Eat Fat, Lose Fat is not your typical dieting book, nor is it a dieting regimen that is over once you reach your goal, this is a lifestyle change with lasting results of weight loss, healing, and great health. When you learn what makes you fat and why millions of obese are actually starving to death because their food, while high in calories, is void in any nutritional value, you will rethink the way you eat. Additionally, learn why so many more millions are struggling with their weight in spite of exercise and diet after diet after diet. Learn why foods like margarine, shortening and trans fats are incredibly toxic to your body and while being promoted as a health and diet food are actually keeping your from health and your ideal weight.

The food industry is a multi-trillion dollar a year business, along with the agricultural industry. They don’t want you to know because your awareness and ability to make better choices takes away from their profit margins.

The body needs good quality fat to survive, yet we are bombarded on a daily basis that animal fat is bad and synthetic fats are good. Yet, there is a startling correlation that can’t be ignored between chronic disease, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer and the introduction of this “new” way of eating over the past fifty years. The more we removed things like raw butter, milk, eggs, lard, tallow and others, the fatter and sicker we’ve become to the point that obesity is an epidemic that is spreading throughout the world as more countries adopt our westernized way of eating. These new fangled fats are one of the underlying causes to the multi-trillion dollar obesity and chronic illness issue we are facing today.

Learn why tropical oils like coconut oil, a saturated fat that is a medium chain fatty acid, is a huge secret to losing weight, as well as, the health benefits it provides to every system throughout the body. Additionally, it is a great way to reintroduce fat back into your diet as it is incredibly easy to digest. And because it is a medium-chain fatty acid the body does not store it or hold on to it either.

This is more than a book, hardly a diet book, but a way of life. Packed with supporting research and information, you will quickly be on the path to eating right and turning your health around. It truly is based on the idea of satiation. Feeding the body what it needs and not starving yourself. Eating adequate amounts of quality fat satiate the body and in turn you eat less, snack rarely, and cravings disappear because your body registers full. Most diets are based on calorie restriction and will power, which never last because as your body starts starving to death you will naturally reach out to feed it. Usually through binge eating and then the cycle of binging and purging begins.

Eat Fat, Lose Fat offers three plans: Quick and Easy Weight Loss (a streamlined two-week program for healthy, long-term weight loss), Healthy Recovery (a program specially designed to facilitate healing), and Everyday Gourmet (a hearty, delicious maintenance program the whole family will enjoy–for life). Reset your metabolism, boost your energy, banish fatigue, eliminate cravings, and fight disease. This is the way we eat and the recipes, if you haven’t noticed, are yummy. Our food is nutrient-dense, rich and easy to digest. There is no starving or punishment here!

Eating should be incredibly enjoyable and a time to relax, connect, share and be grateful. Eating healthy is one of our birth rights yet is a lost pleasure in the name of losing weight. Lose the guilt and get back to enjoying food and eating in a way that promotes health, well-being, and your healthy weight.

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Salad Bar BEEF is a great read whether your a farmer looking to change to sustainable, pasture farming, if you’re simply thinking of starting your own farm or if you’re like me and simply want to increase your awareness on proper farming and reconnect you with your food.

What is Salad Bar BEEF?:

Ideally, salad bar beef is perennial polyculture, pasture based, locally-grown, seasonal, and exhibits superior taste and nutrition. Nothing in the production or processing is smelly, inhumane or neighbor-aggravating. The whole model is positive for all who see, smell, hear, touch, and taste.

Joel writes from the heart and the same passion he has for farming is brought to life in the pages of his book. He is very transparent and shares his challenges, trials, and experiences as a small farmer to help other small farmers who are faced with similar circumstances. He really exposes the current industrial, farming model and shows the direct correlation between the industrial farming model and environmental devastation, diseased and sick animals, and how that impacts consumers. You will know more about farming after reading this book than most modern farmers.

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The Raw Truth About Milk

The Raw Truth About Milk: How Science Is Destroying Nature’s Nearly Perfect Food And Why Raw Milk, Animal Protein And Animal Fat In Your Diet Can Save Your Life by William Campbell Douglass, MD is a must read for anyone who drinks and eats pasteurized milk and or dairy products. Dairy products are one of the biggest contributing factors to the multi-billion dollar sickness and disease industry. By the time you are finished with this book, you will be convinced to switch from homogenized, pasteurized milk and dairy products to unprocessed, unpasteurized, non-homogenized raw milk.

The Raw Truth About Milk is packed with information about milk from the history of raw milk and why it was pasteurized and then homogenized to the correlating and devastating disease and sickness it contributes too, to the amazing benefits of raw milk and the disease and sickness it prevents. Pasteurized milk and dairy is so processed that it is essentially dead when you get it. Dairy farmers have special privileges from the government that allow them to get away with many things such as not listing all the ingredients and treatment they put in your milk. Like bleach. In order to get the consistent white color of milk they are allowed to add bleach. Raw Milk is cream in color, not white! Then there is adding powdered milk, which is the worst and a major contributing factor to heart disease, high cholesterol, into low fat, non-fat, reduced fat milks.

Then there is the subject of the diet and health of the cows. Cows and animals in general, are great transporters of nutrition to humans. They do all the work and we get all the benefits; that is if they are properly cared for and nourished correctly. In the current model of feedlots, animal concentration camps, industrial farming practices, the animals are anything but nourished. The super dairy cows that are bred today to produce enormous amounts of milk are sickly, and produce milk that is full of hormones from their over active pituitary gland and they die at half the age of a normal cow because they are so sick. Dairy farmers aren’t accountable for having healthy cows or how they take care of them. Because of pasteurization, they need not worry about such things because pasteurization “kills” off everything, including the much needed nutrients. Pasteurized milk is basically indigestible and lacks very little, if any, nutritional value at all. It causes allergies of all kinds and is the leading factor to osteoporosis. Yeah, you read that right! You use more nutrients trying to digest this foreign substance that is completely manipulated than it gives to you!

Did you know that you can live on raw milk alone; it is a complete food.

About William Campbell Douglass, MD:

Dr. Douglass is editor of The Douglass Report, a monthly newsletter that reveals the truth about the latest Junk Medicine Myths and delivers new and easy ways to free yourself and your loved ones from pain and disease.

Dr. Douglass comes from a distinguished family of physicians. He is the fourth generation Douglass to practice medicine, and his son (William Campbell Douglass III) is also a physician. Dr. Douglass graduated from the University of Rochester, the University of Miami School of Medicine, and the Naval School of Aviation and Space Medicine.

Dr. Douglass reveals medical truths, and deceptions, often at risk of being labeled heretical. He is consumed by a passion for living a long healthy life, and wants his readers to share that passion. Their health and well-being comes first. He is anti-dogmatic, and unwavering in his dedication to improve the quality of life of his readers. He has been called “the conscience of modern medicine,” a “medical maverick,” and his medical experiences are far reaching-from battling malaria in Central America – to fighting deadly epidemics at his own health clinic in Africa – to flying with U.S. Navy crews as a flight surgeon – to working for 10 years in emergency medicine in the United States.

This dedicated physician has repeatedly gone far beyond the call of duty in his work to spread the truth about integrating the best science-based medical therapies from all medical disciplines (“alternative medicine”). For a full year, he endured economic and physical hardship to work with physicians at the Pasteur Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, where advanced research on photoluminescence was being conducted.

These learning experiences and his keen storytelling ability and wit make Dr. Douglass’ numerous books on this website and his newsletters – The Douglass Report and Daily Dose – uniquely interesting and fun to read. He shares his no-frills, “no-bull” approach to health care, often amazing his readers by telling them to ignore many widely-hyped good-health practices (like staying away from red meat, avoiding coffee, and eating like a bird), and start living again by eating REAL food, taking some inexpensive supplements, and doing the pleasurable things that make life livable.

Readers of Dr. Douglass´ books and newsletters get all this, plus they learn how to burn fat, prevent heart disease and cancer, boost libido, and so much more. And Dr. Douglass is not afraid to debunk latest research reports that are published, and share the real story with his readers. He has led a colorful, rebellious, and crusading life! Not many physicians would dare put their professional reputations on the line as many times as this courageous healer has. A vocal opponent of “business-as-usual” medicine, Dr. Douglass has championed patients’ rights and physician commitment to wellness throughout his career.

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This book gives me the best of both worlds. Sally is not only an incredible writer but she is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat. She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health.

She is also the President of the Weston A. Price foundation and the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk. The Weston A. Price Foundation was founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated noninudstrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. Dr. Price’s research demonstrated humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.

Dr. Price was a dentist who was the first modern researcher to take a careful look at the health and eating habits of isolated traditional societies. During the 1930’s, Dr. Price traveled the world over to observe population groups untouched by civilization, living entirely on local foods. While the diets of these peoples differed in many particulars, they contained several factors in common. Almost without exception, the groups he studied ate liberally of seafood or other animal proteins and fats in the form of organ meats and dairy products; they valued animal fats as absolutely necessary to good health; and they ate fats, meats, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grains in their whole, unrefined state. All primitive diets contained some raw foods, of both animal and vegetable origin.

Dr. Price found fourteen groups—from isolated Irish and Swiss, from Eskimos to Africans—in which almost every member of the tribe or village enjoyed superb health. They were free of chronic disease, dental decay and mental illness; they were strong, sturdy and attractive; and they produce healthy children with ease, generation after generation.

Sally Fallon

Nourishing Traditions combines over 700 recipes that incorporate traditional cooking practices, traditions and methods. Additionally there is an entire chapter dedicated to the much forgotten organ meats. What I love most is all the research that is referenced in the initial chapters as well as sprinkled throughout the pages. It is packed with the entire philosophy along with supporting studies, and research.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to escape the disease and sickness of the 21st century diet and get back to a healthier primitive diet that promotes wellness, health, and strength.

Mary G. Enig, PhD is an expert of international renown in the field of lipid biochemistry. She has headed a number of studies on the content and effects of trans fatty acids in America and Israel, and has successfully challenged government assertions that dietary animal fat causes cancer and heart disease. Recent scientific and media attention on the possible adverse health effects of trans fatty acids has brought increased attention to her work. She is a licensed nutritionist, certified by the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists, a qualified expert witness, nutrition consultant to individuals, industry and state and federal governments, contributing editor to a number of scientific publications, Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and President of the Maryland Nutritionists Association. She is the author of over 60 technical papers and presentations, as well as a popular lecturer. Dr. Enig is currently working on the exploratory development of an adjunct therapy for AIDS using complete medium chain saturated fatty acids from whole foods. She is Vice-President of the Weston A Price Foundation and Scientific Editor of Wise Traditions as well as the author of Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol, Bethesda Press, May 2000. She is the mother of three healthy children brought up on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.

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In this easy to read, user-friendly book, Joe sets out to educate people on a variety of issues and popular beliefs that plague the modern consumer, like the fact that food doesn’t come from a grocery store. Joe teaches his readers that good quality, fresh food comes from local farmers who see themselves as stewards of the land and animals and implement humane and sustainable farming practices.  As a result the quality of the food is healthier and superior than what you’re picking up from the local grocery store. He also teaches how cereal, chocolate, and granola bars aren’t food. He encourages people to pull the curtain back on the food industry and learn why buying food from local farmers is the best quality food you can provide for you, your family, the animals, the farmers, and the environment. Also, learn what questions to ask and what answers you want to hear when buying from local farmers.  Buy Book

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The CAFO Reader will quickly become an invaluable educational resource in the battle to reform the tragic state of industrial livestock production. It will also inform and influence the growing public movement of activists, farmers, policy makers, and consumers who are aiming to make our food healthier for ourselves and the planet. Buy Book

**The essays in this volume have been selected from the larger photographic volume CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations): The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories.

In the United States and other parts of the world, livestock production is becoming increasingly dominated by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). In a CAFO, animals are crammed by the thousands or tens of thousands, often unable to breathe fresh air, see the light of day, walk outside, peck at a plants or insects, scratch the earth, or eat a blade of grass.

Over 50 billion food animals are raised and slaughtered every year (not including massive quantities of farmed fish). Grazing and growing feed for livestock now occupy 70 percent of all agricultural land and 30 percent of the ice-free terrestrial surface of the planet. If present trends continue, meat production is predicted to double between the turn of the 21st century and 2050. Yet already, the Earth is being overwhelmed by food animals that consume massive quantities of energy and resources, whose wastes foul waterways and farmlands, and when eaten excessively, degrade our health.

CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories is a powerful indictment of modern food production. But as the book shows, it doesn’t have to be this way. Ultimately, CAFO offers a compelling vision for a healthier food system: one that is humane, sound for farmers and communities, and safer for consumers and the environment. Buy Book

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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. FoodInc.com

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Food Matters is a feature length documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.’s and Medical Journalists you will discover…

* How to use food as medicine
* Who needs vitamins?
* Is organic better?
* How safe is our food?
* Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol
* Foods that fight Anxiety and Depression
* Natural therapies for Cancer
* Which drugs might do more harm than good?
* The best ways to detox, lose weight and keep it off!

About the Film
“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” – Hippocrates.

‘Food Matters’ is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies.

The film sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide ‘Sickness Industry’ and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence proving that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments.

‘Food Matters’ features interviews with leading medical experts from around the world who discuss natural approaches to preventing and reversing Cancer, Obesity, Heart Disease, Depression, Mental Illness and many other chronic conditions.

Find out what works, what doesn’t and what’s killing you. Becoming informed about the choices you have for you and your family’s health could save your life.  PURCHASE FOOD MATTERS HERE

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What In The World Are They Spraying?

By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky into a murky haze. Our innate intelligence tells us these are not mere vapor trails from jet engines, but no one yet has probed the questions: WHO is doing this and WHY. With the release of this video, all of that has changed. Here is the story of a rapidly developing industry called Geo-engineering, driven by scientists, corporations, and governments intent on changing global climate, controlling the weather, and altering the chemical composition of soil and water – all supposedly for the betterment of mankind. Although officials insist that these programs are only in the discussion phase, evidence is abundant that they have been underway since about 1990 – and the effect has been devastating to crops, wildlife, and human health. We are being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent and, to add insult to injury, they are lying to us about it. Do not watch this documentary if you have high blood pressure. DVD. 95 minutes PURCHASE HERE

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I couldn’t put the book down because of the humility and reflection that comes across the pages. Not only is this a book about his life, the wine trade, and how he set out to change the way people viewed food and wine, but more so, the valuable life lessons he gained through his journey.

What I enjoyed most about this book was that despite who he is, he was willing to completely put himself out there for all the world to judge. The reader can’t help walk away pondering the message and asking questions about his/her own life. Harvest of Joy is his legacy.

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