Enjoy the healthier life! Take just one weekend with top nutrition coach Suzi Grant’s programme at your side and kickstart the slim, fit and vital new you. Follow the simple detox and preparation techniques and then decide which two-week plan is right for you a detox diet for weight loss that restores and renews, a safe and healthy high-protein diet and Suzi’s Smoothies for the quick and easy option. And with easy yoga exercises to tone up, it’s time to look and feel great whatever the season. It includes: unique smoothie recipe that aids weight loss; simple lists of energizing and cleansing foods; and how to fit the plan into the rest of your life.

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5 Stars A CLASS A BOOK ABOUT DETOX, DIET AND WELL BEING
Great book. Written with knowledge, professionalism and seriousness. At the same time, easy, agreeable and light to read. An interesting and excellent lesson about detox, effective diet and well being in general. Suzi Grant has a high practical sense, so the book is full of delicious recipes that you can use all your life. She thinks of both body and mind, just as it must be a success diet. The last, but not the least, by reading this book you not only learn what to eat when, but most important you learn why - for instance you learn how important your liver is to your life/health and why and what to do to keep it in good shape. For anybody wishing to diet with sensibleness or simply to improve health based on good feeding, I strongly recommend this class A book.

5 Stars IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO GET SLIMMER AND HEALTHIER BY FOLLOWING THE ADVICES ON THIS EXCELLENT BOOK
My congratulations to the author Suzi Grant. Excellent book, very practical and easy to read. It’s great to understand why is it best to do this instead of that and what food makes to your body. This book is very well structured and has lots of useful advises on how to live better not only when dieting. It includes delicious vegetarian recipes. I would say it’s impossible not to get slimmer and healthier by following the advices on this book. It’s most important advices are repeated along the book to make sure you don’t forget them. This is a comprehensive book about well being, really.

1 Stars upset!!
I cant review this because i still have not yet received it!!!! i bought it since the beginning of April…

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Given no hope by the medical profession, Lee fasted and totally regained her health. She discusses other instances where prayer fasting alleviate severe ailments. Today she educates people about the amazing way the body restores.

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3 Stars Very good for spiritual health, but lacks mechanics of fasting
The title lead me to believe that this book focuses on the mechanics of preparing for a fast and breaking a fast. But the book barely discusses these topics. Although I bought the book and didn’t read it, after spending half an hour skimming through it, I found nothing on preparing for a fast and only nine pages on how to break a fast. But the testimonies about the spiritual and health benefits of fasting are very encouraging.

5 Stars Great book
This book has addressed the many fears I had in regards to fasting in a Biblical context. The longest fast I have had to date has been 1 1/2 days, primarily because of my fear and my intense desire for food.

If the Holy Spirit has been speaking to you about fasting, it’s definitely a worthwhile read.

1 Stars Wonderful book for Christians, but…
I have no doubt that this book is extremely helpful to people who want help with fasting from a Christian perspective- however, for those of us who want information on fasting without biblical references, I have found other books that were far more helpful to me.

4 Stars FAST YOUR WAY TO HEALTH by Lee Bueno-Aguer
Lee Bueno-Aguer is not a nutritionist. Strike. She has been a television evangelist. Strike. She has been a soloist for Benny Hinn. Strike.

However, I have been trying lately to appreciate those with something to say who have personal experience but who do not have formal education in the area on which they write. In that spirit of magnanimity, I read FAST YOUR WAY TO BETTER HEALTH. So I will discuss briefly what may be seen by many as a flaky, fringe, unnecessary activity.

Fasting was certainly done habitually throughout history, and for many spiritual reasons: for repentance, for prayer, for deeper communion with God. Jesus certainly took it for granted that his disciples fasted:

“And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

-Matthew 6:16-18

It’s a “whenever,” not an “if”. Fasting also gets plenty of play in Acts and the Pauline epistles. Additionally, many great figures in the church wrote expounding the merits of fasting: Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, etc.

Bueno-Aguer fixates on Mark 9:29, and it becomes her central verse for the spiritual power of fasting: “[Jesus] said to them, ‘This kind (of demon) can come out only through prayer {and fasting}.’” The “and fasting” here is one of those lovely bits that is in some ancient manuscripts, but not all of them, and not in the predominant ones. I am in no way suggesting that this is not valid as scripture, because there is an abundance of corroboration elsewhere, but as a scholar I am beholden to point it out.

It is interesting to me that fasting is utterly neglected in the modern church. When are fasts done? When are fasts discussed? The 30 Hour Famine is the only thing that leaps to mind, and that’s such a short time it hardly captures the spirit. A good place to start, perhaps, but we need to move well beyond that.

I myself have found fasting (I refer to my own experiences: at least 72 hours on water only) to be beneficial. It is helpful for self-mastery, for strengthening the will and increasing self-discipline. It also helps to put one in mind of those on earth who deal with hunger regularly, and not by choice.

Most interesting in this book is a claim I had not previously heard: that fasting can alleviate and even cure colds, as well as chronic, incurable, and even terminal diseases. Logically, it makes sense: the body spends a great deal of energy on almost constant digestion. When the digestive system is temporarily shut down, the body uses this energy for healing and to rid itself of accumulated toxins. Bueno-Aguer experienced this. Additionally, the book contains a large number of testimonials. This book does not have the scientific evidence to support these claims, but I am certainly open to these ideas.

FAST YOUR WAY TO HEALTH does a pretty fair job of debunking people’s lame excuses not to fast. It also contains ways to go about fasting, suggestions for how to do it, and how to come off it and what one should ideally eat afterward.

In conclusion, Americans are absolute gluttons. The first time I really realized that was when I went to India. The second time was the first time I did a three-day fast. We eat too much, too often, and we eat absolute garbage. And we do not fast because we are mentally weak.

I have had enough of mental weakness. I am sick of it.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law–indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh– for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ–if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

-Romans 8:5-17

Christians, I think, need to rediscover fasting for a lot of reasons. To me, fasting is like the Levitical dietary law, which science has revealed is nutritionally quite strong. Is it not logical for God to ordain an activity that is both spiritually and physically beneficial?

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5 Stars EXCELLLLLENT book!!!!
Before considering fasting for a short period of time, I bought this book. It was fantastic! It helped me to understand many aspects of fasting, including what would be happening to my body and my spirit. ENLIGHTENING! Everytime I take on a long fast I re-read this book–on short fasts I read over the sections which I have highlighted through the years. If you are thinking of fasting, this is THE book to read! A must for every Christian who wants to obey the Lord’s command to fast!

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This books tells of the virtues of fasting.

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5 Stars The Ultimate Diet
This work is a classic; its a pity it remains out of print. It is a concise overview of fasting, written by an MD, and, in my opinion, should be read by anyone who is thinking about fasting. It is also a great motivator.

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5 Stars Very informative and quick to read!
I read this book in one evening. For anyone sick of dieting and starving themselves, food combining is the way to go. This book is actually about cleansing your body in a two day regimen, but gives insight to a healhful way of eating.

5 Stars Excellent layout for good understanding of topic
The book is indeed a very detailed way to detox with the Food Combining Method. I found it extremely useful.

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“An introduction to natural foods written with an eye to good health and an ear for the witty line. Even for those not ready to replace sirloin with soy bean, Gregory’s discourse on the typical mistreatment of the digestive tract should be informative- it certainly is amusing. There are sections on Gregory’s various fasts, suggested diets for putting on and taking off weight, and even a discussion of natural food substitutes for your favorite alcoholic concoction. Good fun and a good guide for those who feel they are what they eat.”

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5 Stars A Classic & Wonderful Intro to Eating Well!
First bought this book almost 40 years ago, when I first became a vegetarian. I’ve always loved Dick Gregory, and this tome is a quick & fun read, packed with good advice, and great to give to anyone contemplating a more healthful change in their life! Not much else to say, except I highly recommend it….

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An introduction to the healing effects of fasting using just one type of food

• Includes Johanna Brandt’s grape cure with the author’s advice and commentary

• Explains why mono diets are so effective at cleansing and restoring the internal cellular environment

• Shows how to interpret your body’s signals to adapt the diet to your unique needs

The grape cure, the lemon cure, the maple syrup cure, and the apple diet are all variations of mono diets that are based on restricting food intake to one food for a period of time. Using the famous grape cure pioneered by Johanna Brandt as his model (reproduced here in its entirety), Christopher Vasey demonstrates why these restricted diets are all remarkably effective in healing illness and restoring optimum health. Despite their different nutritive approaches and resulting healing benefits, all these diets work the same way: They help the body “burn” the waste products it contains to cleanse the internal cellular environment. They also keep the body’s eliminatory organs open in order to prevent the buildup of toxins. While these cures are responsible for healing people of many serious illnesses, including cancer, their principal use lies in the way they naturally eliminate waste products and prevent the body from absorbing toxins during the process.

The Detox Mono Diet is a practical guide that provides all the information necessary for following a detoxification regimen. To make the application most successful, the author explains how to interpret your body’s reactions in a way that will allow you to adapt the cure to match your specific physiological needs, making your return to optimum health a unique journey.

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5 Stars Informative and inspiring.
This book was very helpful to me. Very thoughtful and clear. Glad I bought it.

5 Stars Informative and easy to follow
I was not into fasting until I came across “The detox mono-diet, the miracle grape cure and other cleansing diets by Christopher Vasey, and soon my fridge became home to over 15 pounds of organic grapes. Now began a minute scrutiny of the book so that I could find out firsthand what this book and the fasting regimen is all about.

Part I of the book explains the nature of illness and the role of toxins. This is followed by an introduction to the grape cure as perfected by Johanna Brandt. There is a neat summary of the steps involved in the cure, namely, elimination, fasting, role of the grapes, raw diet, and finally, hypo-toxic diet.

The physiology of fasting is explained on the basis of autolysis. When food is withheld completely, the body resorts to autolysis and extracts nutrition from the non-essential reserves like tumors, ulcers, fatty deposits, as well as toxins. Once these resources are depleted, the body will look to digesting the vital tissues and organs, but that is an extreme measure taken only when there is total and prolonged starvation. Fasting is recommended until there is a true need to eat instead of just the desire. The importance of consuming sufficient quantities of water is mentioned clearly.

During fasting autolysis and the regeneration of healthy tissue go on simultaneously. There are recommendations for assisting the various excretory organs with their function, for example, enemas for the digestive system, various herbs for the liver, kidneys and the lungs and sauna / hot baths for the skin. The more accumulated wastes in the body, the more there is a possibility of healing crises like skin rash, oozing pimple, rheumatic pains, eczemas, bronchitis and catarrh that may last from a few hours to a few days but must not be suppressed or feared. The cleansing practices must be continued throughout the fasting and into the next phases.

Now comes the mono-diet in which all foods except grapes are excluded. The physiological process of autolysis, assimilation of nutrients for tissue regeneration and elimination of toxic wastes that have been set in motion during fasting are simply carried on further for the entire period of the grape mono-diet.

In my experience, grapes do satisfy hunger so there are no pathetic dips in energy level and enthusiasm. During a period of one day of fasting followed by five days on grape mono-diet, I was able to carry on with all my usual household chores, shoveling snow, studies requiring sustained mental focus, daily exercise and yoga, plus two hour-long sessions of weight training, all without feeling week, wasted or worried. On the contrary, I felt strong, well, free, full of purpose and accomplishment and had tons of time on my hand.

After a few days on the grape mono-diet (length varies from person to person) it is time to switch to a regimen in which grapes are still the main meal but other fruits, and then milk, buttermilk and cottage cheese are included. Then comes the fourth phase of raw food diet. A chapter gives the benefits and disadvantages of raw food diet as well as a regimen to follow.

A gradual introduction to mixed, hypo-toxic diet makes the fifth and the final phase of this practice. The stress is on eating small quantities of healthy food so that the body is able to maintain the de-toxified state.

The personal experience and observations of Johanna Brandt given in part II of the book are fascinating and they open the reader’s eyes to the fact that for health, what you don’t eat is as important as what you eat.

Anyone contemplating a grape mono-diet must read the chapter six diligently and learn all the indications / contra-indications for the mono-diet. Johanna Brandt was able to cure herself of cancer using the grape cure and she gives a list of other illnesses that can be treated but the grape mono-diet is a serious therapeutic regimen. Even though the process appears to be simple, for people with any illness, it is best to have clinical supervision from a health practitioner who is familiar with the grape mono-diet.

Jon Graham has skillfully translated this book from French. It is brief and easy to read. All benefits and pitfalls of the system are brought out quite well. Enough warnings are given so that no one tries a foolhardy experiment. The wise and informative approach of the author is apparent throughout the book. I strongly recommend not only this book but also the system of grape mono-diet to all seekers of health.

Vatsala Sperling

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