Fifteen of the best nutrition books you can buy in Sacramento (in this nutrition journalist's opinion) are 1. 20,000 Secrets of Tea, 2. New Foods for Healing (from Prevention Health Book publishers), 3. Nutritional Medicine - A Textbook by Alan R. Gaby, M.D. (mainly for healthcare professionals), With more than 900,000 words (about 11 times the size of an average-size book) and over 15,000 references to the scientific literature, Nutritional Medicine is a foundational cornerstone and should be on the desk of every healthcare practitioner. Also check out, the links for the following sites: Dr. Gaby, The American Dietetic Association, Jeffrey Bland, PhD, and the website, Heaps of Health Hope.

Nutritional Medicine discusses more than 400 different health conditions and disorders. It also contains 60 chapters on individual nutrients (i.e., vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other therapeutic agents) including biochemical effects, clinical indications, signs and symptoms of deficiency, adverse effects, drug interactions, nutrient interactions, and dosage and administration. Chapters on fundamentals of nutritional medicine (including dietary fundamentals, food additives, reactive hypoglycemia, food allergy, "sub-laboratory" hypothyroidism, and candidiasis) are also included.

Preview the Table of Contents, sample chapters and Foreword. Nutritional Medicine is a textbook designed to teach healthcare practitioners how to use nutritional therapy as an alternative or adjunct to conventional medicine. Although the book is written for practitioners, it is also useful for educated members of the lay public who would like to be well informed regarding nutritional options for preventing and treating various health concerns.

At a lower price for general consumers you might try the book, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You.)  4. Healing with Vitamins (Rodale Health Books), 5. The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, 6. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Weston A. Price, DDS, 7. The Metabolic Typing Diet, by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey, 8. The High Blood Pressure Hoax,  9. The Cholesterol Hoax by Sherry A. Rogers, M.D., 10. Prescription Alternatives: Hundreds of Safe, Natural, Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health, Fourth Edition by Earl L. Mindell, R. Ph., PhD. 11. (Sacramento author) How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes: A Consumer's Guide to Genetic Testing Kits from Ancestry to Nourishment, 12. Change Your Genetic Destiny by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo and Catherine Whitney (Dec 29, 2009),  13. The Longevity Factor, Joseph Maroon, M.D.: How resveratrol and red wine activate genes for a longer and healthier life, 14. Living Foods for Optimum Health : Staying Healthy in an Unhealthy World, and 15. Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine: Treatments for Diabetes, Cholesterol, and the Immune System by Ran Knishinsky.

Also, if you’re interested in metabolic typing, check out the website for Personal Metabolic Typing. You can buy these in Sacramento or online, for example, from Amazon.com or from the author's or publisher's website.

Foods Tailored to Your Genotype

If you're a Sacramento consumer concerned about how your genetic signature or expression responds to various foods, have you ever wondered how your genes respond to what you eat? How many diet-by-DNA book titles are there?  Books on smarter foods? Tailored menus? Extracts of plants? DNA tests for ancestry? Ancestry and eating? Genes are distributed, function, and work in such ways that nearly every reasonable diet could work well in about six percent of the population.

In Sacramento natural food markets such as Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op or Whole Foods Market provide a wide array of foods and supplements that may help you to choose what foods work best for your own body's needs. The idea is to choose smart foods, functional foods, and foods that respond to your 'genotype.'

Are you eating smart foods—foods tailored to your genotype—DNA, your ancestry, and your entire genome of genes? Are you ready to get a picture of your response to your nutrition? How can you eat to nourish your genotype? According to Genomics 120, a science, nutrition, and health website, are you wondering why in the United States currently only 50,000 people out of some 280 million live to be even 100 years old, or that your body may be aging nearly twice the rate it should be because you’re eating the wrong food for your genetic signature?

There is a strong connection between nutrition and genotype, especially in regards to your cardiovascular and central nervous system health. So you need to tailor foods intelligently to your genetic expression. The media buzz about ‘intelligent’ foods or ‘smart’ foods really means eating clean, safe, whole foods based on what your individual genes need to thrive. Not all your genes are tested. You might start your food research at the website of Food Resource, a source of science-based and business savvy information for the food industry.

What happens when diet books for your condition aren’t working for you? Maybe salt restriction isn’t working but exercise is for your condition. How do your genes respond to nutrition and nourishment? Are your genes intelligent, conscious, and communicating with you about their nutritional needs? If they are, so are the foods you eat. Your genes interact and collaborate as a team.

The language of communication is written in the human genome, in your individual genetic signature—in your DNA, in particular SNPs, and in all your genes and cellular material. Even your blood type is expressed in all the cells of your body. How does all this information signal you about what ‘smart’ foods and nutraceuticals to choose in order to help prevent or delay chronic disease for which your genes may put you at risk?

A slogan reads, “Smart foods for intelligent people.” Nutritional genomics is a buzz word in the news. Testing DNA for ancestry also bridges gaps in regard to customizing smarter foods to your genotype. Phenomics is about customized healthcare and medicine tailored to your genetic profile.

Prosopography is an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography. Dental patients may be interested to know that some types of gum disease is genetic and may be caused by a genetic predisposition to diabetes, heart disease, or low birth weight. A genetic profile on patients with deep pockets of gum disease might be useful. Check out the Holistic Dental Network.