While we might suspect vaccinations are contributing to the alarming rise of autism in this country, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, the author of An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases, thinks autism might be related to immune responses stretching farther back into the womb. Perhaps even to the mother’s autoimmune disorder. […]
Category: Books
Healing Spices
Last night I went to a class at The Savory Spice Shop in downtown Denver on the healing properties of spices. It was based on the book, Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease by Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD with Debora Yost. Taught by a graduate […]
Joel Salatin on the cycle of life
Is life fundamentally mechanical or fundamentally biological? According to Joel Salatin, the inspirational sustainable farmer of Polyface Farms who was featured in Michael Pollan’s influential book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the fundamental split in our food industry today is along the line of viewing life as mechanical or biological. His first advice to anyone wanting to […]
Could Mental Illness Really Be A Vitamin Deficiency?
Dr. Mercola writes about the overuse of antipsychotic medications and their frightening side effects as a prelude to introducing Dr. Andrew Saul and his new book, Niacin: The Real Story: Learn about the Wonderful Healing Properties of Niacin. According to Dr. Mercola, Dr. Saul co-wrote the book with Abram Hoffer M.D., Ph.D., who published over […]
Super Baby Food Makes Feeding Toddlers Easy
A question posed on my neighborhood list serve about feeding toddlers caught my eye. Hello moms, I am looking for a book that discusses eating, behavior, learning (everything) on raising a 12 m growing boy. This is the fourth time I had heard this question in as many weeks, so I thought that my reply […]