In Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time, two leading authorities in psychology and nutrition present a prescriptive breakthrough program based on nutritional supplements, herbs, and simple mind-body therapies that will help to increase energy, sharpen the mind, elevate mood, relax the body, and beat stress. Their […]
Rational Fasting
Arnold Ehret, a German-born health educator who came to the United States in 1914, was an advocate of fasting. Ehret’s interest in fasting began in 1907, when he visited Monte Verità, a health retreat in Ascona, Italy where people went to fast in the early 1900s. In 1909, Ehret fasted for 51 days at Kastans […]
Nutrition and Mental Illness
Believing that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1973 opened the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Here, with a team of scientists, he found […]
McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss
Drawing on the latest evidence about nutrition, metabolism, and hunger, this book is an easy-to-follow weight loss plan places emphasis on a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet while explaining how weight is lost and gained. John McDougall is a medical maverick who challenges medical and pharmaceutical businesses when they prioritize profits over patients. For the past 30 […]