Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Health Press (NM) $17.95
Ex-ci'-to-tox-in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins explores the dangers of aspartame, MSG, and other substances...
Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life by Health Press NA Inc. $9.99
Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life covers some of the hottest topics in health and nutrition:heavy metal toxicitythe food additive controversyfluoride poisoningprotecting your brain from the ravages of disease & agingNEW CHAPTER ON THE ROLE OF FATS IN HEALTHHealth and Nutrition Secrets also presents the latest information on strokes and heart attacks, diabetes, protecting the...
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats by Plume $16.00
A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in most common packaged foods Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he didn?t have a clue as to what most of the ingredients on the labels mean. So when his young daughter asked, ?Daddy, what?s polysorbate 60?? he was at a loss?and determined to find out. From the phosphate mines in Idaho to...
Read It Before You Eat It: How to Decode Food Labels and Make the Healthiest Choice Every Time by Plume $15.00
A nationally recognized nutrition expert tells shoppers exactly what should be going into their carts. The whole foods movement explained how to shop healthfully at the farmers market, but how can families shop smart at Wal-Mart? There is a wealth of information on labels, but most people have no idea that products labeled "trans-fat free" can contain trans-fats or that "all natural" is a...
A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, 7th Edition: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods by Three Rivers Press $17.95
An Essential Household Reference…Revised and Updated With our culture’s growing interest in organic foods and healthy eating, it is important to understand what food labels mean and to learn how to read between the lines. This completely revised and updated edition of A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives gives you the facts about the safety and side effects of more than 12,000...
Food Additives: A Shopper's Guide to What's Safe & What's Not (2004 Revised Edition) by KISS For Health Publishing $4.95
FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper's Guide To What's Safe & What's Not reveals what food manufacturers don't want you to know about their products. It shows you how to find the truth behind deceptive food packaging. You will learn how to confidently read labels so that you will know how healthy a food really is and if it contains dangerous ingredients. New in the 2004 edition, you will learn how to...
The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children by Tarcher $14.95
An unprecedented and impeccably reported look at how American food manufacturers and their "products" may be endangering our minds. With obesity becoming one of the fastest-growing worldwide epidemics, and manufactured food fueling that trend, The Crazy Makers is timelier than ever. This updated edition includes a new chapter on autism, as well as revised material that illustrates just how much...
An A-Z Guide to Food Additives: Never Eat What You Can't Pronounce by Conari Press $9.95
Cochineal extract, diacetyl, teriary butylhydroquinone, BHA, HFCS, MSG--it's not just knowing how to pronounce what's in your food, it's knowing what it does and how it can affect you that matters most. But with so many processed foods on the supermarket shelves and additives showing up in the most unlikely foods, that's certainly a tall order. An A-Z Guide to Food Additives will help consumers...
The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children: And Others with Problems Associated with Food Additives and Salicylates by Random House $10.95
Explains the problems of dietary management, brings the scientific evidence up-to-date and provides a list of forbidden foods. Includes recipes and menus for additive and salicylate-free meals for the entire family.
Sweet Poison: How the World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us - My Story by New Horizon Press $25.95
Millions of dieters using chemical sweeteners will be shocked by firefighter Janet Starr Hull's story. Diagnosed with a deadly case of Grave's Disease after she collapsed on the job, Hull was told she would die. Searching for the cause of her illness, Hull discovered that the chemical sweetener aspartame found in Nutrasweet was to blame.