Book Sale

“Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”

–Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

25% Discount on All Books at Real Foods Market (Nov. 25, 2011 – Dec. 25, 2011)

We would like to thank you for your support and wish you Happy, Healthy Holidays! All our books will be on sale for 25% off during the next month. Now is a great time to add to you own library or give a great gift!

Deep Nutrition:  Why Your Genes Need Traditional Foods

By Catherine Shannahan.  Deep Nutrition illustrates how our ancestors used nourishment to sculpt their anatomy, engineering bodies of extraordinary health and beauty. Using the latest research in physiology and genetics, Dr. Shanahan explains why your family’s health depends on eating these traditional foods.

Eat Fat, Lose Fat

By Sally Fallon and Mary Enig. This revolutionary, science-based food program explains why we must eat healthy saturated fats-especially coconut oil-to achieve weight loss and good health.

Food Rules

By Catherine Shannahan.  The best diet for serious athletes is also the best diet for weight loss, heart health, cancer prevention, and just about everything else. This book spotlights the importance of eating well, knowing source, and respecting traditions.  Dr. Shanahan is an experienced physician and scientist who discovered that even her health conscious patients had been miss-informed. Full of straightforward and memorable advice.

Four Fold Path to Healing

By Thomas S. Cowan.A unique, comprehensive view of medicine, a holistic approach to healing that integrates the four aspects of our bodies – the Physical, the Life-Force, the Emotional and the Mental. Its principles are simple: right diet for healing the physical body; beneficial medicines or therapies for the life-force body; healing movement and exercise for the emotional body, and effective thinking activity for the mental body.

Healthy Nutrition

By Sharon B. Combs. Healthy Nutrition is a basic handbook for healthy nutrition. This brief summary gives you a head start in the right direction as it incorporates the research of Dr. Weston A. Price. Enjoy this easy-to-follow guide for a healthy diet.

Home Cheese Making

By Ricki Carroll. There are more home cheese making recipes in this book than any other book on the market. There are also sections on making butter, yogurt, sour cream, and crème fraiche as well as hints on how to store and cut your cheese. Home Cheese Making explains what equipment is required and deals with all aspects of the process, including preparing a starter culture, using rennet properly, controlling temperature, and storage of your finished cheeses.

Know Your Fats

The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. provides the reader with a very broad but also in-depth discussion of the many aspects of dietary fats and oils in our foods and in our bodies. The reader will gain an understanding of the relationship between dietary fat intake and health and between dietary fat intake and disease. The reader will also be able to determine why some information in other books or articles may not be correct.

The Maker’s Diet

By Jordan S. Rubin. A truly holistic approach to health and wellness which includes a 40-day health experience and wellness for life. The Maker’s Diet places great importance on the person as a whole body or being. Based on biblical precepts and scientific resources, The Maker’s Diet focuses on the four components of total health – the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional.

Nature’s Farmacy

By Lorene Karewa Forbes. This book is a guide for the use of essential oils for healthy living. It is a user-friendly reference. Look up a particular health condition and choose from several options. If you are unsure what oil to use, this is the book for you.

Nourishing Traditions

By Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, PhD. The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet. 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.

Nutrition & Physical Degeneration

By Weston A. Price. A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects. First published in 1939, this monumental book is designed to preserve the classic study of Dr. Price’s worldwide investigation of the deleterious effects of processed foods and synthetic farming methods on human health, and the promise of regeneration through sound nutrition. It contains guidelines for approaching optimum health and reproduction, now and through future generations, as did the primitives.

Pasture Perfect

Jo Robinson explores the new grass-fed phenomenon. She explains why tens of thousands of people are saying “no” to factory farming, and buying their meats, eggs and dairy products from pasture-based ranchers. You’ll learn why grass-fed beef, pork, lamb, bison and dairy products are safer, healthier, and more beneficial for you, the farmers, the animals, and the environment.

Patient Heal Thyself

Jordan Rubin from Garden of Life began suffering from constant diarrhea, fatigue, chronic systemic infections and acute weight loss. He was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, which lead to blockage in the intestines and nutrient malabsorption. He tried many different nutritional products and programs but it wasn’t until he used HSO’s (homeostatic soil organisms) together with a diet that people ate thousands of years ago in Biblical times that he miraculously recovered. This is his story.

Pottengers’ Cats

Between the years of 1932 and 1942, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger, Jr. conducted a feeding experiment to determine the effects of heat-processed food on cats. The contrast in the apparent health of the cats fed raw meat and those fed cooked meat was startling. Raw meat fed cats were more vigorous. His findings illumine new facts about optimal human nutrition.

Salt Your Way to Health

By David Brownstein, M.D. This book will show you why unrefined salt is the most misunderstood nutrient. See how adding the right kind of salt to your diet can help adrenal disorders, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, fatigue, headaches, immune system function, and thyroid disorders. Unrefined salt is a vitally important dietary nutrient with remarkable healing ability.

The Schwarzbein Principle

By Diana Schwarzbein. Degenerative diseases are not genetic, but acquired. Never skip meals, do not eat processed foods, eat balanced meals, make the main nutrient of the meal a protein, add healthy fats, add real carbohydrates, add nonstarchy veggies, drink lots of water, eat snacks, and eat solid food).

The Schwarzbein Principle II

By Diana Schwarzbein. The “Transition” – A Regeneration Program to Prevent and Reverse Accelerated Aging. She outlines a five-step Transition program that will improve your metabolism and help you obtain your ideal body composition.

The Schwarzbein Principle Cookbook

By Diana Schwarzbein, M.D., Nancy Deville team up with professional chef Evelyn Jacob Jaffe to whip up 300 delicious, healing recipes, proving that eating the Schwarzbein way doesn’t have to be difficult, boring, or fat-free. Includes easy-to-follow directions and nutritional breakdowns.

Seeds of Deception

By Jeffrey M. Smith. Documents the significant health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and the intense industry influence and political corruption that allow them on the market. Hailed as the best book on the topic, many believe that the revelations in this book can topple an industry.

By Ann Wigmore. How to Grow and Use Sprouts to Maximize Your Health and Vitality-good nutrition at a low cost. This practical, illustrated book provides all the information necessary to start and maintain an indoor sprout garden. The book discusses a wide variety of sprouts and sprouting methods, explains the sprouts importance in a healthy diet, and presents a wealth of simple and delicious recipes.

The Healing Power of Clay

By Micheel Abehsera. The natural remedy for dozens of common ailments. A complete guide to clay and what it can do for health and beauty, “The Healing Power of Clay” tells what kind of clay to use, where to get it, and how to use it–simple, do-it-yourself techniques that can be employed at home. Clay is a healer that some use for headaches, allergies, arthritis, cuts, bruises, burns, acne, anemia, and as a deep cleansing mask, shampoo, toothpaste, and as soap.

The Untold Story of Milk

By Ron Schmid. The Untold Story of Milk chronicles the role of milk in the rise of civilization and in early America, the distillery dairies, compulsory pasteurization, the politics of milk, traditional dairying cultures, the modern dairy industry, the betrayal of public trust by government health officials, the modern myths concerning cholesterol, animal fats and heart disease and the myriad health benefits of raw milk.

The Word of Wisdom

By John A. Widstsoe. A code of health dealing primarily with human nutrition.  It furnishes information for the guidance, through proper nutrition, of those who seek to retain, improve or recover their health.  Degenerative diseases do not attack healthy tissues so the problem of health then becomes a matter of prevention.  Too much of the modern food supply comes from tin cans or packages.  Daily errors in eating may not be noticed at the time but they finally break down the resistance of the body and allow disease to take possession.

Tiffany’s Table

By Tiffany Perez. After healing herself from Crohn’s disease, Tiffany embarked on a mission to help others. Armed with over 280 delicious recipes, and easy to understand nutritional information, you can start your journey to a better life, a better you. This great cookbook is from a local author.

Take Control of Your Health

By Dr. Joseph Mercola.  I have seen the healing power of food (the right food) and know what it will do for your health and well-being. My belief is that many common health problems started when we moved away from the eating and lifestyle habits of our long-ago ancestors. Health related issues are more a result of modern diet than anything else. This program gets you back on the right track!

Traditional Foods are your Best Medicine

By Ron Schmid. This book traces the cause of many chronic health problems to our modern diet and shows how a return to traditional foods can improve one’s well-being. Modern medicine now recognizes that the present-day Western diet is responsible for many of today’s chronic illnesses. Nutritionists and anthropologists have noted the decline in health that accompanies indigenous peoples’ transition from traditional to modern diets. This book explains how a return to a traditional diet to reduce your risk of heart attack by 50 percent; fight allergies, chronic fatigue, arthritis, skin problems, and headaches; recover from colds and flu in a day or two; and increase your life-expectancy.

The Truth About Beauty

By Kat James. Transform Your Looks and Your Life from the Inside Out. The author had an obsession to be thin which manifested as a full-blown compulsive eating disorder that ruled every minute of every day for 12 years. Even while she was a successful spokesperson for major cosmetic brands and a TV makeover guru who concentrated on making others appear beautiful, she was damaging her own beauty and health. At age 26, when a liver problem — arising from her eating disorder — threatened her life, she began her transformation toward better health. This is a guide to transforming one’s shape, looks, and life without the use of drugs, surgery, or deprivation.

Virgin Coconut Oil

By Brian & Marianita Jader Shilhavy. Virgin Coconut Oil has changed people’s lives, and it can change yours! This is the most practical book written on the health benefits of coconut oil. Based on years of research and the experience of the authors, this book documents how tropical cultures eating a diet high in the saturated fat of coconut oil enjoy long healthy lives. It also shows how a premium Virgin Coconut Oil has changed thousands of lives outside the tropics, in helping with obesity, hypothyroidism, diabetes, Candida, infections, digestive disorders, skin problems, and more.

We Want to Live

By Aajonus Vonderplanitz. Naturally, people have everything they need to live without disease. This book tells how. The author saved his son from life-threatening injuries following an automobile accident. He also healed himself of terminal cancers, diabetes, bursitis and psoriasis. He now helps others heal from incurable diseases by eating foods prepared in specific ways and in specific combinations.