In this new, updated edition of Brain-Building Nutrition: How Dietary Fats and Oils Affect Mental, Physical, and Emotional Intelligence, Michael A. Schmidt provides a host of practical dietary information and new, ground-breaking research to support his findings. A remarkable but little known fact is that the brain is nearly 60 percent fat. The book begins […]
The Science and Fine Art of Fasting
Author: Herbert M. Shelton Year of Release: 1978 Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education and “natural hygiene.” He supervised over 30,000 fasts of chronically ill and terminal patients, losing only three. Shelton’s teachings on fasting inspired Gandhi as well as such popular authors as Fuhrman, the Diamonds, Mercola, and […]
The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook
Authors: Jack Bishop Year of Release: 1997 The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating is a uhis uniquely accessible collection that draws together the best vegetarian recipes of Italy-350 in all. ‘Pasta and pizza may be Italy’s most eye-catching exports, but it is the country’s varied and sensible use of […]
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
Winner of four major awards, Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s Fasting Girls, presents a history of women’s food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, “wonders of science” whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and […]