Books About Wellness and Holistic Health

Acupuncture for Everyone: What It Is, Why It Works, and How It Can Help You by Ruth Levin Kidson. A review of the history of acupuncture and basics of the body systems and meridians that explains why acupuncture works to restore and maintain health and wellness.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby..

Confessions of a Medical Heretic by the late Robert Mendelsohn. This classic was written by the pediatrician who founded the holistic health care movement in the U.S. in the 1970's. He was the first well known pediatrician to challenge the promotion and use of increasing numbers of drugs and vaccines by children and adults.

Chiropractic: Compassion and Expectation by Terry Rondberg & Timothy Feuling. Explains the purpose, science and philosophy of chiropractic.

Envisioning A Bright Future: Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Patricia Lemer, Editor. For parents and professionals searching for answers about how to help a child with brain and immune system disorders, including ADD/ADHD, autism, learning disabilities and vision problems. Twenty-three contributing authors explore many topics from how environmental toxins and diet can play a role in neuroimmune dysfunction to alternatives for helping children heal and achieve a better quality of life.

Health Beyond Medicine: A Chiropractic Miracle by Scott Paton. Argues that chiropractic is not just for low back pain but can help improve and maintain health and wellness.

Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy by Amy , PhD., is a well written guide for those interested in learning more about homeopathy, an holistic health care alternative to reliance on prescription drugs, vaccines and surgery.  Provides an in-depth account of the history, philosophy, science and experience of homeopathic medicine. The author also describes how her son recovered from autism through homeopathic treatment and includes other testimonials from many others who have recovered physical, mental and emotional health. http://www.impossiblecure.com/

Special Diets for Special People: Understanding and Implementing a Gluten-Free and Casein-Free Diet to Aid in the Treatment of Autism and Related Developmental Disorders by Lisa Lewis. An user friendly guide to how a gluten and casein-free diet can improve the health and well being of children with developmental delays who are allergic to foods containing wheat flour and milk protein.

Special Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free by Judy Converse. This book explains nutrition-focused tools to help minimize dependence on medicines and maximize health and well-being.

Take Control of Your Health by Joseph Mercola. Advocating personal empowerment by obtaining knowledge and taking action, this book offers good advice from a holistic health physician about how to maintain wellness without relying on drugs and vaccines.

The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There. In this timely and important book, Dr. Paul Connett, Dr. James Beck, and Dr. H. Spedding Micklem take a new look at the science behind water fluoridation and argue that just because the dental and medical establishments endorse a public health measure doesn't mean it's safe. In the case of water fluoridation, the chemicals that go into the drinking water that more than 180 million people drink each day are not even pharmaceutical grade, but rather a hazardous waste product of the phosphate fertilizer industry. It is illegal to dump this waste into the sea or local surface water, and yet it is allowed in our drinking water. To make matters worse, this program receives no oversight from the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency takes no responsibility for the practice. And from an ethical standpoint, say the authors, water fluoridation is a bad medical practice: individuals are being forced to take medication without their informed consent, there is no control over the dose, and no monitoring of possible side effects.

The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing by Gary Null and Amy McDonald. Find out how diet and exposure to environmental toxins can affect mental well being and how increasing mental and physical health can be increased with dietary and other natural approaches to health and wellness.

The Gluten Connection: How Gluten Sensitivity May Be Sabotaging Your Health--And What You Can Do to Take Control Now by Shari Lieberman. Explains how those who have a biological intolerance for eating foods that contain wheat and gluten-containing grains can suffer various kinds of health problems unless they adopt a gluten-free diet.

1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes by Carol Fenster. Described as the gluten-free version of Joy of Cooking, this gluten-cookbook is a big help for families who keep a gluten-free kitchen.

The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy by Dana Ullman. Reviews the history, science and philosophy of homeopathy and case histories of how homeopathy can safely and effectively help restore and maintain health and wellness.

The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma by Jack Challem. Explains how uncontrolled inflammation in the body can cause a variety of health problems that affect physical, mental and emotional health and how adopting a diet that reduces and prevents inflammation in the body can help healing.

Within Science for Sale: How the U.S. Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits Dr. Lewis takes readers inside the US Environmental Protection Agency and how the scientists there have been silenced by corporate interests by political mandates to make all environmental policies under a "cost-benefit analysis." His book uncovers the dirty secrets that allows toxic sewage sludge municipal waste to be spread and sprayed on farmlands that may grow your food or food for the animals you eat.