natural foods

A resource guide to making green changes when buying, cooking, and eating food, discussing what kind of food to buy, where to shop, food storage, cooking utensils and methods, clean-up, waste, and best choices in meat, dairy, seafood, drinks, fruits, vegetables, and packaged foods. Includes recipes.

Discusses the popularization of organic foods, looks at what it means to be organic, traces the history of the organic food movement, discusses the debate over whether organic foods and farming are beneficial to health and the environment, and considers the future of organic food production.

Explore the current issue about organic food and farming with expert opinions in a pro/con format that encourages critical thinking.

Comprehensive guide to the miraculous healing powers of food is written by an authority on health and nutrition. Shows readers how to use this miracle medicine to achieve optimum health, prevent disease, and avoid debilitating conditions, adverse side effects, and costly medical treatments.

Describes the eating disorder known as orthorexia nervosa which occurs when a person's devotion to healthy eating becomes an obsession that can lead to increasingly stricter, ultimately unhealthy diets, and includes advice on how to cope with and overcome the problem.

Contains advice and instructions on how to plan, create, and tend an organic food garden in a small space, offering tips on how to determine a personal garden style, find and assess garden space, plan and build a garden, prepare soil, sow and grow seeds, keep plants healthy, harvest crops, and prepare for the next year, and including an annotated list of edible plants.

A discussion of energy conservation, reviewing the history of cultivation, and looking at how people can develop a more sustainable lifestyle through their eating habits by going organic, eating locally, using fair trade food, and green cooking.

Discusses the benefits of organic food and products for people and the environment, covering farming practices, fibers and clothing, the Fallen Fruit Project, cleaning products, environmentally friendly furniture, vermicompost, and other related topics, with illustrations.