s a writer, I've always imagined having a little shop where I could share my favorite books with my readers, and now, with the magic of the Internet, here it is! 
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Food
Sexy Forever
The hidden culprit behind excess body fat is the toxic burden our bodies have accumulated.
In her latest weight-loss book, Suzanne Somers shows how toxic chemicals we are exposed to every day are sabotaging our health and body weight. "We are slowly killing ourselves," she says. "It's that important and that drastic. A toxic body is not only extremely unhealthy, but also has a slowed metabolism. A toxic body will cause you to get fatter and fatter while a cleansed one stays slim and, best of all, healthy." Suzanne's plan for weight loss includes eliminating toxic chemicals in your food, cosmetics, and household cleaning products, and detoxing your body. This book is a good overview to the problem of toxics and basic solutions, as they relate to weight loss.
Fat Flush Plan
How to improve your body's ability to detox toxic chemicals
Most people buy this book to lose weight, but I'm recommending it because it's all about how to take care of your liver--the primary organ that eliminates toxic chemicals from your body. This book offers a complete program for detoxing your liver and supporting it as it processes the toxic chemicals you are exposed to every day. There are also some companion books: Fat Flush Foods, Fat Flush for Life, and Fat Flush Cookbook.
The Body Restoration Plan
Exposure to toxic chemicals can make you fat
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton is a medical doctor with an academic doctorate in human metabolism from the University of Oxford. One evening she was reading the newspaper and an article on the powerful hormone-damaging actions of pesticides caught her eye. What really grabbed her attention was that the small amount of chemicals needed to wreak such havoc with our sex hormones was not too different from the small amount of toxic chemicals the average person is exposed to every day. The thought came to her that if these chemicals had the power to alter our hormones so drastically, then they must also have some sort of influence on our weight. She ran for one of her biggest medical textbooks and found what she was looking for: “Changes in sex hormones can cause weight gain.” And pesticides damage sex hormones. This book explains all about how toxic chemicals hinder your body's ability to lose weight and what to do to restore your body's natural ability to maintain normal weight.
Plenty
One couple's delightful first-person account of their experience learning to eat local foods.
I love this book. It's one of those books where you learn a lot while being thoroughly entertained by someone's first-hand experience. Alisa and James decided that for one year they would eat only foods within a 100-mile radius. It was quite an adventure obtaining these foods, but they did it, and in the end they decided this is the best way to eat. They show that it can be done and along the way explain why we should all eat this way. An essential book for everyone who eats.
The World's Healthiest Foods
879 pages identify the top 100 healthiest foods and everything you need to know about them.
Under asparagus, for example, it tells the entire nutritional analysis, peak season, refrigeration needs, shelf life, preparation tips, the best way to cook, why asparagus is healthy, varieties of asparagus, how to select, how to store, how to prepare, how to cook (or prepare raw), and a recipe. And this is repeated for the top 100 healthiest foods. But there's more. It discusses healthy cookware, how foods affect individuals differently, health-promoting nutrients in the healthiest foods, healing with the healthiest foods, and more. I was excited to find this book because I had been wanting just this kind of information, so I could choose the foods that were best for my body needs. And here it is.
Pasture Perfect
All about healthy grass-fed meat and dairy.
Why grass-fed beef, pork, lamb, bison and dairy products are safer, healthier, and more beneficial for you, the farmers, the animals, and the environment. This book takes you on a "pasture walk" of a grass-based farm where the animals live natural, stress-free lives eating their native diet, and a tour of a factory farm so you can see the differences. You'll get practical advice to help you make the transition to grass-fed products, including: how to find quality grass-fed products, wrapping, freezing, and cooking instructions, and sixty delicious,farm-tested recipes.
The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook
Learn the special cooking methods for grass-fed foods.
Healthy and nutritious grass-fed meats and dairy are different from the supermarket foods we are accustomed to preparing. This book is more mostly cookbook with a short introduction on the benefits of grass-fed foods, designed to help you through the transition deliciously.
Sugar Shock!
A comprehensive, up-to-date look at how sugars and simple carbs are TOXIC to your body--including most natural sweeteners.
"Sugar Shock" is the authors' term for what happens to the body when you eat sugar. It shows how sugar and simple carbs can cause many symptoms and illnesses--including emotional and behavior problems, memory loss, hypoglycemia, cancer, aging, heart disease, skin problems, diabetes, obesity, and even destroy your love life. The book is primarily focused on the problems, but offers a final chapter that recommends basically a low-carb diet of whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and proteins.
Super Size Me (DVD)
I haven't eaten fast food for over twenty years. My instincts were proven right after I watched this film.
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's food for an entire month (for 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day; he must consume everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked). I don't want to ruin the suspense for you, but near the end, the doctors monitoring this experiment were shaking their heads in disbelief at his physical and emotional condition, and begging Morgan to quit the diet or suffer grave consequences. This film shows exactly why we need to eat natural, whole, organic foods.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
The original book that documented how our health has declined as a result of our modern industrialized diet.
Traveling the world in the 1920s and '30s, Dr. Price and his wife found that "primitive" populations who ate their traditional nature-based diets enjoyed good health and vigor, while those that turned to the "civilized" diet of processed, sugar-laden foods soon developed a variety of physical problems which worsened with each generation. He found not only illness, but misshapen bones and teeth--lack of nutrition caused deformed bodies. This is his original account of his findings and conclusions, complete with pictures. A fascinating book!
