Essential Books and Recommended Reading
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I read a lot of Jensen. He's one of the godfathers of modern natural health and wrote more books and inspired more natural health practitioners than you and I have had hot dinners. Not that I'm advocating hot dinners...in fact, after reading this book you may never want to eat cooked food again.
Bernard Jensen - Dr. Jensen's Juicing Therapy
Am I that transparent? Jensen toured all over the world, including New Zealand, in the '60's and '70's and was practically a household name for his healthy cooking classes, of all things. Never rely on Jensen as your only source of information, but always find out what he has to say on a topic.
Bernard Jensen - Dr. Jensen's Guide to Body Chemistry & Nutrition
Kessinger Books have done it again! They reproduce rare, out-of-print books whose copyright has expired. Although this book carries a 2003 date on the website, it is actually the 6th edition, dated 1914, of Henry Lahn's original treatise on iridology. Lahn, who later changed his name to Lane, was reputedly the very first person to bring iridology to the USA at the end of the nineteenth century. This is the very beginning of the "American School" of iridology, arising out of the "German School" and the first iridology book written in English that I am aware of. Serious iridology students NEED this book for its insightful historical value.
Henry Lahn - Iridology: The Diagnosis from the Eye
You think you know about any topic? Don't believe it until you've read the anthroposophical version. Dr Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, was an undoubted genius. Hauschka follows in the anthroposophical tradition and gives you ways of looking at the relationship of nutrition to life you would never have thought of.
Rudolf Hauschka - Nutrition (P)
This is another example of thinking you know how it all works until someone adds another piece to the puzzle. Understanding homocysteine and its connection with methylation and gene expression is a must.
Kilmer S McCully - The Homocysteine Revolution
Oh dear...it's controversial...but not every "approved" or "safe" product is good for you. I knew nutrasweet (aka aspartame) was a problem, but I had never heard of splenda or sucralose. "It's naturally derived from sugar, you know, so it must be safe"...read on. Sucralose makes aspartame look like health food.
Joseph Mercola, Kendra Degan Pearsall Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health
To be honest, I have some serious reservations about this book on Body Electronics. I find myself reading whole chapters and wondering if we're talking about the same Body Electronics Dr Ray taught over the 8 years I studied with him in the last years of his life. Nonetheless, Chavez brings another perspective to Body Electronics and I don't see how you can call yourself a serious student of BE if you haven't considered all interpretations.
Thomas Chavez - Body Electronics: Vital Steps for Physical Regeneration
Patricia Bragg (and her father, Paul Bragg, before her) is another one of those writers who has a lot to say on everything. Don't make this your only book on water, but read it.
Patricia Bragg - Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life
I've already told you what I think of Howell's knowledge on enzymes - he's a legend. This one makes a great co-reader to Enzyme Nutrition.
Edward Howell - The Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity
A lot of Jensen's books were written in the '50's and '60's and have been released with new covers and sometimes with new titles. I think this is one of them, formerly known as the Doctor-Patient Handbook. It's a great book for early natural health readers.
Bernard Jensen - Dr. Jensen's Guide to Diet and Detoxification (Dr. Bernard Jensen Library)
Barley grass is right up there with wheatgrass in my book. In many cases it is a more convenient food to use as it's more readily available in a dried powdered form. Think green.
Barbara Simonsohn - Barley Grass Juice
No, I haven't got his one either...yet. But I devoured Lalitha Thomas's book "10 Essential Herbs". She's so good, she should be banned. She has a gifted and down to earth way of putting things and if her other book is anything to go by you'll be adding these 10 foods to your diet for sure.
Lalitha Thomas - 10 Essential Foods: A Sensible, Good Humored Approach to Vitality, Health and Well Being
Another Kessinger reprint. Haven't read this one yet, but I'd bet it's a goody based on the other Shelton books I have. Shelton is a radical naturopath, who deals with what's properly called "Natural Hygiene". Natural Hygiene is a sort of fundamentalist approach to health that does not brook anything vaguely synthetic, manufactured or anti-nature. Some naturopaths may call him archaic and extreme but I think this is a closed-mindedness that's come out of buying into too much science. Shelton is far more interested in healing than feeling good, if you know what I mean. I like him a lot.
Herbert Shelton - Food and Feeding
Most people associate the name with cornflakes, but before the name was tarnished, Dr Kellogg was a great Nature Cure man. I read a lot of nutrition books pre-pharmaceuticals and pre-American Medical Association because these authors had no fear of expressing their opinions in the words and force they wanted to use. Some of their ideas may seem antiquated now, but here is a very honest grass roots approach to health. I'd love to know what happened to part 1 of this book - Kessinger must have it in the pipeline somewhere.
John Harvey Kellogg - New Dietetics: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease Part 2
I have one book by Melvin Page, "Degeneration Regeneration." Page is quite a technical writer, being a biochemist and dentist but some of the things he has thought of measuring demonstrate just how easily our body's chemistry is swayed by our diet. Page realised that diet affected teeth because diet affects the whole body, the teeth therefore being a barometer of your overall health. Want to know how to balance your blood and save more than just your teeth? Read the book.
Melvin Page - Your Body is Your Best Doctor!: Formerly, Health Versus Disease
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