We Want to Live: The Primal Diet (2005 Expanded Edition)
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars From a former vegan of 5 years…
This is an amazing book. I read it back in 1997 after I attended a lecture by the author. Although I was vegan for 5 years and vegetarian for 2 years before that, I switched immediately to this diet. And that’s the surprising part because I was so against meat eating on both a social basis as well as a health basis. You would never catch me reading anything by an author who recommended any other type of diet because I was so certain of my beliefs.
So there I am walking by a seminar room in a shopping center back in 1997, and notice a sign describing a talk by Aajonus. For a laugh, since it sounded so absurd, I decided to pop in and listen for a few minutes. For the next hour, he described what he had been through in terms of his health challenges and what he did to overcome them. I walked out of there a different person and have stayed on the diet for over 11 years since that day.
When I really think about it, this philosophy really is an extension of being a vegan/vegetarian. Vegans know that animal products are bad for the body, but the distinction here is that cooked meat, pasteurized milk/cheese/butter/cream and cooked eggs are what is bad for you. In their raw form they are extremely healthful, and I have had nothing but major improvement in my health eating this way. In fact, at 43 years old I look forward to each year passing because I feel better in every way due to the healing power inherent in food when it is not altered or processed in any way.
It’s also not as if you don’t consume vegetables and fruit. The difference is that vegetables are juiced, since the nutrients they contain are mostly unabsorbed as they pass through the digestive tract if they are eaten in whole form. Fruit is eaten whole, albeit in a limited quantity.
Another side benefit of eating this way is the amount of time and energy you save. No preparation, no cooking, cleaning of pots and pans, no gas or electric use. All this may sound austere, but the incredible taste of homemade milkshakes and smoothies with raw ingredients has to be experienced to be believed!
This book is a good introduction to a different way of thinking about food, nutrition and health, but it is more for those who like getting their information in a novel format. For a more left-brain, straightforward approach, his other book “The Recipe for Living Without Disease” is probably a better way to go.
5 Stars Throw out all other health books…
…as I did two years ago.Start today.Keep in mind that it takes years on this diet to roll back all the abuses that your body had to endure on cooked diet and “dead” food.There’s no time to waste “to be ready or not”.I wish I had discovered earlier this guy.True health depends on real and live food.I recomend it to anybody.Even if you think you’re healthy it would be wise to give this diet a second look.
4 Stars We Want to Live
This is a very thought provoking book. I received it quickly and it was in great condition.
4 Stars Not For the Faint of Heart
This book is for those who are serious to make diet changes.
I have yet to try High Meat. I am addicted now to eating grassfed meats raw. My energy greatly improved. Would have appreciated less personal information.
5 Stars Great Book when your ready to better your health
This book has helped my family and many others. We started our health journey with “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon. “We Want To Live” showed us how to heal our bodies for optimal health with only RAW FOOD. The first part of his book tells his life story and how he saved his son!!!! The second half gives suggestions on what foods/ combinations to help certain ailments and what caused them. This is a book to get if you are ready to take charge of your own health through real food. Aajonus has been living this way for over 30 years and has healed in many ways with ONLY raw food.
Check out his web site for more testimonials. [...]
His other book “Recipe for Living Without Disease” is also very good. I recommend “We Want to Live” first.
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