The Live Food Factor – Book Review
June 20, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Recipes
If you’ve been contemplating a raw food diet, then pick up a copy of The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide To the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet, by Susan Schenck, LAc, MTOM. The book contains information from scientific studies that show a diet of raw food is helpful in fighting disease or preventing it in the first place.
Raw food advocates chose the path of the fresh and crunchy because cooking kills the healthiest parts of the food. A diet that is 90-100% yields fuller hair, softer skin, no PMS, and fresher breath.
The book is thick and contains a lot of information on both the why and the how of a raw food diet. There are sections on how to adopt the diet for children, where to find resources in your area, and recipes that include Celery-Cilantro Soup, Spaghetti, Raw Pizza, many slushies and smoothies, salads.
If you need a jumping off point, take a look at the sample menus.
My favorite food is an avocado and I’d be interested in adding more raw food to my diet, but until someone develops a suitable raw substitute for a warm, gooey brownie, I’m going to have to stick with cooking.
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