Books

Health & Nutrition

Becoming Vegan Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina, paperback, £14.99 When you’ve finished reading Becoming Vegetarian, you may want to learn more about veganism. From infancy through pregnancy, this dynamo is bursting with facts and practical advice about veganism. It dispels lots of myths such as athletes cannot perform on a vegan diet. You need this book in your hands and under your nose!	Becoming Vegetarian Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina, paperback, £16.99 Whether you’re contemplating vegetarianism or taken the plunge, this is the definitive book on the subject. It is accurate, well researched and easy to understand. It advises how to develop a healthy vegetarian diet, explores nutrition for different age groups, and has recipes to follow using your newly-found knowledge!	Healthy Eating for Life For Women PCRM with Kristine Kieswer, paperback, £11.99 An easy to read nutrition guide geared towards women, looking at how women's bodies work and how common health problems arise, then provides advice on how to look and feel better. It explores everything from easing menstrual and menopausal symptoms to enhancing fertility and strengthening your bones and heart. Includes 100 vegan recipes.
Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer PCRM with Vesanto Melina, paperback, £12.99 Cancer has leapt from being a rare disease just a few decades ago to what is now a condition of everyday life. Genes are not the cause of most - diet is! Good plant diets not only help prevent cancer but can also help a person already diagnosed with the disease to beat it. A fascinating, easy to read and inspirational book.	Healthy Eating for Life To Prevent and Treat Diabetes PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) with Patricia Bertron, paperback, £12.99 Covering type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes this easy to understand book shows why and how you can help prevent and control - and even reverse this disease. This book encourages you to take charge of your life through simple diet and lifestyle changes, and includes 98 vegan recipes.	Healthy Eating for Life for Children PCRM with Amy Lanou, PhD, paperback, £11.99 A practical, down to earth nutrition guide for parents who want the best longterm health for their children. It covers from pregnancy through to teen years and includes menu plans and reasons why wholegrain vegan diets prevent disease and 91 vegan recipes.
The China Study T Colin Campbell, PhD, paperback, £12.99 An astonishingly brilliant case for a vegan diet from a health perspective. Written by one of the world's most eminent nutritional scientists and cancer experts, with over 300 research papers published, this book is breathtakingly persuasive in its call for the world to go vegan. The China Study is the biggest study in the world on the effects of diet on health and shows that meat and dairy cause cancers; heart disease; obesity; diabetes; and autoimmune diseases. It also exposes the research and medical establishment and suggests why they are so slow to react to the wealth of science showing animal-based diets cause disease and wholegrain plant diets prevent it. It is beautifully written (though fully referenced) in an easy to read style -appealing to the lay person. Sadly, the author supports vivisection (which the VVF does not) but the book is a one-off that all people interested in diet and health should read.	Eat to Beat Cancer Rosy Daniel, paperback, £10.99 Not only does this book discuss the link between diet and cancer, it also provides 40 innovative and tasty recipes to promote health and combat the free radicals which can contribute to cancer formation. Recipes include Malay Spice Tofu and Banana Cookies.	Your Life in Your Hands Professor Jane Plant, paperback, £9.99 Newly updated, this groundbreaking best seller is written by one of the UK's top scientists, who suffered from breast cancer five times before she learned of the relationship between diet (specifically dairy) and the disease. With her friendly and compelling style, Professor Plant shares what she has discovered and experienced in dealing with this illness. She analyses the causes of breast (and prostate) cancer, her explanation of the role of dairy in this disease is fascinating and shocking - and gives very practical solutions for both cancers in the form of seven food factors and five lifestyle factors. Regrettably, there are some references to meat but the book's informative anti-dairy and pro-vegan stances to fight active cancer, make it potentially life saving.
Dr Greger - Latest in Clinical Nutrition 2007 DVD Dr Michael Greger, DVD, £7.99 Running Time: 90 minutes, Region 1 (not PAL) VVF highly recommended. The scientific papers published on nutrition and health are so numerous that it's hard to keep track. These DVDs review the latest cutting edge science in simple terms and so are ideal for the layperson fascinated by nutrition and health or the health professional wanting to keep up to date. The 2007 version explores the science on 34 topics: Preventing cancer: Which Foods to Avoid, IQ and Vegetarian Children, Raw Food Diet Myths to Diet and Body Odour!	Dr Greger - Latest in Clinical Nutrition 2008 DVD Dr Michael Greger, DVD, £7.99 Running Time: 90 minutes, Region 1 (not PAL) The 2008 DVD covers 52 topics from Black Coffee v Black Tea, Soya for Women with Breast Cancer?, Roasted Nuts v. Raw Nuts to Meat and Arthritis.	Dr Greger - Latest in Clinical Nutrition 2009 DVD Dr Michael Greger, DVD, £7.99 Running Time: 2 DVDS, 3 hours, Region 1 (not PAL) There are 114 chapters to the 2009 DVDs including everything from The Healthiest Beverage (find out why tea is astoundingly good for the human brain!) to Carcinogens in Roasted Chicken to Gluten: Harmful or Helpful?
Stopping Cancer Before it Starts DVD Dr Michael Greger, DVD, £8.99 (1 hour 45 minutes) Michael is a dynamic character! He is a vegan doctor and chef and uses his deep knowledge and cuisine flair to motivate and uplift. He reveals the top plant superfoods that may block or even reverse the four steps of cancer formation and then demonstrates how to prepare simple and speedy recipes. An excellent tool for anyone interested in why wholegrain, vegan diets are so beneficial for our health. Click here for more Dr. Greger books	The Vegan Diet As Chronic Disease Prevention Kerrie K. Saunders, PhD, paperback, £12.99 A thorough and amazingly clear exploration of each aspect of nutrition for humans and how plant-based foods best suit us. Common diseases are looked at and how a vegan diet can help to prevent them and the ethical and political aspects of veganism explored.	Dr. McDougalls Digestive Tune-Up John A. McDougall, paperback, £14.99 If you never thought you’d want to know how the digestive system works, this book will surprise you. Candidly and with humour, the acclaimed Dr. McDougall illustrates (with case studies) how a low-fat, plant-based diet can prevent and cure constipation, IBS and other chronic intestinal disorders. As everything is described in layperson’s terms, readers will be left with a clear understanding of the book’s subject matter.

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