Courses

From Registered Dietitian, author, video cooking instructor, and clinician, Madhu Gadia, offers wonderful, healthy Indian recipes with cultural context, nutritional analysis, history, and serving suggestions.

James Beard Award Winner!  Exploring more than 150 rare and important black cookbooks, the author honors culture, culinary, and nutritional history by those who nourished generations of Americans. Written by the first black food writer for a major newspaper.

This motivating sports book on building muscle and strength was co-written by Dr. Susan Kleiner, an internationally known researcher and expert on muscle building, hydration, women athletes, and the nutrition and exercise needed to build muscle tissue.

Eater and Food & Wine Best Cookbooks! Chef, author, TV star, Samuelsson celebrates contemporary Black Chefs and cuisines from Africa, Caribbean, and US. He shares stories, history, plus every day and celebration cooking.

Winner of NPR, Smithsonian, & James Beard’s Best American Cookbook! Chef Sherman celebrates healthy locally sourced, native, wild caught, and seasonal foods—not European staples like wheat flour, dairy, and sugar. 

Easily compared to Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement, so far, has failed to change how we eat. Chef Barber studied the soil, land, sea, and seed to see how best to promote, grow, and eat a diet that is in harmony with the earth—sustainable production. 

Diabetes medications can lower glucose, but they do not reduce inflammation! Annually, 29 million Americans are diagnosed with T2D; only 36% achieve good medical outcomes. Learn complementary interventions to help control complications: CV, kidney, vision, and peripheral nerve problems.

An essential reference on going vegan, for the pregnant vegan mom, or for the nutrition counselor who wants the most current vegan guidelines for clients. Charts help identify best food sources of most at-risk nutrients. 

This book was written by three highly qualified autism researcher experts. Topics include: possible causes of ASD, typical issues, exercise, sleep, GI issues, feeding problems and proven therapies. Excellent resource!

Written by a neuroscientist and director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, the author, Matthew Walker, PhD explores the purpose of slumber and its little acknowledged or understood crucial functions as related to mood, chronic disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, etc. He explains how to harness the transformative power of adequate sleep and how to sleep better tonight. 

New Edition! Excellent resource for counselors since 1999. Totally updated, this popular training manual is for counselors of clients with eating disorders. There are 16 pre-planned therapy sessions for use with individuals or groups, along with the 71 pages of camera-ready patient education forms.

This book is thought-provoking and female-needs specific because women’s hormones are often ignored. It covers evidence-based research that challenges popular keto diets used for men and their bodies. Women’s bodies are unique, and many current guidelines don’t recognize that enough—on weight gain, waist gain, reduced testosterone, etc. and why that matters.