DIET & NUTRITION--general

30 Days: A Program to Lower Cholesterol, Achieve Optimal Weight and Prevent Serious Disease

The Children's Health Food Book (hardcover)--Seaborn
Customer Review (rating=*****): "This is book is excellent! If parents let their children read this book so many health problems could be prevented. Knowledge is power! Teach your children early! This book does it."

Complete Nutrition : How to Live in Total Health--Sharon
Synopsis: Nutrition determines how you look, feel, and work, and whether you are nervous, tired, pessimistic, or joyful, comfortable, and happily active. CompleteNutrition surveys the nutrients needed for proper health, describes the symptoms and consequences of deficiencies, and provides a nutritional approach to longevity.

Dr. Earl Mindell’s What You Should Know About Nutrition for Active Lifestyles--Mindell, Hopkins

Earl Mindell’s Food As Medicine--Mindell
Synopsis: The author of the thoroughly indispensable Earl Mindell's Herb Bible offers timely and important data that allows the reader to understand and explore the new science called "nutraceutics," or "food-aceutics," which describes the foods that can be used to prevent and treat disease.

Earl Mindell’s Safe Eating--Mindell
Synopsis: The #1 vitamin and nutrition expert and the bestselling author of The Vitamin Bible exposes the poisons hidden in the foods we eat--and teaches readers how to eat well for a healthier, happier and longer life. "Gives healthy alternatives to many processed foods."--USA Today. HC: Warner.

Earl Mindell’s Shaping Up with Vitamins: How the Right Foods and Nutrients Can Help Shape Up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Sex Life-- Mindell
Synopsis: Now Dr. Mindell tells readers how to achieve and maintain their physical and mental peak every day--look and feel better through comprehensive vitamin/nutrition/exercise programs. It explains important food-workout connections, reveals cautions, and offers nutrient secrets that help revitalize every area of a person's life.

Eating With the Seasons: How to Achieve Health and Vitality by Eating in Harmony With Nature--Bartimeus

Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight--D'Adamo, Whitney
Customer Comment (rating=*****): It just makes so much sense! I have never felt better in my life since I went on the ER4YT diet. Everybody needs to read this life changing book. I wish I could give it 10 stars!!!!

Fit for Life--Diamond
Customer Comment: rating=10: The best weight loss book ever written. This is the paperback that changed my diet and started me on the road to ultimate health. Based on the principles of Natural Hygiene, in this book the Diamonds tell you precisely how to lose all kinds of weight while also improving your health as a side effect. Sure beats those side effects the drug folks provide us with when they try to make us healthy, eh? Written in a wonderfully conversational style, Fit for Life reads like a novel while providing some of the easiest "how-to-do-it" information in the entire field of health literature. If there's a single book I'd recommend to get someone off the Standard American Diet and on to a new, healthy approach, this is the one.

NN comment: I read this book, and though I loved many of its points and have implemented a few of them, I did find the rules of food-combining restrictive to the point that I did not want to do it. G.H.

Fit for Life II : Living Health--Diamond
Synopsis: The Diamonds expand Fit for Life and offer a complete health program that includes all areas of life, including sleep, stress reduction and relationships.

Food (paperback)--Powter
Customer Comment: rating=10: A simple way to fully understand food. Susan Powter's FOOD is a priceless collection of information about what we eat. She presents us with unbiased facts that are usually covered up by the greedy "boys" of the food industry. Unlike in school when we had a brief, confusing chapter to study on nutrition, she has presented us with info we can remember, and why it affects us. Along with plenty of delicious recepies to try, she educates us with cooking tips to help improve what we're already cooking for the family. Before you eat another peice of chicken or drink another glass of milk, you must read this book!

Food and Healing--Colbin
Customer Comment (rating=****): A healthy approach to eating for wellbeing. Annemarie Colbin lays out a myriad of information as to how foods affect your mood, energy and overall wellbeing. She describes in detail what happens when we eat certain foods, particularly in combinations which may explain why many of us can't lose weight or remain sick and tired. The descriptions of various popular diets is enlightening.

Food Smart!: Eat Your Way to Better Health--Townsley

God's Way to Ultimate Health : A Common Sense Guide for Elimination of Sickness Through Nutrition--Malkmus, Dye

The Healing Power of Foods : Nutrition Secrets for Vibrant Health and Long Life--Murray
Synopsis: There is an ever-growing appreciation of the role diet plays in determining our health. The bestselling author of The Complete Book of Juicing and Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine reveals the incredible power that some fruits and vegetables possess and focuses on specific food prescriptions for common health conditions.

Health Begins in Him: Biblical Steps to Optimal Health and Nutrition

Healthful Eating Without Confusion--Bragg

Hoffer's Laws of Natural Nutrition : A Guide to Eating Well for Pure Health--Hoffer
Midwest Book Review: Hoffer's Laws of Natural Nutrition is a ground-breaking book wherein Dr. Abram Hoffer prescribes a natural diet for pure health while diagnosing the dangers of the so-called modern high-tech diet. Hoffer's Laws of Natural Nutrition is a dependable guide to eating well for good health. The ingestion of optimum amounts of vitamins and other nutrients can make all the difference in personal health and well-being. While too little, or overdoses of these same vitamins and minerals can have profound and deleterious effects on the body. Hoffer's Laws of Natural Nutrition is highly recommended, especially in an era of fast food consumption, pre-packaged meals, and the absence of time once available for traditional meal preparations.

A Journal of Daily Renewal : The Companion to Make the Connection--Green, Winfrey
Synopsis: In Make the Connection, Greene and Winfrey suggest that readers keep a journal for recording their feelings, triumphs and breakthroughs, and for keeping track of their daily routines. This attractive companion to Make the Connection provides a place for readers to do just that, plus checklists to help them stick with the program. .

Make the Connection : Ten Steps to a Better Body and a Better Life-- Greene, Winfrey
Customer Comment: slccoc@northweb.com, 10/29/96, rating=9: Finally, a book on nutrition and overeating that makes sense Oprah and Bob have done it. This book is destined to become a bible for people with eating disorders. This book offers the basic steps you learned about nutrition in home economics class and tells you how to use those steps in your everyday life. You learn something as you turn every page. There are no diet plans, no quick fix to losing weight and no pills involved. This book is written with Oprah's testimonials from her heart. She is a true inspiration to those of us who struggle on a daily basis to change our lives for the better. Bob Greene has made a tremendous impact on her life. Thank you Oprah and Bob!

May All Be Fed: A Diet for a New World: Including Recipes by Jia Patton and Friends--Robbins
Synopsis: The best-selling author of Diet for a New America presents his greatest achievement yet--a practical look at how we can change ourselves and the world by changing the way we eat. PBS has prepared an hour-long documentary about Robbins scheduled to air next year.

McDougall Plan--McDougall

The McDougall Program: Twelve Days to Dynamic Health--McDougall
Synopsis: A national bestseller in hardcover, The McDougall Program is Dr. McDougall's most comprehensive and practical health book to date, including recipes, medical advice, histories, and details of the revolutionary 12-day McDougall nutrition program that has helped thousands lose weight.

McDougall’s Medicine: A Challenging Second Opinion--McDougall
Synopsis: With his question-and-answer format, John McDougall leads the readers to an understanding of an approach to their health that puts them in charge of their own health and/or treatment.

Nutrition Almanac--Kirschmann
Synopsis: The three previous editions of this broadly popular reference have brought simple, sensible, and accurate nutrition information to an eager audience of health-conscious readers. Painstakingly updated to include recent scientific findings, the new edition analyzes the latest developments in nutritional research, health maintenance, and nutritional research and include an expanded section on herbs and homeopathy.

Potatoes Not Prozac--DesMaisons

Potatoes Not Prozac: A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Control Your Cravings and Lose Weight--DesMaisons, Pert (hardcover) Customer Comment (rating=*****): If you have struggled with food, mood and attitude, inner strength, will power, the ability to focus and follow through -- what you need is this book, 7 simple steps (to learn how to eat to support your brain chemistry) and a simple potato.

Potatoes Not Prozac: A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Control Your Cravings and Lose Weight--DesMaisons, Pert (paperback)

Smart Eating : Choosing Wisely, Living Lean (paperback)--Bailey
Synopsis: Covert Bailey has been saying it for years: diets don't work. In this companio to his bestselling Smart Exercise, Bailey offers a revolutionary way to think about food, nutrition, and weight loss, showing readers how to achieve and maintain their ideal weight--without ever dieting. Includes a four-color pull-out centerfold of the Smart Eating Food Target and 200 brand-new recipes.

Stop the Insanity!--Powter
Synopsis: The dynamic star of national TV who's getting people off the couch tells women how to take control of their lives--and bodies--to improve their health, fitness, and self-image. Susan tells how depression led to her 260-pound "fat coma" and how she overcame "the insanity" of the diet and fitness industry to develop her own wellness plan.

Total Health and Food Power: Principles of Healthful Living and Outstanding Vegetarian Recipes from Glendale Adventist Medical Center--Ludlow
From the Publisher: A spectacular vegetarian/natural foods cookbook and an effective health plan in one attractive volume. Its 200 recipes are proven for dining appeal and nutritional value. Packed with culinary and dietary advice from the author's nationwide seminars. Color photographs illustrate food choices and "exchange" lists make custom dieting easy. Illustrated.

Toxicless Diet: Body Purification and Healing System: The Diet that Can Keep You Ageless!--Bragg

What the Bible Says About Healthy Living: Three Biblical Principles That Will Change Your Diet and Improve Your Health--Russell

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide for Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and Lovers of Natural Foods--Orstad
Synopsis: Instead of augmenting a diet with additives and supplements, today's food lovers want whole food--as fresh, unrefined and organically grown as possible. Whole Foods Companion is a complete guide to the amazing wealth of natural foods now found nearly everywhere. It includes detailed entries on hundreds of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, herbs and spices, nuts, seeds and oils. 100 illustrations. 360 nutritional tables.

***animal food products (dangers of)***

Beyond Beef : The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture (paperback)--Rifkin
Customer Review (rating=*****): "The book has changed and added years to many lives. I have given away the book as a gift to many of my un-healthy friends who have thanked me for lifting their shroud of 1950's nutritional folklore that meat is at the top of the food pyramid (like cigarettes weren't dangerous). It takes books like "Beyond Beef" to cite facts to the leary and to provide education through history and statistics to the lemmings of dietary unconciousness."

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth--Robbins
Customer Comment (rating=9): A revolutionary document of truth and exposure John Robbins, in a selfless quest to discover the extensive repercussions of our eating habits and choices, exposes and tenaciously documents hidden facts. This work will singlehandedly convince even the most stubborn anti-vegetarians to take a serious look at the effects of their choices. A must have for anyone who seeks lasting commitment to a more kinder and healthier life.

Don't Drink Your Milk!: New Frightening Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient (paperback)--Oski
Synopsis: New Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient covering such subjects as why milk is not natural, lactose intolerance, bottle feeding vs. breast feeding, the link between milk and over 20 common health disorders.

Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (hardcover)--Lyman
Synopsis: Lyman is well aware of what goes into our livestock -- high doses of pesticides, growth hormone, and the ground-up remains of other animals. A fourth-generation Montana farmer, he regularly doused his cattle and soil with chemicals. It was only when he narrowly escaped paralysis from a spinal tumor that Lyman began to question his vocation and the effect it was having on people and on the land he loved. The questions he raised and the answers he found led him, surprisingly, to adopt a vegetarian diet. As a result, he lost 130 pounds and lowered his cholesterol by more than 150 points.

Milk: The Deadly Poison (hardcover)--Cohen
Customer Review (rating=*****): "The author has passionately described in great detail the thing that most people do not want to hear. Cohen is attacking the the first cousin of apple pie, Mom, and the flag - milk. We all have drank it for years and most don't want to think about giving it up. However, if Mr. Cohen is correct (and I believe he is), you have a responsibilty to yourself and your family to test it out."

Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (paperback)--Davis
Synopsis: This book ignites a new understanding of poultry industry abuses. Citing research from poultry industry publications and studies, Davis builds a chilling account of a morally handicapped industry driven over the edge. The techniques and attitudes that produce suffering in chickens and disease in humans are carefully examined.

***specifically low-carb***
Note: Natural Nutrition does not recommend the low-carb diets. Please research the issue well before beginning this type of eating style.

A Week in the Zone (paperback)--Sears
Synopsis: Finally, Barry Sears has gotten around to writing a "how-to" book on the Zone Diet. All of the previous books were somewhat technical, and aimed at medical professionals or personal trainers. This book, his first paperback, is written in a clear, concise and easy to understand style. By the end of the first 20 pages, you will have a good idea of what the Zone Diet is about, its benefits and how it works.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution (paperback)--Atkins

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution (hardcover)--Atkins

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: The Amazing No-Hunger Weight Loss Plan That Has Helped Millions Lose Weight and Keep It Off (audio cassette)

Enter the Zone--Sears, Lawren
Amazon.com Books: Barry Sears looks at why Americans still have dietary problems in spite of following the advice of experts. Challenging the current recommendations for a high carbohydrate diet, Sears looks into man's history as well as the diets athletes succeed best on, to build a new dietary picture. Anyone looking for better health through an improved relationship to what they eat should put this book on their list.

Enter the Zone... the Diet That's Sweeping the Country!--Sears

Mastering the Zone : The Next Step in Achieving Superhealth and Permanent Fat Loss (hardcover)--Sears, Goodbody
Synopsis: Flying in the face of conventional dietary thinking, and after years of comprehensive scientific research, Dr. Barry Sears discovered that "eating doesn't make you fat." His phenomenally successful book, The Zone, introduced the world to his findings and groundbreaking health regimen. Now he's back with an exciting new book teaming with tantalizing recipes and insightful information that will deepen readers' understanding of this revolutionary health and fitness program.

Mastering the Zone : The Next Step in Achieving Superhealth and Permanent Fat Loss--Sears

The Soy Zone: The Healthiest Zone Diet Ever (hardcover)--Sears
Synopsis: The world has grown increasingly curious about the benefits of soy in recent years. Not only is it a dietary staple of the people of Okinawa, who live longer than anyone else, it also seems to help prevent heart disease and breast and prostate cancer. So author Barry Sears has now modified his popular Zone diet to include soy and made the whole thing just as easy to follow as before. Fill a third of your dinner plate with a dish high in soy protein and the other two-thirds with fruits and vegetables, and you've got the Zone dialed in.

***specifically macrobiotic***

The Cancer Prevention Diet : Michio Kushi's MacRobiotic Blueprint for the Prevention and Relief of Disease--Kushi, M., Jack

Diet for a Strong Heart : Michio Kushi's MacRobiotic Dietary Guidelines for the Prevention of High Blood Pressure, Heart Attack, and Stroke--Kushi, M., Jack
Synopsis: In paperback at last, the groundbreaking dietary program designed to help keep the heart healthy without drugs, surgery, or expensive treatments. Illustrated.

Macrobiotic Diet--Kushi, Michio & Aveline

The Macrobiotic Way : The Complete MacRobiotic Diet & Exercise Book--Kushi, M.
Synopsis: A new edition of the bestselling, definitive guide to achieving vibrant health through a macrobiotic lifestyle. 30 years ago Kushi recognized that diet was a principal cause of many illnesses and began teaching how the macrobiotic diet--based on whole grains, fresh vegetables, beans and sea vegetables--can prevent health problems. Features 37 nutritional charts and a complete exercise program.

***specifically raw food***

Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet--Arlin
Customer Comment (rating =*****): Raw is Law! I was skeptical about the ideas they present, and so I figured the only way to find out was to take thier advice and go raw for six months. Now I don't have headaches, I don't get sick, I don't yawn in class. I always have energy! My point is, they're right! Their approach is a little hardcore and may turn some readers off, but every claim they make about the benefits of a raw food diet is true. Use this book to inspire you to go raw for six months and you'll never go back!

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DIET & NUTRITION--kids

Childhood Illness and the Allergy Connection: A Nutritional Approach to Overcoming and Preventing Childhood Illness (paperback)--Rona
Synopsis: Many common childhood ailments can be the result of allergies, including asthma, ear infections, hay fever, hyperactivity, bronchitis, bladder infections, chronic stomach aches, and dozens more. This book explains how to recognize when a child's illness could be allergy-related, how to combat allergies and build immunity through diet, and how to find alternative practitioners dedicated to effective treatment without long-term use of prescription drugs.

Dr. Attwood's Low-Fat Prescription for Kids : A Pediatrician's Program of Preventive Nutrition--Attwood
Synopsis: From one of America's leading pediatricians comes a practical guide to changing children's high-fat eating habits. Perfect for parents who want to encourage lifelong health in their children, this guide debunks 12 common myths about low-fat diets and maps out a realistic, four-stage switch to a meatless, complex-carbohydrate-based diet.

Parent’s Nutrition Bible: A Guide to Raising Healthy Children--Mindell

Perfect Nutrition for Your Children--Weiner, M.

Raw Kids: Transitioning Children to a Raw Food Diet (paperback)--Stoycoff
Synopsis: Raw Kids is an extremely helpful guide book for anyone trying to improve their family's diet and transition to raw living foods. Cheryl has done an excellent job, I couldn't put it down until I finished it.

The Taming of the C.A.N.D.Y. Monster: Continuously Advertised Nutritionally Deficient Yummies!--Lansky

Superimmunity for Kids--Galland, Buchman
Customer Comment (rating=*****): This book has changed our family's health forever! I was given this book with the birth of my first child 8 years ago and it changed my life. We have changed our diet forever. The information is clearly stated and helpful. It makes sense. It is an essential guide for nutrition as a prevention of illness. A healthy immune system is the key to health and food is the source to keeping it that way.