Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating • Free Range & Organic Foods • Detox Support • Weight Loss
HEALTHY EATING
What to Eat
Marion Nestle, Ph.D.
How do you choose what to eat? Do you restrict your carbs, or fats, eat organic, or get confused by competing claims and tune out? A nutritionist, advocate of keeping big business marketing interests out of nutrition, walks you through the market to decode labels, clarify nutritional claims, describe the environmental impacts of food production, the way pricing works, additives’ effect on nutrition, and more. Enlightening. Become informed about foods you buy, and what your dollars support. Product Details
The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health
Dean Ornish, M.D.
Dr. Ornish’s program to reduce heart disease with diet, yoga, and meditation was the first to be insurance reimbursed as an alternative to angioplasty or coronary bypass over 20 years ago. Here he offers a way of eating based on love and the joy of living, not the fear of dying or denying pleasure. Six lifestyle programs to lower cholesterol, lose weight, lower blood pressure, prevent/reverse diabetes, certain prostate and breast cancers, and heart disease with nutrition, stress management, and exercise. Product Details
The Acid-alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Balance by Creating PH Balance in Your Diet
Christopher Vasey, N.D. & Jon Graham
Processed foods acidify the body and can lead to fatigue, pain, depression, arthritis, and osteoporosis. pH balance is critical for optimum cellular function, and slows the pace of aging. A naturopath clears the confusion about how some foods have an alkalizing or an acidifying effect. Covers how to determine your acid levels and a diet to suit your needs, important alkalizing nutrients, eliminating accumulated acids through intestinal cleansing, and an alkaline diet. A primer to guide your diet choices for optimum health, and to recover from chronic ailments. Product Details
pHion Diagnostic pH Test Strips
Test Your Body’s Acidity or Alkalinity
There is a strong correlation between your body’s pH, urine and saliva. The body is constantly getting rid of excess acids that irritate tissues and deplete minerals to maintain good health. With adequate mineral reserves, your saliva has a high pH. A low saliva pH indicates low mineral reserves, as minerals are being used to buffer acids elsewhere in the body. An invaluable tool to monitor your overall health, including weight, bones, and blood sugar. Product Details
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
Sally Fallon, Ph.D.
Based on exhaustive research, Dr. Fallon sets the record straight on the central role of fats, oils, cholesterol and meats in your diet, each vital for hormone production, brain and nerve function, and optimum energy. Full of delicious recipes, and she also covers hard to find topics, from preparing grains, enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods that encourage healthy intestinal flora, and how sauces promote digestion and assimilation. A guide to wise food choices that unites traditional wisdom with scientific research. Product Details
Supernutrition for Women
Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.C.
A guide for the changing body chemistry and dietary needs of women, by a nutritionist and former Director of the Pritikin Longevity Center. Aimed at maintaining healthy weight with a healthy diet, there’s good data on how sugar can trigger diabetes, insulin resistance, the right kind of fats, and how to prevent osteoporosis, breast cancer, heart disease, yeast infections, allergies, and to evaluate weight-loss plans. She advocates meat, eggs and fats in moderation in the diet. Product Details
Nutrigenomics How Food Talks to Your Genes to Send Messages of Health or Disease
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Nutrigenomics is the fascinating new science of how your genetic code affects the need for nutrients to maintain health – and how it can change. Dr. Hyman describes how our bodies weren’t designed for processed and refined foods, and that they contribute to chronic diseases by altering our genetic code. The wrong foods can trigger symptoms from poor memory, and acid reflux to Alzheimer’s, while the right nutrients can turn on your genes to automatically burn fat, fight disease, lower your cholesterol, and reverse chronic aging. Product Details
The Tao of Healthy Eating: Dietary Wisdom According to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Bob Flaws, L.Ac.
At it’s core Chinese dietary therapy not only provides preventive and remedial support, but also uniquely focuses on protecting digestive organs. Flaws, a doctor of Chinese medicine, helps you understand your own constitution to help you determine what foods are best for you, and why some of foods don’t agree with you. Addresses issues such as raw versus cooked foods, cholesterol, food allergies, candidiasis, trans-fats, pesticides, and chemical additives and the effects of 200 foods. Product Details
PURE FREE RANGE FOODS
Vital Choice Wild Seafood and Organics
Having spent over 20 years fishing pristine Alaskan waters for salmon, herring, and other fish, a Washington native brings his experience to bear to provide the best fresh caught, sustainably harvested Alaska salmon and other northwest Pacific seafood delivered to your door. Certified, free of hazardous levels of contaminants, rich in omega-3s and vitamin D, and certified by the Marine Stewardship Council. He also offers selected organic, natural, and kosher foods. Product Details
Greensbury Market
Grass-Fed Organic Meats
Support organic farmers, humane animal husbandry, the environment – and your health. Grass-fed meats, including beef, chicken and pork, have up to one third less fat (and calories), than a similar cut from a grain-fed animal, as well as 2-4 times more omega-3 oil, and 3-5 times more linoleic acid. Free-ranging or free-grazing organically raised animals grow at their own pace, with no artificial hormones, antibiotics or GMOs, while preserving soil and water resources. What’s more, like all organic foods, they’re exceptionally delicious. Product Details
DETOX SUPPORT
The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans
Elson Haas, M.D. & Daniella Chace
This comprehensive guide suggests regular detoxification as a lifestyle choice for lifelong vitality. A leading integrative medicine specialist views detoxification as a way to recover from the chemical dependency of sugar, nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and other harmful substances in conventional diets. Even after years of a damaging lifestyle you can break the addiction and improve your well-being. Includes menu plans and tasty recipes like Smoked Wild Salmon Salad and Mango Salsa. Product Details
The 20 Day Rejuvenation Diet
Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.
A nutritional biochemist, cofounder of Bastyr Naturopathic University and the Functional Medicine Institute, and Director of Nutritional Supplement Analysis at the Linus Pauling Institute, Dr. Bland has long helped clinicians bridge the gap between conventional and alternative medicine. He brings his experience of biochemical individuality, inflammation, chronic disease, insulin resistance and food intolerances to describe what accelerates aging and what we can do about it. A practical program, technical at times with complex menus, but a thorough grounding of rejuvenation through nutritional health. Product Details
The Detox Box: A Program for Greater Health and Vitality
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Experience deep renewal with this gentle 7-21 day cleansing program by functional medicine specialist former Director of Canyon Ranch. With his customary comprehensive approach, Dr. Hyman put together a complete detoxification program to get rid of toxins, repair your gut, flush your liver and get body, mind and spirit moving. Includes a guidebook, preparation and shopping list, daily schedule, assessment and tracking tools, flash cards, nutritional supplement and herb recommendations, and how to use heat and yoga sequences for maximum detoxification. 2 CDs. Product Details
The Fat Flush Plan
Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS
A targeted diet to address the physiology of weight loss, correct liver toxicity, excess insulin, and waterlogged tissues. With a thorough rationale and nutritional analysis, Gittleman addresses the fear of eating fat, and emphasizes eliminating processed foods to focus on essential oils, protein, vegetables, spices and water. A graduated cleansing and lifestyle program, it begins with a low calorie low-carb diet moderately adding more dairy, carbs, and calories. Includes a walking and strength training program. Product Details
Ultra Fiber Plus 450 gms
We all need a variety of daily dietary fibers to ensure circulation and elimination for good heart and digestive health. A well rounded mix of soluble and insoluble fibers, including guar gum, oat fiber, polydextrose, purified cellulose, inulin, cellulose gel, fenugreek fiber, rice bran, citrus pectin, apple fiber, barley beta glucans, sweetened with stevia leaf. Appropriate – and essential – in a detox support program, and for for daily use. One scoop into your favorite beverage ensures you get your optimum daily dose of complex fibers. Product Details
Clear Detox Strawberry Banana Cream Powder
Supporting liver and colon pathways not only provides superior cleansing, but can also supports your energy and minimizes discomfort during your detox. Two scoops of rice protein powder for full amino acid support, soluble fiber and gentle-acting herbs is a safe and nourishing food supplement to support a 10-20 day general cleanse. Not suitable for weight reduction. Comes in tasty pineapple coconut and chocolate flavors as well. water and shake or stir until smooth. Product Details
DeTox Foot Spa
Bringing the science of refloxology and bioenergetic medicine together, the energizing cartridge in this foot bath creates a flow of electrons to gently stimulate the body trough the lymph glands, initiating detoxification and ridding the body of toxins that block the flow of vital energy. A 30 minute session is relaxing, balancing, and increases your sense of well-being. Alone or as part of a detoxification program, systematic use leaves you feeling renewed with more physical and mental energy.
WEIGHT LOSS
The pH Miracle for Weight Loss: Balance Your Body Chemistry, Achieve Your Ideal Weight
Robert Young & Shelley Young
This book is unique in describing how chronic acidity can underlie excessive weight that’s hard to lose, as well as the role of managing thoughts and emotions that contribute to acidity through the release of cortisol. If stress is a central feature of your life, consider forgetting about fats, carbs, and calorie counting, and balance your pH instead. A 12 week program with 2 week cleansing, specific exercises, essential nutrients, menus and recipes designed to shift your body chemistry to a more alkaline pH and build muscle tissue. Product Details
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
David Kessler, M.D.
This former FDA commissioner initiated action against Big Tobacco for manipulating cigarette’s addictive potential. Now he zeros in on food manufacturers doing the same with foods by short-circuiting the body’s ability to self-regulate and causing uncontrollable food cravings. Excessively activated, the brain’s reward circuits make anticipation stronger than eating, so you’re satisfied, and always want more. Sobering and thought-provoking, he offers some solutions, but the value is in the awareness. Read our review. Detox, eliminate processed foods and follow a balanced pH diet are logical next steps. Product Details
Stop Emotional Eating: emWave®
Weight Management Program
This amazing biofeedback device gets to the heart of emotional eating. It doesn’t focus on what you eat, but on what you feel, and provides help in managing emotional reactions. Use the device to increase your awareness of internal states and their triggers, and then to create new neural habits to facilitate a better relationship with food. Not a weight loss program, you learn to pay attention and go inside for resources, so that you become calm, energized, sleep better and lose weight at the same time. Comes with Stopping Emotional Eating: The emWave Stress and Weight Management Program. Product Details
When Food Is Food & Love Is Love
A Step-by-Step Spiritual Program to Break Free from Emotional Eating
Geneen Roth
That we eat for reasons other than hunger is not news – but knowing that, and knowing what we hunger for are different things. These concrete processes help you to do that, and more importantly, to find ways to nourish your real hunger. Food as a microcosm of your relationship to being alive, to your beliefs about trust, pleasure, deprivation, and nourishment. Understand why you turn to food to become diet free through visualizations, guided eating and mindfulness meditations. 6 CD. Product Details
Enjoying Weight Loss
Self-Hypnosis and Relaxation Program
Hypnosis directly works to re-enforce behavior. Read our review Used on a regular basis, it can help you learn positive eating behaviors and create healthy long-term patterns of food intake. Trances offer positive suggestions from making better food choices and avoiding temptation, to getting out and exercising, and dealing with stress and anxiety. Helps create new thought patterns and access subconscious blocks, self-destructive behavior that appears to be out of your control. Product Details
Weight Solutions: The New Body-Mind-Spirit Approach
Janet Cunningham, Ph.D. & Judith Valentine, Ph.D.
By a psychologist and nutritionist, a weight loss guide that encourages a holistic look at life experience. This unique weight loss approach explores memories and childhood programming with an in-depth discussion of mental and emotional aspects of weight loss, along with a three phase weight loss program. Phase 1 to boost to your metabolism, Phase 2 to sustain metabolism and strengthen willpower, and Phase 3 to balance body, mind, and spirit with nutrition for life. Product Details
Health Journeys: A Meditation to Help You with Weight Loss
Belleruth Naparstek, Ph.D.
Highly acclaimed, research-proven, physician-endorsed guided meditation combines healing imagery, powerful music and understanding of the mind-body connection to help you lose weight. Sixty relaxing minutes of Belleruth’s imagery and affirmations are designed to reduce the craving for food, increase confidence and self-esteem, encourage acceptance of the body, safely speed up metabolism, help the body convert fat into energy, reinforce motivation and positive behavior change. Product Details
The Core Balance Diet: 4 Weeks to Boost Your Metabolism and Lose Weight for Good
Marcelle Pick, N.P.
This breakthrough program connects the dots between cutting-edge nutritional science to explore the relationship between women’s hormones, metabolism, and weight gain. It shows you how to find out which of the six biochemical imbalances – digestive, hormonal, adrenal, neurotransmitter, inflammatory, and detoxification – may be preventing you from losing weight. Product Details
Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book For The Chronic Dieter; Rediscover The Pleasures Of Eating And Rebuild Your Body Image
Evelyn Tribole, C.N.S. & Elyse Resch, C.N.S.
The authors suggest that to make peace with food and your body image observe and follow the habits of young children. The key is to reject a diet mentality of deprivation and denial. Eat only when hungry. Stop eating when you’re full. Separate emotional from physical needs. How complicated is that? There are no menus or food plans. Eat what you want, but really taste your food and feel its effects. Pay attention to feelings of true hunger and satisfaction. New habits return your natural healthy weight. Product Details
