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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DVD Review: Burzynski, The Movie — Eric Merola

Cancer
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Burzynski, the Movie is an engrossing documentary of a cancer cure that works and the government and PhARMA attempts to imprison Dr. Burzinsky and steal the cure for themselves. If you don’t think cancer cures are being suppressed, you definitely need to watch this.

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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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Toxic Chemicals in Cosmetics and Safe Alternatives

Health Practices
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Every day people use a multitude of personal care products without knowing the toxic chemicals to which they are subjecting themselves. From shampoo and conditioner to makeup and perfume, women are particularly susceptible to exposure.

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Eliminate Food Allergies and Chronic Diseases with NAET

Alternative Therapies
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Dr. Devi Nambudripad discusses her innovative NAET therapy for gaining permanent freedom from food and other allergies and the diseases arising from those allergens. NAET has helped thousands completely eliminate food allergies, even allergies to shellfish, peanuts and wheat.

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