Living Foods for Optimum Health: A Highly Effective Program to Remove Toxins and Restore Your Body to Vibrant Health - Hardcover

Clement, Brian R.; Digeronimo, Theresa Foy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761502580 ISBN 13: 9780761502586

Publisher: Prima Lifestyles, 1996

Synopsis

People are experiencing miraculous health improvements by eating living foods. Living foods are fruits and vegetables eaten uncooked, in their fresh, natural state, without chemical additives or other harmful products. Living foods purge the body of unhealthy toxins by replacing them with pure energy and nutrients. For over 40 years, the Hippocrates Health Institute has been teaching people how eating living foods will improve their overall health.
Living Foods for Optimum Health, by Brian Clement and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, brings the Hippocrates program into the homes of health-conscious readers. This practical resource shows how living foods fuel and nourish the body. The book includes information on diseases and conditions that can be improved by choosing living foods; the many benefits of the living foods program, analysis of the nutritional myths we were all raised on, and true stories of individuals who have benefited from the living foods program.Living Foods for Optimum Health also features a week?s menu and over 100 delicious and healthful recipes. From Hors D?oeuvres and Breads to Desserts and Drinks, Clement and DiGeronimo share tips on how to prepare dishes such as:

Italian Whole Bread
Creamy Vegetable Soup
Potato and Squash Salad
Asparagus with Shakti Mushrooms
Fresh Organic Fruit Pie
Creamy Apple-Walnut Pudding
In addition to introducing readers to the why and how of a living foods lifestyle, Living Foods for Optimum Health also includes information on how to grow grasses, sprouts, seeds, nuts, and legumes at home.
About the Authors

Brian R. Clement, a leader in natural health and healing for more than twenty-five years, is director of the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is also one of the founding directors of the Coalition of Holistic Health, an organization that brings together the many diverse elements of natural health, healing, and medicine. He has worked with many governments and organizations to improve health worldwide and conducts lectures and workshops globally to advance humanity and help create a better environment.
Theresa Foy DiGeronimo is adjunct professor of English at The William Paterson College of New Jersey and the author of numerous books, including The Natural Way of Healing Chronic Pain.

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Review:

This book advocates a diet primarily of "fresh, organic, uncooked, unrefined foods that provide the body with everything it needs to stay strong, healthy, and vigorous." Switching to this diet of "living" foods can be a big step for the millions of fast-food addicts out there, but the long-term health benefits--cancer prevention, weight loss, increased longevity and energy--are more desirable than a measly paper bag of salty fries.

Written in conjunction with the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida, which has been known to help cancer patients into remission through diet, this book takes a slightly scare-tactic approach, citing a few too many frightening health statistics ("1 in 3 Americans alive today will develop cancer"). However, its intentions are spot-on. To make the transition to the Institute's recommended diet (75 percent raw fruits and vegetables and 25 percent cooked foods--mainly grains and soups), it gives more than 100 recipes and a week's worth of sample menus, and even instructions on how to sprout your own seeds and nuts. For anyone truly dedicated to going beyond vegetarian to living the whole-foods way, this book is a solid, encouraging guide.

About the Author:

Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, M. Ed., is the author of numerous health books and coauthor of Living Fooks for Optimum Health. An adjunct professor teaching undergraduate and graduate writing courses at William Paterson University of New Jersey, she lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0761502580
• ISBN 13: 9780761502586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288