Practitioner Referrals
Massage Therapy
Laura Deisz (McLean, VA)
703-790-8181 deiszfam@verizon.net
A Touch of Health: Swedish, Deep Tissue, & Sports Massage (Reston, VA)
703-801-2429
Acupuncture
Reid Saunders (Vienna, VA)
http://web.mac.com/reidwsaunders/iWeb/Site/welcome.html
Counseling Services
Tina Lightner (Gaithersburg, MD)
Pastoral Psychotherapist for individuals & couples
301-524-0808
D.C. Rape Crisis Center
http://www.dcrcc.org/home.htm
Chiropractic Care
Circle Chiropractic Center (Fairfax, VA)
http://www.circlechiropracticcenter.com/
Wellness Centers
Bethesda Wellness Center: Therapeutic Massage, Herbal Medicine, & Acupuncture (Bethesda, MD)
http://bethesdawellnesscenter.com/index.html
Reliable Nutrition Information
The Weston A Price Foundation
http://www.westonaprice.org
The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf
The World’s Healthiest Foods
http://www.whfoods.com
Resources for Nutrient Dense Food
To locate a farmer’s market near you…
http://www.localharvest.org
Direct-from-farm Buying Group
http://www.farmorders.com/products.htm
For more information, email Hillary Little at farmorders@comcast.net
Kennedy’s Natural Foods
Kasha Neam, Owner
1051 W Broad Street
Falls Church, VA 22046
703-533-8484
Reliable Herbal Information
Plant-Medicine Database ~ bridging the gap between traditional medicine and modern science
http://www.plant-medicine.com
Dr. Jim Duke’s Phytochemical & Ethnobotanical Databases
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke
Henriette’s Herbal ~ access to historical literature
http://www.henriettesherbal.com
Michael Moore ~ Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
http://www.swsbm.com/homepage
Paul Bergner ~ North American Institute of Medical Herbalism
http://medherb.com
7 Song ~ Northeast School of Botanical Medicine
http://www.7song.com
Educational Institutions for the Healing Arts
Tai Sophia Institute
http://www.tai.edu
Bauman College
http://www.baumancollege.org/newsite
My Favorite Books
The value of traditional foods…
- Nourishing Traditions (includes recipes) by Sally Fallon
- Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston Price
- Traditional Foods are Your Best Medicine by Ron Schmid
- Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions & Modern Nutrition by Paul Pitchford
Blood sugar regulation…
- Get the Sugar Out by Ann Louise Gittleman
- Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton
- Potatoes Not Prozac by Kathleen DesMaisons
- The Mood Cure by Julia Ross
- The Diet Cure by Julia Ross
- Diabetes Solution by Richard Bernstein
Addiction…
- Seven Weeks to Sobriety by Joan Matthews Larson
- Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure by Genita Petralli
Emotional eating…
- Transformational Weight Loss by Charles Eisenstein
- Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth
Learning how to eat…
- The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein
- Your Body Knows Best by Ann Louise Gittleman
- The Schwarzbein Principle I &II by Diana Schwarzbein
Why our food supply is in trouble…
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmid
- Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith
- The Whole Soy Story by Kaayla Daniel
The importance of minerals…
- The Healing Power of Minerals by Paul Bergner
- Why am I Always so Tired by Ann Louise Gittleman
Female reproductive health…
- The Garden of Fertility by Katie Singer
- Women, Hormones & the Menstrual Cycle by Ruth Trickey
Why eating fat is healthy…
- Know Your Fats by Mary Enig
- Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig & Sally Fallon
- The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov
Stress & your health…
- Tired of Being Tired: Rescue, Repair, Rejuvenate by Jesse Lynn Hanley
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
- Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James Wilson
- From Fatigued to Fantastic by Jacob Teitelbaum
Digestive health…
- Gut & Psychology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell-McBride
- The Second Brain by Michael Gershon
- The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates
Random, but very interesting…
- The Fourfold Path to Healing by Tom Cowan
- The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
- Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
- The Last Well Person by Norton Hadler
- The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things by Larry Dossey
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Documentaries about the food supply & our health…
- Cancer, Nutrition, & Healing by Jerry Brunetti
- Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World ~ the story of aspartame
- Supersize Me ~ our fast food culture
- The Future of Food ~ genetically modified foods & the small farmer