We Want to Live: The Primal Diet (2005 Expanded Edition)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
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Author: Aajonus VonderplanitzEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-16
ISBN: 1889356107
Number of pages: 364
Publisher: Carnelian Bay Castle Press
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Book Review: Will The Real Diet Guru Please Stand Up!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you read the health magazines or go to health food stores, you can't help but see ads and articles all over the place touting the "raw" diet. There are two main reasons why I hate to see raw food diets being sold the way they are being sold today.
One is that some people are capitalizing on the raw food movement and the ignorance of the public by selling raw dead food, dead from processing. It hasn't been cooked, but that's about all you can say for it. In my opinion, once people find out that raw dead foods are useless as far as making them healthier, they will reject the whole raw food movement as just another fad, and it will fade away along with all the other food fads.
Number two, most if not all the raw food gurus you see are touting a strict raw vegan diet which includes no dairy, eggs or meat.
This book was written to show you a different way. And I believe that anyone who is really interested in improving his or her health needs to read it to get the whole picture of not only how raw living foods can improve their health but how and what to eat in the way of raw foods in order to maximize their health giving qualities.
If you look at the health magazines, you will see that all the advocates of the raw vegan diets are young, and that's not a bad thing, but how much experience can they have? The author of this book is over sixty years old and has had over thirty years of experience with all kinds of raw diets including vegetarian and fruitarian, not to mention sharing experiences of many many clients who used raw food to cure themselves of various diseases and health problems that wouldn't respond to any other kind of treatment.
I believe a wise and judicious person should get the whole picture of what raw foods can and cannot do, and they can't get it unless they read this book because this author is the only one who knows enough or is willing to tell the whole truth about diet. People interested in diet should read it first, then they can read all the other raw diet books and magazine articles they want, if they still want to.
There are consequences, Mr. Vonderplanitz points out, to being a strict fruitarian or vegetarian, especially when certain foods are emphasized, which include symptoms of over-emotionality to the point of becoming bi-polar or manic depressive, hyperactive, irritable, even getting tooth decay. It happened to him, and it can happen to you. He spends a lot of time in the book explaining the difference between raw and cooked foods and that you can eat foods raw, such as butter and cream, without suffering the same health ailments you would suffer if you ate them after pasteurization (cooking). Did you know that pasteurized (cooked) milk actually removes calcium from the body instead of putting it in?
One of the things I like about the foods advocated to be used in this book is that they are mostly everyday foods that we are familiar with. I am the owner of a number of other raw food books which include all kinds of expensive and exotic foods in the recipes. You have to spend money on these things having no idea what they will taste like. One of the books, which I reviewed earlier, has nothing in it but pretty pictures and little else. You won't learn much from reading it, but it sold because it came out under the name of a young man who was the raw foods poster boy at the time. I have removed it from my library because I can't afford to give space to useless books.
So, if you are interested in going raw or interested in optimal health through diet, be smart, save money and read a book written by someone who has been there and done it all.
Summary of We Want to Live: The Primal Diet (2005 Expanded Edition)
This new edition contains 65 more pages of remedies and explanations. Through this remarkable but true story of the author's battle to save his estranged son from life-threatening injuries following an automobile accident, we not only learn how the author healed himself of terminal cancer, diabetes, bursitis and psoriasis but how thousands of people have healed themselves of hundreds of diseases and ailments with the foods that have healed them. Listed are everything from aging, the common cold and beauty tips to cancer, infant problems and muscular dystrophy. All of the disappointments that people have endured because of failed diets and expensive miracle-cure supplements can be understood and set aside. Finally phenomenal results with health, healing and sensible disease-prevention, culled from over 40 years of medical and naturopathic experience and experimentation. Most people applying the wisdom directly from Aajonus, the author, have reduced their medical bills by 90%. Some have been able to eliminate them entirely. Imagine having a life where you control not only how naturally good you feel but how healthy you are. About the Author: At the age of twenty, Aajonus Vonderplanitz was diagnosed with blood and bone cancer and given less than six months to live. Medical therapies made him a semi-invalid with three new "incurable" diseases and a medical death sentence of "three months at best". After his health improved significantly, he traveled for three years on a bicycle laden with a sleeping bag and books on health, physiology and anatomy. He adventured the North American continent, living outdoors while studying the diets and healing methods of various cultural groups and animals. He discovered a dietary approach that changed his life. His cancer went into complete remission and eventually reversed. He has out-lived his medical death sentence by three decades and enjoys excellent health.Nutrition Books
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