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A
Adipose Tissue: (also see Body Fat)
Aging
: (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
Agriculture
Allergies: (also see Enzymes)
Alpha-amylase: (see Enzymes)
Amino Acids: (also see Protein)
Anachidonic Acid: (see Essential Fatty Acids)
Antioxidants
Aspartame: (see Food Additives)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD):

 
B
Behavior and Nutrition
Blood
Blood Pressure
Blood Vessel
Body Fat: (also see Toxins or Fat )
Bones : (see Osteoporosis )
Brain: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Butter

 
C
Caffeine: (also see Diabetes)
Calcium: (also see Vitamins or Osteoporosis)
Calorie: (also see Sugar, Carbohydrates or Fat)
Cancer
Carbohydrates: (also see Glucogenesis, Pancreas or Sugar)
Celiac Disease
Cells: (also see Disease or Essential Fatty Acids)
Cellulite: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Child & Infant Health:
Cholesterol
Colloidal Minerals
: (also see Minerals)

 
D
Deficiency: (also see Nerves or Essential Fatty Acids)
Diabetes: (also see Pancreas)
Diets
Digestion
Disease: (also see Heart Disease)
Drugs

 
E
Eisonanoids: (see Prostaglandins)
EFAs:(see Essential Fatty Acids)
Endocrine system:(see Pancreas)
Energy: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Enzymes: (also see Milk or Lactose)
Essential Fatty Acids: (also also see Energy or EFAs)
Essiac®
Exercise: (also see Metabolism)

 
F
Fat (Dietary): (also see Body Fat and Adipose Tissue)
Fiber
Fish Oil: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Folic Acid:(also see Vitamins)
Food Additives
Free-radicals:(see Antioxidants)
Fructose
(fruit sugar): (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)

 
G
Genetic Modification
Glucogenesis: (also see Carbohydrates)
Glucose
Gluten

Glycemic Index
Gout
Grains: (also see Food Additives)
Growing Methods

 
H
Heart Disease
Herbs
Homogenization:(see Milk)

Hydrogenation:(also see Trans fats)
 
I
Innuit
Insulin
: (see Pancreas)
Irradiated Food

 
J      
 
K
Ketones
Kidneys

 

L
Lactose: (also see Milk or Enzymes)
 
M
Margarine
Metabolism

Milk: (also see Lactose or Enzymes)
Minerals
Monosaccharides
Muscle

 
N
Nerves: (see Deficiency or Essential Fatty Acids)
Nitric Oxide

 
O
Obesity
Okinawans
: (see Innuit)
Osteoporosis

 
P
Pancreas: (also see Diabetes)
Prions:(see Disease)
Polycystic Ovary Disorder
Pregnancy/Infant Development

Protein
Prostaglandins: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)

 
Q

R


S
Salt
Serotonin
Silver Supplements
Skin
Soy

Soy and Infants
Soy and Sex
Sugar: (also see Carbohydrates)
Sweeteners
Syndrome X

 
T
Toxins: (also see Body Fat)
Trans fats: (also see Hydrogenation)

 
U

V
Vaccinations
Vegetarian/Vegan Diets:
(also see Soy & Protein)

Vitamins
: (also see Minerals and Soy)

W
Water
Weight Loss

X
Xanthine Oxidase: (also see Milk)

Y

Z
Zinc: (also see Vitamins and Minerals)

 

Books:
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra, MD, November 1993, ISBN: 0712656731.

America’s Very Dangerous Vitamin Craze, Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D., Bottom Line-Health, January 1998.

Archives of Internal Medicine; William Castelli, MD, Framingham Heart Study, Vol. 152, July 1992.

*Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach, Dawn B. Marks, Allan D. Marks, Colleen M. Smith, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, August, 1996, ISBN: 068305595X.

Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution, Richard K. Bernstein, Little Brown & Company, May, 1997, ISBN: 0316093440.

Best & Taylor's Physiology Basis of Medical Practice (12th edition), Charles Herbert Best;  Norman Burke Taylor , Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 1990.

Biochemistry of Exercise & Training, Ron Maughan, Michael Gleeson and Paul L. Greenhaff, Oxford University Press, NY, 1997.

Biochemistry of Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Membranes, D.E. Vance; J. Bance, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1991.

Biology of Microorganisms, Brock, T.D. and Madigan, M.T., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988.

Body Fluids and Electrolytes, Norma J. Weldy, Mosby-Year Book, November 1991, ISBN: 0801654017.

Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, Jean A.T. Pennington, PhD., R.D., Lippincott NY, 1997.

Calories Don't Count, Herman Taller, M.D., Simon & Schuster, New York, 1961.(out of print).

The Cholesterol Myths, Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, NewTrends Publishing, Inc. Washington, DC. 877-707-1776, ISBN: 0-96708897-0-0.

The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, John Emsley (Science Writer in residence at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London), ISBN 0-552-14435-5, Corgi 1996.

*Dangerous Grains, James Braly M.D., Ron Hoggan M.A., Avery Penguin Putnam, 22 August, 2002, ISBN: 1583331298.

Dietary Fibre: Chemical and Biological Aspects, ed. D.A. T. Southgate, K. Waldron, I.T. Johnson and G.R. Fenwick, Royal Society of Chemistry, Special Publication No. 83.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Avon Books, NY, 1992.

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, Richard Bernstein, M.D., Little, Brown, and Company, NY, 1997.

Doctors Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia, (The), Sheldon Saul Hindler, M.D., PhD., Simon & Schulster, NY, 1990.

Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, Earl Mindell, Hester Mundis, New York, NY, Warner Books, 1985.

Eat Fat, Lose Weight.McGraw-Hill; Keates Publishing, Lincolnwood, Ill.1 edition (March 11, 1999) ISBN: 087983966X

Eight Weeks To Optimum Health, by Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY 1997

Enzymes, D.A. Lopez, M.D., R.M. Williams, M.D., Ph.D., K. Miehike, M.D., published by the Neville Press, Munich, Germany, 1994.

Enter the Zone, Barry Sears, PhD., Harper Collins Publishers, N.Y., 1995.

Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease, Edward N. Siguel, M.D., PhD., Nutrek Press, Brookline, MA, 1994.

Essential Medical Physiology (second edition), Leonard R. Johnson, PhD., Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, 1998.

The Essentials of Biochemistry (Essentials), Jay M. Templin, Research & Education Assn, 1998, ISBN: 0878910735.

Exploding the Gene Myth, Ruth Hubbard, PhD., Beacon Press, Boston, 1993.

Fats That Can Save Your Life, Robert Erdmann, PhD., and Meirion Jones, Bioscience Publishing, Port Orchard, WA, 1995.

Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, Udo Erasmus, Alive Books, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 1993.

Food and Bio cultural Evolution, A Model for the Investigation of Modern Nutritional Problems, Solomon H. Katz, Nutritional Anthropology, Alan R. Liss Inc., 1987.

Food That Would Last Forever, (The), Gary Gibbs, PhD., Avery Publishing Group, NY, 1993.

Gayelord Hauser's Treasury of Secrets, Gayelord Hauser, Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1963. (out of print).

Grossman on Circulation 2000; 101:2777-2782, Gordon Grossman, Cowles Business Media, August 2000, ISBN: 0918110297.

Handbook of Essential Fatty Acid Biology, Shlomo Yehunda; David Mostofsky, Humana Press, Totawa, NJ, 1997.

Harper's Biochemistry (24th Edition), Robert Murray, M.D., PhD.; Daryl Grammer, M.D.; Peter Mayes, PhD., D.Sc; Victor Rodwell, PhD., Appleton & Lange, Stamford, CT, 1996.

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th Edition.  Eugene Braunwald M.D., Anthony S. Fauci M.D., Dennis L. Kasper M.D., Stephen L. Hauser M.D., Dan L. Longo M.D., J. Larry Jameson M.D., McGraw-Hill Professional, 16 February, 2001, ISBN: 0070072728.

Healing Mind, Healthy Woman, Alice D. Domar, PhD., Dell Publishing, NY, 1996.

*The Hidden Story of Cancer, Brian Scott Peskin, B.S.E.E., M.I.T., Pinnacle Press, Houston, TX, 2006.

Human Physiology: Foundations and Frontiers, Schauf, C., Moffett, D. and Moffett, S., ed. Allen, D., Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishing, St. Louis, 1990.

*Life Without Bread, Christian B. Allan, PhD. & Wolfgang Lutz, M.D., Keats Publishing, Los Angeles,  CA., ISBN: 0-658-00170-1.

Lipids, 1994; 29/4:251-58.

The Liver: Biology and Pathology, ed. By I.M. Arias Raven Press, N.Y. 1988.

Magic Minerals, Carlson Wade, Parker Publishing, West Nyack, NY, 1967. (out of print).

Man Alive, You’re Half Dead!, Daniel Munro, M.D. Bartholomew House, New York, 1950.

*Martinis and Whipped Cream, Sidney Petrie, Parker Publishing, West Nyack, NY, 1966. (out of print).

Mathematician REades the Newspaper, (A), John Allen Paulos, PhD., Basic Books, NY, 1995.

Milk, Does It Really Do A Body Good? Dr. Jay Gordon In August 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Milk The Deadly Poison, Robert Cohen, Argus Publishing Inc., 301 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs N.J. 07632, ISBN: 0965919609, Dairy Education Board.

Molecular Biology of the Cell, Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, ke Roberts, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson, Garland Pub, March, 1994, ISBN: 0815316194.

Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Sally Fallon, Mary G. Enig PhD., NewTrends Publishing, Inc., 01 October, 1999, ISBN: 0967089735 (877) 707-1776.

*Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Weston A. Price, McGraw Hill - NTC; 15th edition (June 2003) ISBN: 0879838167. (out of print).

Nutrition for Fitness and Sport, Melvin H. Williams, PhD., Wm C Brown Communications, McGraw-Hill, Dubuque, IA, January, 1995, ISBN: 0697101452.

Omega Plan (The), Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., Harper Collins Publishers, NY, 1998.

Optimum Health, Stephen T. Sinatra, Dell Publishing, NY, 1998.

*Peak Performance, Radiant Health, Moving Beyond the Zone, Brian Peskin, Noble Publishing, 2001. (out of print).

The Physiology Coloring Book, Wynn Kapit, Robert Macey, Esmail Meisami, Harper Collins Publishers, NY,   January, 2000, ISBN: 0321036638.

Present Knowledge in Nutrition, Intl Life Sciences Foundation, July 1990, pp 63., ISBN: 093536840X

Prostaglandins and Control of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation, K. Schror, R. Ney, Springer Verlag, July, 1997, ISBN: 3764356898.

Prostaglandins in the Cardiovascular System, H.F. Sinzinger, K. Schror, Birkhauser Publishing, Basel, Switzerland, May, 1992, ISBN: 3764327014.

Prostaglandins and Control of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation, edited by Karsten Schor, M.D., and Peter Ney, PhD., Birkhauser Publishing, Basel, Switzerland, 1996.

Protein Power, Michael Eades, M.D., and Mary Eades, M.D., Bantam Books, New York, 1996.
Reclaiming Our Health, John Robbins, H.J. Kramer, Inc., POB 1082, Triburon, CA, 1998.

Rats, Drugs, and Assumptions, Majid Ali, M.D., Life Span Press, Denville, NJ, 1995.

Relaxation Response (The), Herbert Benson, M.D., Avon Books, NY, 1990.

Richard Feynman, A Live In Science, John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin, Penguin Books, NY, 1997.

Roles of Amino Acid Chelates in Animal Nutrition, (The), H. DeWayne Ashmead, PhD., Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, 1993.

Scientific Foundations of Biochemistry in Clinical Practice, David L. Williams, Vincent Marks, Butterworth-Heinemann, September 1994, ISBN: 0750601671.

Smart Fats: How Dietary Fats and Oils Affect Mental, Physical and Emotional Intelligence, Michael A. Schmidt, PhD., Frog, Ltd. North Atlantic Books, P.O.B. 12327, Berkeley, CA ,1996.

Stryer’s Biochemistry, 4th Edition, Lubert Stryer, Richard I. Gumport, W H Freeman & Co., February, 1996, ISBN: 0716725606.

Sunlight, Zane R. Kime, M.D., World Health Publications, Penryn, CA, 1980.

Super-Nutrition for Healthy Hearts, Dr. Richard Passwater,. Jove Pubns, October 1980, ISBN: 0515063436.

Textbook of Medical Physiology, Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall, W B Saunders Co., January 15, 1996, ISBN: 0721659446.

The Thin You Within You, Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., St. Martin's Press, NY, 1997.

Timeless Healing, Herbert Benson, M.D., Simon & Schuster, NY, 1996.

Vegetarianism: An Anthropological/Nutritional Evaluation, Abrams, H. Leon., Jnl of Applied Nutrition, 32:2, 1980.

Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte, PhD., Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1997.

Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century, Earl Mindell, Hester Mundis, Warner Books, May, 1999, ISBN: 0446607029.

*The Whole Soy Story, The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food, Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, New Trends Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2005, ISBN 0-9670897-5-1

Your Body Knows Best, Ann Louise Gittleman, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1996.

Journals:
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Dept. of Human Studies and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996, vol. 64, pgs. 667-84, Oct. 1997, 66: 4(S), pgs. 991S-997S.

American Journal of Hypertension, 2001; 14:660-664.

British Journal of Nutrition, 1973; 29:127-137.

Diabetes Care 2002, Vol 25, Iss 2, GB Keijzers, BE DeGalan, CJ Tack, P Smits. Smits P, Univ Nijmegen, Med Ctr, Dept Pharmacol Toxicol 233, POB 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS.

International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders
, Oct. 21, 1997; (10):860-864, International Association for the Study of Obesity/Stockton Press, ISSN: 0307-0565, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.

Journal of Cardiovascular Risk; No. 1, June 1994. Rapid Science Publishers, ISSN: 1350-6277, Antonio M. Gotto, Editor, Cornell University Medical College, Ithaca, NY.

Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2000, 71: 466-471.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 29(2): 302-7, 1997.

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Journal of Hypertension. 15(8): 857-62, 1997.

Lancet, 1994;344:1195-96.

New England Journal of Medicine, 337:1491-1499.

New Zealand Medical Journal, Irvine, C. et al., "The Potential Adverse Effects of Soybean Phytoestrogens in Infant Feeding", May 24, 1995, p. 318.

New Scientist 23 Nov 1991.

Nutrition and the Brain, Vol. 8, 1990:2.

 

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