Archive for November, 2008

If you want to do a colon cleanse, these are my favorite books on that topic, with links to Amazon to buy them:

Bernard Jensen’s Dr. Jensen’s Guide to Better Bowel Care: A Complete Program for Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management is a must-read for anyone willing to face the fact that the average person is carrying 10 lbs. of impacted fecal material.   The last 25 pages are color photos of what those who undergo a colon cleanse actually eliminate, and I am warning you that it may turn your stomach.   However, it may also be just the motivation you need to get rid of it.   Great information is in this book from an early pioneer in health, healing, nutrition, and cleansing.   Dr. Jensen is a man who lived, well into his 90′s, what he preached.

Richard Anderson’s Cleanse & Purify Thyself: Book 1 and 2.   This naturopathic doctor was on a quest (because of his own desperate health situation) to find exactly the right herbs for a thorough intestinal and parasite cleanse.   He walked around in the mountains for months, with a friend, experimenting.   The commercial products I enthusiastically endorse (because I have personally experienced the promised results, as well as studied the methodology) that resulted from Dr. Anderson’s quest are the Arise & Shine cleanse, found in health food stores and at www.ariseandshine.com.   The products are high quality, and the cleanse truly delivers a comprehensive cleanup of the entire gastrointestinal tract.   Other cleanses I researched are lightweight compared to this one, and the nutritional support is astonishing: I lived my normal, crazy-busy soccer mom/professor/entrepreneur life the entire time I did the regimen, with plenty of energy.   These books, too, contain graphic photos of actual eliminations from cleanse patients.

These are the last three of my general nutrition Top Shelf. (Then we go on to the best books about CLEANSING, the best books for PARENTS, and the best books on VEGETABLE GARDENING.)   Again, if you want to buy the book, click on it for a link to Amazon.

Steven Arlin’s Raw Power, for anyone who wants to build muscle mass or compete athletically  not eating animal flesh or dairy products.   I’m just a girl, not a true bodybuilder, but I love weight training, and this book long ago helped me let go of protein powders and bars and hold my own, strength-wise, with much-younger, carnivorous weightlifting friends.   Arlin has eaten a 100% raw vegan diet for 20 years and would be the biggest guy in most gyms’ free-weight rooms.   His recipes are interesting and unique. (p.s. Those of you blogging here recently about men who need to gain weight, Arlin eats a lot of raw olives, as well as avocadoes, nuts, and coconut.)

William Dufty’s The Sugar Blues was written in the 1950′s in a very provocative and engaging style.   This seminal book is your chance to get up the motivation to kick the sugar habit.   As many nutrition authors have stated, sugar is killing us.   And it’s more addictive than cocaine.   (I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know, am I?)   Even more fascinating is Dufty’s claim that the sugar industry sabotaged his efforts to publish his expose.  

Dr. Edward Howell’s Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept is a 162-page abridgement of this medical doctor’s lifelong work that originally culminated in a 700-page book with 700 references.   It is an old book, published in 1985, reviewing all the scientific literature from the beginning of the 20^th century pointing to enzymes being the most critical element that our diet is now deficient in, as we have strayed from raw foods.   It draws conclusions and postulates scientific theory long before the recent raw-food movement gained any traction. (I am going to do a blog series shortly on what we learn from the studies done on ENZYMES.)

Robyn,

What is the difference between oats groats and steel cut oats?   Isn’t the groat just the uncut grain?   Also, what kind of wheat is bulger made out of?   I thought it was a different variety than hard white or red.   Just wondering? -Monica