Books and Videos

Book Recommendations 

  • Beating Cancer With Nutrition, by Patrick Quillin, PhD – Demonstrates how optimal nutrition can improve outcome in medically treated cancer patients.
  • Genetic Roulette, by Jeffrey M. Smith  - Documents the health risks of genetically modified foods
  • The Hundred Year Lie, by Randall Fitzgerald – Makes suggestions on protection from chemicals and pesticides, that exist both in the environment and in the food supply.
  • In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollen - Advocates eating simple, whole foods for your enjoyment of food and good health
  • Nutritional Medicine, by Alan R. Gaby, MD – Establishes the scientific basis for nutritional medicine
  • Overdosed America, by John Abramson - Reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threatens the public health.
  • Seeds of Deception, by Jeffrey M. Smith - Exposes industry and government lies about the safety of genetically engineered foods.
  • Selling Sickness, by Ray Monnihan and Alan Cassels – Reveals how the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies are focused on marketing, not curing or treating disease.
  • The Unhealthy Truth, by Robyn O’Brien – Called the “Erin Brockovich of Food”, this is the story of how one mother takes on the establishment after seeing a violent allergic reaction to food in her youngest daughter.  With highly accredited research, she confirms the toxicity of America’s food supply and traces the relationship between Big Food and Big Money that allows the United States to allow hidden toxins in our food—toxins that can be blamed for the alarming increases in allergies, ADHD, cancer and asthma in our children.

DVD Recommendations 

  • All Jacked Up – Exposes the angst of teenagers who discover the truth of unhealthy eating and its effects on the mind and body.
  • Dirt! The Movie  -  An astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our fee.  Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter.  Dirt hold and cleans our water.  Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful.  Dirt regulates the earth’s climate.  Why do we humans ignore, abuse and destroy a most precious living natural resource?   Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, Dirt! The Movie tells the story of humans trying to reconnect to dirt – the living skin of the earth.  Repairing our relationship with dirt can create new possibilities for all life on earth.
  • Food, Inc. – Lifts the veil on our nations food industry, exposing how our nations food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the likelihood of the American farmer safety of workers and our own environment.
  • Food Matters – Uncovers the trillion dollar worldwide ‘sickness industry’ and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.
  • The  Future of Food - An in-depth investigation into unlabelled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have made their way onto grocery stores in the  US for the past decade.
  • GMO Trilogy – Two DVDs on the dangers of GMO’s including the extreme danger of feeding them to our children.  The third part is an audio CD called “You’re Eating What? ” followed by this comment from Craig Winters (from the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods):  “The most powerful presentation I have ever heard on the issue of genetically engineered foods.”
  • Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals – Part II of the GMO Trilogy Series that exposes specific health risks of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) to humans, and especially young children. Click here to view for free.
  • King Corn – Two recent college grads discover where America’s food comes from when they plant a single acre of corn and follow it to the dinner plate.
  • Making a Killing – Containing interviews with psychiatrists, health professionals and former pharmaceutical drug reps, this harsh but uplifting documentary exposes subtle marketing and lack of science in the psychiatric field, that has lead to thousands of deaths caused by adverse effects of psychiatric drugs
  • Seeds of Deception – Exposes industry and government lies about the safety of genetically engineered foods. 
  • Super Size Me – Filmmaker eats only McDonald’s food for 30 days and documents the physical and psychological effects of the junk food diet on his health.
  • The World According to Monsanto – Monsanto’s controversial past combines some of the most toxic products ever sold with misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption.

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