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The Live Food Factor: A Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet
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Manufacturer: 1st Impression Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780977679508
ISBN: 0977679500
Label: 1st Impression Publishing
Manufacturer: 1st Impression Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 548
Publication Date: 2006-03-30
Publisher: 1st Impression Publishing
Studio: 1st Impression Publishing
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Live Food Factor is the first comprehensive guide to not only the raw food diet, but also the raw food movement itself. This diet is sweeping America as people discover its power to not only make a body lean, but also keep disease at bay and bolster the immune system to heal from what are typically considered "incurable" diseases. Everyone who eats should read this book! This 520-page book contains four sections. Section one entails the benefits of raw and includes a chapter that details ten good reasons to stop cooking, as well as 17 personal testimonials. Section two has the science and includes not only why raw food helps the body heal (as Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine") but also over 50 published studies demonstrating the superiority of an uncooked diet, and in many cases, the toxicity of a cooked one. This is a book that can be presented to the most skeptic of all. Section three informs the reader of the history and modern day leaders of the raw food movement. Section four is a complete "how-to" manual. It tells you how to go raw and what to expect. It also includes 13 common pitfalls of beginning raw fooders as well as discussion of 16 controversial nutritional issues and answers 27 of the most frequently asked questions. In Chapter 15 there are also over 60 raw recipes: gourmet dishes such as raw desserts, entrees, soups, etc. The appendices document how the food and drug companies keep us ignorant of true health. It also summarizes radical branches of the raw food movement (such as the raw meat eaters). In the back of the book is a useful resource section for raw gourmet foods, kitchen devices, raw restaurants, and doctors/healing centers familiar with the program. This book won first place in the Independent Publisher's Awards (IPPY) as "The Most Progressive Health Book of the Year
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Greatest Raw Food Book Ever!!
Comment: If you only read one book on raw food, this should be it! Susan does an excellent job of siting references and gives a fantastic overview of raw food knowledge in every area. This should be the centerpiece of everyone's raw food and health library. Words cannot express how much this book has meant to me!
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Summary: Encyclopedeia of Raw Vegan Food
Comment: If you are seriously looking at improving your health and curious about the vegan rawfood movement this is a good book to start with.
What I really liked were the real life stories of how people turned their health around. the book is also full of ideas and resources.
A must in the library of a healthy family!
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Summary: Very informative
Comment: The author pulls together a wealth of information and resources for anyone attempting a raw diet.
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Summary: Well-Researched and Comprehensive
Comment: I've been raw for a little over a year now and have spent this time reading all I could get my hands on about the raw food diet and lifestyle. This book is the most comprehensive I have found. Susan not only gives us the intuitive reinforcement and varied testimonials we need to keep us motivated, she also includes study after study proving that this diet improves and maintains health. It's this emphasis on research (not to mention a great orange-tahini sauce recipe!) that keeps me coming back to the book time and again.
"Going raw" isn't always easy, particularly when society's norms run counter to your choice, as it often does outside of certain circles in New York or California. I've used Susan's book to comfort worried relatives, give intelligently written information to curious acquaintances, and (most importantly) to remind myself that this truly is a wise choice, despite others' worries. Incidentally, while many of the raw food books I love are written by young people, it feels comforting, somehow, to read one by someone over 50. Some of the testimonials are about older people, as well. It rounds out the picture of the "typical" raw foodist.
This is one of those large, chock-full-of-information books that I didn't want to see end. I find myself wanting to read more books by this author on the topic, because I know she will research whatever she studies thoroughly and present the findings honestly.
There are times when I want propoganda-type books, and there are times when I want solid science. This book offers a little of the former, and a great deal of the latter, plus recipes and great tips. It has become the one book I lend to people considering going raw. I'm going to have to order more copies, because no one ever seems to want to return it!
Thank you for offering us such a comprehensive book, Susan! Keep writing!
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Summary: Just what I was looking for...
Comment: This author really 'gets it' in this easy to read, informative and exciting book encompassing all the complexities of a raw food way of life. Her impressive list of cited studies are a great source of information when doing a self study and search. I have made changes and will continue along the raw and whole food pathway, with 'Live Food Factor' as a major resource. (Joy Illikainen, R.N.) The reviewer is a student of Radiant Life Eating, with Mark Powell, St.Paul, MN.
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