for main dishes, breakfast, salads, soups. Lappe concentrates on protein; she does
not consider vitamin/mineral nutritional components.
Healing Foods, Patricia Hausman and Judith Benn Hurley, Dell Books: 1989
(Reprinted from Rodale Press, a natural foods concern), paperback 1992. 461
pages, $6.99. This is the opposite number to the TV vitamin pill hope shopper guide
above. The principal author -- president of the American Nutritionists' Association --
is definitely in the "good meals, not pills" camp. The book is easy reading,
organized around a host of ailments which the author believes -- sometimes with
evidence, sometimes it's pretty sparse -- certain foods can help prevent or heal
partly or entirely. For each food discussed, there's a couple of recipes and
preparation tips. There are many lists of good nutrient sources, and weeks of
menus aimed at certain ailments. What impressed me the most? The discussions of
dietary fiber. And the chance to get more of it without eating (ugh) spoonfuls of
bran.lCulpepper's Color Herbal, edited by David Potterton, Sterling Publishing, NY and
Toronto: 1992, $17.95 US; $24.95 Can. Paperback is a somewhat modernized
version of 1649 herbal by an interesting fellow who wanted to make plant curative
lore available to country people, suffering in London slums when pushed off their
lands. Color drawings, and an arrangement by common rather than esoteric
Latinate names was his approach. Neither the original nor the updated modern
herbalistic curative powers have any credibility. Plants are mostly English, nothing
Native American. This is just a great read and a beautiful book.Miscellaneous
Indigenous Woman Magazinecontains some women's herbal/nutrition-health info
in most issues through this web catalog-distributor: Indigenous People Catalog:
Desert Moon periodical distributor/catalog--Carries Indigenous Women's Network
magazine (and several other Native periodicals)l400 Healthy Recipes CDROM (PC, Mac hybrid)--Better Homes and Gardens
Cookbook on CDROM for your, er, kitchen computer (!?). This one, unlike many of
what's basically a worthless genre has lots of health and nutrition info -- making it
worthwhile as an educational or self-educational guide, useful too in school Health
classes.lNative Foods/Plants: Recommended Books
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