Alchemy of the Mind by Vanita Dahia

Confused about what the best diet is to follow or whether you should take supplements? Interested in the concept of personalised health care rather than the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach? Want to reduce your risk of diseases than run in your family and maximise your current health? Does ageing well and preventative healthcare appeal to you? Doreen Schwegler is both a naturopath with over 24 years experience and medical scientist. She brings together the latest information about thorough testing including genetic profiling, information on detoxification, advice on diet, exercise, sleep, supplements, emotional wellbeing and healthy sex. Her years of experience, reading and research helps to clarify what can be a plethora of sometime conflicting advice about what is best for you, to  assist with truly personalised healthcare. Whether you are a health practitioner interested in expanding your knowledge, a student seeking practical information, a person wanting to lose weight or trying to conceive, or someone striving to do their best to stay well, this book is for you! It seeks to clarify and simplify information to assist you in making informed decisions about what can help your current health concerns and prevent future ones.

Quinoa - pronounced keen-wah - is a grain, but not just any grain. It is considered to be almost a complete food. It is very high in protein, full of vitamins, gluten- and wheat-free, cholesterol-free and usually organic. And it is simply delicious. An ancient plant native to the Andes mountains, quinoa is known to have been a staple food of the Incas. Quinoa contains more protein than any other grain. It is also a very good source of manganese, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, copper, zinc, vitamins E and B6, riboflavin, niacin and thiamine. It has more calcium than cow's milk, is an excellent antioxidant, is rich in dietary fibre and has more iron than any grain. It also has the highest content of unsaturated fats and a lower ratio of carbohydrates than any other grain plus a low Glycemic Index level. The health benefits are truly enormous. In the kitchen, quinoa has a huge range of uses and lends itself beautifully to many dishes. When cooked, it has a very delicate texture and is lovely in soups and sweets, and makes wonderful salads, pasta, breads and delicious vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals. It is simple to prepare, easy to digest and most enjoyable to eat. It is very light on the stomach and you don't tend to feel at all heavy after eating a meal made with quinoa. There should be a packet of quinoa in every pantry. Here, you will find many different ways to use quinoa.

This superbook is a comprehensive, yet well-organized, natural health book, organizing the entire naturologic wholistic field in seven chapters, explaining nature's building-blocks of the human body and in fact all of creation.

This book, with hundreds of scientific references and loads of common sense, will convince even the staunchest skeptic that we can no longer get the nutrients we need from our food alone. On the road from the depleted and sick soils in which our foods are grown to the dinner plate, most of our food’s nutrient content is lost, resulting in a global epidemic of nutritional deficiency. Eating well and supplementing our diet with extra nutrients can prevent a great deal of the chronic illness so common today – from Alzheimer’s to arthritis and cancer to cardiovascular disease. Despite overwhelming evidence of the benefits of nutritional supplementing, the modern medical system, which makes money from your being sick, and the media, who make money by making up stories that sell papers, make wild and ridiculous claims that supplements are dangerous. Our modern medical system says supplements are deadly yet dish out drugs, which frequently address only the symptoms of illnesses and have serious and even lethal side effects. The simplest, cheapest and safest means to obtaining optimum health is to eat well and supplement with nutrients. Informed supplementation can lead to a healthier, happier life for you and your family. As Dr Dingle explains in an easy-to-read style, supplementation should play an important part in our daily routine. And we need sufficient nutrients to get us through the daily ‘grind’ of life in the ‘fast lane’. Fresh vibrant foods such as vegies and fruit are critical to our health, but food alone cannot supply what we need in a world full of processed food, pollution and stress.