VEGANISM / VEGETARIANISM

Ann Wigmore's Recipes for Longer Life (paperback)
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Learn the miracle of sprouted and fermented foods. Transform seeds, nuts and grains into nutritious and delicious sauces, cheeses and loafs. Excellent charts and how-to sections. Beautifully illustrated with upbeat language. A tremendous asset to my kitchen skills."

Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet--Vesanto, Davis, Harrison, V
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Excellent resource for beginners to pro's. The best book I have found yet on becoming vegetarian or just nutrition in general. The book gives examples of omnivore to near vegetarian and vegan menus and looks at the protien, calcium and other important nutrients. Easy to understand. There are some good recipes in the back too.

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.

VINEGAR

Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar: The Medicinal Miracle, Plus the Curative, Cleaning and Cooking Virtues of Vinegars from Around the World--Mindell

Apple Cider Vinegar: Miracle Health System--Bragg

Honey, Garlic, & Vinegar: Home Remedies & Recipes : The People's Guide to Nature's Wonder Medicines--Quillin
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Amazing things your doc wouldn't think to tell you! This book is easy to read, packed with info, and has wonderful recipes. I especially like the alternative remedies included using these three everyday items. I never knew, for example, that apple cider vinegar was great on burns until I used it on myself. No scar, no pain, no blistering! A good book to have on your kitchen shelf.

Lose Weight With Apple Vinegar: Get the Ideal Body the Easy Way : Using Powers of Apple Vinegar to Lose Weight With the Successful Four-Week Diet Program--Oberbeil

Natural Healing With Cider Vinegar--Hellmiss
Synopsis: A couple of generations ago, cider vinegar was the most common household remedy. Now it's making a comeback as scientific research has discovered the secrets of its healing powers. Here, over 50 different ailments get specific, step-by-step treatments. You'll see how cider vinegar relieves colds, headaches, fevers, and muscular aches, purifies the kidneys, heals cuts and bruises, and even slows the aging process.

VITAMINS & MINERALS

Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs--Atkins
Synopsis: Atkins and his team of researchers make their case for nutritional supplementation as the treatment of choice for most chronic and degenerative illnesses.

Dr. Earl Mindell’s Live Longer & Feel Better with Vitamins & Minerals--Mindell

Dr. Earl Mindell's What You Should Know About Creating Your Personal Vitamin Plan--Hopkins, Mindell
Synopsis: Recognized as one of the nation's leading writers on nutrition and health, Dr. Mindell presents practical programs for guarding and improving your health--with information you can start using today. With this book find out what vitamins can help treat common health problems, how to tailor your vitamin program to fit your lifestyle requirements, the special needs of adults, teens, and seniors and more.

Dr. Earl Mindell’s What You Should Know About Trace Minerals--Mindell, Hopkins

Earl Mindell’s Secret Remedies: The Essential Guide to Treating Common Ailments with Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Other Cutting Edge Remedies--Mindell, Coleman
Synopsis: The author of the bestselling The Vitamin Bible and The Herb Bible now offers groundbreaking new information on the role which supplements--vitamins, minerals, herbs, and more--play in the prevention and treatment of more than 50 ailments and complaints.

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.

Earl Mindell’s Vitamin Bible--Mindell
Synopsis: Updated for the 1990's, this definitive vitamin guide includes all of the breakthroughs that have occurred in the past five years. Special sections cover the most current facts on vitamin nutrition, how supplements fight disease, facts on "miracle" foods, and more. World-renowned vitamin expert Mindell writes a nutrition column for Let's Live magazine.

Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century--Mindell

Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements : The Essential Guide for Improving Your Health Naturally--Murray

The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book : Using Supplements for Optimum Health--Lieberman, Bruning
Synopsis: Complete source for current information on boosting the immune system, fighting illness, and maximizing health. Explains how age, nutritional value of food, the environment and other factors affect our bodies' absorption of nutrients.

Shape Up with Vitamins--Mindell

The Vitamin Robbers--Mindell

WATER

Don't Drink The Water: The Essential Guide to Our Contaminated Drinking Water and What You Can Do About It--A'O
Customer Comment (rating=****): Very thorough about current water filtration methods. If you ever plan on buying a water filter of any kind -- this is the book to read. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that I wish it would have given more specific information regarding name brand water filtration systems available and where to get testing information etc.

Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life (paperback)--Bragg
Your existence on earth depends on WATER! Please do not take it for granted! This book gives you an education on the type, amount and value of the perfect water to drink that will work to keep you in good health.

Water Can Undermine Your Health (paperback)--Walker, N.
Customer Comment (rating=*****): For as old as this book is, it is incredible how the information is pertinent to today's drinking water issues. This book is easily read and packed with information in layman's terms. Information I have never read or heard of before. I highly recommend this book as well as others written by Norman Walker. He was a man ahead of his time!

Your Body's Many Cries for Water--Batmanghelidj
The Washington Times: When Dr. Batmanghelidj thinks of a glass of water, he doesn't think of it as half full or half empty. He thinks of it as brimming over with the essential fluid of life. He thinks of it as the solvent of our ills and the deliverer of ripe old age. He thinks of it as the wave of the future.

WEIGHT LOSS

Cliff Sheats' Lean Bodies : The Revolutionary New Approach to Losing Bodyfat by Increasing Calories (hardcover)--Sheats
Synopsis: The author of The Lean Bodies Cookbook puts an end once and for all to the insanity of low-calorie and starvation diets--with a scientifically-proven, healthy eating program on which anyone can eat up to 3,500 calories a day and still lose weight. Includes 100 recipes for five meals a day, shopping advice and a list of restaurants that participate in the program.

Cliff Sheats' Lean Bodies : The Revolutionary New Approach to Losing Bodyfat by Increasing Calories (paperback)--Sheats

Eat and Stay Thin: Simple, Spiritual, Satisfying Weight Control (hardcover)--Meyer
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Joyce Meyer writes from the heart. She emphasizes the concept of eating properly, rather than dieting. This is not yet another "fad-diet" book. Instead, it is practical and inspirational advice on eating in the way that God intended for us."

Lose Weight With Apple Vinegar: Get the Ideal Body the Easy Way : Using Powers of Apple Vinegar to Lose Weight With the Successful Four-Week Diet Program--Oberbeil

Natural Alternatives for Weight Loss (harcover)--Murray
Synopsis: In his groundbreaking book Natural Alternatives to Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs naturopathic physician Michael Murray helped thousands of Americans replace the drugs they were taking with safe and effective natural alternatives. Now, Murray focuses on weight loss, offering natural options to replace appetite supressants, and providing dietary and lifestyle information.

Natural Alternatives for Weight Loss (paperback)--Murray

The Bragg Natural Way to Reduce: Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days--Bragg

Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish’s Life Choice Program for Losing Weight While Eating Abundantly--Ornish
Synopsis: The revolutionary number one bestselling lifestyle and diet book shows readers how to eat better, live longer, and weigh less without deprivation. Including 250 delicious recipes, this book is the result of Dr, Ornish's scientifically validated program which was developed to treat heart patients. But this book is for anyone who wants to live longer and weigh less, without giving up wonderful food.

The Healthiest Diet in the World: A Cookbook & Mentor (paperback)--Goldbeck
Synopsis: The Goldbecks--practicing nutritionist and food educator Nikki and her husband, David--provide a flexible eating plan that can be modified based on food preferences, lifestyle, and biochemical needs. The plan is based on eight principles--the Goldbecks' Golden Guidelines--that cover basics like carbohydrates, fats, protein, and super foods. The authors emphasize total diet (not supplements) and eating a variety of unprocessed, intact, organic foods. Three hundred healthy recipes are provided along with dozens of whole-foods cooking techniques and tips.

Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How to Lose Weight by Changing the Way You Breathe (paperback)--Grout
Synopsis: Bringing a breath of fresh air to the fitness and diet market, this expanded version of a highly successful self-published book presents an amazingly effective program for burning excess fat, losing weight, and feeling revitalized with every breath you take.

The McDougall Plan for Maximum Weight Loss--McDougall
Synopsis: Based on the highly successful McDougall Program, with its emphasis on a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, this groundbreaking book draws on the latest scientific and medical evidence about nutrition, metabolism, and hunger to provide a simple weight-loss plan that anyone can follow.

Natural Way to Reduce--Bragg

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)

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WOMEN

Everywoman's Book--Airola

Dr. Earl Mindell's What You Should Know About Natural Health for Women--Hopkins,Mindell
Midwest Book Review: This joins others in Mindell's series on how to use vitamins, lifestyle changes, and supplements to promote health. Women receive a program of improvement which includes a "cramp free diet" and other natural alternatives to pills.

Homeopathic Remedies for Women's Ailments--Speight, P.

Natural Healing for Women : Caring for Yourself With Herbs, Homeopathy and Essential Oils--Curtis, Fraser

The Yeast Connection and the Woman--Crook, W.
Synopsis: This comprehensive wellness plan focuses on candida albicans, what it is, how it causes illness, and why women are affected by it more than men. Crook provides information about these problems and their management, which can prepare readers to take control of their bodies and help keep their children healthy.

YOGA

How To Use Yoga: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Iyengar Method of Yoga, for Relaxation, Health and Well-Being (paperback)--Mehta, Mira
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Great beginners guide to yoga! The pictures of how to get into the asanas, or postures, are extremely helpful. Approximately 90% of the postures in the book I was able to get into the first time through. It has a 10 week course with day by day instructions on what asanas to do (with pictures), and has special sections on the hips and lower back, upper back and shoulders, and asanas for menstruation. I especially found helpful that they not only show what the asana looks like in it's final form, but how to achieve the posture, and also what you should be thinking about (what muscles to stretch or relax) while getting into the posture.

Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times (paperback)--Lasater
Synopsis: Relax & Renew is the first to devote itself entirely to restorative yoga, providing a series of yoga postures designed to relieve chronic stress. Exercise programs are introduced with a series of insights and stipulations which instructs on yoga techniques for everything from insomnia to basic relaxation.

Yoga: The Iyengar Way (paperback)--Mehta, Silva, Meta, & Shyam
Customer Comment (rating=*****): My yoga instructor recommended this book, and she was right! Not only are the pictures of the asanas clear and helpful, but they include many helpful hints for holding the pose correctly, and suggest modifications for yogis of different levels. There is also a lesson plan at the end of the book, which is helpful for people who wish to follow a yoga exercise regime at home. I love it!