When someone asks me how to start changing their food consumption habits, I usually recommend NOURISHING TRADITIONS, Sally Fallon Morrell and Dr. Mary Enig, both of the Weston A. Price Foundation–which also has a really good web site.
But, this past year, the WAPF came out with a very short little book–their answer to the travesty of the USDA’S food guide, whose formation is driven by the market–not science–and which is guaranteed to make you sick. I really like this little book. It’s an excellent and easy guide to changing your life. NOURISHING TRADITIONS is an amazing book and is chock full of information, so that would be the next place to go in your journey.
WAPF will send you HEALTHY 4 LIFE for about $12. They also have a great shopping guide and lots of informative pamphlets on soy (really bad), raw milk, and so forth.
In addition, Dr. Nancy Irven, after working with high school students, published PLEASE DON’T EAT THE WALLPAPER, available at amazon.com at least for about $14 as I recall. Irven’s goal is to get students to own their own health and diet by first understanding why high fructose corn syrup, white flour, and trans fats are really bad sugar, glue, and plastic. Get those three out of the diet, she explains, and the other bad additives, etc., drop out with them. Irven has a light touch and funny sense of humor, and the high school program she’s been working with on diet has been highly successful.
In short, there’s so much really bad information out there that teenagers, who are often adrift on their own in terms of food anyway, don’t know what to eat. Since this same condition is true for many Americans, Irven’s little book is useful for all ages.
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