Spiritual Books on Health and Wellness

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Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old - Deepak Chopra 1994

Amazon Synopsis: There is nothing inevitable about aging--that is the inspiring message from Dr. Deepak Chopra. "Once again Dr. Chopra presents us with information that can help us live long, healthy lives. For all those interested in a long, full life, this book is a valuable resource."--Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles Over 1.5 million copies sold. National bestseller. Line drawings.

 

Beyond Earthway: A Comprehensive Question-and-Answer Guide to Total Mind, Body, and Spirit Health – Mary Summer Rain 2000

Amazon Synopsis: BREATHE IT. FEEL IT. SHARE IT. LIVE IT.

The earth around us, the heaven above us, the soul within us -- Mary Summer Rain's illuminating guide "Earthway" helped us become aware of their interconnectedness to all life. Now Mary Summer Rain responds to the thousands of letters from her readers about applying nature's centuries-old knowledge to everyday life. "Beyond Earthway" offers more empowering information about dream interpretation, the celestial pull of the stars, our relationship to the Earth's vibrations, our selection of food and herbs for vitality and healing, and our yearning to strengthen the role of meditation and spiritual practices in our increasingly complex modern world. The gifts she offers us within these pages are the strength, self-reliance, and harmony with nature that characterize the concept of "all my relations" -- a way of living filled with values that feed the mind, the body, and the hungry heart.

 

The Book of Awesome - Neil Pasricha 2010

Amazon Synopsis: Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. Sometimes it's tempting to feel the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us:

• Popping bubble wrap
• The smell of rain on a hot sidewalk
• The other side of the pillow
• Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row
• Waking up and realizing it's Saturday
• Fixing electronics by smacking them
• Being the first table called up to the dinner buffet at a wedding
• When the cashier opens a new lane at the grocery store
• The moment at a concert after the lights go out and before the band comes on stage
• When you're really tired and about to fall asleep and someone throws a blanket on you
• Sleeping in new bedsheets
• Finding an old mix tape
• Intergenerational dancing
• High-fiving babies
• Bakery air
• Snow days

The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free. Based on the award-winning, multimillion hit blog 1000awesomethings.com, it's a high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments. With wise, witty observations from #1 international bestselling author Neil Pasricha this treasure trove is filled with smile-inducing musings that make readers feel like kids looking at the world for the first time.

 

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health - T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell II 2006

Amazon Synopsis: Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. If we’re obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?

In The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The New York Times has recognized the study as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.”

The China Study is not a diet book. Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging.

 

Earthway: A Native American Visionary’s Path to Total Mind, Body, and Spirit Health – Mary Summer Rain

Amazon Synopsis: A look at the environment, holistic health, dream and vision interpretation, and native American culture presents age-old traditions and includes a complete guide to traditional native American herbal healing.

 

The Edgar Cayce Remedies – William A. MacGarey, M.D 1983

Amazon Synopsis: What opens the door to disease in our body? What  enables us to get well? Dr. William A. McGarey  answers these questions and shows us the way to  glowing good health. Guided by the teachings of Edgar  Cayce, Dr. McGarey has treated thousands in his  Arizona clinic. He treats the human body not as a  biochemical factory but as a whole entity in time  and space, affected by our consciousness and the  experienced of life, now and through many  incarnations. Utilizing holistic concepts that use our  minds creatively to bring health to our bodies, Dr.  McGarey shows us a process of healing that includes:  special diets and herbs, the preparation and use  of Cayce's famous castor oil packs. Effective  healing massages, an exercise program, treatments for  specific illnesses, including psoriasis, colitis,  asthma, heart disease, arthritis, and many more,  daily meditation and prayer, dreams in health and  healing, a Cayce pharmacopoeia.

Energy Work: The Secret of Healing and Spiritual Development - Robert Bruce 2011

Amazon Synopsis: This step-by-step approach to physical and emotional health shows how to use the body's energy centers to speed healing.

In Energy Work, Robert Bruce offers a, simple, easy-to-learn, approach to self-healing, based on his breakthrough system of Body Awareness Tactile Imaging energy work. Bruce explains how to use tactile imaging, based on one's sense of touch, rather than visualization, to stimulate the flow of vital energy throughout the body. This is a system that anyone can use, regardless of age, health, or previous experience. Readers learn how to awaken the body's energy centers and move healing, vital energy throughout the body.

• Energy Work offers exercises to:
• Improve immune system function
• Enhance vitality and self-healing ability
• Increase psychic and spiritual abilities
• Develop stronger and more intimate relationships
• Enhance feelings of well-being

Bruce provides easy-to-follow illustrations along with a series of exercises that encourage safe, rapid results. This is a valuable guide for anyone seeking to take charge of his or her health.

 

Good Better Best: Simple Ways to Improve Your Nutrition, Health and Life - Mitch Plotnick 2011

Amazon Synopsis: You Can Have a Greater Life! This book is an incredibly helpful guide for living a life that's filled with greater health and happiness.

Each chapter focuses on a different part of the holistic approach to improving your health and wellness. These parts include:

• Nutrition
• Weight Management
• Happiness
• Food Choices
• Exercise
• Love
• Sleep
• Career
• Spirituality
• Dealing With Stress
• And More ...

In each chapter I give you simple suggestions for a GOOD way to improve that part of your life, a BETTER way to improve it, and the BEST way to improve it.

The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness - Dr. Robin E. Berman, Arthur Kurzweil & Dale L. Mintz 2006

Amazon Synopsis: The Jewish people have special concerns, approaches, and attitudes about health and wellness, due in part to certain illnesses known as “Jewish genetic diseases,” such as Tay-Sachs, Niemann-Pick, Gaucher, and others. Beyond these genetic diseases, however, the entire range of topics and issues related to health and wellness has long been of great interest to the religious and secular Jewish community. Jewish tradition has developed many special approaches to health and health-related issues, based on the hallowed traditions and precepts found in the Torah, its commentaries, and the vast literature written by rabbinic authorities throughout the centuries. Similarly Jewish secular culture has developed many special attitudes and approaches to the issues in this book regarding women’s health, nutrition, raising children, caregiving, and other special issues.

The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness, written in collaboration with Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, known throughout the world for its leadership as a major force in health research and education, provides a much-needed resource and guide to physical health and spiritual issues that are of concern to Jewish families.

 

Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being - Andrew Weil MD 2007

Amazon Synopsis: In each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us a book about aging that is unlike any other. Drawing on the new science of biogerontology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity — diet, activity and attitude — Dr. Weil explains that there are a myriad of things we can do to keep our bodies and minds in good working order through all phases of life. Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting, Healthy Aging is infused with the engaging candor and common sense that have made Dr. Weil our most trusted source on healthy living.

With detailed information on:

• Learning to eat right: Following the anti-inflammatory diet, Dr. Weil’s guide to the nutritional components of a healthy lifestyle
• Separating myth from fact about the would-be elixirs of life extension — herbs, hormones, and anti-aging “medicines”
• Learning exercise, breathing and stress-management techniques to benefit your mind and body
• Understanding the science behind the aging process
• Keeping record of your life lessons to share with loved ones

 

Individual Reference File, Edgar Cayce Readings - Association for Research and Enlightenment, Gladys Davis Turner & Mae Gimbert St. Clair 1976

Synopsis: This volume is a compilation of remedies from the Edgar Cayce readings on many different health issues and life issues.  Includes: Allergies, adolescence, baldness, hiccups and coughs, diet, child care, migraines, menopause, obesity, poison ivy, scar tissue, sinusitis, and more.

 

Integrative Wellness Rules: A Simple Guide to Healthy Living - Dr. Jim Nicolai 2013

Amazon Synopsis: Have you ever found that you needed to change things in your life, but for some reason life kept getting in the way? 'Integrative Wellness Rules' will help you get around that obstacle. '' In the age of conflicting advice on health, this book provides quick and easy health tips for individuals who are on the run but still need strategies to better manage their fast-paced lives. Join Dr. Jim Nicolai, the medical director of the Andrew Weil, M.D., Integrative Wellness Program at Miraval Spa and Resort, as he shares with you the insights and strategies he has collected along the way to optimize health and create wellness. With a style that is clear, concise, and entertaining, Dr. Jim will provide you with the keys to healthier living in a way that is profoundly simple and yet simply profound. He will teach you how to eat better, choose the vitamins and supplements that are best for you, manage stress more effectively, and get in touch with your spiritual side. Dr. Jim will call you to action with his pearls of wit, wisdom, and humor, and motivate you by providing real-world clarity on which health strategies to add within your already busy life.

The Massage Bible: The Definitive Guide to Soothing Aches and Pains - Susan Mumford 2009

Amazon Synopsis: From Chinese massage to Shiatsu to Indian head massage, this lavishly illustrated “bible” presents all the techniques needed to master the basics. Every spread features large and easy-to-follow photos, while the text guides beginners on what pressure to exert, what part of the hand makes contact with the body, and exactly what to do—whether they’re feathering the back, working on the neck and scalp, or performing a sequence on the arms and hands. In addition to holistic and sports massages, there are suggestions for special situations (including massaging a baby); advice on massages to relieve common ailments; and lifestyle tips.

 

May Cause Miracles - Gabrielle Bernstein 2013

Amazon Synopsis: From the popular and exciting author of Spirit Junkie and Add More ~Ing to Your Life comes this practical and fun 40-day guidebook of subtle shifts for radical change and unlimited happiness.

Are you ready to work miracles? Gabrielle Bernstein believes that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image. In this inspiring guide, Gabrielle offers an exciting plan for releasing fear and allowing gratitude, forgiveness, and love to flow through us without fail. All of which, ultimately, will lead to breathtaking lives of abundance, acceptance, appreciation, and happiness. With May Cause Miracles, readers can expect incredible transformation in 40 powerful days: simply by adding up subtle shifts to create miraculous change.

 

The Merck Manual of Medical Information: 2nd Home Edition (Merck Manual of Medical Information Home Edition) - Mark H. Beers 2004

Amazon Synopsis: For more than 100 years doctors have been coming to us for advice. Now you can, too.

The Merck Manual has traditionally provided exclusive, up-to-the-minute information to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Now, with this special Home Edition, the general public can access virtually the same critical data contained in the physician's version -- but in everyday language and a reader-friendly format.

With contributions from nearly 200 internationally respected medical experts, this fully revised edition offers vital, easy-to-understand information about almost every known medical issue, including:

• AIDS • cancer • eating, digestive, and nutrition disorders • heart disease • mental illness • pediatric care -- including a new chapter on early-childhood development • sexual dysfunction • terminal illness • viruses and infections

...and much more. Featuring original illustrations and diagrams, an A-Z listing of brand-name and generic drugs, and an appendix of medical resources, The Merck Manual -- Home Edition is published as a not-for-profit service by Merck, a world leader in breakthrough medical discoveries with a long commitment to making the world a healthier place.

 

Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health - Andrew Weil 2004

Amazon Synopsis: The bible of natural medicine--(Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil's theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers' most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientific findings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, reflux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the flu, and much more.

Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide - Deepak Chopra 2001

Amazon Synopsis: A decade ago, Deepak Chopra, M.D., wrote Perfect Health, the first practical guide to harnessing the healing power of the mind, which became a national bestseller. The book described how breakthroughs in physics and medicine were underscoring the validity of a 5,000-year-old medical system from ancient India known as Ayurveda ("the knowledge of life span" in Sanskrit). Perfect Health went on to describe how to apply the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to everyday life. In celebration of this classic work we have created this new edition, revised and updated to include the latest medical research.

Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings every five days, for instance. Our skin is new every five weeks. Each year, fully 98 percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are being created anew each day. Ayurveda tells us that freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance, and then extending that balance to the body.

Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step program of mind body medicine tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader's mind body type: thin, restless Vata; enterprising, efficient Pitta; tranquil, steady Kapha; or any combination of these three. This body type becomes the basis for a specific Ayurvedic program of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration, exercise, and daily routines. The result is a total plan, tailor-made for each individual, to reestablish the body's essential balance with nature; to strengthen the mind body connection; and to use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging--in short, for achieving Perfect Health.

 

Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness - Kathy Freston 2008

Amazon Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author comes the ultimate guide to complete well-being-an instructive book on how to reach our highest level of health and contentment through small, focused changes. Featuring a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, Quantum Wellness will forever change the way readers approach healthy living.

 

The Seven Pillars of Health - Joel Kilpatrick 2006

Amazon Synopsis: What you can do for yourself concerning your health, God will not do. It’s up to you to do it now. Most diseases are caused by unhealthy lifestyles, poor diet, lack of exercise, stress, and inadequate sleep. This book, based on best-selling author Dr. Don Colbert’s life message, reveals seven fundamental principles that will enable people to walk in and enjoy the health God intended. Dr. Colbert explains the body’s vital need for:

•  Water
• Sleep and rest
•  Living food
• Exercise
• Detoxification
• Supplements
• Coping with stress

Colbert, who conducts comprehensive seminars in churches based on the subject of this book, presents a noncondemning, lifegiving approach to optimal health. His well-respected life plan outlined in The Seven Pillars of Health will help people make healthy choices one day at a time!

 

Slim for Life - Jillian Michaels 2013

Amazon Synopsis: Stop battling your weight and slim down for life with this no-nonsense, insider’s plan from America’s health, wellness, and weight-loss guru: Jillian Michaels. She has helped millions lose weight and feel great, and now she can help you, too. 

Bestselling author and Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels swore she’d never write another diet book. But she realized that with all of the conflicting, overly complicated information being thrown at you each day, what you need is a clear, simple plan that cuts through all the confusion to deliver amazing results, fast. This book distills all she’s learned about diet, fitness, and a healthy lifestyle to provide anyone seeking to be slim, strong, and healthy with an easier path to achieving dramatic body transformation.

You’ll learn to:

• Utilize Jillian’s insider secrets for optimizing your fat-burning potential
• Dispel myths and avoid diet trends that will damage your metabolism and make it harder for you to lose weight
• Banish self-sabotage, build support, and cultivate lasting motivation
• Navigate and circumvent every possible pitfall presented by any situation or circumstance you could come up against—from weight-loss plateaus to travel, budget, and time constraints
• Eat, move, and live in manageable, and even enjoyable, ways that facilitate a slim, sexy physique
• Supplement strategically, manage stress, and even purchase the proper home and beauty products—all to help ignite your metabolism

 

Staying Healthy With the Seasons - Elson M. Haas 2003

Amazon Synopsis: Nature's cycles affect not only the external climate, but also our internal health and mental well-being. With this as its primary tenet, STAYING HEALTHY WITH THE SEASONS revolutionized the fields of preventive and integrated medicine when it was first published in 1981, and introduced a seasonal approach to nutrition, disease prevention, and mind-and-body fitness. A leading practitioner of the season-based lifestyle theory, Dr. Elson Haas provides simple, logical advice for achieving glowing good health: Bring the mind and body into balance with the earth, and consume a diet that emphasizes in-season, chemical-free foods. Joining Western and Eastern medicines with seasonal nutrition, herbology, and exercise practices, this timeless classic, revised for the 21st century, provides the keys to staying healthy from spring right on through winter.

• A landmark text in mind/body health and seasonal nutrition, revised for the new millennium, with a new introduction, updated resources, and extended appendices.
• Makes seasonal recommendations for detoxification, diet, and exercise programs.

 

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom (Revised Edition): Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing - Christiane Northrup 2010

Amazon Synopsis: When it was first published in 1994, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom quickly became an international bestseller, and for the past fifteen years it has remained the veritable bible of women’s health. Now, in this revised and updated edition, world-renowned and much-beloved women’s health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup shares with us the latest developments and advances that will maximize our potential for living well in our bodies today. Inside you will discover:

• new material on sexuality—and how to have a more fulfilling sex life
• the spiritual and scientific principles behind healing from terminal illnesses, and how you can utilize these principles for your own health and the health of others
• vital information about how to truly dissolve PMS and ease menstrual cramps
• extraordinary facts on Vitamin D—and why it is crucial for breast, cardiovascular, and immune system health
• the importance of the preconception diet and how to greatly decrease your risk of birth defects
• how to birth naturally, despite the current induction and C-section epidemic
• all you need to know about thyroid function, including proper blood tests
• life-saving facts about cellular inflammation—the root cause of all chronic degenerative diseases—and how to prevent this condition
• the essentials on the “fountain of youth molecule”—and how to enhance your levels of it for vibrant health

Living a healthy life in a woman’s body can be downright fun—even ecstatic! And that’s good news for everyone—women, men, and their children.

Eating

 

America's Test Kitchen Light & Healthy 2012: The Year's Best Recipes Lightened Up - The Editors at America's Test Kitchen 2012

Chateleine Magazine: What is it about? As the title says, get the year’s best recipes with a lighter touch—think everything from Creamy Lemon-Herb dip to Steamed Chinese Dumplings, this book offers yummy recipes for all courses.

 

The Art of Raw Living Food: Heal Yourself and the Planet with Eco-delicious Cuisine - Doreen Virtue & Jenny Ross 2009

Amazon Synopsis: Now you can enjoy all of the health benefits of a diet high in fresh produce, while still enjoying tasty meals. In this delicious book, Doreen Virtue and Jenny Ross (owner and chef of the popular Southern California raw-foods restaurant, 118 Degrees) give you hundreds of recipes and tips for creating gourmet meals—all created 100 percent from raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts.               

You'll enjoy Mexican, Italian, Asian, and other cuisine, while deriving all of the physical, spiritual, and emotional benefits of eating one of the healthiest diets available. As you follow these easy-to-prepare recipes, you’ll discover why thousands of people have joined the Raw Food Movement and see how to incorporate a living-foods diet into your daily life!

 

A Taste of India: Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Body, Mind, and Spirit - Bibiji Inderjit Kaur 1985

 

Constant Cravings: What Your Food Cravings Mean and How to Overcome Them – Doreen Virtue 2011

Amazon Synopsis: Do you crave chocolate, bread, cheese, fries, or other foods? If so, there’s a reason why, as Doreen Virtue’s breakthrough book explains. Each food craving actually corresponds to a specific underlying emotion; so once you understand the meaning behind your particular craving and apply the information and affirmations within these pages, you’ll be able to heal your cycle of emotional overeating.

In addition, you’ll read scientific studies about the mood- and energy-altering properties of each food, which will help you see how your appetite perfectly mirrors your emotions. This comprehensive and empowering guide will also show you how to give “food readings” to yourself and others, allowing you to accurately interpret the meaning behind many cravings.

Constant Craving is a one-of-kind book that will give you the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to make friends with food . . . and your appetite!

 

Eat to Lose, Eat to Win - Rachel Beller 2012

Amazon Synopsis: In Eat to Lose, Eat to Win, celebrity nutritionist Rachel Beller (of Biggest Loser fame) takes a basic tenet of weight loss—eat the “right” foods—and makes it easy to achieve. No more writing lists or memorizing “approved” foods—an extensive, take-it-with-you, full-color look-and-shop guide shows actual products, making purchasing healthy foods and sticking to a nutritious eating plan straightforward and undemanding. Eat to Lose, Eat to Win is sensible and real-world ready with practical tips on how to best incorporate the latest nutritional recommendations—such as fiber, Omega-3, protein, and antioxidants—into a healthy diet. Filled with recipes for simple-to-prepare meals and snacks, as well as common-sense suggestions, this is a must-have tool for anyone looking for motivation to change to a healthier lifestyle.

 

Diet for a New America – John Robbins 1998

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Amazon Synopsis: Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it.

In Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at our dependence on animals for food and the inhumane conditions under which these animals are raised. It becomes clear that the price we pay for our eating habits is measured in the suffering of animals, a suffering so extreme and needless that it disrupts our very place in the web of life.

Section II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a requirement for health by pointing our the vastly increased rate of disease caused by pesticides, hormones, additives, and other chemicals now a routine part of our food production. The author shows us that the high health risk is unnecessary, and that the production, preparation, and consumption of food can once again be a healthy process.

In Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of a meat-based diet and concludes that the consumption of the resources necessary to produce meat is a major factor in our ecological crisis.

Diet for a New America is the single most eloquent argument for a vegetarian lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and entertainingly written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze, infuriate, but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1987.

 

The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever! - Tosca Reno 2009

Amazon Synopsis: The Eat-Clean Diet helped readers understand how to stay healthy and lean forever. Three years later, hundreds of thousands of superstars, personal trainers and regular everyday people have overcome their weight and health problems by following The Eat-Clean Diet. This larger, revised and fully updated edition offers in-depth information on: non-threatening exercise o extending and improving your life o getting - and staying - motivated o getting rid of cellulite o tightening your skin o combating the harsh effects of menopause Plus! Nearly 100 new pages; Total redesign; 50 new recipes; Information on eating disorders; Menu plans for different diets; The Quick Eat-Clean Diet at a glance.

Eating In The Light: Making the Switch to Vegetarianism on Your Spiritual Path - Doreen Virtue & Becky Prelitz 2001

Amazon Description: It isn't just the fat or carbohydrate content that counts when making dietary choices - it's the 'spiritual vibrational' quality of our foods and beverages that truly makes a difference in how we look and feel. In this fascinating book, learn the spiritual properties of different food and beverage groups so that you can make informed decisions about what to eat and drink.

 

Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating - Andrew Weil 2001

Amazon Synopsis: At last, a book about eating (and eating well) or health -- from Andrew Weil, the brilliantly innovative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health. Now Dr. Weil -- whose nationwide bestsellers Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health have made us aware of the body's capacitiy to heal itself -- provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat.

Dr. Weil makes clear how an optimal diet can both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the body's defenses and mechanisms of healing. And he always stresses that good food -- and the good feeling it engenders at the table -- is not only a delight but also necessary to our well being so that eating for health means enjoyable eating.

Eating Well for Optimum Health is a hugely practical and inspiring book about food, diet and nutrition that stands to change -- for the better and the healthier -- our most fundamental ideas about eating.

 

Healthy Starts Here: 140 Recipes That Will Make You Feel Great - Mairlyn Smith 2011

Amazon Description: From the co-author of the bestselling Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health comes a brand new book full of fabulous recipes seasoned with seriously healthy advice. When's the last time you encountered a cookbook written by a "Second City" alumna? Well, get ready for the laughs to roll in on your way to better eating! Mairlyn Smith, a well-known professional home economist and media commentator on healthy cooking and eating, knows that improving your and your family's diet is serious business-and also pretty funny. Learn how to retrain your sodium-addled taste buds. Become a master hunter-gatherer with tips on grocery shopping and food storage. Find out which family of vegetables causes cancer cells to self-destruct. And learn the real truth about legumes and flatulence.

 

The Looneyspoons Collection - Janet & Greta Podleski 2011

Amazon Description: Over 2 million "Janet & Greta" cookbooks sold! Even if you own 200 cookbooks, you’ve never seen one like “TLC.” Featuring outrageously delicious and healthy reader-favorite recipes from Janet & Greta’s incredibly popular cookbooks Looneyspoons (one of Canada’s all-time bestselling books), Crazy Plates (a James Beard Foundation Award finalist), and Eat, Shrink & Be Merry!(voted “Cookbook of the Decade 2000-2009” by Chapters/Indigo Books)… PLUS…100 NEW, MUST-TRY RECIPES! INCLUDES 150 GLUTEN-FREE RECIPES! “The best of the best” Janet & Greta recipes have been revised, updated and made even BETTER! •Better carbs •Better fats •Less sugar •Less salt •More fiber •Same great taste that won’t go to your waist!

Diabetic? Vegetarian? Counting WW points? Cooking for finicky kids or a meat-and-potatoes husband? Never cooked a meal in your life? The Looneyspoons Collection makes healthy eating delicious and fun for everyone! MORE THAN JUST A COOKBOOK! A feast for your eyes and your taste buds, TLC is overflowing with gorgeous, full-color food photos, hundreds of practical weight-loss, anti-aging and healthy-living tips and, of course, a heaping helping of Janet & Greta’s trademark corny jokes and punny recipe titles. Feel better, look better, cook better! With TLC, healthy eating is a piece of cake!

 

Losing Your Pounds of Pain - Doreen Virtue 2002

Amazon Description: This title helps break the link between abuse, stress, and overeating!

 

Quantum Wellness Cleanse: The 21-Day Essential Guide to Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit - Kathy Freston 2009

Amazon Synopsis: Kathy Freston's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show prompted Oprah to commit to the "21-day cleanse" featured in Quantum Wellness, creating an instant bestseller and a national trend. During her 21-day cleanse, Oprah's daily blog provided updates on her progress, intriguing millions of readers and creating a media frenzy.

Now, with The Quantum Wellness Cleanse, Kathy Freston gives readers the tools they need to fully harness the 21-day cleanse and stay motivated. This easy-to-follow guide lays out a comprehensive plan to turn our lives around in each of the areas of body, mind, and spirit. By following an essential day-by-day map of what to eat, how to deal with the complex feelings that arise as we detox, and how to fully redirect our energy so our lives take on a fresh momentum, this indispensable companion offers recipes that can be mixed and matched, and answers all the questions that may arise so that we can forever change the course of our lives.

True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure - Andrew Weil, Sam Fox and Michael Stebner 2012

Amazon Synopsis: When Andrew Weil and Sam Fox opened True Food Kitchen, they did so with a two-fold mission: every dish served must not only be delicious, but it must promote the diner's wellbeing. TRUE FOOD supports the same mission, with freshly imagined recipes that are seasonal, inviting, and easy to make. Showcasing fresh, high-quality ingredients and simple preparations with robust, satisfying flavors, TRUE FOOD demonstrates how easy it is to eat well at home. With essays on topics ranging from farmer's markets to proper proportions, the book includes more than 125 original recipes from Dr. Weil and chef Michael Stebner, such as Curried Cauliflower Soup, Corn and Ricotta Cheese Ravioli and Vegetables with Parmesan Broth, Spicy Shrimp and Asian Noodles, Bison Umami Burgers, Chocolate Icebox Tart, Pomegranate Martini, and much, much more.

 

Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World - Kathy Freston 2011

Amazon Synopsis: Kathy Freston wasn't born a vegan. The bestselling author and renowned wellness expert actually grew up on chicken-fried steak and cheesy grits, and loved nothing more than BBQ ribs and vanilla milkshakes. Not until her thirties did she embrace the lifestyle of a veganist - someone who eats a plant-based diet not just for their own personal well-being, but for the whole web of benefits it brings to our ecosystem and beyond. Kathy's shift toward this new life was gradual - she leaned into it - but the impact was profound. Now Kathy shows us how to lean into the veganist life.

Effortless weight loss, reversal of disease, environmental responsibility, spiritual awakening - these are just a few of the ten profound changes that can be achieved through a gentle switch in food choices.Filled with compelling facts, stories of people who have improved their weight and health conditions as a result of making the switch, and Q&As with the leading medical researchers, Veganist concludes with a step-by-step practical guide to becoming a veganist…easily and gradually. It is an accessible, optimistic, and illuminating book that will change the way you eat forever. No less delicious, still hearty and satisfying - just better for you and for all.

 

Wheat Belly - William Davis 2012

Amazon Synopsis: Wheat Belly is a provocative look at how eliminating wheat—even so-called healthy whole grain wheat—from our diets is the key to permanent weight loss and can offer relief from a broad spectrum of health and digestive problems.

Drawing on decades of clinical studies and the extraordinary results he has observed after putting thousands of his patients on wheat-free regimens, Dr. William Davis makes a compelling case against this ubiquitous ingredient. A wheat-free diet has been associated with significant benefits, including the following:

• Weight loss of twenty, thirty, even fifty pounds in the first few months
• Alleviation of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes
• Recovery from intestinal woes, like ulcerative colitis and celiac disease
• Marked improvement in overall cholesterol and LDL counts
• Improvement in bone density and reversal of osteoporosis
• Cessation of skin conditions from psoriasis to oral ulcers and hair loss
• Reduction of inflammation and rheumatoid arthritis pain

Readable, thought-provoking and carefully researched, Wheat Belly offers a new and vitally important perspective on the most critical health concerns of our time.

 

The Yo-Yo Diet Syndrome: How to Heal and Stabilize Your Appetite and Weight - Doreen Virtue 2010

Amazon Synopsis: How wonderful would it feel to be able to break free from the pattern of yo-yo dieting forever?

Recent research suggests that 95 percent of dieters fail to keep the weight off and continually:

• Lose pounds on countless occasions but end up putting it (and more) back on
• Overeat due to stress, depression, boredom, and fatigue
• Constantly crave, or binge on, fat- and calorie-laden food

In this revised edition of her landmark book, Doreen Virtue shows you how you can keep the extra weight off—permanently! She presents a wealth of practical information that shows you how to heal your appetite and dieting issues, from the inside out.

This book is a must if you want to address the psychological, spiritual, and physiological causes of weight gain, and desire a simple and realistic method for shedding those excess pounds—for good!

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