The Greatest Diet on Earth [Paperback] Review

I have been hooked on this book since the author first wrote it.I got it from my local library.Finally I bought it because I had to have it for constant reference!It is the easiest way to eat and the smartest way to live.It makes sense!I'm so glad the author was willing to write it and share her experience with us.

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There is a subtle, but very real, connection between the mind, body and spirit that can be released and accessed through the way we eat. Years of personal research and living this lifestyle have lead the author on the path of optimal health. Attain weight loss NATURALLY. Attune to incredible energy and stamina. Rise to a new level of self-esteem.

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The Healing Patch Cookbook (Spiral-bound) Review

Ever find yourself backtracking book aisles, lost in an assortment of titles and topics you aren't sure what to choose from? Maybe your mission is HEALTH so you hit up the nutrition section. When you think you've found the perfect book another shows up and looks even more interesting so maybe you throw it in your basket as you still continue to browse books that catch your attention. It may even feel a little compulsive yet you are desperate to learn and better your health. You know it's time to check out when your basket is starting to wear out your arm! You get to the check out counter and dump a pile of books you may never even read and honestly can't afford, especially with our current economy. In the back of your head you are wishing and praying that someone would create a book that has it all, something for everyone.

Wake up your frustrated and foggy heads! The answers to your book-buying nutritional-needs wishes have come true. The Healing Patch Cookbook has arrived and the 2 gals that wrote it are surely angels from Heaven! Julie and Sarah have put together an educational, nutrient dense, affordable and universal piece of brilliance! You can sit down and relax with this one stop shop of raw, vegan and vegetarian oriented recipes that will excite even the most malicious meat eater to fall on knees of glory!

I bought this book for my Mother as a gift since she is slowly transitioning to a vegan dietary lifestyle. She loves the recipes because they are quick and easy unlike some raw recipes that require half your day (and half your pocket book as well due to numerous expensive equipment to assist). There are also special little juicy morsels aka educational tidbits throughout the book which helps the reader learn more about the healing properties of whole foods, etc. It's compact enough to comfortably fit your kitchen counter and beautifully designed to brighten up any room! The cover alone will remind you how important fruits and vegetables are and encourage you to eat more of them. Kids will love it too. Now the whole family can get their fruits and veggies ON!!!

This book caters to ALL ages. It makes a great gift. It is perfect for those looking to transition to a healthier lifestyle. The authors kept an open mind and heart when writing this book. They do not push a specific way of eating or living and leave that up to each individual.CHOICE is clearly as important as VOICE to them. Let it be for you too, The Healing Patch Cookbook will guide you along your journey.

Blessings!

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The Healing Patch Cookbook is the perfect guide for transitioning into a more healthful lifestyle. It brings the reader through a gentle, humorous, and self-loving journey from cooked to raw food. This cookbook suits everyone from the seasoned raw foodist looking for deeper connection with their diet, to the newbie who needs help taking their first step into the world of raw food! While many health experts come from a restrictive view with a specific protocol, Julie and Sarah remain open as they guide the reader to become more intuitive and self-sufficient with their health. Complete with a few cooked transitional recipes, loads of raw food recipes, and gorgeous photos, The Healing Patch Cookbook is a superb blend of everything people need to guide themselves to their most divine level of health. Not only are the recipes clear, the first half of the book is loaded with information to help people along their way. The authors gift the readers with a joyous new connection to themselves, their plate, and the planet. Raw food becomes something deeper than itself; a new energy, a new consciousness, a new life!

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The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Paperback) Review

This is a wonderful little book, lacking in B.S., and the author doesn't pretend he knows it all. He says this works for him and has worked for people he's worked with. He freely admits it's experiential and he offers a money back guarantee saying that if you follow what he says and it doesn't work, he'll refund your money on the book. That's very refreshing. His writing style is unpretentious and very readable. I like this book a lot.

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The optimal wellness system that will get you motivated, skyrocket your energy levels, boost your productivity, and only requires a few hours a week!

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The 80/10/10 Diet (Paperback) Review

This is a very interesting book, and I am extremely glad it has been written. The strange sounding title refers to the name of an eating plan that derives 80% of total calories from carbs as found in fruit, and 10% each from fat and protein, and does so within a raw vegan framework. Graham's opinion is that this is the optimum and natural diet for human beings and therein lies the premise of this book, and he spends the next 300+ pages convincing the reader why this is so.

To accomplish this, Graham uses mostly common sense arguments and scientific analyses. The former are more effective here, and he peppers the text liberally with them. The combination is a very convincing mix, and I felt ready to dive into a pit of bananas before I had read too far. By the time Graham describes how eating a high-fat diet stresses the adrenals I was both fascinated and reflecting in horror on my past dietary sins.

There are 348 pages here; 170 of them are essay in chapters, and the balance goes to sample menus, nutrient breakdowns, portion equivalents, testimonials, faqs, and so on. These miscellaneous parts do not come across as filler, even the perhaps overly lengthy testimonial section. Graham's writing style is clear and though he engages in repetition at times (for instance when talking about fat and blood sugar) the flow is mainly undisturbed. The end feeling I had was that it was very intelligently laid out and well done. I also appreciate that he doesn't try to sell you anything. (see "The PH Miracle" for an example of that!)

I really don't have much to criticize here, I did wonder what stripe of doctor "Dr." Graham is, and some of the menu plans (dinners) seemed a bit complex to coexist with a "mono is best" philosophy. He cites some vague and trivial sources ("a 1999 journal article says..." and "according to a brochure from the Colorado Vegetarian Society..."), and I was left wondering why Dr. Graham recommends eating any "overt" fat at all (given that sweet fruits and greens naturally contain 5% fat). He never gave a reason. Also, he says to eat juicy fruit for breakfast, sweeter fruit for lunch, and I remember something about acid fruits at dinner. Again, he never gave a reason for this. Very minor things in the broader context. I would overlook a great deal more to get to the profoundly worthwhile message of this book.

I guess the most compelling thing about this book is that by the end, the diet proposed within seems like a no big deal, normal, almost. It's like a secret hiding in plain sight. That's amazing considering how truly rare it is to eat in such a way. Go out into the world and you will see it is borderline revolutionary. I have applied these principles and experienced nothing but positive results for myself- If it were not so I would never write such a review. I must say thanks to Dr. Graham for putting this out there for everyone to benefit from.

Note: I don't know what the deal is with the 4-6 weeks Amazon takes to ship it, I bought mine from [...] because of that.

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After more than 5 years of intensive work the definitive guide to the 80/10/10 Diet is here! Get your hands on the latest book by Dr. Douglas Graham, The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time. If you have struggled with staying raw, would like to lose weight, or change your life for the better, look no further than this groundbreaking book.

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Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic (Flashpoint) (Paperback) Review

After you've read John Robbins' "Diet for a New America", and digested it (pun intended) for a few months/years, it's time to read "Radical Vegetarianism".Mr. Braunstein will take your thinkingand mentality about food, nutrition, and health to the next level. Sometimes caustic, often funny, and always intelligent andthought-provoking, this book is a great read and very inspiring.

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This is the vegetarian dialectic of diet and ethic: not coincidentally, but absolutely essentially, those foods that deprive the fewest lives of others contribute to the longest lives for ourselves. (from the preface)
Vegetarians are not a better sort of people, just a better sort of carnivore, writes Braunstein in Radical Vegetarianism, and carnivores are just a better sort of cannibal. In this updated edition of the 1981 classic, Braunstein courageously takes on the canned canards, sacred cows, and wooly thinking of carnivores and vegetarians alike, and proposes a vegetarianism that goes beyond the stereotypes of pot-lucks and Birkenstocks to one that embraces contradiction and candor, or, as Braunstein says (channeling the Ancients), Gnaw Thyself.

Contents:
Nutrition in the Light of Vegetarianism
Ashes to Ashes, Life to Life
Letter to a Young Vegetarian
Traveling Fast
The Milky Way
Animals and Infidels
Carnivoral Death and Karmic Debt
The Illogic of the Ecologic
The Problem of Being a Flesh Eater
An Apologetic Addendum

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Wheatgrass : Superfood for a New Millennium [Paperback] Review

Wheatgrass: Superfood for a New Millennium by Li Smith (Vital Health Publishing) - a small book, big on well-researched, well-illustrated content, refreshingly easy to read. The author takes a comprehensive look at the amazingly regenerative, healing powers of freshly squeezed wheatgrass juice, delving into its history and folk-lore applications through the ages to modern times. Smith tells readers how to grow the grass from scratch (it couldn't be more simple), how to extract the juice correctly to retain all its inherent powerhouse propertes, and how best to use it as an instant super-boost for optimum health.
The book is essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with looking and feeling better, not older, as the years go by. -Marika Sboros, Lifestyle Editor, The Star, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Wheatgrass authority Li Smith describes the outstanding nutritive and therapeutic benefits of consuming wheatgrass juice.From a holistic perspective, she recounts the history of this amazing superfood and its importance within the spiritual traditions of many cultures.Li also offers home usage and growing instructions and presents a new cleansing and rejuvenation program, which incorporates wheatgrass, fresh fruits and vegetables, fermented foods, herbs and edible flowers.
More than a grain, wheatgrass offers the healing benefits of a primary sun-food, converting the suns rays directly into chorophyll as well as an abundance of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymesall needed to enhance and optimize health and well-being.

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Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life [Paperback] Review

Thrive Diet is a relatively easy to follow program for athletes that have food allergies, are vegan, or just want to get their nutrition from whole foods. The hardest thing of going plants only is accepting you can get solid protein and nutrition. Thankfully, the author knows how to research and presents his findings dispassionately and with reason. The page on protein powders is worth the book itself. No where else have I found this information, and I've been looking through all vegan, vegetarian, and bodybuilding books. Keep in mind that this book is soy and tofu free, due to the author's concerns with allergies. That's a good thing. Tofu/Soy products are used MORE in N. America. I'm not anti-soy. Just pro-variety (and frankly soy hasn't gotten me to where I want to be anyhow.)

An important part of this book are the early chapters on different types of stress and how nutrition can assist recuperation. The author is not a big supplement taker, and focuses on nourishment rather than calories/protein/carbs counting.The recipes are simple to prepare. It's actually, dare I say it, kind of lazy food prep, minimal tools (food processor & blender), and maximum return. These are positives. Other vegan cookbooks have 20 steps, consume an hour of time and the end result is just a side dish. Of potatoes....

Now, the book is affordable, but there's a sticker shock that comes from going whole foods whole cloth. Thankfully I have a Whole Foods within 8 miles. They had most everything on the list, except yellow pea protein powder. The clerk said the co. that made that went bankrupt, so it's put a lot of folks in a lurch.My total bill? $227.00 The protein powders are about $15 each, the oils are around that price point, and maca and chlorella cost $15 a bottle.AND THIS IS WITH ALMOST NO PRODUCE OR VEGETABLES. $227. The upside is the convenience of Whole Foods having all this stuff. Nutrition costs...

I copied the shopping list to a pdf at orlandont dot com. Click on the Thrive link. Again, it's costly to just jump into it, so maybe transition using the energy bar recipes and grow from there.Still, this book is awesome and if you're serious about training or casually interested in losing weight or just understanding HOW your body functions, get this book.

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The thrive diet is a long-term eating plan to help all athletes (professional or not) develop a lean body, sharp mind, and everlasting energy. As one of the few professional athletes on a plant-based diet, Brendan Brazier researched and developed this easy-to-follow program to enhance his performance as an elite endurance competitor.
Brazier clearly describes the benefits of nutrient-rich foods in their natural state versus processed foods, and how to choose nutritionally efficient, stress-busting whole foods for maximum energy and health. Featuring a 12-week meal plan, over 100 allergen-free recipes with raw food options-including recipes for energy gels, sport drinks, and recovery foods-and a complementary exercise plan, The Thrive Diet is "an authoritative guide to outstanding performance" (Neal D. Barnard, M.D., Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine).

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The Sunfood Diet Success System (Hardcover) Review

*****
David Wolfe's Sunfood Diet Success System could be regarded as the raw foodist's bible.It is the latest edition of his classic book, updated and made gorgeous by library binding, spectacular Kirlian photography of raw foods throughout, and cutting edge information about raw foods.

The new Sunfood Diet Success System will appeal to entry-level raw foodists and experienced raw foodists.It is a "success system" rather than strictly a raw foods book because it is packed with David Wolfe's philosophy about raw foods and life in general---most of this is positve thinking and personal transformation philosophy applied to raw foods.In my opinion, it is all very helpful and inspirational.

It is difficult to say enough good things about this book.If you are interested in the healthy lifestyle of raw foods, buy it.

Negatives about the book would be David Wolfe's poetry---I'm not a big poetry fan, and there is quite a bit of it.However, it's inspirational and motivational too, so this is just a personal preference of mine.

Another negative to be aware of is that David Wolfe, as the number one raw foodist in the world, is very extreme and intense...he forages for wild foods when he is caught without healthy foods, something most of us would not have the knowledge or interest to do.This is part of what makes him such a committed raw foodist and raw food "hero" to me, but it may be hard for many people to relate to.That said, most of the book is very practical.

It is an expensive book, but a beautiful one, and well worth the price.This will be a classic, and is definitely my favorite raw food book of about 40 that I own.
*****

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Since its first publication, The Sunfood Diet Success System has been the definitive book on the raw food lifestyle. Now after more than seven years, David Wolfe has rigorously rewritten the entire book, beginning to end, in order to offer the most complete, up-to-date nutrition information possible. No where else will you find the kinds of empowering information and insight that is present on every page of this truly inspiring work.

The Sunfood Diet Success System is a groundbreaking book in the field of raw-food nutrition. The book describes exactly how to adopt, maintain, and stay centered on an 80, 90, or 100% raw-food diet by balancing different types of foods through David Wolfe's innovative Sunfood Triangle. Success is inevitable with day-by-day menu plans, delicious recipes, and the best information available on detoxification, fasting, mineralization and success technology all neatly bundled into one book.

Each chapter is filled with inspiring quotes, facts, and tips. Dozens of beautiful, never-before-seen full-color images have been added to this brand-new edition, including many stunning Kirlian photographs. The Sunfood Diet Success System also includes a comprehensive listing of raw-food restaurants, healing retreats, and organizations. Be prepared for nothing less than total transformation!

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