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We are currently assembling suggested readings. Here are our current favorite books by researchers and clinicians.
The Crazy Makers, by certified clinical nutritionist Carol Simontacchi, details how the food industries that sell us
nutrient depleted, artificially flavored, over processed foods such as white, fibreless breads, sugar-filled cereals and soda
are destroying our bodies and our minds. These fake foods, full of fat, salt and sugar, are contributing to soaring levels of
obesity, hyperactivity and depression in adults and children. According to Simontacchi, we are literally starving our brains
by making bad nutritional choices and simultaneously fueling the industry that is feeding us so poorly. Click here for an
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For a workable, affordable plan to improve and safeguard your own and your family’s health, Food Fight is an indispensable
reference. Dr. Kelly Brownell, Yale professor and world renowned nutrition expert, provides an in-depth analysis of a culture
that provides a healthier diet to its pets than to its children. Dr. Brownell takes a close look at the obesity epidemic and
the toll it is taking on the nation’s health and productivity. He also provides simple, no nonsense advice on how to improve
diet and incorporate daily exercise into our busy lives.
Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills by Russell Blaylock, MD raises many questions about common flavor enhancers that
are added to foods and beverages. Excitotoxins literally stimulate neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG), aspartame, NutraSweet, cysteine, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and often vague terms like natural
flavorings and spice (which may be up to 40% MSG) indicate that a product contains these neurotoxins. Exposure early in life
has been shown to affect children’s brain development in ways that express later as learning or emotional difficulties or a
variety of endocrine (hormone) system problems. The role of these flavor enhancers in the development of neurodegenerative
diseases like Alzheimer’s is also addressed. Dr. Blaylock’s book is not an easy read however it is ideal material for the
Suppers audience because it addresses two of our primary concerns, whole food and the addictive food supply. These flavor
enhancers artificially stimulate the taste buds and the brain, making regular food by comparison less interesting to the
overexcited palate. They are only there to boost sales of already highly processed foods that feed into our mechanisms of
addiction. For the parent of an ADHD child, the recovering addict, the obese or diabetic person who has a dependent
relationship with these processed foods, Blaylock’s Excitotoxins may convince you to turn away from processed foods and
transition into single, whole, fresh foods.
In The Mood Cure, Julia Ross (2002) offers a self-test to determine your "mood type", which indicates which of the main
neurotransmitters you are most likely to need to bolster for nutritional rehab. Your drugs of choice are clear indicators of your
nutritional deficiencies. This book includes contact information for labs that do the kind of testing that may be necessary to
individualize nutritional protocols. Click here for an
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What draws us into addictive relationships with food? In The End of Overeating, David Kessler, former commissioner of the Food
and Drug Administration, examines our national compulsion to overeat. The obvious answer, one that anyone with the problem would
be able to identify, is that foods that combine sugar, fat and salt just right are “highly palatable”, and the vulnerable among
us will eat them in spite of the known consequences of doing so to excess. Kessler offers many practical suggestions for managing
the urges that lead us to overeat, acknowledging that current social norms reinforce overeating and that we must each follow our
own rules until there is a shift in the culture. Click here for an
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The mother of a child diagnosed with “incurable” ulcerative colitis, Elaine Gottschall, offers us an easy-to-read book on reversing
colitis, Crohn’s disease, celiac that has not responded to a gluten free diet, diverticulitis and other diet-related digestive
ailments. Based on the earlier work of Sidney V. and Merrill P. Haas, the book describes the so called “specific carbohydrate diet”.
Diarrhea, gas, loss of weight, excess mucus, cramping, blood loss, and constipation may be indications that one’s body is not
tolerating one’s diet. And central to all these complaints is the likely possibility that the microbial balance in the gut is off
and that improperly digested carbohydrates – sugars and starches – remain in the intestinal tract and contribute to an overgrowth of
problematical yeasts and bacteria. Click here for an
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