The Recipe for Living Without Disease
The Recipe for Living Without Disease
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5 Stars Everyone should be required to read this book!
This book will change the way you look at everything you put into your body. Aajonus has information that you will never hear anywhere else. It should be a requirement for every physician to read in medical school.
5 Stars The only diet that works.
Seriously.Forget about the recepies.You’ll never make them anyway,beside the basic ones(shakes,moisterizing drink).Once in raw diet,you’ll eat your meal mostly plain.Get We Want 2 Live too.Lots of info.You’ll need to read it over and over 10-20 times in order to stick.This book changed my life.I can’t say enough about it.I saw him in person too.Great man!God bless him!
Prior to this diet I did everything there is.You name it!Macrobiotic,vegeterian,Atkin’s,lacto,etc…Never felt good. A year and a half on raw meat and fish,I feel different person.Thanks AV.
5 Stars More practical and a must have
After reading his first book “We want to live” I had to have Aajonus’ 2nd book. This book, “The recipe for living without disease” lists some more practical and very useful information about a healthy primal diet. Aajonus discusses some healthy food combinations and gives some valuable recipes (suited even for babies!).
As I have found out with many of the MDs and PhDs I’ve listed in my other review of his first book, they all advocate using a blender and a juicer. It reminds me of what Richard Schulze M.D. always said: a blender and a juicer saves lives! It’s so true.
In this book Aajonus discusses what cooking does to nutrients in food, if microbes are dangerous to humans and bacterial food-poisoning etc.
I was very pleased to read that Aajonus is writing new books and that CD/DVDs will be published that show how to make recipes and use kitchen equipment etc. Anxiously waiting these arrivals…!
1 Stars Plenty of people get sick from food-borne infections each year
This book propagates dangerous and simplistic views on health and health care and represents the worst kind of quackery and pseudoscience. The main claim that you see in the title of the book is false. As someone who did a lot of experimentation with diets that contain raw animal food, I can assure you that you will get sick A LOT from food-borne bacteria and parasites if you follow advice presented in this book. Vonderplanitz explains this away as periods of “detox,” and does not consider this sort of episodes a disease. In actuality, “detox” is infectious disease, plain and simple, and it can be life-threatening, especially for immunocompromised patients. Look up statistics of food-borne illnesses and deaths resulting from Salmonella, pork tapeworm, Toxoplasma, Opisthorchiid flukes, Listeria, virulent strains of E. coli, etc, etc. There is a world of credible literature which shows that food-borne pathogens can cause life-threatening illnesses. Yet, Vonderplanitz dismisses all of this as a conspiracy of medical doctors designed to keep you sick and ignorant of his “truth.” Vonderplanitz’s books contain a legal disclaimer that absolves him of any potential legal liabilities for your health problems that may result from following his dietary advice. If you disagree with the disclaimer, you should return a book for a refund. You will not find this kind of disclaimers in other dietary books. If raw food cannot cause diseases and leads to eternal perfect health, then why does he need all those airtight legal disclaimers? None of the miraculous cures cited by Vonderplanitz have been published in peer-reviewed journals and are nothing but unsubstantiated claims of a guy who wants your money and is preying on the naive. Raw food does not cure cancer and other diseases of the old age because animals living in the wild are known to die of those diseases despite consuming a raw food diet (do a little research yourself). A lot of animals living in the wild die of infectious disease caused by bacteria, parasites and viruses. Not to mention the fact that if you tell your friends and coworkers that you consume raw meat on a daily basis, they will think that you are insane and start avoiding you. Forget about dating and living a normal life in general because most people will reject you as a freak and a lunatic if you follow Vonderplanitz’s bizarre recommendations.
5 Stars Great book, especially for those new to the primal diet
I can’t say enough about Aajonus Vonderplanitz.
I owe my health and wellbeing to this guy. I used to suffer from chronic cystic acne. I would get recurring infections that would not go away and would leave large scars behind when they finally did. Eventually I found out it was cooked and refined, sugars, starches and fats that was causing the problem. Eating a mostly raw diet of meats and veggies has brought health to me beyond what I even hoped for. I now have more energy, I’m not perpetually cold, I’ve finally gained weight and of course, my acne is gone.
This book is great both as an introduction to raw eating and to help those of us who have been practicing this diet to understand why and how it works.
It includes plenty of references so you can chase down his claims.
The recipes are great, they allow you to enjoy things that you wouldn’t be able to eat as much otherwise.
The only complaint I have is that I want more. I really hope he writes another book or five delving further in to the mechanics of nutrients in the body and maybe even a separate book on the benefits to tooth and bone.
Wonderful book, thanks so much Aajonus!
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