Living Foods for Optimum Health : Staying Healthy in an Unhealthy World this question feed

asked by csean85 on November 10, 2006 8:58 PM
This book advocates a diet primarily of "fresh, organic, uncooked, unrefined foods that provide the body with everything it needs to stay strong, healthy, and vigorous." Switching to this diet of "living" foods can be a big step for the millions of fast-food addicts out there, but the long-term health benefits--cancer prevention, weight loss, increased longevity and energy--are more desirable than a measly paper bag of salty fries.

Written in conjunction with the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida, which has been known to help cancer patients into remission through diet, this book takes a slightly scare-tactic approach, citing a few too many frightening health statistics ("1 in 3 Americans alive today will develop cancer"). However, its intentions are spot-on. To make the transition to the Institute's recommended diet (75 percent raw fruits and vegetables and 25 percent cooked foods--mainly grains and soups), it gives more than 100 recipes and a week's worth of sample menus, and even instructions on how to sprout your own seeds and nuts. For anyone truly dedicated to going beyond vegetarian to living the whole-foods way, this book is a solid, encouraging guide.


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Anyone interested in healthy eating (raw or not) should read this book. So much insight!
reviewed by fusionz on November 20, 2006 4:45 PM

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I had already read quite a bit about the raw diet and attended several seminars on it by the time I came across this book, so I didn't get much out of it because it is an introductory book. However, I can recommend it for those new to the idea.
reviewed by shagdag on November 20, 2006 8:32 PM

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If eating is said to be a pleasure, it must be a pleasure for being well. This book keeps teaching me why we need to eat.
reviewed by literary on November 27, 2006 10:27 PM

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This was the first book I ever read on raw food diet and it changed my life. Within one week of switching to a living foods diet I went from being sick, depressed and suffering from horrible allergies, to happy, energetic and allergy-free. This book is extremly informative and, if you follow its instructions, can bring you to a state of health and well-being greater than you ever imagined.
reviewed by bethness on November 28, 2006 1:57 AM

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No, cause it doesnt work good. Notice how most the people have just started . Well...
Mom tried this diet. She was into health foods before.
Lots of yoghert and the usual health store stuff. But she still wasnt in so good health.
At first you feel better on live. You think it working.
Then, after a year, you arnt better.
The docter tested her allergies. Suddenly she has all
new ones!! Allergic to all the raw stuff:
avacados, sunflower seeds.
So this diet doesnt work.

Penny

reviewed by reader99 on November 28, 2006 3:23 AM

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