Living & Eating to Regain Health
I’ve come a long way from the weak, headachy, chronically tired at-times-bed-ridden stuck-at-home pale person I was 4 years ago. Now I’m energetic all day long, my skin is clear, I no longer bruise easily, and most days I can keep up with my toddler. To be sure, I still have some significant health issues that are not fully gone (I’ll talk about that more later), but I’ve made some serious improvements in how I feel. How did I do this? This web page is dedicated to listing the resources I found most useful in my journey towards health.
Websites
Sites with information about healthy eating:
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Weston
Price. The Weston Price website has a WEALTH of information about healthy eating. Don’t be put off if some of it contradicts
what you’ve learned in school and in magazines – this is the real deal when it
comes to nutrition!
www.westonaprice.org
I would start with the following articles:
o Dietary Guidelines: http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/dietguidelines.html
o What’s wrong with common wisdom regarding food: http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/pcnutrition.html
o Fat is key to health! Read about it here: http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/index.html
· Wild Fermentation. http://www.wildfermentation.com/
Sites with information about how to nurture your body, and give it what it needs to be healed:
· Healing Naturally with Bee: http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php (lots of great health advice here)
· Susun Weed: http://www.susunweed.com/ (good info about getting minerals from herbal infusions)
· Diet & Lifestyle changes to prevent disease: http://www.ultraprevention.com/prevention/prevention.htm
Sites with information about how to reduce toxin exposures:
· Environmental Working Group (EWG) website: http://www.ewg.org/ (An important site with information that will help you identify toxins in your food & environment –
· EWG’s Skin Deep database http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/splash.php?URI=%2Findex.php (find out about the safety of your personal products)
· EWG’s Shopper’s guide: http://www.foodnews.org/ (which produce has the least pesticide residue)
Sites that help you clean up your environment:
· The Green Guide Smart Shopper’s cards:
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The Dirty Dozen Chemicals in
Cosmetics
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Produce SSC:
Top 10 Fruits and Vegetables to Buy Organic
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Plastics SSC:
Safer Plastics for Storing Foods
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Dirty Dozen SSC: The Dirty Dozen
Ingredients In Personal Care Products
· How to choose plastic:
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EWG –
skin deep website
Book Recommendations
Books that teach you about how to nourish and heal your body
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The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates – a great book on healing the gut (something you
need to do if you have allergies, migraines, parasites, constipation, skin
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Ultraprevention: The
6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life by Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis -- Nicole's a great book on
making lifestyle & diet changes to recover your health and prevent
illness. I disagree with it on two
issues: 1) it recommends soy, and soy is bad for you, except in small amounts
and only then if it is prepared traditionally (eg, fermented) and 2) animal
fats from grass-fed animals are quite healthy, even the saturated fats. See the Weston Price website or Mary Enig’s
books for more info. So many other
books are just parroting conventional wisdom when they say to avoid saturated
fats. |
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Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS, and Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
-- why animal foods are good (with study data) |
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Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving
Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition by Ronald F. Schmid -- why animal foods are good for you |
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Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats by Mary Enig and Sally Fallon – Mary Enig is the authority if you want to know about fats. the author. This book is more accessible than Know Your Fats, which is more technical. |
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Know Your Fats : The
Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol
by Mary G. Enig -- science and debunking of conventional wisdom |
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The Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael R. Eades and Mary Dan Eades -- this diet is too
extreme for long-term, because you need carbs, including starchy vegetables,
for adrenal health. However, this is still a nice book with lots of good
information. |
Cookbooks
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Nourishing Traditions: The
Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet
Dictocrats by Sally Fallon -- a
cookbook on the only healthy way to eat |
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Bones:
Recipes, History, and Lore If you are learning how to cook in a
traditional style, I recommend you read this book. It can help you come to terms with cooking
with bones. The recipes are a bit
fancy (I tend to dumb them down), but they taste fabulous (even dumbed
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Wild Fermentation Wild Fermentation is “the” source of information on how to produce fermented foods. Fermented foods have many many health benefits (see the website, or the Weston price website, for articles). |
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Local sources of high-quality foods
Contact me (Nicole @ nuclearmonkey.com) for more info.
* local, in this case, means
relative to the suburbs east of seattle
Get involved:
Take a class, get linked in, get help!
· Meals that Heal. Lenna’s website has a few recipes, and she offers classes in traditional cooking: http://www.ntmealsthatheal.com/index.htm
· Raw Gorgeous. Shonagh provides traditional cooking/healing guidance through classes & one on one sessions. http://www.rawgorgeous.com/
Meet locals with similar interest!
· Go to a Weston price chapter meeting
· Contact someone who is active with Weston Price, healing & nutrition:
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Shonagh Home, NTP |
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Jennifer Adler M.S.,C.N. Certified Nutritionist, Natural Foods Chef & Adjunct Faculty at Bastyr University 911 Western Ave Ste 305 phone: 206-595-0376 |
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Roy
Ozanne, MD (206) 914-3810, |
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Lynn Parr |
Or contact me – Nicole @ nuclearmonkey.com