FACTORY FARMING / ANIMAL WELFARE & STEWARDSHIP

Animal Factories--Mason, Singer
Synopsis: Unrestrained technology applied to animals, fueled by the desire for increased profit, exacts a price on human values, the environment, the health of consumers and the welfare of small farmers that we can no longer afford to pay. Mason and Singer address these problems and offer solutions in Animal Factories Update. Black-and-white photographs.

Dead Meat (paperback)--Coe
Synopsis:A gritty look in about 125 harrowing expressionist drawings (43 in color), and accompanying text, at the incomparably cruel (for the animals) and dehumanizing (for the workers) netherworld of slaughterhouses, meat farms, feedlots, and hatcheries that comprise the meat industry. With an essay by Alexander Cockburn.

Diet for a Gentle World : Eating With Conscience--Inglis
Synopsis: A look at how animal-based food consumption is truly hazardous to our health and at the insensitivity of our factory farm system to the animals it processes. It offers many practical, inexpensive, and simple solutions that everyone and anyone can follow.

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.

Nature's Chicken : The Story of Today's Chicken Farms--Burroughs
Card catalog description: Describes the adverse effects of factory poultry farming on human health and the chickens themselves and discusses the advantages of becoming a vegan, someone who does not eat meat or dairy products.

Old MacDonald's Factory Farm : The Myth of the Traditional Farm and the Shocking Truth About Animal Suffering in Today's Agribusiness--Coats

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry (hardcover)--Eisnitz
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Slaughter of live animals is never pretty, but in many of the USDA supervised plants, the conditions are unbelievably cruel and digustingly filthy. The workers are exploited, placed in harm's way, and are treated little better than the animals they have to process. The animals themselves meet terribly slow deaths when stun bolts fail and stick pit knives don't cut deep enough to allow them to bleed to death before skinning and gutting. And if the cruelty isn't enough to grab you, wait until you read about the offal blocked drains that flood slaughterhouse floors with blood and fecal material. Wait until you read about manure being classified as a "cosmetic defect" that can simply be rinsed off and the meat passed off as USDA select to an unsuspecting public. This book will turn your stomach and make you angry."

FASTING

How to Keep Slim, Healthy and Young With Juice Fasting--Airola

The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvination--Bragg
Customer Comment (rating "5 stars"): One of the most excellent fasting resources available! I purchased this book a few years ago and couldn't put it down. Paul explains the details of a fast, what to expect, how to prepare for one, what the physical and spiritual benefits are, etc. The reading is both entertaining and extremely informative. One of the best books on fasting I've ever read! It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in starting a fast.

Principles of Fasting--Chaitow

FATS

The Complete Fats & Oils Book : How to Buy, Use, and Control Fats & Oils--Harrison
Synopsis: Fats and oils, though essential to our diet, can cause high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and a host of other degenerative diseases. On the other hand, the right kinds can lower cholesterol, improve our memories, and correct many problems caused by years of poor nutrition. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book tells you how to buy, store and cook with oils, and how to use oils to heal.

Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill : The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health (paperback)--Erasmus

The Nutribase Guide to Fat & Fiber in Your Food --Ulene
Synopsis: This guide lists the fiber content of more than 30,000 food items, helps people make better decisions about what they eat, and provides guidelines that will help them discover which of the foods they commonly buy are overprocessed and turn instead to those with higher fiber content and more nutritional value.

The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete--Simopoulos, Robinson
Synopsis: The Omega Plan presents breakthrough research that will transform the way you think about fat. Fat is more than fuel. Some "good" fats are essential nutrients that influence every aspect of your being, from the beating of your heart to your ability to learn and remember. A renowned expert on nutrition, Dr. Artemis P. Simopoulos tells you exactly which fats and other nutrients you need to experience optimal health.

FEET

The Complete Foot Book : First Aid for Your Feet--Pritt, Walker
Synopsis: This easy-to-follow, fully illustrated guide is designed for all people who suffer from the unnecessary aches and pains of common foot problems. This book includes low-impact exercises that will keep feet their strongest and offers immediate relief for foot troubles with sensible, practical, and natural ways to ward off potential foot woes.

FIBER

Dr. Earl Mindell's What You Should Know About Fiber and Digestion--Mindell, Hopkins

The Natural Laxative Cookbook--Cadwell

FIBROMYALGIA

Fibromyalgia: A Comprehensive Approach : What You Can Do About Chronic Pain and Fatigue (paperback)--Williamson
Customer Review (rating=*****): "When I first started to read this book, I felt like it was me they were describing in many of the chapters. It gives many of the common diagnostic & treatment methods as well as some alternatives to try. The section on lifestyle modification was the most helpful for me. There is also an excellent section for younger patients."

Fibromyalgia and Muscle Pain : What Causes It, How It Feels and What to Do About It--Chaitow

FOOD COMBINING

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.G.

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 Combining for Health--Grant, Joice, Mills

FOOD: COMPONENTS, PROCESSING, & ADDITIVES

A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (5th Ed)--Winter
Book News, Inc., 03/01/95: A guide for consumers who read labels and want to know what's in their food as well as the meaning of such terms as fat-free and all- natural. Definitions include what the additive does, in what products it is generally used, and what is known about possible effects on health. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children (hardcover)--Simontacchi
Synopsis: We already worry that our food makes us fat, dull, disease-prone, and sleepy. Now we have to worry that it also makes us crazy. According to certified clinical nutritionist Carol Simontacchi, the food industries that give us packaged, processed, artificially flavored, chemical-ridden, artificially colored, nutrient-stripped pseudo foods such as sodas, processed soups, sugared cereals, and fiberless bread "wantonly destroy our bodies and our brains, all in the name of profit." We Americans (adults and children) eat 200 pounds of sugar and artificial sweeteners each year. Our children's test scores and grades drop. We become violent, illogical, moody, depressed, drug-addicted, and crazy. The reason, according to the author, who is pursuing a doctorate in brain nutrition, is that we're starving our brains with lack of nutrition.

Empty Harvest: Understanding the Link Between Our Food, Our Immunity, and Our Planet--Anderson, Mark
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Empty Harvest clearly explains the link between the lack of minerals in our crop soils and the modern day diseases associated with mineral deficiencies (diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc.). The author shows many excellent examples of how mankind is slowly destroying it's future by robbing the Earth of the very things that give us and support life itself."

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (paperback)--Blaylock
Customer Review (rating=*****): "The people in this country have trusted the FDA and medical establishment to guard their health and neglected to take responsibility for it themselves. Excitotoxins The Taste That Kills makes it painfully obvious that we can not trust the FDA and the Food Giants when it comes to our health and quality of life. The information contained in this book, if taken to heart and applied, will prevent tens of thousands from suffering some of the major debilitating physical problems of this century. If we would get back to eating a plant-based diet and eliminate the processed foods with all of the toxic additives we could reverse most physical problems."

Food Additives: A Shopper's Guide To What's Safe & What's Not (paperback)--Farlow
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Anyone who takes the responsibility of buying food for him/herself and/or others should have this book as a guide. It gives the bottom line of what many of the common chemicals that are used in the processing of our foods do to our bodies. You don't have to be a phD to understand what's spelled out so well in this pocket size book, you only have to have the courage to follow its inherent message and be well on your way to being healthy again."

The Food That Would Last Forever: Understanding the Dangers of Food Irradiation--Gibbs
Synopsis: While food irradiation may extend shelf life, it may also shorten human life. Each bite of irradiated food provides indirect exposure to ionizing radiation, thus turning healthy foods into potential poisons. This book presents facts on food irradiation, it provides the history of food irradiation, and motives of those who promote it.

In Bad Taste: The MSG Symptom Complex (paperback)--Schwartz
Synopsis: Kombu, a seaweed, was first used in Japan as a flavor enhancer. A Japanese doctor isolated the main ingredient--MSG, or monosodium glutamate--and started what has become a million-dollar industry. "MSG is used in processed food, in fast-foods and in Chinese food." It's also found in nearly all canned and frozen foods. It's the "most widely used flavor enhancer in the world." MSG has been linked to asthma, headaches, and heart irregularities. "Behavioral and physical problems of children, such as incontinence and seizures, as well as attention deficit disorder (ADD), have been diagnosed and successfully treated as MSG disorders."

MSG is Everywhere (paperback)--Twogood
Synopsis: This 27 page booklet describes the health hazards of the food additive, monosodium glutamate. You will learn how to identify MSG listed as other names, the foods that contain MSG, and classic reactions to this toxic flavor enhancer.

The Nutrition Bible: The Comprehensive, No-Nonsense Guide to Foods, Nutrients, Additives, Preservatives, Pollutants and Everything Else We Eat and Drink (paperback)--Anderson, Deskins
Synopsis: Jean Anderson and Barbara Deskins have put together a food reference that is much more than just another calorie counter. From vitamin A, corn dogs, and durum wheat to flounder, nondairy creamers, and zwieback, the Bible covers more than 1,500 major foods and beverages, providing lucid descriptions of what the substances are, how they're used, and what they've got to do with your health. In addition, nutrient charts supply clear data on calories, proteins, and fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates, and a host of vitamins and minerals.

What's in Our Food: Fact and Fiction About Fat and Fiber, Vitamins and Minerals, Nutrition and Contaminants--Parsonnet
Synopsis: Fact and fiction about fat and fiber, vitamins and minerals, nutrients and contaminants.

The Whole Food Bible : How to Select and Prepare Safe, Healthful Foods--Kilham
Synopsis: The latest findings on food additives, processing, and preservation methods are presented to enable people to select and prepare the healthiest food possible. The Whole Food Bible, first published in 1991 with more than 35,000 copies sold, is a handy guide for both the experienced and beginning cook with more than 100 simple, healthy, and delicious recipes.

Poisons in Your Food : The Dangers You Face and What You Can Do About Them--Winter
Synopsis: From the author of A Dictionary of Food Additives and Cancer-Causing Agents, here is a brand new addition of the ground-breaking book from Crown. All the latest findings about dangerous foods and what consumers can do to protect themselves and their families is included in this helpful guide.