The Live Food Factor: A Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet

April 10th, 2008 Posted in Paperback

Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0977679500
Manufacturer: 1st Impression Publishing
Average Customer Review: (From 9 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Book Description:
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

Customer Reviews

Encyclopedeia of Raw Vegan Food by F. Poli
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!

Very informative by Bonnie J. Smithson
The author pulls together a wealth of information and resources for anyone attempting a raw diet.

Well-Researched and Comprehensive by Angela
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!

Just what I was looking for… by missy3940
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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