Book & Other Resources
Eat Naked:
Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You
I’m delighted to announce that my book, Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You
is now available on bookshelves throughout North America!
Available Now!
“Eat Naked is full of convincing arguments and practical tips for cutting the junk out of your diet and replacing it with real food—which is exactly what needs to happen.” —Mark Bittman, columnist for the New York Times and author of How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
and The Food Matters Cookbook
.
“Eating naked is not The Next Diet. It is The Last Diet. Purge your pantry and strip the junk from your shopping list, but beware: you will doubtless have to face the facts about your rotten little food habits. Mine was surimi.”
—Nina Planck, author of Real Food: What to Eat and Why
“Margaret Floyd’s Eat Naked is a clear and passionate call to nourish ourselves in a more simple, natural, and beautiful way. With just the right mixture of science and sass, Eat Naked delivers wise nutritional information that’s easy to practice. In a world overloaded with conflicting dietary facts and systems, Margaret Floyd gracefully distills some of the best strategies for vibrant eating and living.” —Marc David, author of The Slow Down Diet
and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
“Eat Naked is wildly intriguing. For all time, our ancestors ate food that was caught wild, grass-fed, fermented, unprocessed, whole, and natural. In the last hundred years, these necessary, nourishing human traditions have been lost, and we’re largely at the mercy of Big Agriculture and the food industry. Eat Naked is a food revolution book that sets you free and also sets you on fire—free to live a long, fertile, healthy life of personal responsibility without disease, and on fire, because real access to whole foods is the newest civil rights movement that affects us all. Eat Naked and thrive!” —Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures Dairy
“In Eat Naked, Margaret Floyd has created an easy-to-follow guide to optimizing your health. Drawing on basic principles, Floyd teaches her readers how to cook and eat for health, healing, weight loss, and for the pure love of food. Everyone should Eat Naked.” —Joshua Rosenthal, founder and director of Integrative Nutrition
“This is a user-friendly, well-written book with sound and sensible nutritional information. The recipes are good, and easy, too!” —Annemarie Colbin, PhD, founder and CEO of the National Gourmet Institute in New York, NY, an author of Food and Healing
and The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones
“Empowering, and simplified to a doable matrix, Eat Naked gets rid of the fluff and complexity surrounding locally sourced, home-prepared eating and puts it within reach of anyone. What a wonderful contribution to this movement.” —Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms
The following are recommended books, websites, articles, and online resources for you as you incorporate Eating Naked into your everyday life. If a favorite resource is missing, please let us know and we’ll do our best to include it.
Eat Naked: Further Reading
Naked Produce: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Meat: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Dairy: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Eggs: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Fats: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Grains, Beans, Nuts & Seeds: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Sweeteners: Further Reading and Resources
Naked Beverages: Further Reading and Resources
Better Than Naked: Further Reading and Resources
Shop Naked: Further Reading and Resources
Mindful Eating
Special Diets
Eat Naked: Further Reading
Nina Planck’s Real Food: What to eat and whyis one of my all-time favorite books on eating whole, real, naked food. If you enjoyed Eat Nakedbut want more details on the nutritional nuts and bolts, this is your book.
Nourishing Traditions
is the ultimate “eating like your Grand-mama did” guide book. Packed with nutritional insights, traditional recipes, food preparation techniques, and interesting notes on the history of food and diet, it’s a must-have on any real-foodie’s bookshelf.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
is an intriguing exploration into what’s on our dinner plate. Michael Pollan traces the roots of four different meals, going up and down the food chain to expose what’s really in the food we eat.
A powerful call to eating real food, and a compelling look at how we got to where we are today – eating what Pollan so aptly calls “edible foodlike substances.” In Defense of Food
is definitely a personal favorite of mine.
Food, Inc.
the movie and Food Inc.: A Participant Guide
will change the way you look at the food on your dinner plate. It exposes the underbelly of the food industry and makes a compelling case for making responsible food choices.
Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation
was one of the original works exposing the underside of the fast food industry. An excellent and informative read. But be warned: you might not be able to eat fast food after reading this.
Marion Nestle’s What to Eat
gives you an in-depth guided tour of what lines the shelves of your supermarket. It’s both incredible useful and shocking at the same time. It will clarify a lot of the confusion around your food choices.
In Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
Alisa Smith and JB McKinnon take on the challenge of eating with a 100-mile radius of their home, Vancouver, British Columbia. An entertaining story of the discoveries, challenges and rewards that come with eating truly locally.
Barbara Kingsolver and her family decide to eat as locally as possible for a year, growing much of their own food and discovering the bounty of their local harvest. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
chronicles the tale.
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The Organic Food Shopper’s Guide
provides a product-by-product guide to organically farmed foods that can be found in the market. Organized by food group, each food is broken down by season—how to shop for it, why buy the organic version, and simple recipes that showcase the strength of the main ingredient.
The Backyard Homestead
is a great guide to growing produce yourself. The most naked produce is that you grow yourself! This book will help you do just that.
Kris Carr’s bestselling Crazy Sexy Diet
is jam-packed with creative ideas for eating your veggies and getting green in your life.
Elton Haas and Patty James have created a guidebook
for getting even the pickiest eater to eat their vegetables. Creative and delicious ways to integrate more veggies into your daily life.
I think the by-line of this book
says it best: “More than 140 ways to prepare all those great-tasting, super-healthy, beautiful leafy greens.”
The Environmental Working Group created a Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides that lists the “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen.”
For the technical types, here’s a link to the USDA’s Organic Certification Program that explains requirements, standards, and certification procedures.
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In Salad Bar Beef
the lively and compelling grass farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms describes his approach to farming and the symbiosis between farmer, field, and cow. This book is now a classic in the pasture-based livestock movement.
In Tender Grassfed Meat
Stanley Fishman provides a how-to for grassfed meat preparation so that it comes out tender and delicious every time, explaining what’s different about grassfed meat and how to cook it properly.
Lierre Keith’s The Vegetarian Myth
gives a broad perspective on the questions posed by our food choices: sustainability, health, and the humane treatment of animals. Keith unpacks the environmental, ethical, and nutritional issues around eating animal protein. A fascinating read.
American Terroir
is a book of a dozen essays involving the specific interplay of biological, chemical, and geological factors that make an environment and, in turn, its food unique. Each essay ends with recipes and a resource list.
The Ethical Gourmet
explains how to enjoy food that is humanely raised and sustainable.
Want truly naked meat? Raise your own animals! The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals
will show you how surprisingly easy it is to take back full control of your food supply.
Eat Wild is a comprehensive website outlining benefits of grass-fed and pastured meats; includes database of farmers.
American Grassfed Assocation is a certification system for grassfed meat producers. Includes searchable list of producers.
Certified Humane is an animal welfare certification system that requires the humane treatment of farm animals from birth through slaughter. Includes a list of providers.
The Sustainable Table wrote a simple and elegant article on the benefits of grass-fed beef
If you’re in the LA area, try some sustainably- and humanely-raised meat from one of these local farmers:
DeyDey’s Best Beef Ever from Santa Barbara, CA. They sell at various Farmers Markets throughout Los Angeles. Check out their site for more info.
Healthy Family Farms is near Ventura, CA. They offer a CSA program and also sell at Farmers Markets throughout LA.
Other grass-fed beef farmers we’ve had meat from and enjoyed:
Rocky Mountain Organic Meats
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In his book The Untold Story of Milk
, Ron Schmidt has provided one of the most thorough accounts of just about anything and everything to do with milk. Includes a very thoughtful and balanced look at the issues pertaining to raw milk.
David E. Gumpert offers detailed accounts of dairy farmers persecuted and prosecuted for dealing in non-pasteurized milk and chronicles the “raw milk war” in his book The Raw Milk Revolution.
In Devil in the Milk
Keith Woodford examines the link between a protein in milk and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.
In The Raw Truth About Milk
Dr. William Campbell Douglass II explains how milk was once nature’s nearly perfect food, how raw, unprocessed milk can heal and boost the immune system, and how to navigate the legalities of buying raw milk.
Some great websites that explore the issues around naked dairy, and raw milk in particular:
www.realmilk.com – A Campaign for Real (Raw) Milk is a project of the Weston A. Price Foundation. It looks at the issues pertaining to raw milk – food safety, access, legal – and also provides a list of resources for finding raw milk/
www.raw-milk-facts.com – Comprehensive site on the issues pertaining to raw milk.
An interesting article that looks at both sides of the raw milk debate, with a proposed middle of the line solution.
One of the leaders in the raw milk movement is Organic Pastures. We get all our milk, butter, and cream from them. In addition to raising very happy cows in an ideal environment and milking them with mobile milking stations, they publicly disclose safety tests performed on their milk each week. A true model in sustainability and transparency. This site is a great resource for the issues pertaining to raw milk, and they ship to many locations throughout the US, which is handy if you’re not in California where raw milk is fairly accessible.
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Polyface Farm‘s Joel Salatin’s seminal work on the nuts and bolts of pastured poultry. Anything you want to know about pastured poultry.
A study conducted by Mother Earth News shows the different nutritional profiles of eggs from conventional and pastured-raised chickens.
The Cornucopia Institute’s Organic Egg Scorecard rates egg producers on a variety of criteria. Very comprehensive rating system.
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Dr. Mary Enig is one of the world’s leading experts on fats. Know Your Fats
gives a comprehensive explanation of the chemical structure of fats and how they work in your body.
A little more user friendly than Know Your Fats, Eat Fat, Lose Fat
explains why it’s so important to eat fat and provides a meal plan that includes how to integrate it into your diet.
Bruce Fife’s book The Coconut Oil Miracle
explains the nutritional and health benefits of coconut oil – “nature’s elixir” – and shows how it helps to lose weight, prevent heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, and beautify skin and hair.
In Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill
Udo Erasmus provides comprehensive research on common and less well-known oils with therapeutic potential, including flaxseed oil, olive oil, fish oil, and evening primrose oil. He also exposes the manufacturing processes that turn healing fats into killing fats, explains the effects of these damaging fats on human health.
In Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You
Uffe Ravnskov debunks the misconception that eating cholesterol and fat leads to high cholesterol levels and fat on the body and explains how the opposite is true.
In Fats Are Good for You
, John Kabara explains how both fat and cholesterol are important components of our diet and how they benefit the body.
Here’s an excellent, succinct article explaining what fats/oils you should cook with, and which ones you shouldn’t. If you’re wanting the basic primer on health of fats, this is it.
Can’t find coconut oil in your local grocery store? Nutiva is one of our favorite brands and you can order online
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Do you suspect you have a gluten-sensitivity but aren’t sure? In The Gluten Connection
Dr. Shari Lieberman gives you the tools to assess your risk for gluten sensitivity and provides a 14-day eating plan to start you on the path to improved health and vitality.
Shelley Case discusses controversial issues such as oats (gluten-free or not?), hidden sources of gluten in the diet, cross-contamination, limiting nutrients, whether a “dedicated facility” is important, labelng issues, and great resources for anyone needing support and information on going gluten-free. As its name suggests, Gluten-Free Diet: A Comprehensive Resource Guide
is comprehensive.
This is a great starter-guide to going gluten-free: from defining gluten – where to find it, how to read food labels – to targeting gluten-free products, creating G-Free shopping lists, sharing recipes, and managing G-Free living with family and friends. If you’ve just been diagnosed celiac or have determined a gluten intolerance, The G-Free Diet
is a your starting point.
Steve Meyerowitz’ acclaimed recipe book Sproutman’s Kitchen Garden Cookbook
describes how to turn nuts, vegetable seeds, grains and beans into gourmet food; sprouted breads, cookies, crackers, living soups, dressings, dips, spreads, sautes, alternative non-dairy milks, ice-creams, even sprouted pizza and bagels!
For grains, beans and seeds of just about every variety you can dream up, try Bob’s Red Mill.
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with celiac disease, check out the Celiac Disease Foundation for support, shopping guidelines, what to watch for on labels, how to handle dining out and social occasions, and plenty of other great information. The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness is also a wealth of information.
After you’ve got the nuts and bolts of living gluten-free, slide on over to Gluten-Free Girl, an incredible blog with recipes and photos that will make you drool and a spark that will set you on fire for gluten-free living. As the Girl herself says “Anyone who thinks that living gluten-free is deprivation? Come on over here for dinner.” Read her story and your perception of being gluten-free will change forever.
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In Suicide by Sugar
Nancy Appleton details the many forms of sugars and all of its harmful effects.
William Duffy’s Sugar Blues
unmasks our generation’s greatest medical killer and shows how a revitalizing, sugar-free diet can change (and save) lives.
This updated version
of the sugar-busting original includes new tips, new recipes, a new introduction, and a special section for kids.
Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
explores the dangers of aspartame, MSG, and other substances added to our food.
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Dr. F. Batmanghelidj’s Your Body’s Many Cries for Water
describes a variety of reliable dehydration signals and helps you learn to understand when your body is calling for water. In this way, he claims you can prevent, treat, and cure a variety of conditions of ill health, at no cost, with what he calls nature’s miracle medicine: water.
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In the classic Recipes for Longer Life
Ann Wigmore explains how to sprout and ferment foods, giving instructions on how to transform seeds, nuts and grains into “nutritious and delicious” sauces, cheeses and loafs. Includes excellent charts and how-to sections.
In Wild Fermentation
Sandor Ellix Katz explains how to take advantage of natural fermentation processes to produce bread, yogurt, cheese, beer, wine, miso, sauerkraut, kimchi, and other fermented foods.
A great introduction to making your own Kombucha, Kombucha Phenomenon
explains the benefits of Kombucha and how to make it safely.
A comprehensive guide to cultured foods, Truly Cultured
explains the history and importance of cultured foods in our diets, and provides recipes on how to make these health-promoting foods.
The ultimate online resource for all your sprouting needs: Sprout People. Includes hundreds of pages of detailed sprouting information with instructions for growing just about any seed that can be sprouted, pictures, library of videos, seeds, supplies… anything you need for sprouting.
Sprouting.com is an online store that sells Certified Organic seeds for sprouting. A great resource.
Immunitrition offers an array of information on the benefits of probiotics and cultured foods for overall gut/immune support and also has a separate page for ordering products relating to probiotics and cultured foods
Don’t have time to make your own cultured veggies? Order some from Healing Movement or Immunitrition. Both ship anywhere in the US.
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The Eat Well Guide is an excellent, comprehensive online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada. If you’re looking for naked food, start here.
Shop Organic has a wide selection of organic food and products including: Eco-sizes (bulk), household products, specialty items (e.g. gluten-free, vegan, raw, kosher, etc.), and beauty items.
Listing over 1300 farms, Eat Wild is an excellent resource for finding pasture-based farms and meat in your area.
Looking for real, raw milk? Start your search at RealMilk.com. One thing to note: because of the tenuous legal and political situation around raw milk, some farmers don’t list their names publicly.
For pastured eggs, check out Cornucopia’s Organic Egg Scorecard. This will guide you to the gold standard producers.
Local Harvest is a database of farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
If you live in the Los Angeles area, check out Rawesome, a members-only buying club to get some of the highest quality raw dairy, pastured meats, and all sorts of delicious organic produce and food items.
For those in major west-coast cities in Canada and the US, Spud! (Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery) delivers organic, local produce and artisan groceries right to your door. An excellent service we use and love.
For grains, beans and seeds of just about every variety you can dream up, try Bob’s Red Mill.
The ultimate online resource for all your sprouting needs: Sprout People. Includes hundreds of pages of detailed sprouting information with instructions for growing just about any seed that can be sprouted, pictures, library of videos, seeds, supplies… anything you need for sprouting.
Sprouting.com is an online store that sells Certified Organic seeds for sprouting. A great resource.
If you’re looking for probiotic supplements, culture starters, probiotic beverages, and natural sweeteners, Body Ecology is an excellent resource. It also has a page of recommended products and tools for the kitchen.
Don’t have time to make your own cultured veggies? Order some from Healing Movement or Immunitrition. Both ship anywhere in the US.
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Mindful Eating
Marc David’s book The Slow Down Diet
will help you get back in touch with your body and with the pleasure of eating, all while helping you slow down and putting your body in the biochemical state that allows it to shed pounds.
Geneen Roth’s most recent book, Women Food and God
is about so much more than just eating. It will bring you back into your body and help you get in touch with your deepest self. You’ll never look at food the same way again.
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Special Diets
A world-renowned system of healing, the The Body of Ecology Diet
establishes and nourishes the growth of beneficial microorganisms in the digestive tract.
The Gut and Psychology Syndrome
program is a powerful program that focuses on healing your digestive system and those psychological conditions (autism, depression, ADHD, and Schizophrenia among others) linked to gut dysbiosis.
Breaking the Vicious Cycle
explains and outlines the specific carbohydrate diet, an ideal program for anyone with severe digestive disorders such as Chron’s, celiac, diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis, and chronic diarrhea.
The The Hippocrates Diet
is a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts, all of which is prepared without cooking, and which allows the body to regain its strength and vigour gently. Includes Better than Naked food prep techniques such as sprouting and culturing.
The Metabolic Typing Diet
explains how different foods have very different effects on different people, provides a questionnaire to identify what metabolic type you are, and offers guidelines for how to eat based on your metabolic type.
In Eat Right 4 Your Type
Dr. Peter D’Adamo explains how different blood types require different fuel and that is one of the many reasons no one diet is perfect for everyone.
In Real Food for Mother and Baby
Nina Planck provides nutritional plans for fertility, pregnancy, nursing, and baby’s first foods. She recommends a wide variety of whole grains, seasonal vegetables and fruits, and raw milk and organic animal fats necessary for healthy pregnancies and fetal and childhood development.
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“Eat Naked is full of convincing arguments and practical tips for cutting the junk out of your diet and replacing it with real food—which is exactly what needs to happen.” —Mark Bittman, columnist for the New York Times and author of How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
Wow! Impressive list of resources. I’m going to bookmark this page so I can get back to it easily and round out my library!
Absolutely wonderful resource page. Probably the best resource list I’ve ever seen on the topic of nutrition, etc. Super!
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