Books I Recommend

This first book is my #1 recommendation. If you are going to buy only ONE book buy Lick the Sugar Habit!!!

Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton This is the best book!!! It is very comprehensive and based on numerous studies and published works. Despite the silly title, I found the author to be well organized and non-fanatical about quitting sugar. She simply tells you how sugar functions in the system- which is alarming to say the least! The book covers the effects of sugar on the body's mineral balances, organs, immune system and the development of allergies. It even has a self-quiz and recipes in the back. I recommend that everyone read this book. I learned so much from it. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $4.76

The Allergy Self Help Cookbook : Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Yeast, Sugar and Other Common Food Allergens by Marjorie Hunt Jones The beginnning of this book is great- it describes how to do a rotation diet, talks about the food families of each food, and gives good cooking tips. However, some of her recipes have a lot of ingredients, so they may seem intimidating to the beginner cook. It is a great book for people with food allergies! There are over 325 recipes in here. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $12.76

The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook : The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have by Marilyn Gioannini This is the newest addition to my book family. She describes food allergies in the beginning and then provides lots of good information about wheat, dairy and egg substitutes. This is the best description about how to cook without wheat that I have seen. Her recipes also provide lots of alternatives and options. She has cooked all these recipes for her family and herself many times. The best part about this book is that she shows you how to take a "normal" recipe and convert it to an allergy free recipe. A great skill to learn- I am getting there. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $12.80

Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen : Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet by Lorna J. Sass This is the best vegan cookbook ever. She has lots of cooking education in here and a great resource guide about how to buy/choose, store and cook every kind of ingredient. I have learned to cook many, many vegetables from this book. Cooking has become less of a mystery. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $15.96

Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements by James F. Balch, Phyllis A. Balch This is a great book. It has taught me a lot about herbs, vitamins and foods and how they affect the body. This book tells you how to do a fast, how to self test for food allergies and how to keep a food journal. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $15.96

Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook by Charles Gerras (Editor) This is the Betty Crocker of Natural Foods cooking. If you don't have an "encyclopedia" type cookbook, this is the one to get. Over 1,500 recipes in this great cookbook. It has tons of charts and information about basic cooking. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $17.60

Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin I owe this book a debt of gratitude. This is the first nutrition book I ever bought. It lead to me on the path of exploring what I eat and how it affects me. It is because of this book that I discovered by allergy to dairy products. It explains all the "types" of eating such as macrobiotic, high protein diets, vegetarian, etc. and then goes on to explain her eating philosophy- the health-supportive whole-foods eating style. Some of this book is very intellectual, but it has a lot of great information about foods and how they affect the body. I absolutely have to recommend it. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $10.36

Dietary Management of Food Allergies & Intolerances: A Comprehensive Guide by Janice Vickerstoff Joneja John Kender recommends this book. He says, " It is filled with *lots* of good stuff, including recipes and names of cookbooks for further recipes. Most notably, it includes an interesting chapter on dietary measures for Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, urticaria and angioedema ("giant hives"), migraines, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, asthma, eczema, and nocturnal enuresis ("bed wetting")--most of which at one time or another were considered to be at least partly psychogenic in origin." The book can be ordered from Hall Publications, at 1-888-993-6133, for $30 plus $7 shipping and handling: ISBN 0-9682098-1-5, trade paperback, 360 pages; this is much cheaper than the cover price. Click here to go to Amazon.com and order it for $49

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