Prescription Alternatives
-- Earl Mindell

Comments: If you are even on just 1 medication, this book will be helpful at keeping you healthful. Between it's Introduction and page's 3 through 14 alone, Earl Mindell R. PH., PH. D. hits a home run with some of the best information ever written about prescription medication and it's alternatives. Don't get me wrong, the rest of the book is excellent, but the Introduction and page's 3 through 14 will suck you into reading the rest of this book.

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Diet for a New America
-- John Robbins

Comments: Diet for a new America is an extraordinary look at our dependence on animals for food. This easy to read yet mind boggling book will vitalize the awakening of America and has it's place in the kitchen and in the doctor's office, in every classroom, from preschool to university. For those involved in ecological and political issues, this book is a must! I promise you - what you perceive behind the supermarket meat counter will never be the same.

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Natural Cures and what they don't want you to know
-- Kevin Trudeou

Comments: Trudeau has done an awesome job bringing awareness to those who value life and health. Defiantly a must read for anyone who thinks they can trust our government and the FDA to tell us the truth about our food and pharmaceutical companies. Trudeau blows the lid off a bundle of lies, double standards and half truths. All while providing hope for all with clear and concise answers and solutions.

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The G.I. Diet
-- Rick Gallop

Comments: No more guesswork, no more complex formulas, and no more fad diets. This has got to be the easiest and most satisfying lifestyle concept ever. It takes all the guesswork out of losing weight without all the mental hazards that goes along with it. Oh yeah, it's also probably the shortest diet book you'll ever read.

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Practical Herbalism
-- Philip Fritchey, MH, ND, CNHP

Comments: This book is destined to become a favorite reference for anyone interested in natural health. With nearly two decades of personal experience, observation, and research, Dr. Fritchey provides a refreshing and enlightening historical perspective, and a bounty of reassuring, down-to-earth methods for using commonly found or easily grown medicinal herbs. Learn how the healing salvation of God-given herbs was dragged from common knowledge for thousands of years to the recent "quackery."

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Your Body's Many Cries for Water
-- F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

Comments: This book explains with ease how important the lack of water in the body truly is. Dr. Batmanghelidj believes that Chronic Dehydration is the root cause of many painful degenerative diseases, asthma, allergies, hypertension, excess body weight and more. If anything, it's the cheapest and easiest way to start relieving heartburn, back-pain, arthritis, angina and migraines. He also believes that being hydrated can reverse premature aging. All without expensive and harmful medications.

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PAIN FREE
-- Pete Egoscue and Roger Gittiness

Comments: Whether you are in chronic pain or are a peak performance athlete, these simple effective routines are in every way cutting edge home physical therapy. Pete Egosue is a nationally renowned physiologist and sports injury consultant to some of today's top athletes. He shows us this breakthrough system for eliminating pain without drugs or surgery. Since I became a massage therapist in 2001, I have incorporated several of these techniques in my practice.

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Fast Food Nation
-- Eric Schlosser

Comments: This year, Americans will spend more money on fast food than on higher education, sad but true. Any adult that can read and is even slightly concerned with the health of themselves or their family should purchase this book, especially if they are a parent. This book is loaded with facts and observations that are anything but comforting. The author makes it hard to go on eating fast food in blissful ignorance.

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Prescription for Nutritional Healing Third Edition
-- Phyllis A. Balch, CNC and James F. Balch, M.D.

Comments: With well over 5 Million copies sold, Prescription for Nutritional Healing is the nation's number-one-bestselling guide to holistic health. People interested in alternative healing and “preventive” therapies have relied on this invaluble reference as a guide to improve health through nutrition and supplementation, avoiding traditional drug therapies.

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Don't Sweat The Small Stuff...
-- Richard Carlson, PH.D.

Comments: I always thought that I was a pretty laid back person until I read some of this book. Boy did it shed some light. Im still more laid back than most, but this book showed me just how often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren't really that big a deal. I have purchaced this book for several of my clients over the years, and all have come back to say thanks, I wish I had read this years ago.