Recommended Reading List
Interested in natural health care? You'll find the following recommended books will provide you with valuable, common sense information. Click on the book title to order from Amazon.com.
We have divided our recommended reading list into eight categories, click on your topic of interest to go right to that section:
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Career Health
- Family Health
- Financial Health
- Mental Health
- Nutritional Health
- Physical Health
- Social Health
- Spiritual Health
Career Health Topics:
Failing Forward
The author of 24 books on maximizing personal and leadership potential, John C. Maxwell believes "the difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."
Family Health Topics:
Kids First: Health With No Interference
Book review coming soon...
Reclaiming Our Health
Childbirth is treated like a disease. We’re lead to think health is an absence of symptoms. That drugs cure. And that doctors are god. If you’re wondering how we got here, discover the myths surrounding traditional medicine and how to embrace the true source of healing.
Financial Health Topics:
The New Health Insurance Solution
You no longer need a traditional employer plan to get good, affordable health insurance. The New Health Insurance Solution can help you cut your health insurance costs in half if you're self-employed, an independent contractor, or your employer doesn't provide health insurance (you can probably get coverage on your own for about $94/month—a fraction of what an employer would have to pay for the same coverage).
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend.
The Richest Man in Babylon
Book review coming soon...
Mental Health Topics:
The Art of Living Consciously
The Art of Living Consciously Is an Operating Manual for Our Basic Tool of Survival. In The Art of Living Consciously, Dr. Nathaniel Branden, our foremost authority on self-esteem, takes us into new territory, exploring the actions of our minds when they are operating as our life and well-being.
The Four Agreements
It at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors.
Reclaiming The Fire, How Successful People Overcome Burnout
If you’ve ever suffered burnout, you know how debilitating it can be. This insightful book explains the cause of burnout and prevention strategies to avoid it in the future.
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
During his junior year at the University of California, Dan Millman first stumbled upon his mentor (nicknamed Socrates) at an all-night gas station. At the time, Millman hoped to become a world-champion gymnast.
Nutritional Health Topics:
Empty Harvest
We’re growing more food with fewer people, but the quality of our food is degrading! The authors explore the relationship between devitalized foods and the rise in contemporary diseases and health problems. Eye-opening!
Fast Food Nation
If you had reservations about eating at a fast food establishment on nutritional grounds, you'll have even more reasons after reading this. The section on how beef is prepared for consumption in the US will put you off ground beef! Get a whole new understanding for "natural" and "artificial" flavorings!
The Maker's Diet
Due to his own health challenges that weren’t responding to the traditional medical approach, the author discovered the health and nutritional advice in the Bible. Regardless of your faith or religious beliefs, you’ll find the simple truths will make a tremendous difference.
The No Grain Diet
Takes the Atkins approach to the next level. Recommended for anyone struggling with a carbohydrate addiction. With the emotional support offered by EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) success is more assured.
Nourishing Traditions
A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message--animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.
Physical Health Topics:
Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul
The famous Chicken Soup authors have teamed up with Dr. Fabrizio Mancini to produce a collection of heart-rending stories and fascinating cases of patient success stories that make compelling reading.
The Curse of Louis Pasteur
A wonderful book that explains the rise of the "germ theory" and the fallacies associated with it. On his deathbed Pasteur admitted that it was the "soil, not the seed." In other words, germs cause disease only when our bodies supply a hospitable environment.
Fight For Your Health: Exposing the FDA Betrayal of America
A must-read for anyone who wants the truth about how greed and corruption are dominating healthcare in America.
Fowl! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think
"FOWL!" is an investigative report into how dioxins, POPs and other environment chemicals are contributing to illness in migratory birds, chickens and humans by making them more susceptible to the effects of influenza viruses.
The Great Bird Flu Hoax
The U.S. government is now practically screaming that a new avian super-flu will likely kill millions of Americans. The mainstream media is entirely on board, as are drug companies and other corporations poised to benefit immensely off the paranoia. But there is NO coming bird flu pandemic.
Living The Chiropractic Way
Book review coming soon...
One Minute Wellness
What if someone promised you he could offer a system sure to produce better health and all-around wellness? And what if he further dared to say he could do this in just one minute a day? You'd say that person was crazy, right? But Dr. Ben Lerner has done just that.
Social Health Topics:
The Introvert Advantage How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
If you’re an introvert, it’s not just a personality trait. It is likely a chemistry. You may just be more sensitive to dopamine than your life-of-the-party friend!
Spiritual Health Topics:
Count Your Blessings
Book review coming soon...
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Everyone loves a good fable, and this is certainly one. The protagonist is Julian Mantle, a high-profile attorney with a whacked-out schedule and a shameful set of spiritual priorities.
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Teilhard de Chardin said, "We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Chopra builds on this powerful thought in this recording that expands his life's work in spiritual approaches to daily living.
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