Ex-ci’-to-tox-in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins explores the dangers of aspartame, MSG, and other substances added to […]
Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections
Brain Allergies explores links between environmental substances (foods and chemicals), infections, and nutritional deficiencies and inflammation of the brain and behavioral dysfunction. This fully updated second edition includes information on the healing powers of vitamin C, amino-acid therapies for degenerative diseases, nutrition and autism, and how “supernutrition” may prevent brain disease. Orthomolecular physicians like Philpott […]
Better Than Vegan
The science is very clear. A whole-foods, plant-based diet is the healthiest possible way to eat—but veganism itself doesn’t mean health, as Chef Del Sroufe, author of the New York Timesbestseller Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook, knows better than anyone. Sroufe managed to reach 475 pounds while eating a vegan diet rich in pastries, peanut butter, and potato […]
The Mood Cure
Ross, author of The Diet Cure, here offers a prescriptive plan designed to relieve a variety of ailments from seasonal disorders, stress, irritability and depression. Ross believes that many of these annoying and, in some cases, severely disabling disorders can be relieved through a change in diet and nutritional supplements. Readers are asked to first […]