We all have them. Those favorite books that first got us interested in Real Food or the one that made it all click into place for us. Maybe it was one that finally resonated with a health issue you were dealing with.
For me it was The Maker's Diet
I actually read that book before my food conversion, but it planted some major seeds, so on the morning when I first logged on to the WestonAPrice.org website, I was primed and ready to go whole hog into traditional foods.
Since then I’ve read many more that have challenged my thinking and brought me even further along in my journey. Oh, how I wish I had more time to read the ones that have been on my pile for too long now. People keep telling me to get into audio books more, and I think I will one of these days…
Which one was it for you, and why?
Tell us about your favorites in the comments!
More I love:
1. Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig: “Weight Loss and Health Recovery using healthy coconut oil. Contains many delicious recipes.”
2. A Life Unburdened by Richard Morris: “An inspiring journey and practical guide to weight loss through traditional whole foods.”
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The best health, wellness or nutrition book I’ve read is Gut and Psychology Syndrome Book because if our gut isn’t processing our food correctly, all other health tips/remedies won’t work as effectively as they could. I’ve been eating WAPF diet for awhile but am on GAPS to help me absorb my food.
I dont know if these qualify for what you want, but I like them and use them regularly. The first is Putting Food By, by Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, and Beatrice Vaughan. The second is Tender Grassfed Meat , By Stanley A. Fishman. Both cookbooks!
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I had read many books on diet and nutrition, including the Maker’s Diet, but NT is the one book that started me down a better path. It will always have a warm spot in my heart.
The book that inspired me to start feeding my family better was “Super Baby Food”. I began by wanting the best for my baby and that is evolving into wanting the best for the whole family, including me.
Thank you for the giveaway. I would love to keep learning more.
to date, Guts and Psychology Diet book (GAPS) by dr. campbell-mcbride is probably the most influential for our family.
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The Maker’s Diet started me out. It led me to NT, which I love. Wild Fermentation, Untold Story of Milk, Eat Fat, Lose Fat are among others.
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I have to jump on the Real Food bandwagon. She really broke it down so well and it made more sense than any other nutrition info I had ever read. I actually read Omnivore’s Dilemma first and that got me sorta started, but Nina just made it all make sense and showed how to make it work in real life.
Nourishing Traditions was my first and favorite. Followed by Real Food for Mother and Baby.
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I’m new to eating traditionally, but the book that started me down this path was Michael Pollen’s In Defense of Food. After that I read, Nina Planck’s Real Food. Currently I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and it’s very interesting!
Nourishing Traditions… because it not only gave me TONS of info, but enough recipes where I was not left wondering what I was “allowed” to eat.
OH! Another book I loved that reinforced what I learned in NT was “Wild Fermentation.” It really changed the way I look at food and it’s “safety.” My ex freaked out one day when I left lunchmeat on the counter for a couple of hours after lunch… he would plotz if he knew the truth!
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Nourishing Traditions was my very first and it opened my eyes, to say the least. I have also read the Maker’s Diet and parts of Weston A. Price’s book. But, NT is the one I return to over and over. I have read it cover to cover a couple of times and often return to it for the recipes and to brush up on things.
I started out with NT and the Maker’s Diet, but I feel like the one that changed my life the most was Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price. That’s the one that really backed up and solidified everything else for me.
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I started my Real Food jouney by following The Protein Power diet and it was through one of those blogs that I found you. I have read “Nourishing Traditions” and “Eat Fat, Lose Fat” finding many useful items in both books. I am still making changes in my cooking to come closer to the NT way of eating.
About a year ago I read the book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver. This wonderful book about how a woman and her family transitioned to a diet of eating local was great! Like you, I didn’t start my transition right away, and still haven’t really. But it did cause an idea to take residence in my brain, and that idea is ever so slowly surfacing into an action. We have decided to join a CSA this year, which is super exciting. So now, reading this book has sprialed into reading many more books, cookbooks, and blogs. I know the end goal, for myself and my family to eat a local, whole-food diet (at a level that is comfortable for us), and now I am just starting to take baby-steps towards that goal. Can you tell that I am excited for this challenge?!
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Can you tell I want these books? They’ve been on my wish list since purchasing ‘Nourishing Traditions’!
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I am a nurse and my favorite class in school was nutrition… but I was always skeptical of some of the so-called healthy advice given; especially about fats and the real value of processed dairy. I was in a store and came across “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why” by Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS. I picked it up and turned to the section on dairy; in the first few words he explained how he was not a fan of pasteurized, homogenized milk… I immediately bought it! It taught me about the benefits of fermented foods and so many other things. My teen-age daughter, who shares my passion, and I have often talked about foods and asked ‘is it on the list?’, meaning the top 150 from this book.
I’ve read many a book in my lifetime that fall into the general category of “heath & nutrition”. Recently, the books that have made the biggest difference to my approach to food are the Nourishing Traditions cookbook and the Eat Right for your Bloodtype book. Based on both of these books, I’ve changed my diet to almost exactly the opposite of the way it was (low/no fat vegetarian/vegan to real food/animal meat & fat/offal/etc.
I haven’t specifically read any books related to real food. I have just started with blogs. I found the blogs because I am trying to improve my health and know I need to eat better. I am trying to find some books through the library but I can’t get them and they are out of the budget to buy.
Hi Kelly. I already own “Eat Fat, Lose Fat” so I am not posting this one to win. More, I would be curious your opinion of the book if you’ve read it. I just recently got it and have read about 80% of it. While I like Nourishing Traditions, I have to question some of the advice in “Eat Fat”. For example, as a jump start, it recommends eating around a tablespoon of coconut oil before EACH meal. That is filling, I’ve tried it. And, there are lots of nutrients in there. But, it just seems like too many daily calories/food needs devoted to one area of food. Secondly, there is just too much about coconut oil. I use coconut oil often but question a “miracle” food. Your thoughts? Thanks!
I’m not one to call anything a “miracle food” either, but I do think that more coc. oil could be beneficial for many. Kent eats a tablespoon a day because we’ve heard it could help prevent Alzheimers, but who really knows since there are always many factors that play into each health issue.
I’m pretty much a newbie to your site so I was wondering if coconut oil gives off any coconut taste? I can hear the complaints from my kids now! I’m not sure this counts as a “Real Food” book, but I read “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver years ago. I loved that book, and re-read it from time to time.
Sorry – I should have said I was wondering if cooking with coconut oil gives off the coconut flavor.
Margo,
It does if you use the virgin coconut oil, but there’s also the refined kind that isn’t as good for you, but there’s no taste or smell. For us, it just depends on what we’re making. 🙂
(Look in my archives for info on both.)
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Wow! K, I just searched for your reply after your comment today on your post. I didn’t think you’d even glance at your comments in a giveway thread so thanks so much!
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Real Food is my favorite, because it’s a great reference for the “why’s,” like why is wild salmon better than farm raised, grass fed beef better than the other, etc… It has all the nutritional info. I also like reading about her personal experience, since I was a vegetarioan for quite a few years, too, and feel so much healthier now that I am not.
Wow, this is a fun one to read. I read “health” books voraciously and have for many years. I have read all the books mentioned except a very few. (Deep Nutrition is waiting on my pile)
Most of the ones mentioned were good for various reasons. I would say Carla Emery’s book was an early favorite when we moved on an acreage. Another early favorite was The Maker’s Diet.
Nourishing Traditions was a foundational book for me. I would consider it my “health” Bible. Good Calories Bad Calories was also a milestone book for me. GAPS really turned the tooth decay in my children around. I have recently read Eatin’ After Eden by Sylvia Zook. I especially enjoyed her book because she validates my number one health book which is the holy Bible. Time and again I have found the health information in the Bible indisputably right!
I started with In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan last summer and that started it all.
Also like, Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson, Real Food by Nina Planck, and Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf.
Have at home An Omnivore’s Dilemma and Nourishing Tradtitions but haven’t started them yet.
Would love to read Eat Fat, Lose Fat.
my favorite book is Nina Planck’s Real Food – it was so well written, an easy read though for someone who just needed the basics and bottomline. Enough “science” and “facts” to prove the point but not overwhelm. That’s the one that really got me kick started and taking it one thing at a time. It made me realize, I can do this slowly, I can change one thing right now and then keep going.
I also had checked out the big NT book, which is wonderful but the first time I had it home it was so overwhelming I just ignored it. Now I check it out every couple months and just read a chapter here and there and take another little step.
Both are ones I would love to add to MY library so I can quit checking them of the local library 😉
I started off reading In Defense of Food by Micheal Pollan followed by Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck. Which lead to many others including NT. I haven’t read Eat Fat to Lose Fat yet but it is on my list…
Real Food is my Fave so far. The way she went from an overweight Vegan to a Real Food Omnivore and how she explains things just made so much sense to me. I reference her all the time. It is like those video shorts from the movie Fathead that you keep linking to, they just work so well to explain things…
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Technically, it was the blogs. Kitchen Stewardship, Heartland Renaissance (which I can never spell right), Heavenly Homemakers. (Too scared of you & Donielle back then.) I’m still muddling my way through NT, so I’ll have to say Makers Diet as well – because I could at least finish that one. I gotta say, though, I find it a bit odd that the recommended supplements have to be ordered … in Biblical times, they didn’t have the luxury of internet and UPS.
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Two of my favorite books about whole foods and healing the gut are katz book called wild fermentation and nourishing traditions. I checked out wild fermentation this summer and really enjoyed collecting fruit from all the trees in town, making vinegar and wine and lots of other fermentations. I am just reading nourishing traditions, I am finding it very interesting.
So many come to mind…can’t choose a favorite! Schwartzbein Principle by Diana Schwartzbein, Good Calories Bad Calories by Taubes, Primal Blueprint by Sisson, and most recently The Perfect Health Diet by Jaminet. Nourishing Traditions must also be mentioned, of course!
I love reading other people’s favorites-I get to add them to my list of books to read!
I recently read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price. There’s nothing more compelling and motivating than reading his research that proves the argument for traditional foods. A great read!
I found the WAPF website, searching for what to do post-Atkins. We knew Atkins wasn’t sustainable long-term, but we also knew that we felt SO much better on Atkins that going back to SAD wasn’t the answer, either. I read pretty much everything that was then (5 years ago) on the WAPF site before I bought NT, so a lot of it was review. I guess the most actually influential health book I’ve ever read was the Atkins diet book, because that’s what started us on this journey!
My husband’s involvement in CrossFit led to us reading The Zone by Barry Sears and that started us down this road. We started bulking up more on proteins and good fats (even though Sears does not distinguish, we knew better than to eat factory fats) and cutting down grains and sugars. That led me to Weston A Price foundation as I was trying to explain my choices to others, since that site has the best research on the ‘net regarding the importance of fats and the dangers of low fat dieting. Of course, then we had to get Sally Fallon’s bible Nourishing Traditions and the rest was history!
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I haven’t really read any nutrition books. Most of my knowledge comes from blogs like yours.
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I am new to the idea of real foods and the first book I got was nourishing traditions and it is helping me get a good grasp on nourishing foods!
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My current favorite is Gut and Psychology Syndrome. I’m learning that our immune system is nearly entirely in our gut and if the good & bad bacteria in our gut are out of balance it will affect our body & mind in a variety of negative ways. Even though I eat a mostly whole foods / nourishing traditions diet now, it hasn’t changed the “lack of health” I feel in my body and mind. I believe the GAPS diet will change this.
“The Revolution will not be Microwaved” by Sandor Katzs. This book touches on many things that other books have missed.
Let’s see, I just finished “Deep Nutrition”, I LOVED it!!! I’m crazy about bone broth and try to implement it at least twice a week. And I ‘m also buying our first order of pastured chickens, I am so excited to find out how real chicken tastes!! I used my precious Christmas money this year to buy four books. Nourishing T (which I checked out from the library and decided to buy it since I kept on renewing it), Deep Nutrition, Wild Fermentation, and The Harcombe Diet. I would love to get my hands on ALL these books you guys are talking about!! Kelly, your on my Facebook, and I subscribe to your newsletter. Although I already have Eat Fat, Lose Fat, the other book looks good.
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, hands down. Eat Fat, Lose Fat is also great, as is Real Food. Love them all.
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Nourishing Traditions, hands down. I read “Omnivore’s Dilemma” about a year earlier, and it started me thinking about these things, but everything finally clicked when I read NT. I read it cover to cover over a couple of days while I was on vacation- everyone thought I was nuts reading a “cookbook” like that.
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I like this post! 🙂 I know my response it REALLY long, but it’s important to me:
I love Jordan Rubin and all that he values! I first got the Maker’s Diet free from a West Palm Beach concert with WayFM. Actually, my mom got a copy and at the time, boyfriend, now husband got one – I just figured I’ll read Mom’s first, and Nicks will be mine one day anyhow, so leave a freebie for someone else 🙂
I have read that book so many times! My sister went through a terrible health crisis, almost going into a coma/dying with hyperthyroidism (which they thought was lupus at first b/c the blood work showed that, but it was just brought on from the thyroid – they never thought to look, and she was losing her memory at that point and had to repeat her senior year of HS with me instead of her class, and still didn’t graduate till that summer…what a journey with so much more!)
So from that, we all went for blood work. I have Lupus in my bloodstream and my brother has lupus and thyroid problems in his blood. My mom has hypothyroid and I know my Dad is sick, but he doesn’t go to the Doctor to check.
As for my lupus, it has never ‘come out’ and I’ve prayed it to go away, and have changed my diet away from all the crappy stuff, as much as I can in America that is.
The first health book I bought though was at a drug store called “TRANS FATS the hidden killer in our foods” by Judith Shaw. Copyright was 2004, so I picked it up around that time, probably after the family health crisis. This was before they started putting Trans Fats on labels. This book was the start to opening my eyes! We ate the SAD diet. My Grandpa owned a business w/ taking care of the McDonald’s computer systems, and when we were kids, we ate TONs of happy meals (my dad worked for the company too, and one MCds was next to the office)…we still have about 2-3 totes full of the happy meal toys, and collected almost all the beanie babies from the happy meals, and do you see my point how much crap we ate?!?! I was surprised us kids even turned out skinny after our growth spurts (except for my sister, her thyroid turned hypo and she gained weight). I learned I was the only fortunate one to get breast milk as an infant too. My mom couldn’t produce for my sister, and she had similac, and my brother was a Csection and my mom was having a tough time with him. So, I got a good start as much as I could.
My mom really thought she was doing her best. She has learned now though to change her diet, small steps, but the rest of the family is trying too.
So, with all that, before I got married, my husband and I dated for about 5 1/2 years – which means, a lot of time at his house. His mom is an old hippie 🙂 So she taught me about homeopathic – although, she was a vegetarian but now she eats salmon, chicken and eggs. With her influence on a lot of things, and the health issues in my family, and picking up valuable literature on health (almost all of Rubin’s books, just recently Nourishing Traditions, and many others) I am understanding SO MUCH more! Which has led me to pursue a career in nutrition. I want to go to school for a degree as a Registered Dietitian. I know the way I think wont be as popular in a class setting, but being well learned in all these areas will be helpful. I would prefer to be a more natural/holistic dietitian.
That’s it. It was a lot of books and experience b/c of what is going on in our diets today.
My fav. is In defense of food by Micheal Pollan.
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I have many, many favorite books. I chose Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan. This book is so simple, user friendly, great for beginnings, an amazing reminder, concise, and spot on!!! Every household needs this book. I give this book to all my clients
Nourishing Traditions for me, too. I’d read other books, so it wasn’t too overwhelming when I got around to that one, but NT was the biggest eye opener about how much food preparation has changed and what we’ve lost with modern, packaged foods. It has inspired me the most.
I am a bodybuilder and the book hasn’t come out yet but I get all my information from a blog (and switch everything to real food). It has a lot of things in common with Eat Fat, Lose Fat.
There is a new book coming out called Alpine Weightloss Secrets that is based on real foods and is really sensible eating and exercise habits from the trim and healthy people of the Alps.
My favorite is The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson. It’s such an easy read. He lays out the conventional wisdom vs. the truth is such an easy to understand way. It my favorite to pass on to others that are just starting to get interested in real wellness.
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I just started my food conversion about 4 months ago. Right now I’m reading Nourishing Traditions and really enjoying it. I keep calling my Dad and telling him things I’ve read. He’s diabetic, high blood pressure, overweight, and on cholesterol lowering drugs.
I got turned onto traditional foods by the blog world, but that’s how I found out about Nourishing Traditions. As everyone on this site knows, it’s been an invaluable resource for me, but I haven’t had the chance to read much else to compare.
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For me it was “From Fatigued to Fantastic” by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD. I read it about a year after getting diagnosed with fibromyalgia and implementing what I learned had me feeling a lot better in just a few weeks. It got me to believe that there was a lot I could do to heal my body and that I did not need to be on prescription drugs to manage my symptoms for the rest of my life.
Celeste,
I also have fibromyalgia and have the book; what do think were the most helpful parts of the protocol for you?
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geez, i have so many favorites! i’d have to say though, that “Good Calories Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes was really got me stoked. Very info packed, and kinda hard to read through…but I LOVED it! Also, then there’s “Nourishing Traditions” a close runner up, by Sally Fallon. I guess I kinda prefer the jam packed info type books….still have to read Winston Price’s “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”. Love everybody’s picks…i have new list of books i wanna read;D thanks!
I read the makers diet and am trying to read real food. I say trying cause I am also reading the bible in 90 days and that takes up most of my free reading time.
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I absolutely love Nourishing Traditions and Real Food. Our copy of Nourishing Traditions is well-worn!
There are so many great resources there, that it’s hard to choose. I think the first book that opened my eyes to a different food world was Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I haven’t read either of the two books that are in the giveaway, but they sound great! (I do have friend who have read them and love them.)
Beyond food/nutrition books, there are so many health/wellness books that I LOVE. In fact, over at my blog I’m hosting a giveaway to win your choice of book on improving your posture. The giveaway ends todays, so hurry on over there if you want even MORE resources in your library:
https://www.thankyourbody.com/2011/01/posture-perfect-and-giveaway.html
Oh, I’ve heard good things about both of those books!
My favorite has been Nourishing Traditions – really opened my eyes up and teaching me about fermenting, soaking, etc.
I’d love to read these new books. My favorite is Nourishing Traditions. It got me started on the whole foods, wellness path. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I have read both of these excellent books, so don’t enter me. EAT FAT, LOSE FAT is actually one of my favorite health books. I have too many–can’t narrow down to one. SINUS SURVIVAL by Robert Ivker has helped me so much to have a better quality of life.
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This summer I read “Deep Nutrition” by Dr. Cate Shanahan.
My family and friends thought I was on the crazy train! For years, I didn’t drink milk from the g-store because I honestly thought it smelled rancid, and the smell would make me sick to my stomach. After reading this book, I found a local dairy that I now get my delicious (no icky smells) raw whole milk from along with pastured beef, pork, chicken and lamb!
My friends and family *still* think I’m on the crazy train, but that book was the beginning. I read it cover to cover, have post it notes hanging out the sides, and marked it up with comments, underlining, etc.
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The first book I read that made me think about what I was eating was Michael Pollan’s In Defence of Food. I was on a lowfat low cholesterol diet at the time. After reading his book I knew this was wrong but I didn’t know where to go. So we went to the bookstore and I broused the cookbooks. That’s where I found Sally Fallon’s NT book. I almost didn’t buy it. I’m really stingy with money and have to be sure I will use it. I decided to get it.
I will admit that while I was reading it I thought I couldn’t follow this because of my cholesterol. I put the book away and forgot about it for a few months. Then one day something made me think of it and I pulled it out and read it again. I very gradually started making changes in my diet. Then I decide to look her up online for more info. That is when I found Kelly the Kitchen Kop and some other real food bloggers. I didn’t know you all were here! I would love to read more books and I do when I find them at the library. I can’t buy everything and I don’t want to buy everything online. Eat Fat Lose Fat is a book I’ve been wanting to read.
I love Gut & Psychology Syndrome by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride. It is about science and food and has recipes too.
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The book Clean by Alejandro Junger got me interested in whole foods and gave me a whole new awareness of the toxins that we put in our bodies through processed foods. Great book!
“Healing With Whole Foods” by Paul Pitchford introduced me to healing with food 11 years ago, but then a local farmer (Nancy) introduced me to “Nourishing Traditions” most recently and a whole food club based off of the Weston A. Price foundation that is around the country. I then got the companion to the “Nourishing Traditions” book, “The Fourfold Path to Healing”. These three books I trust completely, especially anything by Sally Fallon. I am also reading “Gut and Psychology Syndrome” by Campbell-McBride and “Truly Cultured” by Bentley right now, and I may buy them they are so good!
I love Real Food by Nina Planck. It is well written and she really supports her information with multiple references.
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The book that really got me started with a healthier lifestlye is Fit For Life by Marilyn Diamond.
I started from the farming end with questions after reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Then the Maker’s Diet. Would love to read some more………oh the time.
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Nourishing Traditions and Real Food were the two books that kind of started this whole journey for me!
I also began my family’s life style change by reading “The Makers Diet” and “Nourishing Traditions.” These books really opened my eyes and I now realize the importance of the role of whole, real, food in one’s overall feelings of health and wellness as well as immunity. However the book that helped me loose weight and keep it off is “The Diet Solution- The New American Diet” By Derek Charlebois. I have NEVER felt hungry and once I changed (and continue to change) my beliefs and attitudes about food -it is simple to follow the program.
Without a doubt, “Nourishing Traditions”. Although 30 plus years ago, when I first started having babies, a book that my mother gave me, “Feed Your Kids” Right, by Dr. Lendon B. Smith (also known as “the Childrens’ Doctor”, opened my eyes to the notion of nutritionally dense food. He was ahead of his time–many thought of his ideas as controversial. The book is now out of print, but if any of you are lucky enough to find it used, do so. It’s a witty, educational, helpful book.
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The only one ive ever read is the makers diet. It also planted seeds in my mind about healthy eating.
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Count me in to the camp with Nina Planck’s Real Food. I wish more books would actually talk about the NUTRITION in foods, rather than simple calories or “this will make you skinny” or “OMG SINNER YOU WILL BE FAT FOREVER!”
My favorite wellness book is Nourishing Traditions because it tells the whys along with giving recipes.
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“In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan made me really step back and look at what the food we eat is made of and how it effects our bodies. It is written in a simple, easily understood format and reading it just made things ‘click’ for me.
Believe it or not mine was The Encyclopedia of Country Living which introduced me to lots of traditional skills, among them preparing and preserving whole foods from the farmyard and garden to the table. Followed by Nourishing Traditions. I’ve just started reading Eat Fat, Lose Fat. And my first 2011 resolution is to get rid of all the foods that don’t belong in a whole foods kitchen.
My favorite book is Nourishing Traditions, because it is what got me started in real food. A friend gave me hers to read and I was immediately hooked. I had to run out and buy a copy of my own. I’m trying to get friends and family to read it, so a summed-up version would be great!
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My food awakening started with the Eat This, Not That! books. They taught me about what to avoid in processed foods and how to be a discerning label-reader. But the book that really hooked me and started my real food transition was Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck. It is a clear, concise, informative and persuasive book! I didn’t go into it knowing anything about traditional foods or the Weston A Price foundation, so I can really say that Real Food changed my life!
I have just recently started down this traditional food path, so I have yet to read too many books. Right now I am currently reading Real Food- What to eat and why and Nourishing Traditions. I have many more on my list though!! So far I am enjoying and learning a lot from these two books alone! I can’t wait to get my hands on more!
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Cool! I haven’t read those and would love to!
My favorite is The Schwarzbein Principle II 🙂
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I read “Eat Fat, Lost Fat” before “Nourishing Traditions” which was probably a good thing, because the former has condensed much of the info in NT, which can be a bit overwhelming! It introduced me to healthy fats; butter, coconut oil and Cod Liver Oil and, of course, High X-Factor butter. It clicked nicely with what I read in “From Fatigued to Fantastic” by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, a must read for anyone with any symptoms of Chronic Fatigue or Fibromyalgia. I am trying to heal my thyroid and adrenals as suggested in Teitelbaum’s book and as it turns out, Coconut Oil at a therapeutic dose helps heal thyroid issues and thus relieve some of the burden on you adrenals. All fabulous books! “Wild Fermentation is next on my list.
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oh wow! I would love to win those!!
I don’t know what my favorite book would be. Maybe Wild Fermentation, that was the first one that I read cover to cover. Then of course there is Nourishing Traditions. 🙂