Books on the Role of Nutrition in Genetic Disorders

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Books on the Role of Nutrition in Genetic Disorders

Nutrition Against Disease by J. (out of print, but worth the

effort to find it. See my sections on where to get used books online.) I

love this book. Dr. was one of the all time great thinkers. His

book describes how he observed that well fed lab animals rarely had birth

defects or genetic disorders, but as soon as their diets started becoming

deficient in one or more nutrients, defects started cropping up. The more

the diets became deficient, the greater the number of animals that were

impacted by the nutritional deficits. He thought it was very interesting

that lab animals on very nutrient dense diets rarely had birth defects and

" genetic disorders " . He logically thought that the same would be true for

humans. Dr. is also famous for his book and research on biochemical

individuality, a term he coined that means that each unique individual has

unique dietary requirements needed to maintain good health.

Genetic Nutritioneering: How You Can Modify Inherited Traits and Live a

Longer, Healthier Life by Bland. This book is the most current book

of the group, and has the most practical advice. If you only buy one of

these books, buy this one because it has the most sophisticated and

comprehensive explanation of how genes, diets and bacteria and other factors

all interact. It also has the most recent studies and practical suggestions

on how changing your diet can impact your health, even for inherited traits.

Ignore the part on genetic mutations, though. For a more logical view on

genetic mutations, see the book by Crawford below.

The Driving Force: Food in Evolution and the Future by Crawford &

Marsh . This is a good book to read if you like logical thinking. The

authors question the whole current theory of evolution. They make a good

case that evolution is a logical process of cause and effect driven by the

availability of the food supply, rather than the cumulative result of random

genetic mutations. In the book, the authors question why closely located

African tribes from the same basic gene pool tend to acquire vastly

different diseases. The answer is quite logical. It is because they have

different diets. The authors also includes a good summary of the book,

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (see below).

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting

the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light,

and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have

been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest

degree.

Darwin, The Origin of Species

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price. This book is

described in great detail in a section above. Read this book if you still

need convincing that nutrition can't be a factor in hereditary connective

tissue disorders.

Relatively Speaking: The Family Tree Way to Better Health by Ross Meillon

and Reading. This is a good book for getting instructions on how to

make a medical history family tree to look for patterns. It has good

information on determining what types of health problems run in your family.

The book is filled with lots of case studies by one of the authors, a

doctor. It explains how he used this type of family tree information to help

his patients. I actually had to make a medical family tree like this for a

genetic exam, and once I did this the light bulb really went on for me on

what the common health problems were in my family. It's given me more clues

as to what kinds of things to watch out for with my children and myself. I

would never have realized how many people in my family had bleeding problems

unless I had collected this information and mapped it out.

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