NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE

The Antioxidant Miracle : Your Complete Plan for Total Health and Healing by Lester Packer with Carol Colman

Already the best-selling nutritional supplements in the marketplace, antioxidants are proving to be even more important and beneficial than was previously thought. Now, drawing on the latest breakthroughs in molecular biology and antioxidant research, The Antioxidant Miracle explains for the first time exactly how readers can take advantage of the antioxidant miracle and design a practical, personalized program for disease prevention and wellness promotion.

Enter the Zone : A Dietary Road Map by Barry Sears, PhD.

Monumental work on the need to increase our daily protein intake as a way of moderating blood sugar levels. He uses the concept of food as a drug most effectively and how proteins have strong hormonal effects. Our protein recommendations are derived from his formulae.

Barry Sears looks at why Americans still have dietary problems in spite of following the advice of experts. Challenging the current recommendations for a high carbohydrate diet, Sears looks into man's history as well as the diets athletes succeed best on, to build a new dietary picture. Anyone looking for better health through an improved relationship to what they eat should put this book on their list.

Enter the Zone: A Dietary Road Map - Tape Series read by the author, Barry Sears, PhD

Audio Cassette Published by Harper Audio Publication date: June 1, 1995

The Tape companion to the book is highly recommended. The tapes are a convenient way to listen to the information from the book as well as quite entertaining. Barry Sears' wry humor is successfully captured and gives you his sense of excitement and passion for the subject.

Offering a plan to put the body in balance, a lasting weight-loss program is based on a simple, nonrestrictive diet that maintains a favorable ratio of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates and stabilizes hormones that regulate weight and health.

Protein Power : The Metabolic Breakthrough by Michael R. Eades M.D., Mary Dan Eades M.D.

A follow on to Barry Sears work on the power of protein to moderate glucose blues. Uses clever historical and even anthropological studies and concepts to validate our need for increased protein.

Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary, medically sound, deliciously satisfying plan has already helped thousands of patients lose weight and achieve other lifesaving health benefits, including lower cholesterol and blood pressure readings and an improvement or reversal of common disorders such as heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and gout ... Here, the Eades show you why their plan is so potent: how it works with your body's metabolic biochemistry; how it brings powerful metabolic hormones, including insulin, into balance; and why this balance is necessary to achieve permanent weight loss and free you from reliance on costly and dangerous medications to control blood pressure and cholesterol.

Essential Fatty Acids in Health & Disease by Edward N. Siguel

Comprehensive description of the role of essential fats in health and disease for people who want to live long and healthy lives, patients, professionals, and news media. The author discovered why low-fat diets can be harmful, and invented a test to diagnose deficiencies and imbalances of essential fats. 

Based on original research by the author published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, presented at scientific meetings, and cited by international news media such as CNN, Time, The New York Times, etc. Reveals how to use the essential fats w3 (like fish, flax oils) and w6 (like soybean, evening primrose, borage oils) to improve your health, prevent cardiovascular disease, improve your IQ, get a healthier, trimmer body, and have younger looking skin. 

Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill : The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health by Udo Erasmus

A classic and voluminous work. Explains the difference between low fat or "no fat" diets and diets rich in good fats.  Low fat diets as recently explained in the December 1997 issue of JAMA are actually associated with increased rates of strokes. This book was the first to explain why essential fatty acids are vital to immune function, cell membrane flexibility and anti-inflammatory modulation.

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The Complete German Commission E Monographs : Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines edited by Mark Blumenthal, et al (American Botanical Council, Austin, Texas, 1998)

Commission E - the expert panel of physicians, pharmacologists, and scientists established by the German government - is known worldwide as the unchallenged authority on the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines.

The Commission's therapeutic-use monographs represent today's highest standard in the evaluation of herbs and herb combinations. They are the official government documents used by German medical and pharmaceutical professionals to assess herbal remedies' quality, safety, efficacy, and clinical applications.

Dr Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution : Nature's Answer to Drugs  by Robert C. Atkins

Expect high demand for this encyclopedic survey of nutritional medicine by best-selling author Atkins, a medical doctor and radio-show host. Atkins and his team of researchers make their case for nutritional supplementation as the treatment of choice for most chronic and degenerative illnesses. Part 1 gives the rationale for nutritional protocols versus pharmaceuticals. Part 2, the bulk of the book, covers individual vitamins, minerals, amino and fatty acids, herbs, hormones, and other health-enhancing natural substances. 

Detailed for each nutrient are its actions, indications, individualized suggested dosages, appropriate caveats, and copious references to recent mainstream medical literature. Fifty conditions (e.g., high cholesterol, allergy, arthritis) that respond well to nutritional therapy are listed in part 3. Supplement protocols for each are graded and divided into those most important and moderately important. Stepwise instructions guide the reader into the determination of an individual program.

The Green Pharmacy
by James A. Duke, Michael Castleman, Alice Feinstein

There's still a lot to learn about the healing power of plants, James Duke points out, but what we do know is already prodigious. Much of that knowledge is gathered in The Green Pharmacy, an A-to-Z guide to that relies on plant-based medicines to cure what ails us. Between the listings, Duke crams personal anecdotes from a lifetime of studying herbs, berries, and bark.

The Omega Plan : The Medically Proven Diet That Restores Your Body's Essential Nutritional Balance  by Artemis P., Md. Simopoulos, Jo Robinson

Is it really possible that eating more fat is the key to better health? It depends on the fat, according to Dr. Artemis Simopoulos. The Omega Plan shows, in great detail, the difference between omega-3 fats, those found in fish and some green vegetables, and omega-6 fats, which are found in most meats and vegetable oils. The former have heart-protective and cancer-preventive properties; the latter, he writes, cause obesity, heart disease, cancer, depression, and a host of other ills. Omega-3 fats are at the heart of his plan, along with ample servings of fruits and vegetables. Unlike diets based on deprivation, Simopoulos offers some fairly lush food choices, including an ounce of cheese every day. Best of all, The Omega Plan is bursting with so much useful information about food shopping and preparation that you'll be able to use its advice the second you put the book down.

Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes by Burt Berkson (Introduction), Julian Whitaker

The Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) Breakthrough recounts my 22 year journey through the dangerous jungle of conventional medicine. I have encountered my share of both criticism and praise for my successful use of ALA for a variety of serious diseases. 

The journey started when I was a young medical doctor in Cleveland. I was assigned two "terminal" liver disease patients and told that it would be a good and educative experience to watch them die. Because I had a Ph.D. in a field of Cell Biology, in addition to my MD, I could not just accept the prognosis of the Chief and I called the National Institutes of Health for advice. 

They advised me that in Europe that here were many published papers describing the regeneration of organs with ALA.I ordered the ALA and injected this substance into the patients and I was astounded. They quickly regenerated their damaged livers and went home feeling normal. Since that time, I have treated hundreds of people with Diabetes, patients undergoing Cancer treatment, patients with Hepatitis C, AIDS and other diseases with the same astounding results. 

I think the reason that this amazing substance has been ignored and has not been incorporated into conventional medical protocols is because ALA is simple, cheap and may interfere with the track to expensive surgery. Dr. 

Julian Whitaker wrote that "This is a remarkable book. You will learn about a healing element and the trials and tribulations endured by one of the first physicians to use it."

Flavonoids in Health and Disease
by Catherine A. Rice-Evans (Editor), Lester Packer (Editor)

Presents the latest advances in the rapidly expanding area of research into flavonoids–discussing the molecular, biochemical, and physiological effects of flavonoids in vivo. Highlights the anticancer properties of flavonoids and investigates flavonoid influence on coronary heart disease. 

f" w>Furnishes evidence for the protective effects of dietary phytochemicals against chronic diseases
• shows how to analyze and identify flavonoids. 
• Covers phenolic acid in fruits and flavonoids in medicinal plants 
• Analyzes the antioxidant activities of flavonoids.
• Explains the interaction of flavonoids with metal in biological systems 
• Addresses flavonoid and isoflavonoid inhibition of lipid peroxidation.
• Examines flavonoids in wine, pine bark, the nutrition of grape phenolics, and the antioxidant properties of flavonoids and phenylpropanoids in fruit juices 
• Elucidates the absorption, metabolism, and bioavailability of flavonoids and more.