recommended reading
From our own libraries, here is a list of books that we’ve found to be informative, invaluable, or just plain interesting. We think you will, too! (Titles are in alphabetical order.)
- Cookbooks
- Pregnancy, Babies and Children
- Dental Care
- Health and Nutrition
- Food and Politics
- Environment
- Farming
Cookbooks
Eat Fat, Lose Fat
Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD
Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes
Claude Aubert (editor)
Nourishing Traditions
Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
Sandor Ellix Katz
Pregnancy, Babies and Children
The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Kids
Carol Simontacchi
The Garden of Fertility
Katie Singer
Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood
Sandra Steingraber
How to Raise a Healthy Child...In Spite of Your Doctor
Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
A Shot in the Dark
Harris L. Coulter & Barbara Loe Fisher
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
Toni Weschler
Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System
Viera Scheibner, PhD
Vaccinations: The Rest of the Story
Mothering Magazine
Vaccines, Autism and Childhood Disorders: Crucial Data that could Save Your Child’s Life
Neil Z. Miller
Dental Care
Uninformed Consent: The Hidden Dangers in Dental Care
Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS
Whole Body Dentistry: Discover the Missing Piece to Better Health
Mark A. Breiner, DDS
Root Canal Cover-Up
George Meinig, DDS, FACD
Health and Nutrition
The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Building Your Immunity
Donna Gates
Cancer Cover Up: An Indictment of Big Medicine
Kathleen Deoul
The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease
Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD
The Curse of Louis Pasteur
Nancy Appleton, PhD
The Diet Cure
Julia Ross, MA
Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills
Russell L. Blaylock, MD
The Fluoride Deception
Christopher Bryson
The Fourfold Path to Healing
Thomas S. Cowan, MD
The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil
Bruce Fife, N.D.
Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol
Mary G. Enig, PhD
Lipitor: Thief of Memory
Duane Graveline, MD
The Maker’s Diet
Jordan S. Rubin
The Milk Book: The Milk of Human Kindness Is Not Pasteurized
William Campbell Douglass, MD
The Mood Cure
Julia Ross, MA
The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia
Rebecca Wood
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Weston A. Price, DDS
The Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition
Bill Mollison
Pottenger’s Cats: A Study in Nutrition
Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., M.D.
The Schwarzbein Principle
Diana Schwarzbein, MD
Seeds of Deception
Jeffrey M. Smith
Stopping Inflammation: Relieving the Cause of Degenerative Diseases
Nancy Appleton, PhD
Sugar Blues
William Dufty
10 Essential Herbs
Lalitha Thomas
Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition
Ronald F. Schmid, ND
The Untold Story of Milk
Ron Schmid, ND
The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food
Kaayla Daniel, PhD
Food and Politics
The Cost of Being Sick
Nicholas J. Webb
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Food Politics
Marion Nestle
Environment
Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival
Theo Colborn
Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call
Doris J. Rapp, MD
Farming
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan
F. H. King
Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food
Joel Salatin
The Non-Toxic Farming Handbook
Philip A. Wheeler, PhD and Ronald B. Ward