12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food
by Victoria Boutenko
|
List Price: Our Price: $9.38 You Save: $7.57 (45%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food
Book Review: Best way to stop getting sick and get younger, stronger and smarter
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, I feel awesome. Mostly I have not been sick and feel younger now at 43 then I did at 33. I jump out of bed every morning with energy, ready to start my day. I have now been eating 90% Raw consistently for 3 months. (The non-raw food I consume is 'ezekiel bread'.)
No one is born with a stove on their belly, try this and you will see what the author and now I mean to share with the world. Once you know the information and once you feel the difference by eating raw, you can not go back to eating cooked foods since it does not achieve a feeling of health. Wow, talk about putting power into your hands! If you want to be a power house, you can do it on raw foods. Raw dairy, Raw cheese, Raw greens, Raw veggies and much more taste then you ever could achieve with cooked foods, not to mention the clean up is much easier then cooking. Just try it, you have nothing to lose! Oh, but you will lose one thing, extra weight.
Book Review: A "must" for anyone interested in exploring the health benefits of a raw-food vegan diet.
Summary: 5 Stars
Though 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food features plenty of recipes, its purpose is to be the antithesis of "cookbooks" per se - author and raw-food diet teacher Victoria Boutenko extols the benefits of raw foods and the disadvantages of cooked foods (notably that cooking often destroys nutrients) to the extent of describing a diet of cooked foods as a "dependency". Now in a revised and expanded edition, 12 Steps to Raw Foods is also a vegan food preparation book, eschewing all meat, milk, egg-based foods. The preponderance of 12 Steps to Raw Foods is devoted not to recipes, but to convincing the reader to switch to an entirely raw-food vegan diet, as well as tips, tricks, techniques for making the transition. The main segments are "Why Raw Food?", "Human Dependency on Cooked Food", "How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food" and "Recipes". The first three segments are filled with tips, tricks, and techniques for dealing with cravings for cooked food, and the recipes range from raw green smoothies to gazpacho to nut or seed cheese, non-cooked vegan burgers, non-cooked vegan pizza, and much more. A "must" for anyone interested in exploring the health benefits of a raw-food vegan diet.Book Review: Pure greatness!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm really glad I purchased this book. Amazon and it's sellers always give me the best service and I receive exactly what I want very quickly. Book Review: Very informative - highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book to cover both the benefits of a raw foods lifestyle and the drawbacks of the standard American diet, especially about food addiction and ages. The book stresses the importance of a green smoothies as a way of getting all your greens in without holding your nose! Book Review: Very thorough
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the raw food books I own, this is hands down the best. Viktoria Boutenko is very thorough, providing scientific information as well as anecdotes and advice. I especially like Chapter 7, What the First Humans Ate - its a completely different view of our diet based on Jane Goodall's work on Chimpanzees, as well as early hominids. Makes you think... hmm... raw foods does make sense.
The second thing I really enjoyed about 12 Steps to Raw Foods was the spiritual emphasis of raw foods, because when it comes down to it, its not JUST a diet. We must all battle our addictions, preconceptions, and social pressure in order to be successful.
Oh! And there are some great recipes at the end of the book!!