How to Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor by Robert S. Mendelsohn (Ballantine, 1984)
This book offers essential advice for parents on home treatment and diagnosis of colds and flus, childhood illnesses, vision and hearing problems, allergies, and more. It also includes a complete section on selecting the right doctor for your child and step-by-step instructions for knowing when to call a doctor.
A Guide to Child Health by Wolfgang Goebel & Michaela Glockler (Floris, 2003)
This acclaimed guide to children's physical, psychological, and spiritual development combines medical advice with issues of upbringing and education.
Fed Up: Understanding How Food Affect Your Child and What You Can Do About It by Sue Dengate (Random House, 1998)
A comprehensive analysis of the effects of foods on children's behavior, learning ability and health, Fed Up helps pressured parents to manage their children's behavior and learning problems without medication using remarkable new findings from Australian research into food intolerance.
Foods that Fight Cancer: Preventing And Treating Cancer Through Diet by Richard Beliveau, Ph.D & Denis Gingras, Ph.D (Allen & Unwin, 2006)
Read about the science of food, properties of particular foods that are active cancer-fighting elements, and how easily critical foods can be added to our diets.
The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements and Drugs That Can Save Your Life by Bob Arnot, M.D. (Hodder, 1999)
This book integrates and clearly explains the latest and most important breast cancer research from around the world, and outlines a powerful, safe, easy-to-follow diet that can actually transform the structure of the breast and alter the flow of hormones that induce breast cancer. Dr. Bob Arnot's sound advice will also provide many other benefits, from improving overall health to lowering the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig, Ph.D & Sally Fallon (Plume, 2006)
Based on more than two decades of research, Eat Fat, Lose Fat defies conventional wisdom by revealing that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as corn and soybean) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crisis, while the saturated fats traditionally considered “harmful” (from such foods as coconut, butter, and meat) are essential to weight loss and health.
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon, with Mary Enig, Ph.D (New Trends, 1999)
Nourishing Traditions is a nutritional cookbook with a shocking message—animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. It also includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.
What to Eat by Marion Nestle (North Point Press, 2006)
Nestle walks readers through every supermarket section, decoding labels and clarifying nutritional and other claims. She explores issues like the effects of food production on our environment, the way pricing works, and how additives affect nutrition.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingslover, Camille Kingslover, and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins, 2007)
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver describes her family's journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to rural life on a farm in southern Appalachia, and their consequent vow to eat only homegrown or locally raised food.
