Fasting and Natural Hygiene book list

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Recommended Reading List

Here is a selection of books/videos, to inspire you to start an even healthier lifestyle: trying to eat better, sleep more and exercise more. Plus books on what fasting is, to prepare you for a fast, and to read during a fast.

Free reading

Go to the free Soil and Health Library http://soilandhealth.org - (choose Health Library/Alternative Medical Therapies) for classic books by Dr. Herbert Shelton and other hygienic doctors. Click here for free download of the booklet Remarkable Recoveries from Severe Health Problems.

Recipe and Diet Books

Fit for Life
Fit for Life II : Living Health
by Harvey Diamond, Marilyn Diamond
The international bestsellers, first published in 1985, that introduced millions of people to Natural Hygiene principles. New editions still being published in different langauges, recently e.g. in Japanese. Upbeat, enthusiastic, realistic approach. The perfect help to start a healthier lifestyle. Book one emphasizes weight loss. With recipes.
(Harvey has also written Your Heart, Your Planet and You CAN Prevent Breast Cancer)

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A New Way of Eating from the Fit for Life Kitchen
The American Vegetarian Cookbook from the Fit for Life Kitchen
by Marilyn Diamond
Recipebooks by Marilyn Diamond are usually inventive, and has food geared to children. Optimal food combining is usually emphasized. Many non-vegetarian recipes in A New Way of Eating and Fit-for-Life I/II.

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Vegetarian Magic at the Regency House Natural Health Spa
by John B. Nowakowski
Created by the chef at Dr. Frank Sabatino's Florida health spa, for their thousands of annual guests. Innovative vegan approach.

Fasting Books

Fasting Can Save Your Life
by Herbert Shelton (Introduction M.D. Ronald G. Cridland )
Classical, easy-to-read book, from 1964. Explains how fasting often bring results that many would think impossible. Major examples: common cold, multiple sclerosis, asthma, arthritis, peptic ulcer, migraine, hay fever, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, colitis, psoriasis, eczema, prostatic enlargement, gonorrhea, paralysis agitans, nephritis, gallstones, sterility, breast cancer.

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Fasting for the Health of It
by Jean Oswald, Herbert Shelton (Foreword R.S.Mendelsohn M.D.)
Describes in detail, day by day, a 28-day fast by Jean Oswald, her co-patients, and her change of lifestyle after the fast. Plus fasting's impact on following conditions among her co-patients: asthma, arthritis, hypoglycemia, cancer, eyesight, bronchitis, Hodgkin's disease, multiple sclerosis, eczema, hemorrhoids,schizophrenia, kidney stones, accident injury, scleroderma, drug addiction, psoriasis, herpes, menstrual cramps, uterine fibroid, epilepsy, leukemia, gallstone, diabetes, and more.

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Fasting for Renewal of Life
by Herbert M. Shelton
One of many classical Shelton books on the theory behind fasting. Which may or may not be consistent with modern theories. You can buy a collection of Shelton's books from ANHS for a discount.

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Choose to Live Peacefully
by Susan Smith Jones
For readers interested in the spiritual aspects of fasting. The author decided to go on a 40-day fast, inspired by Jesus Christ, who supposedly advocated fasting for both therapeutic and spiritual benefits. In 40 chapters she examines one-by-one the many facets of a satisfying life: exercise, nutrition, meditation, ritual, courage, wholeness, intuition etc. Each chapter ends with an action-list and an affirmation.

Natural Hygiene General

The Quintessence of Natural Living for Health and Happiness
by Dr. Keki Sidhwa
A classic by the central figure in Britain's and India's hygienic movements. With 40 years of international lecturing, and supervising over 25000 fasts, this collection of articles and talks is unique. Clever humour, poetry, prose, philosophy.
From the contents: "Hair Health, Natural Hygiene Ideas are being Stolen, What is Average is Not Necessarily Normal, The Child is Father to the Man, Loving and Laughing Your Way to Health." - Read some essays at Dr. Sidhwa's website

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Yours for Health : The Life and Times of Herbert M. Shelton
(America's Health Messiah)
by Jean Oswald
The story of Herbert Shelton's made-for-movie life. From childhood on a Texas ranch, opening the first Health School in 1928, persecution and arrests, international acceptance, inspiring Gandhi's fasts, the author of forty books, to his death in 1985.

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Health for the Millions
by Herbert M. Shelton
One of Shelton's many books on nutrition and Natural Hygiene.
Here are some other titles:
Natural Hygiene : The Pristine Way of Life | Superior Nutrition | Getting Well | The Liver and Its Complaints | Hygienic Care of Children | The Myth of Medicine | The History and Principles of Natural Hygiene | Health for All

Special Topics

Overcoming Asthma
by Beth Snodgrass
As an example of what you can find in the ANHS catalogue, here is a booklet with collection of 20-year-old articles on how to be asthma-free without drugs.
Quotes: "Asthmatics are heavy eaters. .. They mix their food haphazardly. This style of eating is the cause of their sensitivity. It is the cause of their catarrh." "The so-called allergy in these cases disappears 'like magic' when the catarrhal state is remedied."

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Quit for Good : How to Break a Bad Habit
by Ralph Cinque
A fivestep plan to overcome addictions. It describes strategies to conquer food, caffeine, tobacco, drug or alcohol addictions. See my special Quit-for-Good webpage.

Also available from the author. Copyright 1991. Second edition 1993. Published by Getwell Staywell America. Paperback 1997. 139 pp.

VIDEO

Fasting can save your life - The Video.
by Terry Porter & Joseph Callahan
Excellent NEW video. Two filmmakers from Idaho bring their cameras when they go fasting in California, on water only, for the first time. Follow what they experience during several weeks, and listen to their fellow patients and doctors. Good introduction to fasting.
VHS, 65 min., 1998. - Available from ANHS, Center for Conservative Therapy, or Advertising Works 1-800-373-7946. Price appr. 19.95

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