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Neat little kitchen trick

Detox - Environmentally friendly kitchen clean-up

Reducing Jet Lag

Detox - Teflon is hazardous to your health

Health Issues - How hormones, neurotransmitters and steroids work

Detox - How many drugs work

Detox - Mercury, a strong nerve poison

Detox - Nanotechnology and You

Environmental - Worm composting to eat your garbage and feed your garden

The Hygiene Hypothesis

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Environmental - Part 1: Clean Water for Streams   By Karen Munro, M. Sc., Environmental Scientist

Environmental – Part 2: Habitat for Everything   By Karen Munro, M. Sc., Environmental Scientist

Environmental - Part 3: Urban Growth  By Karen Munro, M. Sc., Environmental Scientist

Environmental – Part 4: The Power of Volunteers   by Karen Munro, M. Sc., Environmental Scientist

Other / Exercise - Use your Power, and the Elixir of Youth

Environmental - E-waste and our health

Organ  Health - Adrenal Fatigue

Diseases - Depression

Diseases - Type 1 Diabetes: A New Discovery

Biochemical Individuality

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Environmental - Global Warming - Let's do our part!

Television-watching is a health risk

Dealing with health issues

Health Issues - Coldfire

Detox - Bacteria, the soil, the gut and detoxification

 Diseases - Cardiovascular disease

Health Issues - PMS

Health Issues - Dealing with inflammation and inflammatory conditions

Health Issues - The sunshine vitamin and cancer

Environmental - Bee-population collapse, electric fields, and the implications for our health

Health Issues - Allopathic vs. Functional Medicine

Organ Health - Cortisol, our stress hormone

Organ Health - Thyroid function and dysfunction

Organ Health - Insulin, our storage hormone

Detox - Our toxic body burden

Health Issues - The three keys to prevent osteoporosis

Environmental - Disappearing bees update and stuff

detoxification


Renew Your Life: Improved Digestion and Detoxification by Brenda Watson
this book directly addresses digestive health and disease by offering easy to understand solutions and life modifications to achieve more energy, better mental clarity, fewer toxins, an improved diet and ideal weight. In addition to information on how to cleanse the colon and the liver, there is information on diet, parasites, candida, heavy metal toxicity and more.



Detoxification by Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D
More than twenty-five thousand new toxins enter our environment each year. Detoxification and body cleansing is a necessary commitment in today's world - a way of life - good for health. In this complete encyclopedia/guide of detailed instructions for detoxification and cleansing, Dr. Page shows you what you can expect when you detox; what a good cleanse really does; how to direct a cleanse for best results.



Detoxify or Die by Sherry Rogers
If you have an illness and you have no answer for it, you will probably find the answer in this book. The solutions range from the simple and inexpensive like the "Detox cocktail" up to the more expensive in the FIR Sauna. She offers ways to cope with toxins from heavy metals to endocrine mimics to "mega chemicals" like PCBs and halogenated hydrocarbons.



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women's health


The Garden Of Fertility by Katie Singer
This book is a guide to charting your fertility signals to prevent or achieve pregnancy naturally, and to guage your reproductive health.








The Natural Pregnancy Book by Aviva Jill Romm
(Celestial Arts)Consumer text provides guidance for treating common ills and ailments of pregnancy with herbs and nutrition. Recommends herbal remedies for anxiety, fatigue, morning sickness, and stretch marks. Also emphasizes the components of a healthy diet with natural foods.




Outsmarting The Female Fat Cell: The First Weight-Control Program Designed Specifically for Women by Debra Waterhouse
This book describes in easy-to-understand language, why diets fail. Diets work against women's biology, and set women up to gain even more fat. Waterhouse explains how to "trick" the body into letting go of the fat, and keep the muscle. Waterhouse's advice about coping with travel, restaurant meals, and holiday meals is useful too.




The Schwarzbein Principle II The Transition by Diana Schwartzbein
Renowned endocrinologist Diana Schwartzbein states that degenerative diseases are not genetic but acquired. This means that someone who is genetically destined to die at 100 may not live past age 60 because of poor habits and lifestyle choices that cause accelerated aging and premature death. Conversely, a person can live to be 100 and be functionally healthy. In this book she not only covers nutrition, but also hormone replacement therapy, tapering off toxic chemicals, cross-training exercises and stress management.



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environmental


The Corporation DVD
The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. As the law treats corporations as "persons", the film put the various behaviours of these companies under psychological examination. What this psycological study illustrated is that corporations, as "persons" behave and display the symptoms of the clinical psychopath. Psychopaths typically do not have a social conscience, are guilt free after committing heinous acts, and will destroy anything or anybody that prevents them from attaining the object of their particular obsession - in this case, the relentless pursuit of profit.



Secrets Of The Soil by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
With the environment in such a needy state, what a boon to move away from problems and hear about viable solutions. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird go well beyond explaining how agricultural chemicals are poisoning our soil, our food and us. Spanning the globe from the Himalayas to the Blue Ridge Mountains, they look in on an emerging breed of farmers who, with rousing success, are kicking the chemical habit and going organic ... Secrets of the Soil puts the spotlight on the benefits of traditional agriculture wherein the only chemicals used are the Earth's own. Ann Parson, Boston Herald



Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber
Sandra Steingraber, a poet and a biologist, writes with extraordinary grace and clarity about that most depressing of subjects: cancer, a disease that sends you into an unfamiliar territory where all the rules of human conduct are alien. That territory, she suggests, is expanding as chemically poisoned environments begin to take their toll on their human inhabitants. This interaction between disease and compromised natural zones takes her text into fascinating arguments. Along the way, she looks at community efforts to reverse the effects of carcinogenic toxins, such as an Iowa farming group's decision to replace chemical herbicides with natural methods of pest control, following the principle of the least toxic alternative. She also suggests that with proper foresite we can do much to make our environments less dangerous.


organ health



The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Cleanse by Andreas Moritz
You might not realize that you have gallstones until you read this book. Or, if you already know that you have gallstones but unsure about what the causes are and how to cleanse your systems of them without surgery, this is the book for you. This thought-provoking book is more than an eye-opener. It provides proven techniques to painlessly remove up to several hundred gallstones at a time using homemade natural products which have been used for centuries.



Adrenal Fatigue, The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James Wilson
This is an informative and reader-friendly book about a common debilitating medical condition that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated, and very likely affects millions of people. The book opens with an overview of the function of the adrenals, and how they are prone to chronic fatigue given our hyper-stressed contemporary lifestyles. This is followed by simple at-home diagnostic tests as well as information on the availability and usefulness of different laboratory tests. The book then suggests a daily program for adrenal recovery, and talks about lifestyle, food, food allergies and sensitivities, dietary supplements, adrenal cell extracts, and replacement hormones.



Living Well With Hypothyroidism by Mary Shoman
For millions of people, fatigue, weight gain, hair loss, depression, and other symptoms often go undiagnosed and untreated. Whether you have Graves' disease, hyperthyroidism, nodules, goiter, Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroid disease, or even thyroid cancer, the end result for most is hypothyroidism. This book, exhaustively researched by a professional writer and hypothyroidism patient, is written for patients, their families, their doctors, in order to help them get a proper diagnosis, and to provide information about alternative and conventional treatments.



Achieve Maximum Health: Colon Flora The Missing Link in Immunity Health and Longevity  by David Webster
A healthy colon is the body's first line of defence against disease. In this book, internationally recognized health researcher David Webster presents a highly effective system of improving and maintaining good colon health. You will learn about the power of edible whey to promote the growth of beneficial acidophilus colon flora, the basic principles of a nutritious diet essential for a healthy colon, why fiber is not the best food for your colon, how to regain your acidophilus colon flora after a course of antibiotics, how to increase your energy naturally and much more.


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disease resources



The Diabetes Cure: A Natural Plan That Can Slow, Stop, Even Cure Type 2 Diabetes by Dr. Vern Cherewatenko and Paul Perry
A medical doctor - and an expert in the field - presents a new, alternative approach to curing Type-2 or adult onset diabetes through nutrition, fluids, exercise, and dietary supplements that improve insulin sensitivity. The information presented is straight forward, logical, and written in a very clear and concise fashion that everyone can understand.



The Arthritis Cure by Dr. Jason Theodosakis
Learn about the latest arthritis supplements, including a new vegetarian product, in Dr. Jason Theodosakis' revised version of his #1 New York Times Best Seller - The Arthritis Cure. Theodosakis shares his 9-point system that has provided relief for millions of arthritis sufferers.




Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber
Sandra Steingraber, a poet and a biologist, writes with extraordinary grace and clarity about that most depressing of subjects: cancer, a disease that sends you into an unfamiliar territory where all the rules of human conduct are alien. That territory, she suggests, is expanding as chemically poisoned environments begin to take their toll on their human inhabitants. This interaction between disease and compromised natural zones takes her text into fascinating arguments. Along the way, she looks at community efforts to reverse the effects of carcinogenic toxins, such as an Iowa farming group's decision to replace chemical herbicides with natural methods of pest control, following the principle of the least toxic alternative. She also suggests that with proper foresite we can do much to make our environments less dangerous.



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detox websites

www.metal-free.com  The ultimate heavy metal detoxification. International Academy for Oral Medicine and Toxicology  Education and Organization for mercury-free dentistry. See these videos! www.sunlightsauna.com  Far infrared saunas for detox and light therapy.
www.aerobiclife.com  Colon cleanse products and more.
www.herbdoc.com Dr. Schulze Natural Healing Publications and Herbal Remedies.

women's health websites

www.explantation.com  Devoted to helping women decide whether to remove their breast implants. Read the stories before getting implants.
www.gardenoffertility.com  Learn your fertility signals, so you can avoid pregnancy or become pregnant naturally.
 www.johnleemd.comYour information source for natural hormone balance and natural HRT.
The Menopause and Black Cohosh Information Center  How to reduce menopause symptoms naturally.

dentistry websites

International Academy for Oral Medicine and Toxicology  Education and Organization for mercury-free dentistry. See these videos!
www.halhuggins.com  Provides information and education about dental materials and practices that may be connected to health issues.
www.metal-free.com  The ultimate heavy metal detoxification.

environmental websites

www.gmcontaminationregister.org   Research by country, crop and year, known GMO incidents caused by contamination, illegal release, negative agricultural side-effect.
www.greenpeace.org   Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth needs a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
www.davidsuzuki.com  Climate change, forests and wild lands, oceans and sustainable fishing, sustainability within a generation.
www.planetnatural.com  Earth friendly products for home, lawn and garden.
www.dirtdoctor.com  Non-toxic lawn care and organic gardening sources.
www.acresusa.com  A voice for eco-agriculture.

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