Complete 101 Series Bundle

I spent my pregnancy with my first daughter researching how to have a natural birth. After I gave birth, it was all I could do to physically recover, bond with my baby, and learn how to breastfeed. I kept drowning in guilt feeling like I needed to research routine medical care, nutrition, and early education for my child, but I was simply too tired and overwhelmed to know where to begin. I was drained of mental and physical resources, vulnerable, and intensely emotional.

This is often the moment at which we, as parents, find ourselves most susceptible to the voices of medical and political authority that may or may not have our children's best interests at heart. The unsolicited opinions of friends and family continue to obscure the issues and cloud our judgment. It can feel impossible to make informed decisions and own those decisions when challenged by those who disagree.

I've spent the past 6 years reading, researching, making mistakes with my own children, and wishing I could have done things differently from the start. I have always believed that educating myself about an issue is my path forward, but self-education-- especially about topics that deeply impact the lives of our children--can be time-consuming and mentally draining.

I created my 101 series to help parents navigate the complex and controversial waters surrounding fertility, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, nutrition, and routine pediatric medical care. Each 101 e-book provides 101 facts from medical authorities, peer-reviewed scientific journals and nonfiction authors with serious credentials. Each fact is additionally hyperlinked to allow parents to dive as deeply as they wish into a particular topic.

Thus, each 101 e-book provides a thorough--but concise--overview of a controversial issue and simultaneously offers parents a launching point to do their own additional research. The Take Back Your Health 101 Series explores nutrition as the bedrock for mental health, physical health, fertility, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. The Fat versus Sugar 101 addresses the popular controversy between fat and carbohydrate consumption.

contains 10 chapters exploring topics such as cholesterol, saturated fat, type 2 diabetes, trans fat, & the lipid hypothesis

begins with "about" & "how to use" pages & ends with a bibliography, online sources & recommended reading

each chapter highlights 5 key takeaways summarizing conclusions from the medical literature

includes multiple infographics providing background information on topics such as essential fatty acids, childhood obesity, & statins

explores the role of industrial vegetable oils (including canola oil) & refined carbohydrates in noncommunicable disease

chapter 9 addresses conflicts of interest & reveals the industry ownership of many popular food & beverage brands

chapter 10 investigates the place that saturated fat, cholesterol, & animal foods have occupied in the human diet from the perspective of evolutionary biology

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printable design to allow reader to directly engage with the material

begins with "about" and "how to use" pages & ends with 2 bonus infographics

each of the 7 principles includes 7 types of worksheets

worksheet type 1: principle outline & overview of current knowledge

worksheet type 2: basics Q & A with hyperlinks for self-correction

worksheet type 3: tracker chart or checklist to evaluate personal use of principle

worksheet type 4: quotation quiz to more deeply examine a scientific journal citation

worksheet type 5: explore a critical aspect of the principle more thoroughly

worksheet type 6: troubleshoot how to apply this principle directly to the reader's life

worksheet type 7: 5-minute mental health check journal prompt

reveals the energy-as-commodity cycle & highlights a path to freedom

explores carbohydrates/sugar in physical, emotional, & psychological dependence

troubleshoots the omega-6/omega-3 ratio, cholesterol, & glycemic index

investigates complex carbohydrates & why we should process our own carbs

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contains 10 chapters exploring topics such as nightshades, maize/aflatoxins, veganism/vegetarianism, agricultural bioethics, & celiac disease

begins with "about" & "how to use" pages & ends with a bibliography, online sources & recommended reading

each chapter highlights 5 key takeaways summarizing conclusions from the medical literature

includes multiple infographics providing background information on topics such as phytoestrogens, B-12/micronutrient deficiencies, the soybean & seed industries, & Monsanto

investigates multiple plant toxins and "anti-nutrients" such as goitrogens, oxalates, phytates, & lectins

reveals the connection between maize & soy production & genetically-modified organisms, conflicts of interest, & unethical industry practices

explores the role of animal foods in human evolution & digestion, with an emphasis on consumption during pregnancy, lactation, & infancy/childhood

chapter 10 addresses how traditional methods of fermentation, sprouting, & nixtamalization can render plants safe to consume

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printable design to allow reader to directly engage with the material

begins with "about" & "how to use" pages & ends with 2 bonus infographics

each of the 7 methods includes 7 types of worksheets

worksheet type 1: method outline & overview of current knowledge

worksheet type 2: basics Q & A with hyperlinks for self-correction

worksheet type 3: tracker chart or checklist of personal exposure to anti-nutrient

worksheet type 4: quotation quiz to more deeply examine a scientific journal citation

worksheet type 5: troubleshoot how to use this method to decrease anti-nutrients

worksheet type 6: recipe to try at home applying traditional method

worksheet type 7: 5-minute mental health check journal prompt

reveals how to decrease goitrogen & oxalate content of leafy vegetables

explores sourdough fermentation & teaches the basics of working with a starter

troubleshoots how to reduce phytate & lectin content of grains & legumes

investigates maize, soy, & nightshades & where they belong in the human diet

explains how to use plants for detoxification & cleansing

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My 101 series is intended to save parents time, mental and emotional energy, and also provide them with a path forward for themselves and their children. It distills highly complex topics into digestible and practical information with clear source citations for further research. In this way, my 101 Series serves as a launching point for parents to deep-dive as far as they wish.

My goal is to help make research that properly belongs to parents more accessible, understandable, and actionable. I hope to empower parents to begin trusting their own judgment--and to feel that they are basing that judgment on legitimate research.

If, for any reason, you do not find this research helpful in your journey as a parent, please reach out to me for a full refund.

My goal is not to pretend I have the answers. Instead, I want to promote the scope and the gravity of the issues modern parents face. I want to help parents equip themselves with the knowledge and information they need to make truly informed choices for their children. To foster in themselves both awareness of the freedom to refuse and viable alternatives. To take the responsibility for their family’s health back into their own hands. To take back self-education and self-advocacy. And, in the process, transform themselves from victim into agent.

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Food for Thought Journal

This companion journal to the Take Back Your Health series takes the reader on a 7-day journey through 7 psychological dimensions of food: 1) identity, 2) language, 3) community, 4) relationship, 5) insecurity, 6) responsibility, & 7) agency. It is intended to help the reader explore & confront mental, emotional, & psychological aspects of food, diet, & eating. This journal can be used as a tool to track evolving attitudes towards food every 3, 6, or 12 months.

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