From the Soil to the Stomach: Notes on Healing from Lily Hill Farm [Paperback]

Penny L. Kelly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2002

Few people today really understand the connection between the soil, the stomach, and disease. Most have been raised on manufactured foods and are at least two generations removed from the soil. What did our ancestors know about food that we don't? Why is each generation suffering from degenerative diseases at earlier and earlier ages? What happened to the healing skills of our ancestors? From The Soil To The Stomach takes a powerful look at these questions and the reasons why we are not well in America.

"European missionaries carried the white man's diet around the world with them, becoming a potent wedge between people and the feeding traditions they had evolved over thousands of years. Everywhere they went disruption of indigenous lives followed. People... who depended on the continuation of their food traditions for maintenance of their high immunity were forced out of their sustaining routines, into schools and churches, and onto barren soils. They were fed Western foods right along with Western religion. The result was confusion, disease, psychological malaise, and death everywhere the missionaries went.

"Today we do not have missionaries to contend with, we have marketing departments. A great deal of information has been generated by marketing programs designed to get sales moving for a product. Once the misinformation get out there, we build on it, creating a labyrinth of wrong turns in terms of our diet. If we do not correct this, we simply will not survive." From The Soil To The Stomach

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About the Author

Penny Kelly holds a degree in Humanistic Studies from Wayne State University, is a Naturopathic Physician, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Nutrition. She and her husband own Lily Hill Farm & Learning Center in Lawton, MI. Penny has written three other books: The Evolving Human, The Elves of Lily Hill Farm, and Robes—A Book of Coming Changes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Writers Club Press (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595249248
• ISBN-13: 978-0595249244
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,483,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It !, November 29, 2005

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This review is from: From the Soil to the Stomach: Notes on Healing from Lily Hill Farm (Paperback)

This is a great book for anyone looking to grow a "good" healthy garden .... to someone who wants to understand what we are doing our soil & to our bodies. I enjoyed this book and the information it gave me to make choices!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, March 7, 2005

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For anyone wanting to start taking nutrition seriously or looking for more sources of information this is a great book. She gives a lot of references to her material as well. Wonderful!.