Macrobiotics for Life presents a complete, holistic approach to health that can be applied to the body, mind, and soul. Combining the concept of a healthy, natural-foods lifestyle with a philosophy of self-love, macrobiotic expert Simon Brown explains how food, exercise, and bodywork can create greater physical health. Written in an accessible, easy-to-understand style, the book takes readers through simple steps beginning with thought, exercise, and diet, and shows how to bring macrobiotic practice into everyday life. Topics include healing the mind (letting go of assumptions and judgments), healing the heart (listening to one’s emotions), and healing the body (caring for one’s skin, energizing one’s organs, and creating a healthy digestive system).
Brown offers extensive information about macrobiotic foods, tips for eating out, saving time in the kitchen, dealing with food cravings, and a variety of menu plans to help readers get started, including a time-saver weekly menu. A full range of nearly 100 recipes provides the essential resources for experiencing macrobiotics, and sixteen striking color photographs illustrate meals that are both delicious and nutritious to help readers see the variety of options that are available. Price: $16.10
While insulin is most closely associated with diabetes, it is actually the culprit of a number of diseases that are making the American population ill—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and Alzheimer’s, among others. This groundbreaking book reveals how insulin resistance is linked to these diseases—and how you can get insulin under control to keep yourself healthy.
Freedom from Disease provides a comprehensive program for effectively reducing insulin levels and maintaining excellent health. Peter Morgan Kash and Jay Lombard, D.O., will show you:
How and why insulin is the key to health and illness
How insulin resistance arises even in people who don’t have diabetes
How to assess your insulin levels
The real connection between stress and insulin
A food and supplement program that will keep your insulin levels in check, protect you against a host of diseases, and help you feel your best
Drawing on the latest scientific research on the role that insulin plays in the body, this book presents information on nutrition and exercise that will battle increased insulin levels, reduce insulin resistance, maintain health, and reduce disease. Price: $21.20
It's essential to maintain strong bones to keep an active lifestyle, but aside from taking a daily calcium supplement, is there really anything you can do to improve your bone health? With this complete program for stronger bones created by health educator Annemarie Colbin, you'll learn the best foods to eat to build bone mass and find out which foods actually weaken bones. In The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones, you'll also discover how exercise and finding personal balance can improve your health and prevent fragility fractures, menopause-related bone loss, and osteoporosis.
* What puts you at risk for bone fracture
* Why medication and estrogen therapy may not work for you
* How the nutrients in whole foods build bone mass
* 85 easy recipes that maximize the bone-building effects of whole foods
The bones of the body renew themselves every seven years. With the wholesome wisdom of this book, you can help your bones provide a firm scaffold for your body.
-Mehmet C. Oz, MD, coauthor of YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: Staying Young
Price: $18.65
Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $50 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they’ve kept themselves unregulated for decades. Stacy Malkan’s award-winning new book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (New Society Publishers, Oct. 2007), follows a group of environmental activists as they knock on the door of the world’s largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions:
* Why do companies market themselves as pink ribbon leaders in the fight against breast cancer, yet use chemicals that may contribute to that very disease?
* Why do products used daily by men and women of childbearing age contain chemicals linked to reproductive harm and infertility?
As doors slammed in their faces, the beauty myth peeled away and the industry’s toxic secrets began to emerge. The good news is that while the multinational corporations fight for their right to use hazardous chemicals, activists, scientists and business owners are giving the beauty industry a makeover!
Price: $13.49
"The World Peace Diet is one of the most provocative books I've ever read. I felt challenged and stimulated by its profound insights, and called to question ever more deeply what Will Tuttle calls 'the taboo against knowing who you eat.' This is a deep book, aglow with insights that penetrate and expose the complacency of a culture that has strayed painfully far from compassion."—John Robbins, author, Diet For A New America, and The Food Revolution
Price: $20.00
The shiitake is one of the most highly prized foods in Oriental cuisine, lending its rich, caramel-like flavor to seasonings, sauces, soups, even carbonated drinks and candies. Yet few aficionados of this gourmet delicacy are aware of its high nutritional value or of its important role in traditional Chinese medicine and in the modern search for botanical remedies. Traditionally classified as a food that activates the blood, shiitake has been used as a folk treatment for colds, measles, and bronchial inflammations. Shiitake: The Healing Mushroom takes the reader on a lively tour of the healing properties of one of the world's most delicious foods.
In the past few years, its growing popularity in the West has made shiitake, after the common table mushroom, the most-cultivated mushroom worldwide. Recent studies indicate its usefulness in lowering blood cholesterol levels and preventing heart disease. Research suggests that shiitake is valuable in immunotherapy, bolstering the immune system and increasing the body's ability to ward off cancerous tumors, viral infections, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
The N.I.H. is testing shiitake in their AIDS research program. Price: $11.90
Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/ Fake Food World
In a world dominated by fast food, fake food, and rising childhood obesity rates, establishing healthy eating habits in children is one of the greatest concerns for parents—and potentially one of the greatest challenges. Renowned physician Dr. David Ludwig offers the tools families need to keep the kitchen table from becoming a battleground.
In 1996, Dr. Ludwig founded a revolutionary program at Children’s Hospital Boston, where he and his team tailored a low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a lifestyle plan that benefits the whole family. Here he outlines the program that has worked for thousands of families and offers tasty recipes, motivational tips, and activities.With compassion and insight gained from years of working with overweight children, Dr. Ludwig provides an essential guide for all parents.
Reg. Price $26.00 Price: $19.50
Healing with Whole Foods contains a wealth of information on health, diet, alternative medicine, natural food presentation, and recipes, researched by an expert in the field. Readers will learn how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet; treat illness and nervous disorders through diet; and make the transition to whole vegetable foods. The most detailed source book yet published on preparing food and eating consciously, Healing with Whole Foods includes complete sections on Ayurvedic principles of food-combining; the treatment of disease conditions through meals; transition from animal products to whole vegetable foods; micro-algae; selection of waters and salts; the extremely complex varieties of oils, sugars, and condiments; vitamins and minerals; fasting and purification; food for children, food presentation and proportions; vibrational cooking; the physiology of nourishment; color diagnosis and therapy; consciousness in diet changes; plus descriptions of the nature and uses of various grains, legumes, miso, tempeh, tofu, seaweeds, nuts and seeds, sprouts, and fruits. Price: $28.00
Explains how food imparts a living wisdom that is separate from the science of nutrient values
Offers an approach to diet from the perspective of ancient peoples, who understood how the energetic qualities of food affect both physical and spiritual health
• Includes a comprehensive catalog of the energetic properties of myriad foods--from chicken, beef, and potatoes to garlic, avocados, zucchini, and grapefruit
Food is more than simply fuel. It imparts a living wisdom that is beyond the science and mechanics of calories, grams, and nutrient values. Ancient peoples, through their relationships with the plants and animals providing their food, understood that their food conveyed the unique energetic qualities of its source, such as swiftness from wild deer and groundedness from root vegetables. With the rise of agribusiness and industrial food production, people have become disconnected from the sources of their food and are no longer able to register the subtle rhythms, harmony, and energies that food can convey. This separation has thrown the basic human-food relationship out of balance--to the detriment of human consciousness.
In Food Energetics, Steve Gagné shows how to revitalize our connection to food and remedy our physical and psychic imbalances with the wisdom of food energetics. He provides a comprehensive catalog of foods and their corresponding energetic properties and explains how each food affects us at the deepest spiritual level. By demonstrating how to plan meals that incorporate both dominant and compliant foods, he shows how to provide truly healthy cuisine that nourishes the body and the soul. Price: $22.45
We are all too familiar with its symptoms: hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, irritability, sleeplessness, and more. While menopause triggers many physical and emotional changes, it also brings forth spiritual issues that, for many women, mark a redefinition of the feminine self. To address the total impact of menopause, Gabriele Kushi has created a supportive, practical, and personal guide to dealing with this time in a woman's life.
Embracing Menopause Naturally is a true companion for any woman who wants to nurture her own spiritual growth, adopt a natural foods diet, and enjoy good health throughout the midlife years and beyond. Price: $13.45
How your food choices affect your health, happiness and the future of life on earth. For all of us who long for a practical, economical way to foster a more sane, ethical, and loving world. “One of the most important documents of the 20th century” - Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. Price: $13.56
"The laws of yin and yang govern all phenomena, from the movements of subatomic particles to the composition of blood and tissue, from the formation of the planets and moons to the relationship between the sexes. By knowing how to balance these forces in our own lives, we can turn sickness into health, conflict into peace, and sadness into joy." -from The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health Price: $17.00
The complete and authoritative resource for healthy eating- from Acorn to Zucchini, Aduki beans to Zapote fruit- The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia shows you how to select, prepare, store, and use medicinally more than 1,000 familiar and unusual foods. Price: $17.00
New, frightening facts about the world’s most overrated nutrient, includes up-to-date research and appendix. Price: $7.96
Find out the truth about popular diets, genetically modified foods, Mad Cow disease, and the health effects of the food you eat. In this long-awaited and provocative book, bestselling author John Robbins exposes the dangers behind many of today’s foods and reveals the extraordinary benefits of healthy alternatives. The Food Revolution will show you how to extend your life, increase your vibrancy and vitality, and take a stand for a more compassionate and sustainable world. Price: $15.26
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. “An avalanche of facts and observations. . . . A fine piece of muckraking, alarming without being an alarmist. . . . Schlosser makes it harder to go on eating fast food in blissful ignorance.”- New York Times Price: $12.70
The #1 health best seller that exploded the sugar myth and inspired a health revolution. It’s a prime ingredient in countless substances that we eat and drink, from cereal to soup, from cola to coffee. Consumed at the rate of one hundred pounds for every American every year, it’s as addictive as nicotine or heroin-and as poisonous, responsible for modern plagues ranging from depression to coronary thrombosis. It’s sugar. And SUGAR BLUES, inspired by the crusade of Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, is the classic, bestselling expose’ that unmasks our generations greatest medical killer-yet, at the same time, shows how a revitalizing, sugar-free diet can not only change your life, but quite possibly save it. Price: $5.94
Discover the rejuvenating powers of food. In Glow, you will find more than 150 recipes, home remedies, and simple topical applications as well as basic massage and healing practices that will give both an inner and outer glow. Price: $14.40
With the majority of Americans now attempting to eat healthier and an estimated million of them each year in the past decade adopting vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diets, The Great Life Diet is ready to enter the cultural mainstream.
In seven steps, The Great Life Diet offers a balanced and orderly approach to an -active, fulfilling daily life. The aim always is to strengthen health, however good or ill. Indeed, thousands of people, their ailments ranging widely from the common cold to chronic fatigue to heart disease and even to "incurable" cancers, have been helped, often dramatically, by espousing the dietary and lifestyle practices described in Waxman's instructive guide.
With sound sense and flexible principles, this diet extends to its readers a means both to better their health and to significantly enhance the joy in their daily lives. Price: $11.16
Three billion people-one half the world's population-eat rice daily. The biotech industry claims that whole brown rice is nutritionally deficient and needs to be replaced with new "improved" genetically engineered varieties. Saving Organic Rice is a passionate critique of GE foods by leading scientists, environmentalists, natural health educators, and community activists. It offers practical stepsto protect organic rice and other essential foods for future generations. Price: $6.95
"This book is a must read for people concerned with their health and those who have not been able to find the cause of some of their nagging health problems. In this well researched and well presented book we learn of some of the limitations of the Food and Drug Administration in protecting our health. We also learn the truth about the chemicals used in cosmetics and personal care products that we use on a daily basis – products that may be contributing to the epidemic of obesity and the rapid rise in the incidence of such medical conditions as diabetes, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, seizures, heart irregularities, migraine headaches, and neurological diseases."
Jack L. Samuels, President
Truth in Labeling Campaign Price: $11.00
