Book Review: Conquering Arthritis — Barbara Allan

Arthritis

Conquering Arthritis is a fantastic book providing detailed information on identifying and eliminating problematic foods and reversing arthritis. But I believe it can be helpful for anyone who is ill.

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Book Review: The Whole Soy Story — Kaayla Daniel

Problem Foods

Soy in some form is in almost every processed food we buy. What was once considered a food fit only for the poor, components of soy have evolved into high-ticket grocery items for the health conscious, vegetarian, menopausal woman and hungry baby. Is it really as wonderful as the soy industry claims?

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Book Review: The Sugar Fix — Richard J. Johnson, MD

Nutrition and Diets

Johnson convincingly writes that high fructose consumption is responsible for the rise in metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, heart, liver and kidney disease, and even possibly cancer.

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DVD Review: Soul of Healing — Deepak Chopra

Health Practices

In Soul of Healing Deepak Chopra draws on the ancient wisdom traditions to present a Meditation on Medicine and Synchronicity.

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Book Review: Hypothyroidism Type 2 — Mark Starr, M.D.

Thyroid Disease

Dr. Mark Starr has divided hypothyroidism into two camps: Type 1, which is the failure of the thyroid to produce sufficient hormones, and Type 2, in which the failure is “peripheral resistance to thyroid hormones at the cellular level.” He claims this resistance is pervasive, largely inherited as mitrochrondrial mutations, caused or exacerbated by environmental toxins, and undetectable by blood tests.

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Book Review: Fasting and Eating for Health — Joel Fuhrman

Health Practices

If you are new to fasting and suffer from a chronic, degenerative disease, this is the book you need to read to understand how fasting can help you return to health and how proper eating can help you not only remain healthy but rejuvenate your body, increase your energy and improve your mental functioning.

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Book Review: The Ultimate pH Solution — Michelle Schoffro Cook

Nutrition and Diets

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

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

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

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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