Reading and Reference
Titles of some of the books, publications and resources
followed by information on some of the authors.
Anatomy and Physiology: Gary A Thibodeau and Kevin T Patton
Health Defence: Dr Paul Clayton
Healing Foods Cook Book: Jane Sen
More Healing Foods: Jane Sen
Survival of the Fittest: Mike Stroud
Your Life in Your Hands: Jane Plant
New Optimum Nutrition Bible: Patrick Holford
New Optimum Nutrition for the Mind: Patrick Holford
Optimum Nutrition for Your Child: Patrick Holford and Deborah Colson
Optimum Nutrition for Your Child’s Mind: Patrick Holford and Deborah Colson
The Low-GL Diet Bible: Patrick Holford
The Holford Low-GL Diet Cook Book: Patrick Holford
(many, many titles by Patrick Holford on all aspects of nutrition, and different health
conditions: asthma, cancer, arthritis, skin problems, digestion, pregnancy, allergies, heart
disease, hormones, stress and fatigue)
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water: Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Fit for Life: Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
The Greatest Story Ever Told: Bernard Jensen
The Endorphin Effect: William Bloom
Shape Your Self: Martina Navratilova
Candida Albicans: Leon Chaitow
Passage to Power: Lesley Kenton
Eating Without: Barbara Cousins
What Do You Eat?: Liz Cook
Living with a BLACK DOG: Matthew and Ainsley Johnstone
www.centreofthecell.org
Centre of the Cell
Queen Mary University of London, and Barts and The London School of Medicine and
Dentistry
www.feetforlife.org
Society for Chiropodists and Podiatrists
www.dentalhelpline.org.uk
British Dental Health Foundation
www.bdasmile.org.uk
British Dental Association
www.rnib.org.uk
Royal National Institute of Blind People
www.lizcookcharts.co.uk
nutrition, vitamins and minerals charts and information, plus lots more
www.thefoodcalculator.com
diet analysis
www.mendprogramme.org
MEND - Mind, Exercise, Nutrition… Do it! a social enterprise dedicated to reducing
global overweight and obesity levels, helping children and families become fitter,
healthier and happier, offering free healthy living programmes in the local community.
Set up in 2004 by Great Ormond Street Hospital for children and the University College
London Institute of Child Health.
All these sites have excellent information on mental health and helplines:
www.mind.org.uk
www.rethink.org
www.mindout.clarity.uk.net
www.time-to-change.org,uk
www.mdf.org.uk
www.depressionalliance.org
www.foodforthebrain.org
Patrick Holford and Professor André Tylee, Professor of Primary Care Metal Health at
the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London founded the Food for the Brain
Foundation.
An unsuitable and degraded diet?
Paul Clayton, Judith Rowbotham
Part one: public health lessons from the mid-Victorian working class diet
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: 282-289 DOI
10.1258/jrsm.2008.080112)
http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/citation/101/6/282
Part two: realities of the mid-Victorian diet
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: 350-357 DOI
10.1258/jrsm.2008.080113)
http://www.jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/citation/101/7/350
Part three: Victorian consumption patterns and their health benefits
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: 454-462 DOI
10.1258/jrsm.2008.080114)
http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/citation/101/9/454
A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf
CIPD - Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
National Survey of Absence (2007) (2008) (2009)
CBI - Confederation of British Industry
ONS - Office of National Statistics
WHO - World Health Organisation
Cancer Research UK
HSE - Managing sickness absence
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Publications
PolicyAndGuidance/DH_4080994
Dr Paul Clayton graduated summa cum laude in Medical Pharmacology from Edinburgh
University, prior to obtaining his PhD. He is Fellow and former President of the Forum on Food &
Health of the Royal Society of Medicine, FRSA, and a former Senior Scientific Advisor to the UK
government’s Committee on the Safety of Medicine. He has worked with leading doctors and
clinical scientists at centres of clinical expertise in the UK and abroad, and trained the
pharmacists in Britain's largest chemist chain in preventative nutrition. Dr Clayton frequently
presents at and chairs international conferences on nutrition and health. He is a Visiting Fellow at
Oxford Brookes University, and chair of the scientific advisory boards of BiotheraPharma (USA)
and Itogha (Norway). He is also Technical Director of the Szent-Gyorgyi Instititute of Clinical
Pharmaconutrition (Hungary). Author of Health Defence and the above papers An Unsuitable and
Degraded diet?
Jane Sen is an accomplished chef and has worked with chefs throughout the world. She is
dietary adviser to Bristol Cancer Help Centre, a nutritional expert and a popular lecturer to health
professionals and interest groups throughout the world. Author of Healing Foods Cook Book and
More Healing Foods (above).
Mike Stroud completed a degree in anthropology and genetics and qualified as a doctor in 1979.
He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1984 and a Fellow in 1995. He has
travelled widely. He was the doctor on the 1984-86 "In the Footsteps of Scott" Antarctic expedition.
In 1993 he was awarded the OBE in recognition of their first unsupported crossing the Antarctic
continent from coast to coast with Ranulph Fiennes. In the 1990s he was Senior Research Medical
Officer for 6 years advising the MoD on nutrition, exercise performance and survival. He returned
to hospital medical practice with particular interest in nutrition and metabolism. He and Ranulph
Fiennes completed 7 marathons, in 7 days on 7 continents. He has contributed to many international
publications. Author of Survival of the Fittest: Understanding Peak Physical Performance.
Professor Jane Plant is one of the world’s leading geochemists and chief scientist of the British
Geological Survey from 2000 to 2005, as well as Professor of Geochemistry at Imperial College,
London. She graduated with a Class 1 Honours degree in geology at Liverpool University in 1967,
gaining her PhD in Geochemistry at Leicester University ten years later. Jane has worked at the
British Geological Survey for her whole professional career and took a leading role significantly
(and at first unexpectedly) in the new field of environmental health. During the 1970s it was Jane
Plant’s team which identified links between deficiency diseases in livestock and the geochemistry
of the land on which they lived. Author of several books including Your Life in Your Hands (above).
Patrick Holford researched the role of nutrition in mental health and illness, whilst completing his
bachelor degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of York. He is a leading pioneer in
new approaches to health and nutrition and is widely regarded as Britain’s leading spokesman on
nutrition and mental health issues. He is author of over 30 health books, translated into over 20
languages and selling over a million copies worldwide. In 1984 he founded the Institute for
Optimum Nutrition (ION). Patrick retired as Director of ION in 1997 to focus on writing, teaching
and researching. He is an Honorary Fellow of BANT (the British Association of Nutritional
Therapists). For some of the titles of Patrick's work, please see above.
William Bloom - Doctorate in Psychology from LSE, lecturer in Psychological Problems in
International Politics LSE, 10 years work with adults and adolescents with special needs, deliverer
of many trainings, including NHS. Author of several books, including The Endorphin Effect (above).
Howard Gardner - BA summa cum laude in Social Relations, Harvard College, 1965; PhD
Psychology, Harvard University 1971; author of over 400 research papers and 20 books, including
Multiple Intelligences and Multiple Intelligences - New Horizons.
The Food Calculator is a revolutionary new dietary analysis system allowing the comparison of
dietary intake against Government guidelines and Optimum Nutrition recommendations.
In simple terms, it helps individuals to determine how well-balanced their diet really is
and provides guidance on how to correct any nutrient imbalances or deficiencies, which
may impact upon health and wellbeing. The Food Calculator can also interpret and
explain the nutritional information with you to provide the help and understanding that
is really needed. (www.thefoodcalculator.com)
Titles of some of the books, publications and resources
followed by information on some of the authors.
Anatomy and Physiology: Gary A Thibodeau and Kevin T Patton
Health Defence: Dr Paul Clayton
Healing Foods Cook Book: Jane Sen
More Healing Foods: Jane Sen
Survival of the Fittest: Mike Stroud
Your Life in Your Hands: Jane Plant
New Optimum Nutrition Bible: Patrick Holford
New Optimum Nutrition for the Mind: Patrick Holford
Optimum Nutrition for Your Child: Patrick Holford and Deborah Colson
Optimum Nutrition for Your Child’s Mind: Patrick Holford and Deborah Colson
The Low-GL Diet Bible: Patrick Holford
The Holford Low-GL Diet Cook Book: Patrick Holford
(many, many titles by Patrick Holford on all aspects of nutrition, and different health
conditions: asthma, cancer, arthritis, skin problems, digestion, pregnancy, allergies, heart
disease, hormones, stress and fatigue)
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water: Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Fit for Life: Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
The Greatest Story Ever Told: Bernard Jensen
The Endorphin Effect: William Bloom
Shape Your Self: Martina Navratilova
Candida Albicans: Leon Chaitow
Passage to Power: Lesley Kenton
Eating Without: Barbara Cousins
What Do You Eat?: Liz Cook
Living with a BLACK DOG: Matthew and Ainsley Johnstone
www.centreofthecell.org
Centre of the Cell
Queen Mary University of London, and Barts and The London School of Medicine and
Dentistry
www.feetforlife.org
Society for Chiropodists and Podiatrists
www.dentalhelpline.org.uk
British Dental Health Foundation
www.bdasmile.org.uk
British Dental Association
www.rnib.org.uk
Royal National Institute of Blind People
www.lizcookcharts.co.uk
nutrition, vitamins and minerals charts and information, plus lots more
www.thefoodcalculator.com
diet analysis
www.mendprogramme.org
MEND - Mind, Exercise, Nutrition… Do it! a social enterprise dedicated to reducing
global overweight and obesity levels, helping children and families become fitter,
healthier and happier, offering free healthy living programmes in the local community.
Set up in 2004 by Great Ormond Street Hospital for children and the University College
London Institute of Child Health.
All these sites have excellent information on mental health and helplines:
www.mind.org.uk
www.rethink.org
www.mindout.clarity.uk.net
www.time-to-change.org,uk
www.mdf.org.uk
www.depressionalliance.org
www.foodforthebrain.org
Patrick Holford and Professor André Tylee, Professor of Primary Care Metal Health at
the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London founded the Food for the Brain
Foundation.
An unsuitable and degraded diet?
Paul Clayton, Judith Rowbotham
Part one: public health lessons from the mid-Victorian working class diet
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: 282-289 DOI
10.1258/jrsm.2008.080112)
http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/citation/101/6/282
Part two: realities of the mid-Victorian diet
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: 350-357 DOI
10.1258/jrsm.2008.080113)
http://www.jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/citation/101/7/350
Part three: Victorian consumption patterns and their health benefits
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: 454-462 DOI
10.1258/jrsm.2008.080114)
http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/citation/101/9/454
A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf
CIPD - Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
National Survey of Absence (2007) (2008) (2009)
CBI - Confederation of British Industry
ONS - Office of National Statistics
WHO - World Health Organisation
Cancer Research UK
HSE - Managing sickness absence
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Publications
PolicyAndGuidance/DH_4080994
Dr Paul Clayton graduated summa cum laude in Medical Pharmacology from Edinburgh
University, prior to obtaining his PhD. He is Fellow and former President of the Forum on Food &
Health of the Royal Society of Medicine, FRSA, and a former Senior Scientific Advisor to the UK
government’s Committee on the Safety of Medicine. He has worked with leading doctors and
clinical scientists at centres of clinical expertise in the UK and abroad, and trained the
pharmacists in Britain's largest chemist chain in preventative nutrition. Dr Clayton frequently
presents at and chairs international conferences on nutrition and health. He is a Visiting Fellow at
Oxford Brookes University, and chair of the scientific advisory boards of BiotheraPharma (USA)
and Itogha (Norway). He is also Technical Director of the Szent-Gyorgyi Instititute of Clinical
Pharmaconutrition (Hungary). Author of Health Defence and the above papers An Unsuitable and
Degraded diet?
Jane Sen is an accomplished chef and has worked with chefs throughout the world. She is
dietary adviser to Bristol Cancer Help Centre, a nutritional expert and a popular lecturer to health
professionals and interest groups throughout the world. Author of Healing Foods Cook Book and
More Healing Foods (above).
Mike Stroud completed a degree in anthropology and genetics and qualified as a doctor in 1979.
He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1984 and a Fellow in 1995. He has
travelled widely. He was the doctor on the 1984-86 "In the Footsteps of Scott" Antarctic expedition.
In 1993 he was awarded the OBE in recognition of their first unsupported crossing the Antarctic
continent from coast to coast with Ranulph Fiennes. In the 1990s he was Senior Research Medical
Officer for 6 years advising the MoD on nutrition, exercise performance and survival. He returned
to hospital medical practice with particular interest in nutrition and metabolism. He and Ranulph
Fiennes completed 7 marathons, in 7 days on 7 continents. He has contributed to many international
publications. Author of Survival of the Fittest: Understanding Peak Physical Performance.
Professor Jane Plant is one of the world’s leading geochemists and chief scientist of the British
Geological Survey from 2000 to 2005, as well as Professor of Geochemistry at Imperial College,
London. She graduated with a Class 1 Honours degree in geology at Liverpool University in 1967,
gaining her PhD in Geochemistry at Leicester University ten years later. Jane has worked at the
British Geological Survey for her whole professional career and took a leading role significantly
(and at first unexpectedly) in the new field of environmental health. During the 1970s it was Jane
Plant’s team which identified links between deficiency diseases in livestock and the geochemistry
of the land on which they lived. Author of several books including Your Life in Your Hands (above).
Patrick Holford researched the role of nutrition in mental health and illness, whilst completing his
bachelor degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of York. He is a leading pioneer in
new approaches to health and nutrition and is widely regarded as Britain’s leading spokesman on
nutrition and mental health issues. He is author of over 30 health books, translated into over 20
languages and selling over a million copies worldwide. In 1984 he founded the Institute for
Optimum Nutrition (ION). Patrick retired as Director of ION in 1997 to focus on writing, teaching
and researching. He is an Honorary Fellow of BANT (the British Association of Nutritional
Therapists). For some of the titles of Patrick's work, please see above.
William Bloom - Doctorate in Psychology from LSE, lecturer in Psychological Problems in
International Politics LSE, 10 years work with adults and adolescents with special needs, deliverer
of many trainings, including NHS. Author of several books, including The Endorphin Effect (above).
Howard Gardner - BA summa cum laude in Social Relations, Harvard College, 1965; PhD
Psychology, Harvard University 1971; author of over 400 research papers and 20 books, including
Multiple Intelligences and Multiple Intelligences - New Horizons.
The Food Calculator is a revolutionary new dietary analysis system allowing the comparison of
dietary intake against Government guidelines and Optimum Nutrition recommendations.
In simple terms, it helps individuals to determine how well-balanced their diet really is
and provides guidance on how to correct any nutrient imbalances or deficiencies, which
may impact upon health and wellbeing. The Food Calculator can also interpret and
explain the nutritional information with you to provide the help and understanding that
is really needed. (www.thefoodcalculator.com)