The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life
by Brendan Brazier

The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life
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Author: Brendan Brazier
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-17
ISBN: 1600940609
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Da Capo Press

Book Reviews of The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

Book Review: Good Information, not well organized
Summary: 4 Stars

I bought this book looking for some ideas on how to improve my way of eating. I am an aquatic and equine athlete who is older and trying to come back from severe auto-immune and fibromyalgia. I eat raw foods often and juice because I feel better when I do.

The book is full of wonderful information. The recipes are quite good and some of the author's ideas are practical and useful. He includes sports gels that are brilliant because of the healthy ingredients, unlike the commercial ones full of maltodextrin and sugars and dyes.

I only left off one star because I feel like the recipes could have better organized and indexed. Some groups of recipes has a lengthy explanation before them which would have been better served by writing about the ingredients in a chapter beforehand. Visual layout is not easy to use, I feel confused when I use the book to find recipes

Some reviewers complain about the cost of these recommended foods and ingredients, but that is not the fault of the author. Eating well costs alot and you can spend it there or at the pharmacy and doctors later when you fall ill.

Summary of The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

The Thrive Diet is a long-term eating plan that will help you develop a lean body, sharp mind, and everlasting energy, whether you're a professional athlete or simply looking to boost your physical and mental health. One of the few professional athletes on an entirely plant-based diet, Brendan Brazier researched and developed this easy-to-follow program to enhance his performance as an elite endurance athlete.

Brazier clearly describes why it's easier for the body to utilize nutrient-rich foods in their natural state than refined, processed foods and how to choose nutritionally-efficient, stress-busting whole foods to maximize energy and health. And because plant-based foods are more environmentally friendly to produce, you'll also help the planet while improving your personal health.

The Thrive Diet features a 12-week whole foods meal plan, over 100 easy-to-make recipes with raw food options that are free of dairy, gluten, soy, wheat, corn, refined sugar, including exercise-specific recipes for pre-workout snacks, energy gels, sport drinks, and recovery foods, and an easy-to-follow exercise plan that compliments the Thrive Diet program.

With The Thrive Diet, you can lower body fat and increase muscle tone; diminish visible signs of aging; increase energy and mental clarity; sleep better and more restfully; experience better moods; build a stronger immune system; lower cholesterol; and eliminate junk-food cravings.

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