Modified by Caitlin Shetterfly
Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future by Caitlin Shetterfly G. P. Putnam’s Sons Around 90 percent of food seeds are owned by […]
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The Green Revolution Delusion by Walt Davis & Tony Winslett
The Green Revolution Delusion: A False Promise Written and published by Walt Davis & Tony Winslett The term “green revolution” can be a little confusing because it sounds […]
The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack
The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack Chelsea Green With the growing interest in moving animals back to their natural diets, especially pasture and other such […]
Eat Right by Nick Barnard
Eat Right Nick Barnard Eat Right very categorically lives up to its name. The first category is dairy—kefir, yogurt, butter, ghee, curds and whey—and why you should prefer […]
Vegan Betrayal by Mara J. Kahn
Vegan Betrayal: Love, Lies and Hunger in a Plants-Only World Mara J. Kahn Little Boat Books The most potent argument for vegetarianism is the premise that avoiding animal […]
Vaccination and Naturopathic Medicine
Vaccination and Naturopathic Medicine edited by Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE NCNM Press Vaccination is a hot controversy today but it is not a new controversy. The debate has […]
50 Human Studies By Jim West
50 Human Studies In Utero, Conducted in Modern China Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography By Jim West Western medical authorities insist that diagnostic ultrasound […]
One Straw Revolutionary by Larry Korn
One Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka by Larry Korn Chelsea Green There are many approaches to farming—organic, biodynamic, permaculture, hydroponic, aquaponic, chemical factory farming, […]
The LDN Book by Linda Elsegood
The LDN Book edited by Linda Elsegood Chelsea Green Publishing The introduction gives a very telling glimpse into the world of medical practice. Dr. Cottel of California found […]
Fields of Farmers By Joel Salatin
Fields of Farmers: Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating By Joel Salatin Polyface Farms, Inc. All of us admire Joel Salatin for his pioneering work in pasture-based, multi-species agriculture. As […]
The Big Book of Kombucha by Hannah Crum and Alex La Gory
The Big Book of Kombucha Hannah Crum and Alex La Gory Oh, kombucha! How do we love thee? Let us count the ways! This is exactly what Hannah […]
Psychiatry Under the Influence by Robert Whitaker and Linda Cosgrove
Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform Robert Whitaker and Linda Cosgrove Palgrave Macmillan 2015 Psychiatry Under the Influence is the third in […]
Miraculous Abundance by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer
Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer Chelsea Green Publishing Some books engage the mind. Others […]
Adventures of Andrew Price by Sandrine Love and Mohammed Naser
The Adventures of Andrew Price by Sandrine Love and Mohammad Naser The Adventures of Andrew Price by Sandrine Love and Mohammad Naser Here at WAPF we aim to […]
Real Food for Rookies by Kelly the Kitchen Kop
Real Food for Rookies Kelly the Kitchen Kop House of Bread Books The switch from processed foods to real foods can be a daunting challenge, especially for a […]
Stop Vision Loss Now by Bruce Fife
Stop Vision Loss Now: Prevent and Heal Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, and Other Common Eye Disorders Bruce Fife, ND Piccadilly Books, Ltd. 2015 Unable to believe my eyes […]
Make Mead like a Viking by Jereme Zimmerman
Make Mead like a Viking: Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermented, Honey-based Wines and Beers Jereme Zimmerman Chelsea Green Publishing 2015 Perhaps it is the Nordic blood in […]
Doctoring Data by Malcolm Kendrick
Doctoring Data: How to Sort out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense Dr. Malcolm Kendrick Columbus Publishing Ltd, 2015 Dr. Kendrick lives in Cheshire, England, so his writing has […]
The Statin Disaster by David Brownstein
The Statin Disaster David Brownstein, MD Medical Alternatives Press Dr. Brownstein takes a very logical and therefore unusual approach to analyzing the controversy surrounding statin (cholesterol-lowering) drugs: he […]
Statin Toxic Side Effects by David Evans
Statin Toxic Side Effects: Evidence from 500 Scientific Papers David Evans Grosvenor House Publishing, Ltd David Evans has already given us two great compendiums: Low Cholesterol Leads to […]
Cheddar by Gordon Edgar
Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese by Gordon Edgar Since I am an English-major cheesemaker specializing in raw milk artisan cheddar, I was […]
Beyond Biotechnology by Holdrege &Talbott
Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott University Press of Kentucky Before reading this book I was under the impression that I […]
Grain Brain by Perlmutter &Kristin Loberg
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar—Your Brain’s Silent Killers David Perlmutter, MD with Kristin Loberg Little, Brown and Company 2013 Grain Brain is an […]
Brain Maker by Perlmutter & Loberg
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain—for Life David Perlmutter, MD with Kristin Loberg Little, Brown and Company 2015 Modern medicine has […]
Cure Gum Disease Naturally by Ramiel Nagel
Cure Gum Disease Naturally: Heal and Prevent Periodontal Disease and Gingivitis with Whole Foods Ramiel Nagel Golden Child Publishing 2015 Conventional dental or periodontal approaches to gum disease […]
There Is a Choice: Homeoprophylaxis by Cilla Whatcott and Dr. Isaac Golden
There Is a Choice: Homeoprophylaxis Cilla Whatcott and Dr. Isaac Golden CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform The publication of Whatcott’s second book on homeoprophylaxis couldn’t be better timed. This […]
Vaccine Epidemic
VACCINE EPIDEMIC Louise Kuo Habakus, MA and Mary Holland, JD Subtitled “How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health and Our Children,” […]
Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children
The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children Suzanne Gross and Sally Fallon Morell Illustrated by Angela Eisenbart NewTrends Publishing The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children is a beautifully illustrated […]
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth by Steven Druker
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth Steven M. Druker Distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing This tome has received rave reviews from a number of luminaries, described as one of the […]
Our Daily Poison
Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick Marie-Monique Robin The New Press If you are not […]
Intelligent Gardener by Steve Solomon
The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food Steve Solomon with E. Reinheimer New Society Publishers On my shelf with many other gardening books The Intelligent Gardener stands tall, providing […]
Food: The Light Meat, Dark Meat and the Wishbone
Food: The Light Meat, Dark Meat and the Wishbone By Bill Hyde, PhD, Farmer Many of you may remember Bill Hyde’s wonderful article on the true cost of […]
Freedom from Fibromyalgia
Freedom from Fibromyalgia: 7 Steps to Recovery Leah E. McCullough Fibromyalgia is a serious condition that leaves sufferers incapacitated by pain and exhaustion. Medical doctors are not much […]
Grain of Truth by Stephen Yafa
Grain of Truth: The Real Case for and against Wheat and Gluten by Stephen Yafa Hudson Street Press, 2015 Proponents of countless health-aspiring camps have joined the cacophony […]
Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections: Complementary and Holistic Treatments for Bartonella and Mycoplasma by Stephen Harrod Buhner Healing Arts Press If you tell the average person you have a […]
Funky Kitchen by Sarica Cernohous
The Funky Kitchen by Sarica Cernohous, LAc, MSTOM, BSBA We’ve seen a profusion of cookbooks about traditional diets in the last few years, most of them with many […]
Beautiful Babies by Kristen Michaelis
Beautiful Babies: Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, & Baby’s First Foods by Kristen Michaelis Foreword by Joel Salatin Victory Belt Publishing, Inc. A not-so-quiet revolution is taking place, […]
Cholesterol Is Not the Culprit
Cholesterol Is Not the Culprit: A Guide to Preventing Heart Disease Fred A. Kummerow, PhD with Jean M. Kummerow, PhD At one hundred years of age, Fred Kummerow […]
Defending Beef by Nicolette Hahn Niman
Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production by Nicolette Hahn Niman Chelsea Green Publishing Our culture has descended to the level where we are industriously trashing our […]
Science for Sale by David L. Lewis, PhD
Science for Sale: How the U.S. Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits by […]
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker Broadway Books, 2011 In 2010 Robert Whitaker, experienced […]
Mad in America by Robert Whitaker
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker Basic Books, 2nd edition Well written and researched, Mad in […]
An Electronic Silent Spring by Katie Singer
An Electronic Silent Spring: Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits by Katie Singer Portal Books, 2014 Many people may be doing everything “right” to protect their health […]
Skinny on Fats by David Brownstein & Sheryl Shenefelt
The Skinny on Fats David Brownstein, MD and Sheryl Shenefelt, CN The subject of fats and oils is complicated and fraught with misconceptions—so much so that explaining the […]
Missing Microbes by Martin J Blaser
Missing Microbes by Martin J Blaser, MD Henry Holt and Company, LLC “Antibiotic winter” is ominously approaching. When it arrives we will return to the problems faced in […]
Heal Your Gut Cookbook by Hilary Boynton & Mary Brackett
The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes For Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett Foreword by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride For those of […]
Fermented Vegetables by Kirsten Shockey & Christopher Shockey
Fermented Vegetables by Kirsten Shockey & Christopher Shockey The subtitle of this book is “Creative Recipes for Fermenting 80 Vegetables & Herbs in Krauts, Kimchis, Brined Pickles, Chutneys, […]
Nourishing Broth by Sally Fallon Morell & Kaayla Daniel
Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World by Sally Fallon Morell, MA and Kaayla T Daniel, PhD, CCN Grand Central Life & Style Hachette Book Group […]
Cultured Foods for Your Kitchen
Cultured Foods for Your Kitchen Leda Scheintaub Cultured foods are coming to the fore in our newly food-conscious culture, and Scheintaub’s beautifully illustrated book lavishes a cornucopia of […]
Transformation by Michele Menzel
The Transformation: 48 Days to Eating & Living Naturally for Life Michele Menzel, ND, DPSc Some people learn about WAPF principles and change their diets overnight; for others […]
Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries & Roman Bystrianyk
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries, MD & Roman Bystrianyk CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2014 Dissolving Illusions follows an unusual format, as the authors […]
Get Your Fats Straight by Sarah Pope
The Healthy Home Economist Guide: Get Your Fats Straight by Sarah Pope Our favorite blogger, Sarah Pope of thehealthyhomeeconomist.com, knows what mothers are dealing with these days—lack of […]
Farm as Ecosystem by Jerry Brunetti
The Farm as Ecosystem: Tapping Nature’s Reserve—Biology, Geology, Diversity Jerry Brunetti Acres USA Mycorrhizal fungi are mutualistic fungi that grow among the root systems of plants. This mutualistic […]
Gourmet Butcher’s Guide to Meat by Ward Cole
The Gourmet Butcher’s Guide to Meat by Ward Cole This book is made for meat lovers! Subtitled “How to Source It Ethically, Cut It Professionally, and Prepare It […]
Blood Code by Dr. Richard Maurer
The Blood Code: Unlock the Secrets of Your Metabolism by Dr. Richard Maurer The Twilight series of fantasy romance novels seems to be popular with the younger crowd […]
Small-Scale Dairy by Gianaclis Caldwell
The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market by Gianaclis Caldwell Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014 This how-to book starts off with a […]
Solving the Paleo Equation By Garrett Smith and Matt Stone
Solving the Paleo Equation: Stress, Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep By Garrett Smith, ND and Matt Stone Victory Belt Publishing, 2014 Solving the Paleo Equation is a multifaceted book. The […]
Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life by Chris Kresser
Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life by Chris Kresser Little, Brown and Company, 2013 I […]
Big Fat Surprise By Nina Teicholz
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet By Nina Teicholz Simon and Schuster, 2014 Nina Teicholz has a knack for discovering […]
Back to Butter
Back to Butter: A Traditional Foods Cookbook By Molly Chester and Sandy Schrecengost Intrigued by the principles of traditional foods but perplexed on how to get started? Here’s […]
Death by Food Pyramid by Denise Minger
Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics, and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health by Denise Minger Primal Nutrition, 2014 Death by Food Pyramid contains […]
Sugarmaker’s Companion
The Sugarmaker’s Companion by Michael Farrell Subtitled, “An Integrated Approach to Producing Syrup from Maple, Birch, and Walnut Trees,” The Sugarmaker’s Companion provides easy-to-understand and nicely illustrated instructions […]
Guide to Healing Chronic Pain
Guide to Healing Chronic Pain: A Holistic Approach by Karen Kan, MD Karen Kan, a holistic physician and medical acupuncturist based in Lake Placid, New York, used natural, […]
Grain Brain
Grain Brain. The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar, Your Brain’s Silent Killers by David Perlmutter, MD, with Kristin Loberg Little, Brown & Company, 2013 David Perlmutter, […]
Skin, Tongue and Nails Speak
The Skin, Tongue and Nails Speak: Observational Signs of Nutritional Deficiencies by Donna Burka Wild Many of you remember Donna Wild’s seminar on reading the skin, tongue and […]
Eating on the Wild Side
Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health By Jo Robinson Little, Brown and Company 2013 When you walk into the typical supermarket produce section […]
Low Cholesterol Leads to an Early Death
Low Cholesterol Leads to an Early Death: Evidence From 101 Scientific Papers By David Evans This book is a sequel to Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease: […]
Foraging & Feasting By Dina Falconi
Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook By Dina Falconi, Illustrated by Wendy Hollender We have been eagerly waiting for this book, by longtime chapter […]
Why Stomach Acid is Good for You by Jonathan Wright and Lane Lenard
Why Stomach Acid is Good for You by Jonathan Wright, MD and Lane Lenard, PhD M. Evans and Company Tums, Rolaids, Nexium, the purple pill: if the endless […]
Let Magic Happen By Larry Burk
Let Magic Happen By Larry Burk, MD, CEHP Let Magic Happen recounts the journey of a radiologist from conventional to holistic medicine. His journey includes discovery of the […]
Squeezed by Alissa Hamilton
Squeezed: What You Don’t Know about Orange Juice By Alissa Hamilton Yale University Press, 2010 Ever stop to think why we drink orange juice in the mornings? Or […]
Keeping a Family Cow by Joann S. Grohman
A Thumbs Up Book Review Keeping a Family Cow By Joann S. Grohman Coburn Press, 2002 Review by Sally Fallon This is a practical guide to keeping a […]
Young for Life by Marilyn Diamond and Dr. Donald “Rock” Schnell
Young for Life: The Easy No-Diet, No-Sweat Plan to Look and Feel Ten Years Younger By Marilyn Diamond and Dr. Donald “Rock” Schnell Rodale Books, 2013 In the […]
CAFO Reader by Daniel Imhoff
The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories Edited by Daniel Imhoff Published by The Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media, first edition 2010 […]
Biggest Estate on Earth By Bill Gammage
The Biggest Estate on Earth How Aborigines Made Australia By Bill Gammage Allen & Unwin When the Europeans came to Australia, they were amazed at what they found―a […]
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back by Esther Gokhale
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back Esther Gokhale, LAc Pendo Press, 2008 Back pain is yet another malady that is more common in industrialized countries than elsewhere. We […]
Whole Soy Story By Kaayla Daniel
The Whole Soy Story By Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN New Trends Publishing 2005 Originally published in 2005, this book is not new, and our readers will know that […]
Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard
Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard Pritchard is a seventh generation farmer from the Shenandoah Valley who […]
Get it Up By Sydney Ross Singer & Soma Grismaijer
Get it Up! Revealing the Simple Surprising Lifestyle that Causes Migraines, Alzheimer’s, Stroke, Glaucoma, Sleep Apnea, Impotence… and More! By Sydney Ross Singer & Soma Grismaijer ISCD Press […]
Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease by David Evans
Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease: Evidence from 101 Scientific Papers by David Evans Critics of the cholesterol theory of heart disease will find this compendium an […]
Relief from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea By Tess Graham
Relief from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea By Tess Graham Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books We have had a flurry of books about sleep dysfunction lately. There must […]
Truth about Food By Gillian Drake
The Truth about Food By Gillian Drake Shank Painter Publishing Before most of us were born science learned that all living things emit a weak radiation. Every particle […]
Dirty Electricity by Samuel Milham
Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization by Samuel Milham, MD, MPH iUniverse, Inc. We have polluted land, air, sea and even outer space. I recently stumbled […]
Cows Save the Planet by Judith D. Schwartz
Cows Save the Planet, and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz Chelsea Green Publishers Many of you have seen Allan […]
Extra Virginity By Tom Mueller
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil By Tom Mueller W.W. Norton and Co., 2011 Even if olive oil is not part of your regular […]
Fat Revolution By Christine Cronau
The Fat Revolution: Why Butter and Real Fats Actually Make us Slim By Christine Cronau Purple Lotus Publishing America has been on a lowfat diet for decades now […]
An Epidemic of Absence By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases By Moises Velasquez-Manoff Scribner 2012 Moises Velasquez-Manoff is a science writer who has taken on […]
Stop Autism Now! By Dr. Bruce Fife
Stop Autism Now! A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Reversing Autism Spectrum Disorders By Dr. Bruce Fife Piccadilly Books, Ltd. We have heard from a number of sources […]
Long Way on a Little By Shannon Hayes
Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies, and Living Deliciously By Shannon Hayes Left to Write Press, 2012 Author of Grass-fed […]
Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality by Harris Coulter
Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain Harris Coulter North Atlantic Books In Vaccination Social Violence and Criminality, medical historian Harris Coulter attempts […]
Meals That Heal By Karen Maidment
Meals That Heal By Karen Maidment Published in the U.K. (available at www.endibsnaturally.com), this colorful cookbook chronicles the author’s journey from irritable bowel syndrome to radiant health by […]
GAPS Stories by Medinform
GAPS Stories Compiled by Medinform Publishing Most expectant parents look forward to raising a healthy child, never imagining any serious problems; they picture a happy family life and […]
While Science Sleeps By Woodrow C. Monte, PhD
While Science Sleeps – A Sweetener Kills By Woodrow C. Monte, PhD The title of the book summarizes my impression that except for a few isolated points of […]
Real Food Fermentation by Alex Lewin
Real Food Fermentation by Alex Lewin Quarry Books If you have no experience with real food, and many don’t, one of the first things you will learn when […]
Solution: Homeoprophylaxis By Kate Birch and Cilla Whatcott
The Solution: Homeoprophylaxis: The Vaccine Alternative A Parent’s Guide to Educating Your Child’s Immune System By Kate Birch and Cilla Whatcott Balboa Books I’m worried for authors and […]
Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn
A Thumbs Up Book Review Our Stolen Future By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers Review by Sally Fallon What begins as a scientific detective story–the […]
Herbal Antibiotics By Stephen Harrod Buhner
Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria By Stephen Harrod Buhner Second edition, Storey Publishing, 2012 Those who own the first edition of Buhner’s excellent Herbal Antibiotics […]
Prepared Family Guide to Uncommon Diseases By Enola Gay
The Prepared Family Guide to Uncommon Diseases By Enola Gay Paratus Family Press Imagine waking up one day to a world filled with people suffering from tuberculosis, whooping […]
How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol by James Yoseph and Hannah Yoseph, MD
How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol and Kill You One Cell at a Time by James B. Yoseph and Hannah Yoseph, MD Published by James B. Yoseph and […]
Living as Nature Intended by Dr. Shagufta Feroz
Living as Nature Intended by Dr. Shagufta Feroz Nastalique Publications One common, off-the-cuff mainstream criticism of alternative medicine is that it is not evidence-based. It is not possible […]