Rawsome!: Maximizing Health, Energy, and Culinary Delight With the Raw Foods Diet
Rawsome!: Maximizing Health, Energy, and Culinary Delight With the Raw Foods Diet
A raw foods diet advocates exactly that: eating raw foods. No cooking, no grilling, no steaming, no application of high temperatures. Why? Because eating food closest to its natural state engenders a tremendous exchange of energy between food and body. The result, over time, is a feeling of buoyant, radiant health. Tackling head-on the skepticism likely to greet proponents of what the world sees as a “fad” diet, renowned nutritional consultant and raw foods adherent Brigitte Mars presents historical data and scientific evidence confirming the efficacy of raw foods diets in: Supporting emotional stablity; Increasing energy levels; Clearing the skin; Boosting immune-system function; improving digestive function; Dispelling depression: Sustaing overall good health. In addition, Mars points out the environmental benefits of the raw foods diet, making a case for eating raw foods as a means of reducing waste, making the most of agricultural practice, and reducing the ! human footprint on the earth. Whether the reader wants to jump right into an all-raw diet or just wants to introduce more raw foods into the diet, Mars offers gentle encouragement and practical instruction. Readers will find advice on planning a balanced diet to meet their nutritional needs, combining foods for best effect, presrving raw foods, equpping the raw kitchen, sprouting, juicing, and evey other technique that makes the raw foods diet simple,delicious, and healthful. In-depth profiles describe the nutritional and health benefits of hundreds of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seasonings. Perhaps most important, the author provides more than 200 kitchen-tested, real-people-approved raw foods recipes. Under Mar’s instruction, readers will enjoy making everything from juices and shakes to salads, soupsdressings, yogurts, crackers, spreads, dips, vegetable burgers, curries, vegetable pastas, wraps, and more. And let’s not forget desset: brownies, ice cream, lemon bars, fru! it leathers,pies,cakes, puddings, and other delectable treats. For people who want the vibrant energy and health that raw foods offe but don’t want to give up the taste of good cooking, “Rawsome!” provides the answer.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Rawsome:Maximizing Health, Energy, and Culinary Delight With the Raw Foods Diet
I love this book because it contains so much pertinent information necessary for today’s diet. It includes information about the raw food diet, the acid/alkaline diet, the important pH of your body, and tells you what foods have which vitamins and minerals. With so much information, you can determine which raw foods can help you keep a normal pH v alue and your acidity under control.
5 Stars Gives a lot of Good Infromation!!!
I loved this book. She covers a lot of topics in a short and easy manner. I was encoraged buy her book to stay on the raw food lifestyle. I would highly recommand this book!!
4 Stars Another good resource
I haven’t tried any of the recipes yet, so I can’t comment on that. But I did like the writing style and the book flowed easily. This is not my favorite raw resource (see my other reviews), but it is a good one to have on the bookshelf.
5 Stars The best one for me
I have looked through other raw food books, and this one was the best for me, a beginner. I like that this book includes a raw foods encyclopedia, which helps me understand more about what these raw foods will do for me, good and bad. Unlike the other raw foods book I have, this book provides research based information, and not just from other raw food books. I guess it doesn’t hurt that Brigitte is an herbalist who knows about plants and loves them too. Although I don’t agree with 100% of what she says (such as her opinion that a raw foods diet costs less than a cooked diet), I appreciate the helpful information she is sharing with readers. Also, I like that her recipes are simple, as I have been intimidated by complex recipes from other raw food books. I wish I had purchased this book first. Then I wouldn’t have spent money on the other one.
5 Stars How does that go? “This book saved my life…”
This was the first raw food book I ever bought and it is a powerhouse of information, from nutrition to kitchen equipment to beauty tips, it got me on the right track from the first. I successfully transitioned to raw foods, lost 50 pounds, basically put my type 2 diabetes in remission, I sleep better, have so much more energy, think more clearly and so much more. Of course, when one is looking at a cookbook, one wants to know about the recipes. They are delicious. This is still one of my favorite go to books for the basics and the elegant, alike. I give this a 5 stars, thumbs up, you won’t be sorry, recommendation.
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