Nourishing Traditions - Sally Fallon - $34.95 

This is the worldwide bestseller that challenges what Sally calls ‘politically-correct nutrition’. Have you ever wondered why two generations ago, people lived on saturated fat, ate plenty of red meat, drank raw whole milk in copious quantities and put cream on salads - yet heart disease was rare, not to mention the other modern dieases that are common place today. Sally reports the findings of nutritional anthropologist, Weston A Price, who studied hundreds of primitive groups around the world early last century, and discovered that despite varied diets, there was a lot in common as far as nutrients went. Healthy people, lacking in both dental caries and disease, needed a particular diet of nutrient-dense foods to maintain health. Once these nutrient-dense foods traditionally eaten were replaced with modern refined and industrialised foods, he recorded in great detail health deteriorating rapidly. Sally goes on to address the marketing ploys that are being used with no independent scientific backing, to encourage the high carbohydrate, low-fat, largely processed foods diet Westerners fail to thrive on. This book is like coming home- opening your eyes to what you knew was true all along. It also contains many healthy recipes. I didn’t find them all useful, but the information in the book is still well-worth the price.