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Pottenger's
Cats: A Study in Nutrition
by Francis Pottenger
Pottenger's Cats is a classic in the science of nutrition. Dr.
Pottenger discovered quite by accident that cats degenerated unless
they were fed raw food. In his 10-year study of 900 cats, he found the
optimal diet for his cats was 2/3 raw meat and 1/3 raw milk plus a
little cod liver oil. If either the meat or the milk was cooked, the
cats degenerated. And if both were cooked, the degeneration was much
worse, and the cats could no longer reproduce by the third generation.
Some of the problems Pottenger found in the cats fed cooked food were:
heart problems; nearsightedness and farsightedness; underactivity and
inflammation of the thyroid; infections of the kidney, liver, testes,
ovaries and bladder; arthritis and inflammation of the joints;
inflammation of the nervous system with paralysis and meningitis. And
in the third generation, some of the cats' bones became as soft as
rubber. Lung problems, and bronchitis and pneumonia were also frequent.
Moreover, the females became irritable and even dangerous, and the
males became passive and lacked sex interest.
Do many of these conditions sound familiar? Pottenger, of course,
realized that his cat studies didn't apply entirely to humans. He
believed nonetheless that his findings for cats did have relevance for
humans, and in his sanitarium he fed his patients much raw food, with
considerable success. Weston A. Price reported in his book, "Nutrition
and Physical Degeneration" that all of the people's he studied
worldwide included much raw food in their traditional diets and were
almost entirely free of the degenerative diseases that are rampant in
our junk food society, such as tooth decay, heart disease, stroke,
cancer, diabetes, arthritis, digestive disturbances, etc.
If you want to stay healthy, you owe it to yourself to read both
Pottenger and Price. Their eye opening photographs alone will make
clear to you that you need optimum nutrition if you want to be
optimally healthy.
Paperback, 126 pages. Old Price - $8.00 NOW $4.50
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Healing
with Whole Foods: Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition
by Pail Pitchford
This book brings together authentic traditions of Asian medicine with
current western reserach on health and nutrition to create the most
detailed sourcebook available on planning and preparing an optimal
diet. This comprehensive reference work features:
- Current guidelines on nutrition basics such as the protein/vitamin
B12 group, fats and oils, sugars and sweeteners, water, salt, seaweeds,
"green food" (micro-algae and cereal grasses), calcium, oxygen, and
other nutrition concerns.
- Clear discussions of the Chinese healing arts applied to physical and
emotional conditions, including the Eight Principles (Six Divisions of
Yin and Yang), Five Elements, and syndromes of the internal organs.
- Information on making a gentle transition from a diet based on animal
products to one centered on whole grains and fresh vegetables. Over 300
hearty, purely vegetarian (vegan) recipes, as well as the healing
properties of plant and animal foods.
- Sections on weight loss, heart and vascular renewal, female health,
digestive problems, candida yeast infections, root canals, food
combining, fasting, children, pregnancy, and aging. Includes insights
from Ayurvedic medicine of India.
- Detailed "Regeneration Diet" and herbal treatments for cancer,
arthritis, mental illness, drug and alchol abuse, AIDS, and other
degenerative conditions. Also features a "Parasite Purge Program"
tailored to specific body types.
"I am grateful for Paul Pitchford for updating the classic Healing
with Whole Foods. If I could choose one book to recommend to
students of the healing arts, this would be the one. Even more
important than the wealth of botanical information is Pitchford's
alignment with spiritual purpose - to inspire peaceful, balanced diet
and life patterns as a viable antidote to stress and dissipation." -
Edward Bauuman, Ph.D., Direction, Partners in Health, Cotati, California
"Paul Pitchford reminds us that all nutrients are available in
unadulterated whole foods. It couldn't be any simpler; the basis of
life is a whole foods diet." Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D., author of Natural
Perscriptions for Common Ailments
Paperback, 656 pages Old Price - $35.00 NOW $21
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Traditional
Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with
Native Nutrition
by Ronald F. Schmid, N.D.
Modern medicine now recognizes that the present-day Western diet is
responsible for many of today's chronic illnesses. Nutritionists and
anthropologists have noted the decline in health that accompanies
indigenous peoples' transition from traditional to modern diets. In Traditional
Foods Are Your Best Medicine, Ron Schmidt explains how a
return to a traditional diet can help you reduce your risk of heart
attack by 50 percent; fight allergies, chronic fatigue, arthritis, skin
problems, and head-aches; recover from colds and flu in a day or two;
and increase your life-expectancy. Chapters focusing on the major food
groups, common diets, and health goals enable you to tailor a diet to
your special needs.
Paperback, 270 pages, Old Price - $15 NOW $9
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Nutrition
and Physical Degeneration
by Weston A. Price, D.D.S.
Circling the world in the 1920s and '30s, Dr. Price and his wife found
the same sinister pattern among "primitive" populations, whether
isolated Irish fisherman, tribal Africans, Pacific Islanders, Eskimos,
North and South American Indians or Australian Aborigines.
Those groups that followed their traditional nature-based diets enjoyed
good health and vigor, and those that turned to the "civilized" diet of
processed, sugar-laden foods soon developed a variety of ills,
including misshapen bones and teeth- and the situation worsened with
each generation.
Dr. Price's fascinating accounts of his discoveries, and the extensive
photo documentation he provides, drive home the nutritional truths that
are only now gaining general understanding, and Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration remains an unequaled source of basic information- a "must
for anyone seriously interested in the effects of food on health."
(Robert M. Cathcart, M.D.)
Paperback, 524 pages, Old Price - $20 NOW $12
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