Honest Nutrition: a Descent into the Ocean of Nutritional Prattle, and Coming Up for Air

As of Febrary 2013, a revised edition is supplied, with many corrections.  If you buy a used copy, or if you have the older edition, the author can supply a list of corrections.  The authors contact information cannot be included here, but you may find it in comments under the reviews, or you may find the author in Medford, Oregon.

Honest Nutrition could best be described as an orthomolecular textbook.  It is also compatable with Paleo and Weston A. Price principles.  Natural is very often best.  It does not present a diet, but touts locavore, omnivore, high fat, low carb, low grain. 

Honest nutrition includes political, sociological, and economic context along with some alternative sciences.

Honest Nutrition is not so much a fact book, though it has many, but rather a thinking book.  For a teaching tool, it will be more effective than a standard dull textbook.  It has the priciples of nutrition presented in a unique and innovative manner.
The author also has written and printed for local use a more practical book Pre-Pain, how to avoid the diseases of aging, and Nutrition Babel, about nutrition chatter and what effective therapies obscured by the medical system.

Honest Nutrition is an attempt to do what textbooks and hundreds of diet books do not. Nutrition textbooks do not tell you that this science is in its infancy, nor how many "scientific" claims are open to question, based on faulty research or simple
hunches. If they include some of the biochemical and physiological context of nutrition, they still omit financial, social and political aspects.

After attempting to understand the prejudice against vitamins and supplements among the industrial-medical-political Big Brother (IMP-BB) and the lack of evidence for most alternatives, there is still useful information hard to find elsewhere..

Opposing philosophies are denoted as SUPR (SUrgery-PRescription orientation) and UTHR (Unconventional Therapies, Herbal Remedies.)

Honest Nutrition uses a large alphabetical section to give easy access to useful information about many diseases and nutritional therapies.

Honest Nutrition includes information about hormone resistance diseases, cryptic infections as a cause of "unknown etiology" diseases, and the effect of nutrition on behavior and criminality.

Some claims:

1. Obesity always involves hormones, sometimes with positive-feedback loops, which is why "Just eat less and exercise" seldom works. 2. A major factor in arterial disease is viscous blood, resulting in part from a lack of omega-3 fat. Cholesterol lowering does not help. 3. Some heart attacks may be due to hormonal effects, involving the hormone ouabain, and preventable with an extract of the herb strophanthus. 4. Many, or most North Americans suffer serious lack of nutrients: vitamin D, magnesium, and plant nutrients.  Vatamin K2 is vital, scarce and neglected.

The author challenges the medical establishment to examine their doctrines and learn how to help people suffering from nutritional diseases. Many technical terms are included. The non-scientific reader is asked to skip over these, to gain a useful knowledge of nutrition.