Vibrant health and mental function require proper nutrition

The area of nutrition in human health is underrepresented in allopathic medicine but eating a proper diet may be the singles greatest contribution to physical health and proper mental function. Each species was designed to process certain foods for optimum health, and while we may deviate from those foods that nourish us and and thrive for a time, eventually our poor choices catch up with us. What is common referred to as “aging” is oftentimes simply pathology finally manifesting.

The Food and Nutrition category includes subcategories relating to different diets, nutrition, food politics, problem foods and weight loss.

Book Review: The Ultimate pH Solution — Michelle Schoffro Cook

Nutrition and Diets
The Ultimate pH Diet by Michelle Schoffro Cook

The Ultimate pH Solution is a simple and well-written explanation for those unfamiliar with the importance of eating a predominantly alkaline diet to maintain a healthy acid/alkaline balance in tissues. If people ate just to promote alkalinity, they’d maintain healthy weight, feel great and wouldn’t have to worry about most degenerative diseases.

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Book Review: Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C — Hickey & Roberts

Supplements
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Humans lack a particular enzyme for converting glucose to vitamin C, so we must consume it in our diets. The authors provide numerous examples of scientists and doctors who have used vitamin C for the treatment of heart disease, cancer, AIDS, viral diseases, and polio with varying levels of success as well as the failures in treatment.

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Feeding Your Cat a Species-Appropriate, Raw Meat Diet

Nutrition and Diets
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Felines are obligate carnivores, meaning they must have meat to survive. In this interview with Margaret Gates, founder of FNES, you’ll learn why kibble is the worst food to feed your cat.

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Book Review: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal — Joel Salatin

Food Politics
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As a visionary and creative entrepreneur working outside the government- and university-sponored system, Joel Salatin’s efforts are continually hampered and his livelihood threatened. Everything he wants to do to provide clean, safe, humanely raised food to local consumers is illegal.

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Stop Dieting and Lose Weight — Matt Stone’s RRARF Diet

Weight Loss
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Matt Stone has designed a short-term diet called RRARF, stating that if you want to lose weight, you must eat a lot of just about everything to heal your metabolism! This diet is particularly suited to habitual dieters or those who have followed diets limiting certain macronutrients, such as low-carb or low-fat diets, all practices which Matt thinks contribute to lowered metabolism, higher weight set points, and other health issues.

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Book Review: The New Atkins for a New You — Westman, Phinney, Volek

Nutrition and Diets
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Whether you’re an omnivore, vegetarian or vegan, the New Atkins for a New You offers a diet that is tasty, satiating, nutritious, and full of variety.

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Book Review: The Queen of Fats — Susan Allport

Nutrition and Diets
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The Queen of Fats by Susan Allport chronicles the science behind the discovery of fatty acids (Allport has interviewed several of the scientists involved), the role they play in human health, why food processing companies don’t like them, and how to include them in our diet.

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Book Review: Metabolic Man — Charles Heizer Wharton

Nutrition and Diets
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Metabolic Man attempts to show how our biology is the key determinant in what foods are health-promoting, and that everybody’s biology is different depending on their ancestry, genetics, and how they metabolize fuel.

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Book Review: Life Without Bread — Christian Allan & Wolfgang Lutz

Nutrition and Diets
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Life Without Bread demonstrates how the human body runs better on fat as an energy source than it does on sugar. Much of the information presented is based on Dr. Lutz’s clinical practice over 40 years treating thousands of people with a low-carbohydrate diet.

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Book Review: Against the Grain — Richard Manning

Food Politics
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Richard Manning does a fine job in journalist style of putting forth the various elements that led to the adoption of agriculture and the problems it is causing both humans and the planet. Manning covers such diverse subjects as the development of the human brain, famine, cannibalism, diseases of agriculture, food taboos and fads, and how grains came to dominate the American landscape.

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