Recommended Books and Resources

Books

Integrative Medicine

Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
Andrew Weil, M.D.

The Heart Speaks
Mimi Guarneri, M.D.

The Body Mind Workbook
Debbie Shapiro

Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power
Gary Zukav

Longevity Made Simple
Gary Null, Ph.D. 

Integrative Oncology

Integrative Oncology
Donald Abrams, M.D. and Andrew Weil, M.D.

Live Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Care
Keith I. Block, M.D.

Anticancer, A New Way of Life
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D. PhD

The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing
Lise N. Alschuler, ND and Karolyn A. Gazella

Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies
The Experts at the American Cancer Society

Nutrition and Cancer

Foods to Fight Cancer: Essential Foods to Help Prevent Cancer
Richard Beliveau

The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourising, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery
Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson

Cooking the Whole Foods Way: Your Complete Everyday Guide to Health Eating
Christina Pirello

Eating Well, Staying Well During and After Cancer
The Experts at the American Cancer Society

Websites:

The Bravewell Collaborative
www.bravewell.org

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov

The Cochrane Collaboration
www.cochrane.org

Society for Integrative Oncology
http://www.integrativeonc.org/

Documentaries

Enlighten Up!
Filmmaker Kate Churchill is determined to prove that yoga can transform anyone.  Nick Rosen is skeptical but agress to be her guinea pig.  Kate immerses Nick in yoga, and follows him around the world as he examines the good, the bad and the ugly of yoga.  The two encounter celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks and world-renowned gurus.  Tensions run high as Nick's transformational progress lags adn Kate's plan crumbles.  What unfolds and what they discover is not what they expected.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope.  In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't end well-with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn't far behind.  FAT, SICK and NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe's personal mission to regain his health.

Food Inc
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, herbacide-resistand soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli-the harmful baceria 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.  Food, Inc. reveals suprising-and often shocking truths-about what we eat, how it's produced, who we become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Food Matters
"Let they Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food"-Hippocrates.  That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controverial new documentary film Food Matters.  With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker.  Food Matters sets aobut uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide 'sickness industry' and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.  The focus of the film is in helping us rethink the belief systems fed to us by our modern medical and health care establishments.  The interviewees point out that not every problem requires costly, major medical attention and reveal many alternative therapies that can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than conventional medical treatments.

The Future of Food
The Future of Food has been a key tool in the American and international anti-GMO grassroots activist movements and played widely in the environmental and activist circuits since its release in 2004.  The film is widely acknowledged for its role in educating voters and the subsequent success of passing Measure H in Mendocino County, California, one of the first local initiatives in the country to ban the planting of GMO crops.  Genetic engineering of food crops is as controversial today as ever, as many of the large agro corporations that use this technology position themselves as the answer to the world food crisis and further consolidate the seed supply. 

Frontline: Sick Around the World
In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up wiht veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies --the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.