Books that I read in 2008 (top 5 highlighted in red)
The Master Cleanser Stanley Burroughs
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Albert Schweitzer
Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution Robert C. Atkins
Eating Right for a Bad Gut James Scala
The South Beach Diet Arthur Agatston
The No-Grain Diet Joseph Mercola
Killer Diets Laura Muha
The Thyroid Solution Ridha Arem
Syndrome X Jack Challem
The Good Carbohydrate Revolution Terry Shintani
The Rosedale Diet Ron Rosedale
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy Walter Willett
The Midlife Miracle Diet Adele Puhn
Studies in Deficiency Disease Robert McCarrison
Not By Bread Alone Vihljamur Stefansson
*The Work of Sir Robert McCarrison Robert McCarrison
Perfect Weight Deepak Chopra
The Shangri-La Diet Seth Roberts
Fat Land Greg Critser
Diabesity Francine Kaufman
Lights Out (2) T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby
The Nutrient Dense Eating Plan Douglas Margel
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Tom Venuto
*The Age-Free Zone (2) Barry Sears
Syndrome X Gerald Reaven
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Daniel G. Amen
Achieving the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection Brian Luke Seaward
The Bodybuilder’s Nutrition Book Franco Columbo
*Your Body is Your Best Doctor Melvin Page
Cure Tooth Decay Ramiel Nagel
The Anti-Inflammation Zone Barry Sears
Dr. Ellis’s Ultimate Diet Secrets Lite Gregory Ellis
Stopping Inflammation Nancy Appleton
The Sexy Years Suzanne Somers
The China Study T. Colin Campbell
A New IBS Solution Mark Pimentel
Letter on Corpulence William Banting
A Life Unburdened Richard Morris
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution Richard Bernstein
Toxic Fat Barry Sears
Protein Power Michael and Mary Dan Eades
The Ketogenic Diet John M. Freeman
The Omega Rx Zone (audio) Barry Sears
Natural Health and Weight Loss Barry Groves
Ultramarathon Man Dean Karnazes
The Inflammation Syndrome Jack Challem
This Slimming Business John Yudkin
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet Herman Tarnower
Solved: The Riddle of Heart Disease Broda Barnes
Sweet and Dangerous John Yudkin
Potatoes, Not Prozac Kathleen DesMaisons
Obesity M.R.C. Greenwood, editor
The Potbelly Syndrome Russell Farris and Per Marin
Very nice. Man you do like to read, I feel way behind, haha
Thanks Matt! I’m gonna check a lot of these out! Have you read “Real Food” by Nina Planck yet? I highly reccommend it.
Matt,
That’s an impressive list. I’m thinking about reading something by Robert McCarrison. I think his work with the Hunza is the biggest challenge to the theory that wheat can’t be a staple of a healthy diet. Although if I recall correctly, wheat was one of several grains they ate and they sprouted it.
His work with deficiency diets sound very interesting too.
McCarrison is without a doubt one of the biggest contributing authors to the understanding of human health that we dumbasses (speaking on behalf of all of us) have access to.
Removal of wheat can be very therapeutic, as I believe refined carbohydrates and cumulative degeneration that spans over a century can lead to damage which makes the gluten very offensive. But one simply can’t convict wheat outright. Just reading T.L. Cleave today and seeing more examples of how wheat is not the enemy of society, just the enemy of some messed up people.
?Any ill effect which [whole grains] may exercise is due to the failure suitably to combine them with other food materials which compensate for their defects [notably vitamin D rich foods]. They are not to be condemned nor to be displaced from their prominent place in the dietaries of mankind for this reason. As well might we condemn the perfectly good fuel, petrol, for the overheating of the engines of our cars when we fail to supply them with sufficient oil, as condemn the excellent wheat and oats when we fail to consume them with sufficient quantities of milk or other vitamin-rich foods, which are required by the human machine for it smooth an efficient running.
-Robert McCarrison; Nutrition and Health, 1936
Matt,
Thanks for the response. What would you recommend if I wanted to read one book on McCarrison? Ideally it would contain data on the Hunza as well as data from his studies of deficiency diets in humans and animals.
Studies in Deficiency Disease, although he usually talks more of the Sikhs than Hunzas – diet and culture similar though.
What did you think of Lights Out?
Lights Out brings forth some important concepts – the most important being that cortisol is central to metabolic syndrome, and lack of sleep is one of the most common ways to develop hypercortisolism. The book, as a whole, makes too many giant leaps and suppositions in basic science and biochemistry, but it is grounded in powerful ideas and written in a very entertaining way.
Like most books, it contains a healthy blend of erroneous bullshit and major fundamental lessons of vital importance.