Books and Resources

Dr. Cira has many recommendations for living a healthy chiropractic lifestyle. Below are a few of her website, book, and movie recommendations. Click on any of the books to order through Amazon.com. If you wish more information about any of the items you see here, please contact Dr. Cira's office.

  Featured Recommendations

A master herbalist offers a timely parent's guide to child-friendly herbs and other natural remedies for common ailments and injuries, showing parents how a banana can be used to remove a splinter, how herbs can reduce fever, why garlic is a natural antibiotic, and much more.

In Full Moon Feast , accomplished chef and passionate food activist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from the midwinter Hunger Moon and the springtime sweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of the Moon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn.

The Grassfed Gourmet is about great food, written by someone who understood how to grow it before she learned how to cook it.  The recipes are simple, practical and merciful, capable of being cooked successfully in even the most chaotic households (yes, I’m speaking from experience).  No froofy fancy techniques or ingredients, I promise.

Here are more recipes, with my assurance that even a Weber-wary woman (I’m speaking from experience) can master the art of creating great food with flames and smoke. And, of course, this little volume contains more stories, more insights about farm life and our nation’s food culture, and lots of tips on how to cook and eat in harmony with nature.

Drawing on 30 years of experience, the author of "The Diet Cure" presents a natural approach to emotional well-being that starts within 24 hours.

The latest, cutting-edge research from genetics, biochemistry, and anthropology to help a person look, feel, and perform his or her best.

Sarah Fragoso gives detailed instructions for acquiring a Paleo lifestyle and improving the health and longevity of your family. An active mother of three, Fragoso shows that eating Paleo is not only feasible for the busiest of families, but also easy, delicious and completely life-changing. She offers numerous recipes for all meals of the day, and provides tips for getting around common roadblocks, such as eating out. Finally, to keep your entire family fit and sane in the 21st century, she lays out easy-to-follow workout routines that you can do either in the gym or your own home. In Everyday Paleo, Fragoso shows you how to make Paleo your lifestyle, not just another fad diet.

MarksDailyApple.com healthy lifestyle guru Mark Sisson presents the compelling premise that you can reprogram your genes in the direction of weight loss, health, and longevity by following 10 immutable “Primal” laws validated by two million years of human evolution.

As omnivores - the most unselective eaters - we humans are faced with a wide variety of food choices, resulting in a dilemma. To find out about those choices, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us - industrial food, organic food, and food we forage ourselves - from the source to a final meal, and in the process writes an account of the American Way of Eating.

A book for anyone who wants to look and feel their best.

You are unique! The way we respond to food, exercise and stress varies person-to-person just as much as our fingerprints. This book will identify YOUR individual needs and teach you how to address issues that may be preventing you from looking and feeling your best.

Well written and interesting, this book explains how iodine plays a crucial role in many aspects of health and why iodized salt does not supply our needs. Due to deterioration of soils/foods as well as poorer modern diets and environments (particularly the deliberate pollution of drinking water with fluorine, fluoride and chlorine, which are all toxic), severe iodine deficiency is epidemic in many English-speaking countries.

A ground-breaking book about how a holistic program can be used to treat Hypothyroidism, Hashimoto's Disease, Graves" Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and many other conditions. This book will show you how a natural treatment program consisting of: natural thyroid hormone, other natural hormones, vitamins, minerals, diet modifications and detoxification can successfully treat many thyriod and other conditions.

Based on Dr. Plasker's bestselling wellness system, The 100-Year Lifestyle(tm) reveals the secret to making the most of your extended lifespan. It gives you all you need to enjoy the highest quality of life as you age in years--without aging in body and mind. Your centennial is in reach with Dr. Plasker's ideas and methods for diet, nutrition, exercise, mental agility, creativity, finances, friends and family, work, community, and achieving a sense of purpose.

This is an incredibly informative and reader-friendly book about a common debilitating medical condition that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated. ADRENAL FATIGUE: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome is a very empowering work cram-packed with vital information about a condition that very likely affects millions of people.

Persuasively arguing that the never-ending quest for "health" has gone too far, McLagan's elegant and informed look at this most maligned ingredient is appropriately unctuous. A crucial part of our diets, fat not only provides health benefits but pure pleasure: few ingredients can carry flavor the way fat does. Breaking the topic down into categories (butter, pork, poultry, beef-and-lamb), McLagan carefully chooses recipes that showcase the role of fat in imparting and carrying flavor.

Thinking of making the switch to grassfed meats because of its lower fat content and stronger flavor? Many people have and found that it's a different animal altogether from the standard meats found en masse - and have ruined many cuts of meat in the process. Stanley A. Fishman teaches how to do it right in Tender Grassfed Meat.

 Nourishing Traditions is THE go-to book for cooking and eating foods that are healthy and truly nutritious. The introduction alone explains the facts and fallicies of nutrition in great detail, debunking a lot of the myths that have been reported over the years. Anyone who is looking to eat and cook traditional foods needs this book.

For Dr. Cira's other recommended reading, please check the different categories listed below:

• Nutrition and Healthy Foods
• Movement and Exercise
• Specific Health Issues