The Statin Epidemic

Millions of people in the United States take statin medications to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease. Some think that statins are the new wonder drug while others wonder whether the benefits outweigh the risks. With research studies uncovering questionable gain and serious side effects, critical concerns are justified. A thorough understanding of the way that statins work helps explain why they may not be the key to healthier hearts and longer lives.

Recommended Reading: Cookbooks

Here are some of my favorite cookbooks. I started this post in 2010 but I update this list frequently. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do.

        Check out these links for other books:

• Healthy Eating
• Health and Medicine
• Women's Health 

All About Roasting: A New Approach to a Classic Art
By Molly Stevens

All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking
By Molly Stevens

The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
By Alice Waters

The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meat
By Joshua and Jessica Applestone

Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
By Liana Krissoff

Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You
By Terry Walters

Cooking in the Moment 
By Andrea Reusing

Enchanted Broccoli Forest
By Mollie Katzen

The Ethical Gourmet
By Jay Weinstein

Everyday Greens
By Annie Somerville

Field of Greens
By Annie Somerville

Fish Forever
By Paul Johnson

French Classics Made Easy: More Than 250 Great French Recipes Updated and Simplified for the American Kitchen
By Richard Grausman

The Good Fat Cookbook

By Fran McCullough

The Grassfed Gourmet
By Shannon Hayes

Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease
By Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD

The Healthy Hedonist
By Myra Kornfeld and Sheila Hamanaka

In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart
By Alice Waters

Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating From America's Farmers' Markets
By Deborah Madison

The Moosewood Daily Special
By The Moosewood Collective

The New Moosewood Cookbook
By Mollie Katzen

Nourishing Traditions
By Sally Fallon

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techinuqes Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation by The Gardners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante

Vegan Planet
By Robin Robertson

Vegetable Soups From Deborah Madison's Kitchen
By Deborah Madison

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
By Deborah Madison

 

The Whole Beast
By Fergus Henderson

The Wild Table: Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes
By Connie Green and Sarah Scott

World Food Café
By Chris and Carolyn Caldicott

The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook
By Marjorie Hurt Jones, RN

Recommended Reading: Women's Health

Here are some of my favorite books on women's health.
I started this post in 2010 but I update this list frequently.
I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.

        Check out these links for other books:

• Healthy Eating
• Health and Medicine
• Cookbooks

Cosmetics Unmasked
By Stephen Antczak, PhD and Gina Antczak

Eight Weeks to Women's Wellness
By Marianne Marchese, N.D.

The Garden of Fertility
By Katie Singer

Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
By Annie Murphy Paul

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
By Jennifer Block

Real Food for Mother and Baby
By Nina Planck

Taking Charge of Your Fertility
By Toni Weschler, MPH

The Wisdom of Menopause
By Christiane Northrup, MD

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
By Christiane Northrup, MD

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness
By Tori Hudson, ND

Younger Next Year for Women
By Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, MD

Recommended Reading: Health and Medicine

Here are some of my favorite books on health and medicine.
I started this post in 2010 but I update this list frequently.
I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.

        Check out these links for other books:

• Healthy Eating
• Women's Health
• Cookbooks

Anticancer: A New Way of Life
By David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD

Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health
By Glenn A. Gaesser

Clean, Green, & Lean
By Walter Crinnion, ND

Cosmetics Unmasked
By Stephen Antczak, PhD and Gina Antczak

Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family
By Devra Davis

Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes 
By Richard C. Francis

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
By Mark Schapiro

Green Housekeeping
By Ellen Sandbeck

Hippocrates’ Shadow
By David H. Newman, MD 

The Hundred Year Lie: How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health
By Randall Fitzgerald

The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy
By David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD 

Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival
By T.S. Wiley

Live a Little!
By Susan Love, MD and Alice Domar, PhD

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
By Shannon Brownlee

Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
By Gina Kolata

Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Technology 
By Eldon Taylor

The Untold Story of Milk: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food: Raw Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows by Ron Schmid, ND




Younger Next Year
By Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, MD

Younger Next Year for Women
By Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, MD

Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution
By Ann Louise Gittleman