Book Review: 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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Book Review: 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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Book Review: 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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Book Review: 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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