Review:Early in Eating Meat, Foer shares an anecdote of his starving Jewish grandmother, fleeing the Nazis and offered pork by a kind peasant. She is dying of starvation but rejects the pork, explaining, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save." While Foer loves his grandmother, the story-teller, the life-giver, and the lover of kosher beef and chicken, he uses her quote as a sort of epitaph throughout his book to pave the way for his conversion to vegetarianism, a conversion that separates him fr... Read more

Review:Having recently read Joel Furhman's Eat to Live, I have already been convinced by the data supporting this book's dietary recommndations. What Lisle & Goldhamer offer are penetrating insights into why we are so reluctant to change our eating habits. Explaining our reluctance in terms of our most basic biological drives, motivations that we share with every living species on the planet, was remarkable. Each chapter holds a couple of "gems" where I thought, "That makes perfect sense--why didn'... Read more

Review:This book helps tremendously in making sense of all the myths, misinformation, confusion, and biases that perpetuate the hi animal protein mindset. So much research has been done, and so much more has been misused and misconstrued. This book will help separate the wheat from the chaffe as it were. Read more

Review:Practicing science requires careful collection of data, rigorous analysis of that data and then following that analysis wherever it leads, especially when the analysis leads into new territory or challenges old paradigms. In "Whole" Mr. Campbell accomplishes those requirements and exposes a lot of conventional nutritional thinking as unsubstantiated at best. Bravo! Read more

Review:Dr. McDougall makes a case for complex carbs as an essential to a healthy diet. He has been consistent in his approach and as many have come and gone his work remains. It is a true path to healthy eating. "The Starch Solution" is Dr. McDougall's signature work. It brings together decades of research and personal experimentation. Read more

Review:An easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, intuitive—and yet, somehow, completely game-changing—way to think about kids' brain development and our role as parents in helping them develop their whole brains. It's full of the kind of info you find yourself finding opportunities to share with other people, unsolicited. Makes the scary world of child-rearing less scary by putting it into a framework that makes sense and can become second nature. I highly recommend this book to new parents and seasoned par... Read more

Review:Read this cover to cover the day we got it, and the hardest thing was picking a recipe to try first!

The use of miso in many of these recipes to replace salt is brilliant - we had the yellow rice & black beans with broccoli as our main dinner course and the miso added a salty kick that we could feel good about eating. It was shockingly delicious and packed with umami flavor. We also made the stuffed sweet potatoes with balsamic-date glaze, so good! This food doesn't TASTE like you're ... Read more

Review:I purchased the hardcover book which is beautifully illustrated with a color picture by each recipe. The print is large enough to be easily read. The recipes give step by step instructions that are easy to follow with ingredients that are readily found in stores with the exception of the Fuhrman seasonings which are optional. I like this book because most of the recipes do not call for soy, tahini, or miso. The three recipes that I have tried turned out well & were enjoyed by my family. ... Read more

Review:This books insight of the injured & misconfigured brain processes is very close to the narrative of those experiences'. The unspoken changes that occur within individuals are brought in a way which everyone can comprehend. Read more

Review:Of all the books on trauma and developmental trauma that I have read, this is clearly the best.

When I finished reading, I had a much deeper awareness of the challenge of healing developmental trauma and many insights about the most effective healing approaches to help others in recovering the lost possibilities for their lives.

Thanks to Laurence Heller, PhD and Aline LaPierre, PsyD for their years of research and treatment, and for the outstanding case studies contained in the bo... Read more