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Basic Macrobiotics

by Herman Aihara with Carl Ferré

Herman Aihara gives very concise information, in an easy to understand format, as to how and why one might want to eat a macrobiotic diet. He packs in a lot of statistical data and facts and figures, yet this doesn't overwhelm. A must read for anyone who's thinking about Macrobiotics.

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Acid and Alkaline

Acid and Alkaline Meet Yin and Yang

by Herman Aihara with Carl Ferré

In this concise work, Herman Aihara attempts to integrate the concepts and philosophies underlying Western and Eastern health science. Together they make a unified and practical approach which when applied to life leads to balance and health.

This book provides a detailed look into the acid-alkaline principle, how to determine which foods are acid forming and which are alkaline forming, charts for creating balanced meals, sections on dietary treatments, plus recommendations to stop or prevent cancer growth.

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Sugar Blues

The Classic Bestseller that Exploded the Sugar Myth and Inspired a Health Revolution

by William Dufty

This classic health best-seller exploded the sugar myth and inspired a health revolution! Sugar is the prime ingredient in countless substances that we eat and drink, from cereal to soup. Consumed at the rate of one hundred pounds for every American every year, it’s as addictive as nicotine or heroine—and as poisonous. It is responsible for modern plagues ranging from depression to coronary thrombosis. Learn how a sugar-free diet can not only change your life, but quite possibly save it!

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Macrobiotic Diet

by Michio Kushi and Aveline Kushi

From the Publisher

Since its original publication, Macrobiotic Diet has become the bible for people interested in a healthy way of eating centered around whole, grains, fresh vegetables, and other whole, unprocessed foods.  This completely revised and updated edition offers a basic, readable presentation of the nutritional and ecological principles behind the macrobiotic diet.

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The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health

by Michio Kushi & Alex Jack

Food is the chief of all things, the universal medicine. . . . Food transmutes directly into body, mind, and spirit . . . creates our day-to-day health and happiness.—The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health

Even in medical schools, alternative medicine is blossoming. Two thirds of them now offer courses in complementary healing practices, including nutrition. At the heart of this revolution is macrobiotics, a simple, elegant, and delicious way of eating whose health benefits are being confirmed at an impressive rate by researchers around the world.

Macrobiotics is based on the laws of yin and yang—the complementary energies that flow throughout the universe and quicken every cell of our bodies and every morsel of the food we eat. Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, distinguished educators of the macrobiotic way, believe that almost every human ailment from the common cold to cancer can be helped, and often cured, by balancing the flow of energy (the ki) inside us. The most effective way to do this is to eat the right foods, according to our individual day-to-day needs. Now in this marvelous guide, they give us the basics of macrobiotic eating and living, and explain how to use this powerful source of healing to become healthier and happier, to prevent or relieve more than two hundred ailments, conditions, or disorders—both physical and psychological.

This encyclopedic compendium of macrobiotic fundamentals, remedies, menus, and recipes takes into account the newest thinking and evolving practices within the macrobiotic community. The authors integrate all the information into a remarkable A to Z guide to macrobiotic healing—from AIDS, allergies, and arthritis, to cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. They also clearly explain what we need to know to start eating a true macrobiotic diet that will provide us with a complete balance of energy and nutrients.

Living as we all do in environmental and climactic circumstances that are largely outside our personal control, it is vital that we follow a healthy lifestyle, including a flexible diet that we can adjust to meet our own individual needs. The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health gives us precisely the tools and the understanding we need to achieve this goal. Use it to build a strong, active body and a cheerful, resourceful mind.

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Controlling Crohn's Disease: The Natural Way

by Virginia Harper and Tom Monte

From a reviewer on Amazon.com

This book is a dramatic story of a young woman who moves from Chile as a teen and very soon suffers symptoms of an unknown health problem. Through years of ups and downs and and an eventual diagnosis of Crohn's Disease, Virginia Harper must then suffer the side effects of prednisone. After much weight gain and a great deal of suffering Virginia finds hope. Her father discovers a health counselor who guides Virginia on the path to total recovery, eventually freeing herself from all drugs, and avoiding the need for surgery. The latter half of the book gives the healing natural recipes that Virginia used

A powerful story of human triumph. But the best news of all
is that this program of natural healing and food can be used
by anyone willing to learn and apply the knowledge.

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Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods

by Verne Varona

As more and more people realize that allopathic medicine's slash, burn and poison treatment of choice offers little hope and often greater suffering than disease itself, the search for a real cancer-fighting alternative is growing fierce. Writing with insight, verve and compassion, Verne Varona cuts to the chase in the jungle of cancer cures and theories with this new book.

Numerous so-called alternative modalities promise pain relief and remission, but usually fall short. Whatever healing modality we may choose, we are still eating food, Varona argues. Why not use that food, as Hippocrates himself urged, as our medicine?

Drawing on the ancient understanding of the energetics of food honed through over three decades of nutritional counseling, Varona presents a simple nutritional program that anyone with faith and the will to heal can follow to turn any degenerative disease around. Rooted in the understanding of how foods affect the interplay of body, mind and spirit, his program does not demand adherence to a rigid one-size-fits-all diet, but rather offers and overview of which foods and herbs enhance immunity. When he debunks a theory, he tells us why in plain language. When he finds nutritional gospel missing the mark, he shows us how and why, and what we can do about it.

Recently the U.S. Government Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine has recommended governmental funding be given to an institute that teaches the use of food in the prevention and treatment of cancer. This exemplifies a growing awareness of the power of daily food to effect big changes in our immunity and quality of life.

Although the book's title, Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods, will attract people experiencing that particular disease, this unique, easy to digest volume offers a new depth of understanding to everyone—sick or healthy—on the power of food, our most intimate relationship. Clearly organized chapters guide the reader gently through the challenge of junk food, addiction and emotional hang-ups and provides practical strategies for self-empowerment and sustainable change. Along the way, Varona clarifies modern nutritional myths surrounding fat, carbohydrates and proteins, and shines a common sense, often humorous light on our dietary bugaboos of sugar, fat and overeating.

Anyone touched by this dread epidemic—and that really comes down to everyone in our post-industrial society—should keep this straight-talking self-healing primer close at hand.

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The Good Carbohydrate Revolution

by Dr. Terry Shintani, MD, JD, MPH

In his breakthrough bestselling book The Hawaii Diet, Dr. Terry Shintani showed readers how they could eat nearly three times as much food as they usually doand still lose unprecedented amounts of weight and eliminate major health problems. Now, as a much-needed voice of reason amid today's clamor of diet programs that eliminate breads, pastas, and vegetables and encourage us to gorge on meat, eggs, and butter, Dr. Shintani returns with a real revolution that promises to stop all the high-cholesterol and heart-endangering diet madness once and for all.

The Good Carbohydrate Revolution introduces a groundbreaking way to control weight and blood sugar levels by eating more of the right kinds of carbohydrates. Forget about strict calorie counting or portion control. Designed to maximize your health and keep you lean for life, Dr. Shintani's scientifically proven program centers on good carbohydrates such as whole-grain pasta, pita bread, corn, sweet potatoes, and brown rice, as well as an array of vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables. Outlining the benefits of good carbohydratesand alerting readers to the dangers of bad carbohydrates composed of white flour and sugarthis refreshingly straight-talking book offers the most surefire, sacrifice-free method for controlling blood pressure, reversing diabetes, andmost importantreducing the overall health risks that are too often caused by today's popular and highly touted diet programs.

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Don't Drink Your Milk

by Frank Osti, MD, former Director of Pediatrics, John Hopkins University

From a reviewer on Amazon.com:

At last someone has written an entire book dedicated to this subject! I started finding out about the disadvantages of drinking pasteurized milk in 1999 from a book called The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity by Daniel Reid. Reid concluded that milk actually curdles in the stomach and makes other food indigestible. Reid also explained that pasteurization destroys all enzymes and nutrients in it. Since reading hat book, I have stopped drinking milk and my complexion got better (the acne disappeared). Also I used to have stomach problems (diarrhea after drinking milk), and that disappeared as well.

And now more and more doctors are coming out with the same information. Dr Robert Young, a microbiologist (author of The pH Miracle) says the biggest misconception of society is that milk will provide our bodies with calcium. It has been demonstrated now that this is not true. Milk actually leaches calcium from our bones. Dr Young explains that milk contains lactose, a simple sugar. When sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream, calcium from our calcium reserves (i.e. the bones and teeth) is harvested to neutralize the acids created from the sugar. Dr Young does blood analysis, and he says if you look at your red blood cells after drinking milk, you won't be happy. Drinking milk makes the red blood cells stick together and fills them with bacteria and toxins. He also cites studies done in the 1980's that showed that people who drink milk each day have the weakest bones of all, while people who drink less or avoid it altogether invariably have stronger bones. Anthony Robbins in his first book Unlimited Power also cited the same results from some research done in 1986.

The people who live in western countries (where people drink a lot of milk) have the highest rates of osteoporosis (weak bones) in the world, compared to Asian countries (where people who drink little or nor milk) have very few instances of these problems. This should give you a clue about drinking milk.

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The Cancer Prevention Diet

Michio Kushi's Macrobiotic Blueprint for the Prevention and Relief of Disease

by Michio Kushi

Drawing on the most up-to-date cancer and heart research, Michio Kushi presents a ground-breaking dietary programs that can be implemented safely and simply in the home at a fraction of the cost of usual meals and medical care.

An updated and expanded edition of a revolutionary, highly acclaimed program for fighting and preventing cancer through diet. This edition presents new studies and case histories showing the effectiveness of macrobiotics in fighting disease, alarming updates on cancer stats, nearly 100 new recipes and menus, and more.

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Food and Healing

How what you eat determines your health, your well-being, and quality of life

by Annemarie Colbin

Ten years ago, Colbin's Food and Healing stood at the forefront of the food revolution, exploring the link between diet and health. In this anniversary edition, she provides updates on recent dietary systems, including low-fat, food combining, and alternative medicine.

This is an excellent summary of how diet affects health, wellbeing, and quality of life. It examines a variety of healing diets, analyzes them from a practical and knowledgeable perspective, evaluates and compares them to each other. Readers are offered valuable insight into how each dietary movement differs, how each offers value, and how individuals can create a unique, individualized dietary regime for their needs and goals.

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Food and Our Bones

The Natural Way to Prevent Osteoporosis

by Annemarie Colbin

Why take hormones and supplements to ward off osteoporosisthe bone-thinning disease that many postmenopausal women worry aboutwhen you can get calcium and other nutrients needed for healthy bones from eating the right foods? That's the message from Annemarie Colbin, a food therapist who authored a previous book, Food and Healing. While she acknowledges some people would rather pop pills than go to the trouble of cooking healthy foods, she argues her philosophy persuasively. First, Colbin describes foods that studies suggest may weaken the bones, such as caffeine and tomatoes. Then she presents evidence for bone-strengthening foods, going beyond the conventional wisdom that dairy products are the best way to get dietary calcium. In fact, she writes, the Chinese vegetable bok choy provides the most calcium per calorie of any foodmore than double the amount per calorie in skim milk. The book includes more than 60 recipes to help put Colbin's philosophy into practice, although many of the recipes call for ingredients such as seaweed. Detailed nutritional analysis of the recipes takes up more than 60 pages, space that might have been better spent, perhaps on recipes using more easily available ingredients.

Even if you're not interested in following Colbin's philosophy exactly, her book provides insight into how what we eat affects our bones.

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Glow

A Prescription for Radiant Health and Beauty

by Christina Pirello

The first of its kind, Glow is more than a cookbook, more than a health-and-beauty guideit is a path to a healthy lifestyle. Using the healing properties of whole foods, the author demonstrates how to use them in daily life to achieve an overall, healthy glow.

It’s time to get gorgeousfrom the inside out. Christina Pirello shows you how to achieve clear skin, lustrous hair, and even strong nails with a unique and holistic approach to self-care. Inspired by traditional Chinese medicine, Glow outlines simple, classic diagnostic techniques and therapies, a whole food diet, and active lifestyle to realize balance and tranquilitythe keys to true beautyand undo what time and stress have done.

By combining ancient Eastern practices for health you’ll discover the rejuvenating powers of food, more than 150 recipes, healing home remedies, and simple topical applications as well as basic massage and healing practices that will give you both an inner and an outer glow. Forget about those chemical potions and commercial powdersand light up your life with real food, real beauty, and real health.

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The Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer

Towards Preventing and Controlling Cancer With Diet and Lifestyle

by Michio Kushi with Edward Esko

Over the last 35 years, modern medical science has mounted a tremendous attempt to solve the problem of cancer and other degenerative illnesses. To date, however, this large-scale effort has produced no lasting, comprehensive solution... To control cancer, we need to see beyond the immediate symptoms....Cancer is not the result of some factor over which we have no control. Rather, it is simply the product of your own daily behavior, including our thinking, lifestyle and way of eating....—Michio Kushi

This book is the revised and expanded edition of the classic macrobiotic book on cancer prevention. Kushi clearly outlines the essentials of the macrobiotic diet with a comprehensive explanation of foods that promote health, foods to avoid, the Yin and Yang categorization of certain foods, and a basic explanation of how to pursue a holistic and balanced healthy lifestyle.

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The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia

A Comprehensive Resource to Healthy Eating

by Rebecca Wood

An A to Z of selection, preparation, and storage for more than 1,000 common and uncommon fruits, vegetables, grains, and herbs--including how to heal with Ayurveda, Western nutrition, and traditional Chinese medicine.

To a large degree, the quality of what we eat determines our health, and many cultures understand that food is the best medicine for what ails us. Arranged alphabetically, fully cross-referenced and indexed, and illustrated with line drawings, The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia provides information on how to select, prepare, store, and use medicinally more than 1,000 common and uncommon whole foods, from acorn to zucchini and aduki (a healthful Japanese bean) to zapote (a tropical fruit). Sidebar anecdotes, unique recipes, historical background, and a complete glossary of terms also contribute to the book's modern, user-friendly format. For three decades, Rebecca Wood has conducted workshops and seminars on whole foods cookery and the properties of foods according to Western, Ayurvedic, and Chinese models. The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia shares her wisdom with a new generation of readers at a time when the benefits of holistic medicine are being recognized by the entire medical community.

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Natural Prozac

Learning to Release Your Body's Own Anti-depressant

by Dr. J. Robertson with T. Monte

Scientifically proven and easy to follow, Dr Joel Robertson’s groundbreaking lifestyle program makes a significant advance in treating and overcoming depression and its debilitating effects without drugs. With more than 21 million people now using Prozac and other anti-depressants worldwide, this book comprises an enormous breakthrough: an all-natural method anyone can use to regain control of their physical and emotional health. Robertson, an expert in pharmacology and brain chemistry, has been using this method with remarkable success for more than twenty years. His approach uses the body’s own natural chemistry to restore the brain’s chemical balance and end the dangerous cycle of negative thought patterns and behavior that cause depression to recur. With detailed instructions on developing a tailored program of diet and exercise, new techniques for understanding and breaking free of negative habits, and targeted exercises for burning up self-destructive chemicals. Natural Prozac gives every depression sufferer a new option.

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The Cure is in the Kitchen

A Guide To Healthy Eating

by Sherry A. Rogers, M.D.

This is the first book to ever spell out in detail what all those people ate day to day who cleared their incurable diseases, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue, colitis, asthma, migraines, depression & hypertension.

Many people have healed themselves from terminal cancer, AIDS, candida, and allergies using a macrobiotic diet. What exactly did they do? What did they eat? Find out details of some incredible case histories in this highly recommended book. Observing Michio Kushi as the counseled people at the end of their medical ropes, Sherry documented their journey back to total wellness.

   

 

Last modified: 02/21/05