The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet
by Susan E. Schenck
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Author: Susan E. SchenckContributor: Victoria BidWell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN: 0977679519
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Awakenings Publications
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Book Review: The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide To The Ultimate Diet For Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Awakenings, 2nd Ed. 2008) by Susan E. Schenck, LAc, MTOM
Susan Schenck is a raw food coach, lecturer, and author of the award-winning book, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet, known as the encyclopedia of the raw food diet.
The book has also been referred to as the Raw Food Bible, a classic, and the most comprehensive study of the raw food movement; The Live Food Factor is all that. Centered around nearly 70 studies, The Live Food Factor brings our ancestors' common sense approach to food for life to the dining tables of modern man. Recent scientific studies show us that it is extremely important to eat healthy foods--vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. Once considered radical, the idea of ingesting nature's bounty in its natural state is becoming mainstream, due to authors like Susan Schenck.
Herself the daughter of an M.D., the author details the history, purpose, and necessity of eating raw in over 600 pages. The Live Food Factor is Susan Schenck's product of lengthy research and her own search for health after battling anorexia, bulimia, and watching those around her die of preventable illnesses. She defines raw, including those who are strictly vegan, those who are consumers of raw animal products, and the fruitarians.
The Live Food Factor is broken into four main sections:
* Reasons to Go Raw--covers physical and mental aspects, testimonials of those healed of illnesses, and the author's own story.
* The Science--explains the paradigm shift in disease origins and treatments; research into cooked versus raw diets (extensive); the nutritional breakdown of raw foods.
* History and Modern Day Leaders--highlights historical groups which practiced raw food living and the front-runners in today's raw food movement.
* Your Journey to Raw Life--includes how to get started, detoxification and healing, fasting, nutritional controversies, and pitfalls. This section also answers common questions, addresses the needs of children in a raw home, and provides many recipes. Ones to try: Tomato Raviolis, Peanut Butter & Carob Cups, Curry Spinach Dressing.
Appendixes--foods to avoid (wheat, dairy, sugar, salt); radical branches of the raw movement (green smoothie diet, instinctive eating, raw animal food diet); nondietary health factors (discusses sleep necessity, laws of life, food combining).
The book also contains a 15-page bibliography, a resource guide, and a glossary.
Most importantly, The Live Food Factor addresses many questions for those wanting to know more.
Examples:
* What conditions can be helped by eating raw?
* How do you get enough protein?
* Why aren't all doctors recommending the raw food diet?
* Can I drink coffee?
Susan Schenck makes clear her case for eating raw in a concise and convincing argument. She backs up her writing with numerous additional scientific studies from published journals about the benefits of a natural diet versus the standard American diet (SAD). Though the suggestions may be revolutionary to some, it is evident to many, including more and more medical doctors in the medical establishment, that disease has become an invasive part of our society, and the answer lies with prevention.
For Susan Schenck and other raw food advocates, the top ten conditions of health are:
1. Cleanliness--inside the body and on its outside surfaces
2. Pure air
3. Pure water
4. Adequate rest and sleep
5. A nontoxic diet--raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouts
6. Right temperatures
7. Adequate sunlight
8. Regular exercise
9. Emotional balance--purpose of life, freedom from addictions
10. Nurturing relationships
Whether you're part of the raw food movement or not, The Live Food Factor offers compelling evidence for a healthier life from which we all could benefit. With The Live Food Factor, the author is offering 70 bonus gifts.
5 Stars
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Summary of The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet
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! The first edition won the IPPY award as "most progressive health book of the year." The second edition of the Live Food Factor is an updated, expanded and revised comprehensive guide to the raw food diet, with a section on inspiration, a section on science, a section on the history of raw foodism, a complete how-to section, including frequently asked questions & answers, and recipes. It contains 66 scientific studies to support the superiority of eating raw. This second edition brings a summary of all the benefits of Natural Hygiene as well. It includes several chapters written mainly by Victoria BidWell, including the true cause of illness, how to detox and an entire chapter on fasting. It also includes a new chapter written mainly by Dr. Vetrano and Dr. Tosca Haag on how to get children to eat raw. There are new testimonials, many new recipes, updated science studies, and even 3 new appendices. It is packed with new and updated information. In fact, this edition has about 37% more information! (The font had to be slightly smaller to squeeze everything in!) It also contains forewords by Dr. V.Vetrano, DC, hMD, PhD, DSci (who worked extensively with Dr. Shelton of the Natural Hygiene movement) and Victoria Boutenko (one of the most noted leaders of the raw food movement). It was carefully edited for accuracy by Bob Avery, expert on the raw food diet and former editor of the M2M magazine, as well as Victoria Bidwell and Dr. Vetrano for accuracy in the Natural Hygiene components.Healthy Books
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