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The Plant Based Solution: America’s Healthy Doc’s Plan to Power Your Health by Joel K. Kahn MD
Our understanding of the whole foods plant based (WFPB) diet is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It is difficult to always keep up with this progress. Dr. Joel Kahn’s “The Plant-Based Solution” is an incredible source book to bring you up to date and to the cutting edge of our knowledge.… Read the rest
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé
Do you realize that the processes that occur in your digestive system are very similar to those that occur in the soil? Both your digestive system and the soil in which plants grow handle the task of breaking down dead plant and animal life to recycle it for new growth, protection from disease, and energy.… Read the rest
The Pleasure Trap by Douglas J. Lisle Ph.D. and Alan Goldhamer D.C.
This book is a MUST READ!
Of all the books that I have read and reviewed in our Viva*Sparkle quest for understanding and furthering health, nutrition and longevity, this book stands above and alone for its unifying of all of these areas.… Read the rest
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook by Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn
This very special cookbook book contains over 125 delicious, life-changing whole food, plant-based recipes as well as valuable cooking information and more. To quote from the introduction: ‘This book is not just a collection of recipes — it is a collection of wisdom around a lifestyle of cooking, family and health‘.… Read the rest
Wheatbelly by William David M.D.
This is quite a remarkable discussion of wheat in the modern diet. As a non-wheat eater I would probably have not read it so soon if not given a copy by a friend who said I needed to read it — she was right!… Read the rest
WHOLE: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell Ph.D. with Howard Jacobson Ph.D.
Perhaps the most important paragraph in Colin Campbell’s latest book, WHOLE, is the last paragraph:
“It’s time for us to begin a real revolution – one that begins by challenging our individual beliefs and changing our diets, and ends with the transformation of our society as a whole.”… Read the rest
TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman M.D.
Ray (a great visionary and believer the possibility of the singularity) and Terry (an outside-the-box medical practitioner who promotes practical homeopathic medicine) provide a nine step program to keep you alive long enough to possibly ‘live forever’. This is a great guide to let you take advantage of the rapid evolution in our medical knowledge — an evolution that is still unknown to too many medical practitioners.… Read the rest
The Fantastic Voyage by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman M.D.
Ray and Terry outline how modern medical technology is opening up the possibilities of controlling our body structures so as to promote greatly expanded life spans.
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The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor by Andy Kessler
In this book Andy reviews the science of nanotechnology as it relates to coming developments in treating problems in the chemistry of the body. Particularly fascinating are developments will give promise of very early detection of chemical malfunctions together with the ability to tune treatments that can be applied in very low dosages and specifically tuned to deal with the malfunctions.… Read the rest