Knowledge is Power, and books are one of the best ways to obtain knowledge. Add these books to your personal library, and empower yourself (and others) to achieve your health and longevity potentials. Get these books while you can; while they are still in print. Many of these books can be obtained through Living Nutrition Bookstore, and from Life Grocery in Marietta GA, and other fine health food stores. Also check Amazon.com (but be careful; there are many "health" books there that are full of misleading, misinformative, and misinformation).

At the very least, read through this list to see the kinds of "alternative" books that have been written... books that you won't likely find in mainstream bookstores.

Hooked on Raw by Rhio

This wonderful book is chock-full of the kind of information you need to help you assimilate and adapt to the healthiest of diets. More than half the book is devoted to recipes that provide a delicious, gourmet surprise. The other half covers many health-related issues, such as bringing wild foods and organic foods into the diet, soil fertility, food irradiation, genetic engineering of seeds/plants, hybridization of seeds, fasting, rejuvenation and much, much more. Rhio's gentle approach guides you to the opportunity to make major changes in your lifestyle so that you can experience new awareness and vibrant health.

Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's: The Complete Wholistic Guide to Healing the Gut and Staying Well by Dave Klein

Terri Su, M.D. calls this "The blueprint for overcoming Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD)." A. William Menzin calls it "The definitive scientific protocol for healing IBD and IBS and staying well." Zarin Azar, M.D., Gastroenterologist says "The only true way for healing colitis and almost all other health problems. I recommend it to every one of my clients.

Awakening Our Self-Healing Body by Art Baker

Written by the current director of the Fit For Life Institute, this book combines the best of the best-selling books "Fit For Life I & II" along with a myriad of new perspectives and ideas. This is the premier book on modern American Natural Hygiene. Natural Hygiene is a philosophy which promotes raw-food diet and 100% natural methods of healing. Also contains a worldwide list of Natural Hygiene practitioners and organizations. Hailed as "The Fit For Life of the 90s."

Raw Foodist Propaganda by Joe Alexander

This delightful book is packed full of useful information for the living food advocate. WARNING! This book is hazardous to complacency, and may cause "pondering," a shift in deep-rooted habit patterns, insight into the nature of reality, and, in general, the loss of a negative outlook on life! Wonderfully written. Chapters include: The History of Raw-Foodism, How To Become A Raw-Foodist, Some Notable Raw-Foodists.

The Blending Book by Ann Wigmore

This is the completed book Ann Wigmore was working on when she died tragically in a fire. By breaking down food outside the body, blending offers maximum nutrients with less internal effort. This book offers dietary guidelines and detailed instructions on choosing blending equipment and using blending techniques. Many delicious recipes are also included.

Overcoming AIDS and Other Incurable Diseases the Attunitive Way Through Nature by Ann Wigmore

This book is so controversial that Ann Wigmore was thrown in jail for distributing it! In this book, Dr. Ann takes forbidden information and brings it to light. Contents include: How To Discover a New Tomorrow, How To Overcome Addictions, Questions & Answers, What Causes Allergies, How To Rebuild The Immune System, Method of Overcoming AIDS, What Are The Worst Foods, Recipes & Menus.

Children of the Sun by Gordon Kennedy

The first of its kind! This book details how the natural and raw foods movement was transplanted from Germany into California from 1883-1945. Color and black & white pictures, art, and text are beautifully combined in a dynamic presentation. This book contains amazing chapters on raw foods pioneers such as: Louis Kuhne, Adolph Just, Dr. Benedict Lust, Bill Pester, Arnold Ehret, Max Sikinger, John & Vera Richter (who operated a raw-food restaurant in Los Angeles from 1917-1942).

Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert Mendelsohn, MD

Approximately 2.4 million operations performed every year are unnecessary and cost about 12,000 lives. In six New York hospitals, 43 percent of performed hysterectomies reviewed were found to be unjustified. Historically, when doctors have gone on strike, the mortality rate has dropped. These are just a few of the shocking facts presented in this classic. ***

Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives by James P. Carter, MD

Dr. Carter, the head of the Nutrition Section at the Tulane University School of Public Health, has some major objections to the way that organized medicine in America has dealt with alternative approaches. He asserts that there exists in America what amounts to an establishment cabal made up of the AMA, FDA, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, and the prosecutorial agencies of state and federal governments, which has over the past several decades ruthlessly conspired to suppress alternatives to traditional allopathic medicine and its heavy dependancy on pharmaceutical treatments.

Diary of a Health and Truth Seeker by Morris Krok

Humanity's greatest achievement is to be able to harmonize with natural principles and laws. In this work, Morris Krok investigates the wisdom of the universe. The author shares with you his insights about life, health, and the pursuit of happiness.

Dressed to Kill by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer

A look at the revolutionary breast cancer theory and the remarkable evidence to substantiate it -- the link between breast cancer and bras.

Don't Drink Your Milk! by Dr. Frank A Oski MD

Presents frightening medical facts about this overrated nutrient. Dr. Oski concludes that only calves should drink cow's milk. Dr. Oski is Director, Departments of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Fasting and Eating for Health by Joel Fuhrman, MD

A medical doctor's program for conquering disease. This book contains: Precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headaches, hypogycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus, and more. Plus using fasting to lose weight and how to conduct a fast, what to expect, and how to reintroduce to maintain maximum benefits.

Fit for Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

The best-selling diet and health book of all time. This book introduced the concept of Natural Hygiene to the world. It describes the natural appropriation, assimilation, and elimination cycle of the human body and also details when and how to eat for weight loss and optimum health.

Maximizing Your Nutrition by Dennis Nelson

Discover these significant nutritional principles: The difference between food and nutrition, The biological dietary adaptations of humans, The distinction between organic and inorganic elements, That energy and stimulation are opposite phenomena.

How I Conquered Cancer Naturally by Eydie Mae Hunsberger

The inspiring story of one woman's successful fight against breast cancer. This is a courageous account of one woman's march against disease -- from her search for a doctor who was willing to work with her, to the complete transformation of her and her husband's lifestyle and transition to The Raw-Food Diet which saved her life.

Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton, PhD

The author shows you how sugar upsets the body chemistry and devastates the endocrine and immune systems, leading to a host of diseases and conditions including hypoglycemia, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, allergies, asthma, tooth decay, and more. A sugarholic since childhood, the author healed herself of chronic illness by changing her lifestyle. Here is her self-help program to help you lick the sugar habit and enhance the quality of your life. This book is the year 2000's version of Sugar Blues.

Mad Cowboy by Howard Lyman

Plain truth from the ex-cattle rancher who won't eat meat. Mr. Lyman was the man who was on the Oprah Show when she said, "I'll never eat a hamburger again!"

A Way Out: Disease, Deception, and the Truth About Health by Matthew Grace

Matthew Grace was diagnosed with "multiple sclerosis" and "spinal cord degeneration." He was unable to stand or move his legs. Gripped by severe numbness and fatigue, he was crippled and given little hope for any recovery and no chance to walk again. Refusing all conventional treatments and working "from the inside out," this man, doomed by modern medicine, found his way back to health, strength, and vitality. Matthew Grace describes, "If you or a loved one have been told that you are doomed to live with 'incurable' or 'chronic' disease, you have been lied to. You do not have to suffer through the druggings, burnings, poisonings, mutilations, irradiations, and hopelessness prescribed to you. You now have the opportunity to do what thousands of others have done; you can take responsibility for your well being, understand the true nature of disease, the simplicity of health, and allow your body to do what it knows best -- heal."

Milk: The Deadly Poison by Robert Cohen

This startling investigation exposes the misleading representation by the scientific community about milk and dairy product consumption. Even a sip of commercial milk contains a vast array of artificial growth hormones, bovine leukemia viruses, bovine tuberculosis bacteria, and cow immunodeficiency viruses.

Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret

A complete workable program for cleansing, repairing, rebuilding, and maintaining a healthy body. Explains in plain, understandable, simple language the Ehret Method so that anyone can apply it. Though many writers promote similar concepts on health, Ehret's clear, simple, forceful style makes him one of the most likely to inspire the reader to take action.

Naked Empress: The Great Medical Fraud by Hans Ruesch

Co-author of "Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet," R.C. Dini, discovered this book one day at a local "earth" store. He turned the book over and the following paragraph caught his eye: "The ably exploited fear of this dread disease [cancer], caused for the most part by products issuing from chemical, industrial, and pharmaceutical laboratories, has become a solid gold source for researchers, drug manufacturers, and doctors who keep foisting their deleterious 'cut-burn-poison' therapies on the frightened patients...Certified reports of cancers completely cured by 'soft,' drugless treatments, usually based on natural diets, mostly various raw foods, have been piling up both in Europe and the USA." In Naked Empress, Hans, the polyglot author of the smashing bestseller "Slaughter of the Innocent," details the striking ruthlessness of the Chemical (pharmaceutical), Medical (AMA), Vivisection (animal experimentation) industries. He thoroughly documents and describes that the "mystery" of disease is no mystery at all and that the subversive activities of the Chemical/Medical/Vivisection industries deeply threaten the future of all life on Earth. This hard-to-find masterpiece is one of the most profound works of all time.

Primal Mothering in a Modern World by Hygeia Halfmoon

If you search the world over you won't find a better book on raw-food/fruitarian mothering! Hygeia has given birth to three children since becoming a fruitarian eleven years ago. Her wonderful book is a must read for all mothers and fathers. Chapters include: Primal Mothering, Pregnancy, Birth, Bonding, Breastfeeding, Natural Hygiene, and Homeschooling.

Rational Fasting by Arnold Ehret

Professor Ehret, considered by many to be one of the greatest proponents of fasting, tells in this 4-part book how to successfully conduct and complete a fast properly. It is of utmost importance to the health-seeker to know how long the fast should be continued -- and it is of special importance to know the correct manner of when and how to break a fast for optimal results. Also contains "The Definite Cure For Chronic Constipation," "Roads To Health And Happiness," & Fred Hirsch's "Health And Happiness Through Fasting."

Grain Damage by Dr. Douglas Graham

An expose on how harmful a grain-based diet is to both our health and our planet.

The Salt Conspiracy by Victoria Bidwell

Clearly establishing a distinction between the toxic substance sodium chloride, commonly referred to as salt, and the mineral nutrient sodium. Explains the connections between salt usage and the onset of various disease symptoms.

Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew

This book shows the author's revolutionary system of planting in square foot sections to boost vegetable yields. Raw-Foodist George Malkmus says, "I have used this system successfully for years and would never go back to the old row method for most of my garden!"

Sunlight by Zane Kime, MD

Dr. Kime describes in simple and scientific detail the relationship of sunlight to human health. Studies from the scientific literature are described which demonstrate sunlight's effects on lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar; on increasing endurance, sex hormones, and resistance to infection. Crucial dietary distinctions are made which demonstrate that skin cancer is of a nutritional origin.

Take Off Your Glasses and See by Jacob Liberman, OD, Ph.D.

This book revolutionary new book will broaden your understanding of how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses. This book demonstrates exactly how to free yourself from the crutch of prescription lenses, how to build up your awareness and confidence, and how to open up your inner and outer vision in order to see more clearly. Frederic Patenaude, raw-foodist and editor of Just Eat An Apple magazine, affirmed he dramatically improved his vision by reading this book and relearning to see and by giving up his 10 years of wearing glasses.

Super Power Breathing by Paul Bragg

Proper breathing is one of the most neglected health practices. Life Extension Specialist, Paul Bragg, describes the complete philosophy and all the techniques behind super power breathing. The author describes: "Breathing deeply, fully, and completely energizes the body, calms the nerves, fills you with peace, and helps keep you youthful."

What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunizations by Jamie Murphy

Explaining what vaccines are, how they are made, and the toxic chemicals used in their production. Also provides the simple steps parents can take to successfully avoid immunizations for their children.

Water Can Undermine Your Health by Dr Norman Walker

Within these pages the problems associated with drinking water are explained in detail. Impure water is more pervasive than you think. Dr. Walker describes how to choose pure water. He describes exactly why and how pure water heals health challenges caused by impure water.

You Can Prevent Breast Cancer by Harvey Diamond

Written by co-author of the best-selling book: "Fit For Life." This book dispels the current terror and despair around breast cancer and provides a clear and compelling light at the end of the tunnel.

Living in the Raw by Rose Lee Calabro

Rose Lee describes how she lost 150 pounds and healed herself of cancer, chronic fatigue, and gout by eating raw foods. She then lists a couple hundred pages of her favorite raw-living-food recipes! Contents include: Appetizers, Desserts: cakes, candy, cookies, pies, Main Dishes, Pates, Salads & Dressings, Soups. The book is printed on fine paper stock and can withstand even the most outrageous kitchen.

Dining in the Raw by Rita Romano

Rita is a former head raw-foods chef at Hippocrates Institute in Florida. Large book with over 700 recipes and lots of supplementary information. An impressive resource of raw and living food recipes! The last half of the book is cooked foods, so watch out!

The Raw Gourmet by Nomi Shannon

Filled with source information and recipes for all occasions from simple to gourmet, this complete book is all the novice or experienced raw fooder or vegan will ever need on their kitchen bookshelf. The flavors of raw cuisine will bring your taste buds to attention with recipes like apple pie, yam pie, nori rolls, stuffed mushrooms, spinach mousse, many vegetable and salad recipes plus dressings, soups, dips, entrees and more. The Raw Gourmet goes steps further than anything else you have read in showing how to prepare food for ourselves and our loved ones in less time than conventional cooking with flame.

Enzyme Nutrition by Dr. Edward Howell

After 50 years of pioneering research in nutrition and biochemistry, Dr. Howell at last unlocked the secrets of health, vitality, and longevity. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Howell presents the most vital scientific nutritional breakthrough of the century -- the discovery of food enzymes. Enzymes make the digestion of food possible. Food enzymes are essential for optimal vitality and they only come from uncooked foods such as fresh fruits, vegetables, and sprouts. A thoroughly researched, well-reasoned, totally convincing argument. This is the world's premier book for those who are looking for scientific evidence to support The Raw-Food Diet.

The Children's Health Food Book by Ron Seaborn

The awareness children receive at an early age will start them on the correct nutritional path and encourage them to feed their children differently when they become adults. In a comic-book style fashion, the author details the battle between The Health Guardians and The Evil Mucus Gang. Filled with beautiful illustrations. Highly recommended by Nature's First Law.

Raw Family by Victoria, Igor, Sergei, and Valya Boutenko

This inspiring work presents the true story of the all-raw Boutenko family. In their own words they describe the entire family's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual transformation on an all-raw-food diet. They describe how Sergei healed himself of diabetes, how Igor healed himself of poor health and a thyroid condition, how Victoria lost well over 100 pounds. The Boutenkos include lots of their famous recipes along with color pictures of their journeys.

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