The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss
The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss
A top nutritionist provides her simple, proven five-level diet plan to safely make the transition to eating raw foods, and to detoxify and achieve a perfect body no matter how you eat now. The raw food craze has taken off, as raw restaurants spring up and celebrities, models, and other fans tout the effects of eating raw. However, many people who are intrigued by raw food simply don’t know how to make the transition from what they’re eating now, or how to achieve the benefits of eating raw without giving up their lifestyle or the foods they love. Natalia Rose, an in-demand nutritionist, shows how in “The Raw Food Detox Diet”. Whether your diet is primarily made up of meat and potatoes, or tofu and tempeh, you can incorporate the flavour and lasting health benefits of raw food into your life with this groundbreaking diet book to energize and inspire you to achieve your goals safely and easily.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars Not just bad science–no science
The claims in this book are nuttier than squirrel poo. Moreover, they make no sense. You get healthier on a raw vegan diet (as I am doing!) because you’re consuming no processed foods, no meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fried foods, no cholesterol, little or no saturated fat (unless you get into coconuts), lots of fiber, lots of vitamins and minerals, and probably lots of water. In other words, you’re following the diametric opposite of the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) that’s made so many of us sick in the first place. Garbage in, garbage out. Take out the bad things, replace them with good things, add exercise, and you will see improvements, even dramatic ones–but there’s nothing mystical about it. All this natural-hygiene nonsense about enzymes and food combining and body pH and diluting your digestive juices with water (people, your digestive acids can strip rust off a nail! You can’t “dilute” them!) is bunk and has been proven as such over and over again. But since suspicion (if not outright hostility) towards science is very popular amongst raw foodists, I’m not surprised to see those myths resurfacing here.
And if you’re consuming enough fiber and fluids, your colon will take care of removing waste from your body on its own. It was designed specifically to do just that. Nobody, not even Elvis, has a build-up of toxic material weighing down his/her colon. It really isn’t necessary to obsess over the products and activities of that part of your body; it’s pretty much self-regulating if you’re healthy. As for the consumption of meat, eggs, artificial sweeteners, alcohol, and dairy products…well, those are the big troublemakers in most people’s diets, so I’m at a loss as to why they’re included in a “detox” diet book.
Unfortunately, this book encapsulates so much of the crazy hype and outlandish claims surrounding raw foods, rather than the real, and realistic, benefits; and is a perfect example of the approach that turns a lot of people away from a way of eating that if properly followed, would do them much good. If you want a book with tasty, easy recipes and a good, solid, sensible approach to the raw vegan lifestyle, one that is grounded in fact rather than emotion and fanaticism and written by recognized experts in vegan and vegetarian nutrition, check out “The Raw Food Diet Revolution.” “Living Cuisine: The Art and Spirit of Raw Foods” also has great recipes and a more laid-back, balanced approach.
5 Stars Wonderful!
This is a great book for anyone who wants to incorporate raw foods into their diet. Great tips and easy recipes that anyone can follow. Also provides encouragement to those who aren’t quite ready to let go of ‘cooked foods’. I had actually check this out from the library to make sure I liked it before I bought it…I have done this with several raw foods books and this was, by far, the best one for the stage I am in…definitely worth purchasing!!
5 Stars Kindle Edition is Flawed
I just downloaded this book, and it looks like a fine, well-organized and helpful book. The problem? When you get to the section with the recipes, you find a list with page numbers. (No page numbers on the Kindle.) The recipe list is not electronically interactive, so finding a recipe becomes a protracted scroll-a-thon. With a book such as this, you want to do a lot of flipping back and forth, and it ain’t easy with this electronic edition. If I had it to do over, I’d get the paper-and-ink version.
2 Stars Raw? Really?
I was disappointed when I started going through the recipies section of the book. They are not all raw. There are quite a few recipies that require cooking. If you are looking for an all raw foods book. This is not it.
5 Stars Very useful book.
The ideas are fabulous and the ingredients are not difficult to find. This is a good book that makes a great ADDITION to your collection, I would not start with this book though. I can actually eat these food combinations without going yuck. YAY! for recipe books and information such as this! May all the world become healthier and happier through better eating! FIVE BIG PHAT STARS!!
If your’re realy interested in raw food you must check these books out:
Raw Food And Health: The Raw Food Classic By The Founder Of The Raw Food Movement
The Advantages Of Raw Food
The Black Art Of Cooking: The Raw Truth
The Unfired Food Diet Simplified: The Raw Food Guide
Uncooked Foods and how to use them: How to use Living and Raw foods for health
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