park MD
Sleep, Interrupted: A Physician Reveals the #1 Reason Why So Many of Us are Sick and Tired By Steven Park, MD Jodev Press, 2008 This book was written […]
Empires of Food by Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations By Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas Free Press, 2010 Empires of Food is a fascinating book that […]
Age of Autism by Dan Olmstead and Mark Blaxill
The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic By Dan Olmstead and Mark Blaxill St. Martins Press, 2010 The Age of Autism is perhaps the most important […]
Disconnect by Devra Davis
Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family By Devra Davis Dutton (Penguin Group Inc.), 2010 There […]
Ignore the Awkward by Uffe Ravnskov
Ignore the Awkward! How the Cholesterol Myths are Kept Alive By Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD CreateSpace, 2010 Building cell walls and nerve fibers requires cholesterol. Sex and stress hormones […]
Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlie
Meat: A Benign Extravagance By Simon Fairlie Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010 In the debate between vegans and omnivores there is disagreement not just about which dietary approach is […]
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 […]
Carbohydrates Can Kill by Robert K. Su
Carbohydrates Can Kill by Robert K. Su, MD Two Harbors Press Carbohydrates Can Kill begins as a kind of primer on the chemistry of carbohydrates, fats and cholesterol, with […]
Case Against Fluoride by Paul Connett and James Beck
The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics that Keep it There By Paul Connett, PhD, […]
Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love By Kristin Kimball Scribner, 2010 This memoir describes the radical transformation of a New York City single, female professional writer […]
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 […]
Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson
The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy By Mark Sisson Primal Nutrition, Inc., 2009 If each person on the planet […]
Sheer Ecstacy of Being a Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer By Joel Salatin Polyface Farm, Inc. 2010 Environmentalism is important and also controversial. We have choices. We can look for […]
Obesity Epidemic by Zoe Harcombe
The Obesity Epidemic: What Caused It? How Can We Stop It? By Zoë Harcombe, BA, MA Columbus Publishing, 2010 Near the start of this book we see a […]
Changing Course for Life by Sir Julian Rose
Changing Course for Life : Local Solutions to Global Problems By Sir Julian Rose New European Publications “Continuously accepting ever more restrictive clamps upon our civil liberties and […]
Nutrition’s Playground
NUTRITION’S PLAYGROUND: It’s All About Food in a Round About Way By Ben Pratt Natural Food Finder Ben Pratt, who serves as chapter leader for southwest England, has […]
Frugavore by Arabella Forge
Frugavore By Arabella Forge Black, Inc. Melbourne, Australia chapter leader Arabella Forge combines gardening and chicken-raising basics with practical advice and yummy WAPF-friendly recipes in this little gem […]
Global Censorship of Health Information by Jonathan Emord
Global Censorship of Health Information By Jonathan W. Emord Sentinel Press In 1993, two authors named Pearson and Shaw contacted Jonathan Emord, who was then vice-president of the […]
Call of the Land by Steven McFadden
The Call of the Land – An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century By Steven McFadden NorLightsPress We often hear the claim, touted as a well-established fact, that […]
Please Don ’t Eat the Wallpaper by Nancy Irven
Please Don ’t Eat the Wallpaper! by Nancy Irven Subtitled “The Teenager’s Guide to Avoiding Trans Fats, Enriched Wheat and High Fructose Corn Syrup,” this little book reminds […]
Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms by Datis Kharrazian
Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When My Lab Tests Are Normal? By Datis Kharrazian, DHSc, DC, MS Morgan James Publishing, 2010 “In the U.S., autoimmune disease […]
Saltwater Foodways by Sandra Oliver
Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food at Sea and Ashore in the Nineteenth Century By Sandra Oliver Mystic Museum Publishing, 1995 In 1971 Sandra Oliver took on […]
Waste Not, Want Not by C. Anne Wilson
Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation from Early Times to the Present Day C. Anne Wilson, Editor Edinburgh University Press, 1992 Humanity’s relationship with nature has always been […]
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 […]
Milk Diet as a Remedy for Chronic Disease by Charles Sanford Porter
Milk Diet as a Remedy for Chronic Disease by Charles Sanford Porter, MD God’s Whey, LLC Simple. Concise. A true self-help manual. First published in 1905, the book […]
Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer by Nicholas Gonzalez
The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer: One Solution to the Medical Enigma of our Time By Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD and Linda L. Issacs, MD New Spring […]
Time for New Beginnings by Harold Buttram
A TIME FOR NEW BEGINNINGS – MANUAL FOR FUTURE PARENTS By Harold E. Buttram, M.D. Philosophical Publishing Company Here is a very good resource for any potential or […]
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 […]
Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life by Gerald Pollack
Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life By Gerald H. Pollack, PhD Ebner and Sons Every now and then someone comes out with a book that forces us […]
Great Cholesterol Con by Dr. Malcom Kendrick
The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth about What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It By Dr. Malcolm Kendrick John Blake Publishers, 2008 The great American […]
When Hallelujah Becomes What Happened by Gregory Westbrook
WHEN HALLELUJAH BECOMES “WHAT HAPPENED?” CRASHING ON THE VEGAN DIET By Gregory L. Westbrook Weight of Wisdom Workshop Gregory Westbrook gives us a firsthand account of what happens […]
Everlasting Health by Robert Bernardini
Everlasting Health: Humanity’s Guide to Understanding, Avoiding, and Reversing Disease By Robert Bernardini, M.S. PRI Publishing A quick look at the cover tells you there are a lot […]
Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza by Sandra Perko
The Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza: Surviving Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics Past, Present and Future with Homeopathy By Sandra Perko, PhD, CCN Benchmark Homeopathic Pubns, 2005 “Shut the doors! […]