Favorite Books
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Favorite Books

Eat the Yolks
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Eat the Yolks
by Liz Wolfe (Author), Diane Sanfilippo BS NC (Foreword)

Worry about cholesterol. Avoid red meat. Eat whole grains. Could it all be a lie?

We live in an era of health hype and nutrition propaganda, and we’re suffering for it. Decades of avoiding egg yolks, choosing margarine over butter, and replacing the real foods of our ancestors with low-fat, processed, packaged substitutes have left us with an obesity epidemic, ever-rising rates of chronic disease, and, above all, total confusion about what to eat and why. This is a tragedy of misinformation, food industry shenanigans, and cheap calories disguised as health food. It turns out that everything we’ve been told about how to eat is wrong. Fat and cholesterol are harmful to your health? Nope—they are crucial to your health. “Whole grains” are health food? Not even close. Counting calories is the way to lose weight? Not gonna work—nutrients are what matter. Nutrition can come from a box, bag, or capsule? Don’t count on it!
Practical Paleo
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Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle
by Diane Sanfilippo (Author), Bill Staley (Photographer), Robb Wolf (Foreword)

Our great-grandmothers didn't need nutrition lessons—then again, they weren't forced to wade through aisle after aisle of packaged foods touting outlandish health claims and confusing marketing jargon. Over the last few decades, we've forgotten what "real food" is—and we're left desperately seeking foods that will truly nourish our bodies. We're disillusioned with the "conventional wisdom" for good reason—it's gotten us nowhere.
Go With Your Gut
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Go with Your Gut: The Insider's Guide to Banishing the Bloat with 75 Digestion-Friendly Recipes
by Robyn Youkilis (Author), Gabrielle Bernstein (Foreword)

How We Digest Our Food is How We Digest Our Lives
If you're like most women, you've been on the never-ending quest for the “perfect” diet since you were a teenager, constantly trying to find the trick that will “fix” your body. You've sworn off all bread and carbs, skipped meals, tried to subsist solely on green drinks. You've maybe even taken a “supplement” that promised to help you lose those last 5 (or 10, or 15) pounds.
Does this sound familiar? It's sooo exhausting, right?
Omnivore's Dilemma
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan (Author)

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

Favorite Cookbooks

The Nourished Kitchen
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The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-to-Table Recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle
by Jennifer McGruther (Author)

A cookbook from the author of the popular website Nourished Kitchen, featuring over 160 recipes based on the "traditional foods" philosophy of eating, which emphasizes whole grains, dairy, red meat, organ meats, and fermented foods.  

The traditional foods movement is a fad-free approach to cooking and eating that emphasizes nutrient-dense, real food, and values quality, environment, and community over the convenience of processed, additive-laden products that are the norm on grocery store shelves. 
Nourishing Broth
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Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World
by Sally Fallon Morell (Author), Kaayla T. Daniel (Author)

NOURISHING BROTH will explore the science behind broth's unique combination of amino acids, minerals and cartilage compounds. Some of the benefits of such broth are: quick recovery from illness and surgery, the healing of pain and inflammation, increased energy from better digestion, lessening of allergies, recovery from Crohn's disease and a lessening of eating disorders because the fully balanced nutritional program lessens the cravings which make most diets fail. Diseases that bone broth can help heal are: Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Psoriasis, Infectious Disease, digestive disorders, even Cancer, and it can help our skin and bones stay young.
Nourishing Traditions
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
by Sally Fallon Morell (Author)

This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Sally Fallon dispels the myths of the current low-fat fad in this practical, entertaining guide to a can-do diet that is both nutritious and delicious.
Paleo Takeout
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Paleo Takeout: Restaurant Favorites Without the Junk
by Russ Crandall (Author)

Wildly popular food blogger and critically acclaimed author of The Ancestral Table returns with over 200 weeknight-friendly dishes that taste so good, you'll finally throw out that emergency stack of takeout menus hiding in your kitchen drawer.

Despite knowing full well that most restaurant and take-out foods are churned out at a rapid pace using unhealthy ingredients laden with chemicals and additives, most of us can't seem to shake the desire for even just a taste. Not to mention that nothing is easier than picking up takeout, hitting the drive-thru, or ordering delivery, but at what cost? Paleo Takeout: Restaurant Favorites without the Junk delivers much healthier but equally satisfying alternatives, offering delectable recipes that mimic the flavors of our drive-thru and delivery favorites--Paleo style! Russ Crandall teaches you step-by-step how to prepare each meal in under an hour--leaving no sacrifice of taste or time.
nom nom paleo
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Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans
by Michelle Tam (Author), Henry Fong (Author)

Crackling with humor and bursting with flavor, this James Beard Award nominated New York Times bestseller from the creators of the critically acclaimed Nom Nom Paleo website offers a fun, fresh approach to cooking with whole, unprocessed ingredients free of grains, legumes, and added sugar.

Authors Michelle Tam and Henry Fong have cooked up a visual feast, with more than 100 fool-proof Paleo and gluten-free recipes, and over 900 step-by-step photographs and cartoons. There's something for everyone here, whether you're a busy mom, a triathlete in training, or a lifelong foodie who's curious about the "caveman" approach to eating.
The RESTART Cookbook
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The RESTART® Cookbook: Your Resource for a Low Glycemic, Whole Foods Lifestyle.
by Jeni Hall NTP (Author), Kariman Pierce NTP (Editor)

A collaboration of 22 RESTART® Instructors including Jeni Hall, NTP, RESTART® Founder and Creator. A collection of delicious no-sugar-added recipes, plus great resources and meal plan.

Important Topics

Digestive Wellness
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Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fourth Edition
by Elizabeth Lipski (Author)

The definitive guide to healthy digestion!

Digestive Wellness explains how your digestive system works and what to do when it doesn’t. You’ll find practical solutions to all the common gastrointestinal disorders (and many other conditions) and expert guidance on the newest advances in testing and diagnosis, nutrition, and natural therapies. Plus, you’ll learn how faulty digestion can affect the human body systemically, from migraines and skin issues to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
The Mirconutrient Miracle
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The Micronutrient Miracle: The 28-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Increase Your Energy, and Reverse Disease
by Jayson Calton (Author), Mira Calton (Author)

Our poor health and growing waistlines can be traced back to the hidden crisis of a micronutrient deficiency. More than 90 percent of all Americans are deficient in at least one of these health-promoting vitamins and minerals and don't even know it.
 
According to nutritionists Jayson and Mira Calton, micronutrients--vitamins and minerals essential for optimum health--are being stripped from our diet and depleted by our lifestyle habits. And these deficiencies cause today's most common illnesses. Mira herself developed advanced osteoporosis at the age of 30. But with Jayson's help, she reversed her disease through micronutrient therapy. The Caltons' created The Mircronutrient Miracle, an incredible cure-all program, to help you lose weight and prevent and reverse common disorders, including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
Put Your Heart in Your Mouth
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Put Your Heart in Your Mouth: Natural Treatment for Atherosclerosis, Angina, Heart Attach, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Arrhythmia, Peripheral Vascular Disease
by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride M.D. (Author)

If you stop any person on the street and ask them what causes heart disease, you know what their answer will be: butter and eggs, meat and fat. This infamous Diet-Heart Hypothesis was proposed in 1953, and it took scientists all over the world a few decades to prove it wrong. The trouble is that while science was beginning to cast doubt upon its basic tenets, the Diet-Heart Hypothesis was giving rise to a powerful and wealthy political and commercial machine with a vested interest in promoting it―by means of anti-fat and anti-cholesterol propaganda presented relentlessly and with increasing intensity.
The Paleo Cure
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The Paleo Cure: Eat Right for Your Genes, Body Type, and Personal Health Needs – Prevent and Reverse Disease, Lose Weight Effortlessly, and Look and Feel Better than Ever
by Chris Kresser (Author)

The national bestseller that "condenses Kresser's vast knowledge to help you look, feel, and perform your best." - Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution

As the Paleo movement sweeps the nation, millions have discovered the health benefits of following the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer forebears. But what happens when we hit a wall and weight loss stalls, energy flags, illness sets in, or we're tired of restricted eating?
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
by Weston A. Price (Author), Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (Editor)

For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Adrenal Fatigue
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Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome
by James Wilson (Author), Jonathan V Wright (Foreword)

This is an incredibly informative and reader-friendly book about a common debilitating medical condition that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated. ADRENAL FATIGUE: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome is a very empowering work cram-packed with vital information about a condition that very likely affects millions of people.
Know Your Fats
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Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol
by Mary G. Enig (Author)
Why Stomach Acid is Good for You
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Why Stomach Acid is Good for You: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD
by Johnathan Wright (Author)

This groundbreaking book unleashes a brilliant new plan for permanently curing heartburn by relieving the root cause of the problem: low stomach acid.
Staying Healthy with Nutrition
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Staying Healthy with Nutrition, rev: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine
by Elson M. Haas (Author), Buck Levin (Author)

The 21st-century edition of this groundbreaking work by Dr. Elson Haas with Dr. Buck Levin presents the most current health and nutrition information available in an easy-to-use format with a friendly, engaging tone. Decades of practical experience and scientific research are compiled into one encyclopedic volume that features newly expanded chapters on special supplements, lifestage programs, and breakthrough medical treatment protocals for conditions including fatigue, viral illnesses, weight management, and mental and mood disorders such as anxiety, ADHD, and depression.PART ONE gives a detailed analysis of The Building Blocks of nutrition: water, carbohydrates, proteins, fats and oils, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.