Book Reviews
for food, herbs, and natural living

Here's my favorite books on whole foods, herbs and natural living.

1. Healing with Whole Foods, By Paul Pitchford

This is one of my all time favorite books. It's expensive but it covers everything related to food and healing. The book is 2 inches thick! It covers nutritional research and Asian medicine. It discusses Asian energetics, and you will learn about your body type in that system, which is very useful in choosing your food and herbs.

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2. The Baby boomer diet, By Donna Gates

I love Donna Gates. She has created a system to cure candida, digestives woes, and even autism! This marvelous book is about the Body Ecology diet, a diet that emphasizes whole foods and probiotic foods. This is the way I eat. the book is mostly theory and does not have recipes!

3. The Body Ecology diet, by Donna Gates

This is a wonderful healing diet. Donna Gates discussed many principles like acid-alkaline,balance, probiotics, and whole pure foods, and gives recipes. Many people have healed with her 7 principles. She does recommend you buy her products, and for a while this turned me off of the diet. I finally did order her probiotic drinks and they are great for digestion and healing. And there really are not many probiotic, unpasteurized cultured non-dairy on the market, so we need these foods!

4. Nourishing Traditions, By Sally Fallon

This book is well researched. It tells you what our diets used to be like, before the invasion of processed and refined foods. Sally Fallon explains how the body needs animal fats! Valuable for Vitamins A, D, B-12 and more. Although I'm more vegetarian, I do notice the need for some animal foods in small amounts to be healthy. This book has recipes, theories, and is a real thought provoker.

5. The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia, By Rebecca Woods

This is a great resource. You will expand your food choices, learn history of foods, their nutrition, and warming and cooling properties. I like how the author combines nutritional science, Asian energetics and Ayurveda wisdom. use this book to explore many more foods than you know about now.

6. The Splendid Grain, by Rebecca Wood

Learn all about whole grains, their energy, history and nutrition. Lots of grain recipes, includes unusual grains, too

7. Food and Healing, by AnneMarie Colbin.

This is a classic. Ms. Colbin teaches the health supportive whole foods eating system, which is adaptable to your body wisdom. Learn the effects of different foods and food preparation on your energy, body and mood. She gives 7 criteria for food selection, discusses cravings, and has food medicine remedies.

8. Herbal Remedies for Dummies, by Christopher Hobbs

Great herbal reference by the co-founder of the American Herbalists Guild. Easy to apply, covers herbs for health conditions, gets into some aromatherapy, many herbal preparation recipes. Hobbs is an entertaining writer and knows his stuff! I recommend any book by Christopher Hobbs. And he is a 4th generation herbalist and botanist! cool.

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