BOOKS that Changed the way we EAT!

These are 8 of the 12 books I read in just two months, all purchased from Real Foods Market.

Of these, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration affected me the most. For a long time I had carried a quiet animosity toward God — I blamed Him for human suffering, and I couldn't understand why people, like those I'd seen in Chile with such poor dental health, had to suffer that way. Reading Dr. Price's work completely healed that animosity. Seeing that so much of this decline traced back to modern, processed foods displacing the traditional diets that had kept people healthy for generations reframed the suffering for me: it wasn't God's doing, but the consequence of how far we'd drifted from the nourishment we were meant to have.

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Price, Weston A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. 6th ed. La Mesa, CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Inc. (P.O. Box 2614, La Mesa, CA 91943-2614). Originally published 1939.
A dentist's landmark field study from the 1930s comparing isolated traditional communities eating ancestral diets against those eating modern processed foods, documenting the decline in dental and physical health that followed the "displacing foods of modern commerce."

Rubin, Jordan S. Patient Heal Thyself: A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom with Groundbreaking Clinical Research. Topanga, CA: Freedom Press, 2003.
Rubin's account of recovering from severe Crohn's disease through whole, traditional foods and probiotics, laying out his "Biblical" and ancestral approach to gut health and healing.

Rubin, Jordan S. The Maker's Diet. Lake Mary, FL: Siloam, 2004.
A 40-day health program blending Biblical dietary principles with traditional-foods nutrition, covering diet, hygiene, and lifestyle for whole-body wellness.

Pottenger, Francis M., Jr. Pottenger's Cats: A Study in Nutrition. La Mesa, CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, 1983.
A compilation of Dr. Pottenger's classic 1932–1942 feeding experiments showing how cats fed cooked/processed diets deteriorated across generations while those on raw, whole foods thrived — a foundational reference on the effects of food quality.

Schmid, Ronald F. Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1997. Originally published 1987.
A naturopathic physician's case for eating the animal, sea, and vegetable foods of traditional cultures, drawing heavily on Price's and Pottenger's work to argue for nutrient-dense ancestral eating.

Widtsoe, John A., and Leah D. Widtsoe. The Word of Wisdom: A Modern Interpretation. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1937.
An interpretation of the Latter-day Saint health code (the "Word of Wisdom") in light of early-20th-century nutritional science, connecting scriptural dietary guidance to the nutrition of the day.

Schmid, Ron. The Untold Story of Milk: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food — Raw Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows. Washington, DC: NewTrends Publishing, 2003 (revised and updated 2009).
A history and defense of raw milk, tracing the shift from pasture-fed dairy to industrial milk and making the health and political case for traditional, unprocessed dairy.

Wigmore, Ann. The Sprouting Book: How to Grow and Use Sprouts to Maximize Your Health and Vitality. Wayne, NJ: Avery Publishing Group, 1986.
A practical guide to growing and eating sprouts as living, enzyme-rich foods, from a pioneer of the living-foods and wheatgrass movement.

Just a reminder, that due to what I learned from these books, I took all processed food out of my home, filled it with real food and in four months I cancelled my appointment with the "MS Expert".