Book Review: 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.
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.
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.
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!”
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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