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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
In Mad Cowboy, Lyman, a fourth-generation Montana rancher turned vegetarian then vegan, told the story of his personal transformation after a spinal tumor, which he believes was caused by agricultural chemicals, nearly left him paralyzed. In No More Bull!, Lyman uses his humor, compassion, firsthand experience in agriculture, and command of the facts of health to argue that we might all profit by transforming our diets. He makes a powerful case that Alzheimer's is yet another disease linked to eating meat. And he explains that the steak at the heart of your dinner plate not only may destroy your own heart but actually offers no more nutritional value than a doughnut! If you've been confused by the competing claims of the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, and other fad diets, No More Bull! is the book that will set you straight. Its pure, unvarnished truth is told with down-home common sense. Price: $11.05
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
For thousands of years, cultures throughout the world have known about the healing power of teas. Ancient physicians, traditional healers, shaman, and sages have all utilized their own particular varieties of teas to work wonders on all sorts of ailments and diseases. Healing Teas provides a unique A-to-Z guide to herbs, individual brews, and home remedies. Price: $11.16
Not a menu, recipe, or diet book, this work is instead an insightful, well-organized romp through the world of animal and vegetable food types. Its theme is the energetic qualities of food selection and preparation, and their effect on our relationships to ourselves, others, and the environment. The long-term explorer of diet and health who has unaddressed questions will especially welcome this thoughtful, entertaining book. Price: $18.66
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: $16.10
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: $12.56
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
