The Dark Side of Wheat
By Sayer Ji, Downloadable Book, 2 Essays, 2012
Reviewed on www.GreenMedInfo.com, a website that provides access to biomedical research on the therapeutic value of naturals substances in disease prevention and treatment.
A critically acclaimed internet classic, The Dark Side of Wheat is now available to own as a downloadable document exclusively from GreenMedInfo.com. It includes two hard-hitting essays that represent a seachange in the way wheat intolerance is comprehended; no longer a rare, strictly genetically-based disease, wheat is revealed to be a species-specific intolerance, whose role in health and disease has been greatly misunderstood since ancient times. The downloadable document also includes a 90-page quick reference guide containing hyperlinks to research on the National Library of Medicine on over 120 diseases that have been linked to wheat consumption.
The Dark Side of Wheat has changed many minds about the exalted status of wheat among secular and sacred institutions alike.
As Dr. Ron Hoggan, co-author of “Dangerous Grains” puts it in the foreword: “Sir Isaac Newton’s famous metaphor (perhaps quoting others) said something to the effect that we see further, not because of any special endowment of our own, but because we are standing on the shoulders of giants. After reading Sayer’s work on wheat, I felt as if I had just been boosted to a higher plane from which I could see and understand much, much more. Sayer’s insights continue to shape and inform much of my effort to understand the various impacts of grains on human health.”
Perfect Health Diet: Four Steps to Renewed health, Youthful Vitality, and Long Life
By Paul & Shou-Ching Jaminet, YinYang Press, 2010
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
If you’re interested in the so-called “paleo diet” or if you’re interested in knowing why we might benefit from eating as our distant ancestors did, those ancestors who evolved before the development of agriculture, then this book will interest you. Even if you feel perfectly healthy on another regime, you might well be interested in reading in these pages about ways to combat disease through diet.
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The Breakthrough Depression Solution
By James Greenblatt, MD
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
A Personalized 9-Step Method for Beating the Physical Causes of Your Depression
James Greenblatt, a local psychiatrist practicing in Waltham, MA gives special attention to the role nutrition can play in mental illness.
He works with both adults and children and, though fully prepared to prescribe medications when useful, he also points to the statistics showing the limited effectiveness of such drugs. In the last twenty years the number of Americans on psychiatric disability leave has trebled. What’s wrong with this picture?
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Minimally Invasive Dentistry – How to Reverse Tooth Decay
Cure Tooth Decay
By Ramiel Nagel
Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye
By Ellie Phillips, DDS
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye and Cure Tooth Decay are two books singing in the same choir but not quite harmonizing.
Both authors believe in minimally invasive dentistry, relying on prevention and on the re-mineralization of teeth. Re-mineralization is the good news! The self-repair of teeth is an alternative to drilling and filling. The authors disagree, however, on several topics: the use of fluoride, the use of xylitol, and whether bacteria cause tooth decay.
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The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet
By Felicia Drury Kliment
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
A Yin-Yang-pH Approach to Health and Disease
If you’ve heard that the acid/alkaline balance in your body might be important for your health and want to know why, this is a good book to read. The presentation is comprehensible, clear but not overly technical for the lay reader. Handy summaries of the author’s recommendations for each ailment make this a useful reference book as well as an explanatory text.
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The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer: One Solution to the Medical Enigma of Our Time
By Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, and Linda Isaacs, MD
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
An Intriguing Approach to Cancer and How to Treat It
Where does cancer come from? What’s going on in our bodies when we get cancer? This intriguing, seriously researched book offers a plausible – but unorthodox – explanation for at least the 90% of cancers. These are the tumors that initiate in the epithelium, the lining of our organs and glands. Researchers have long puzzled over why healthy somatic cells should, or could, become malignant. Drs. Gonzalez and Isaacs propose that it is stem cells that go awry, stem cells that in being pluripotential, or “invested with full power,” can become anything.
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Food and Mood for 2009
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
Let’s face it— we’d all like to eat something to brighten our mood…..and it doesn’t at all brighten our mood to hear that we should cut out sugar, though many in the field of nutrition agree that added sugar in any consistent quantity is ultimately a depressant.
Sugar, when first consumed, picks you right up, as digestion turns dietary sugar into blood glucose, which fires the brain. But then the pancreas responds with insulin to bring the blood glucose into healthy bounds, whereupon your mood droops – and you get a little fatter into the bargain. In fact, too much sugar is rather like an economic bubble. It feels great at first but “Buyer, beware!”
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Probiotic Foods for Good Health: Yogurt, Sauerkraut, and Other Beneficial Fermented Foods
by Beatrice Trum Hunter
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
Probiotics (biotics = relating to life) got their name from anti-biotics.
Antibiotics kill bacteria harmful to us or to animals – in short they remedy ill health. Probiotics, on the other hand, increase our beneficial gut bacteria and are thus preventative of ill health.
Even without their new label they’ve been hard at work for millennia, a fact we are increasingly waking up to. Yogurt, which was hard to find in the ‘50s, is now everywhere and more people are returning to homemade sauerkraut and pickles. This very readable book explains the science behind these healthy trends. It also mentions some of the developing uses of probiotics in the food and agriculture industries.
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IBS-Free At Last!
By Patsy Catsos
Reviewed by Rosalind Michahelles, Certified Holistic Health Counselor
A Useful Book about How to Avoid Irritable Bowel Syndrome
IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome – torments many people. Some have figured out that certain kinds of food produce distress in the form of bloating, gas, diarrhea, or constipation. Trial and error is probably the best way to learn these lessons; however, I found it very interesting that researchers in Australia have grouped the different fermentable sugars, which they consider the probably culprits, and have dubbed them FODMAPS for “fermentable oligo, di- and mono-saccharides and polyols.”
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