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Did you know that what you eat could be making you sick? It's true. Some foods clog your body with energy-depleting fats, toxins, and chemicals. Where can you find the optimum nourishment your body needs to stay strong, healthy, and vigorous? For millions of people, the answer is in the health and healing properties of living foods—foods that are eaten raw and produced without dangerous, nutrient-robbing chemicals or additives.
For more than forty years, the Hippocrates Health Institute has been teaching people how to cleanse and heal their bodies with naturally potent living foods. In this book, the first-ever sponsored by the Institute, authors Brian R. Clement and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo explain why living foods are vital to good health and offer a sensible plan for making the switch to a living foods diet.
With step-by-step instructions, lifestyle suggestions, and more than 100 healthful, delicious recipes, Living Foods for Optimum Health provides everything you need to take control of your health and well-being.
"An important and eminently readable book for the new era of self-care."
—Marilyn Diamond, co-author of Fit for Life
"A landmark guide to the essentials of healthy living."
—From the foreword by Coretta Scott King
"This book will open the way to a healthier and happier millennium."
—Helen Nearing, author of Living the Good Life and mother of the Back to Earth Movement
"Living food will change your life."
—Kenny Loggins, musician and composer
"The way to optimum health is more natural food. Thanks, Brian, for leading the way."
—Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., Apollo Astronaut and founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences
About the Authors
Brian R. Clement, a leader in natural health and healing, is director of the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, and founding director of the Coalition of Holistic Health.
Theresa Foy DiGeronimo is adjunct professor of English at The William Patterson College of New Jersey and author of numerous books, including The Natural Way of Healing Chronic Pain.
For more than forty years, the Hippocrates Health Institute has been teaching people how to cleanse and heal their bodies with naturally potent living foods. In this book, the first-ever sponsored by the Institute, authors Brian R. Clement and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo explain why living foods are vital to good health and offer a sensible plan for making the switch to a living foods diet.
With step-by-step instructions, lifestyle suggestions, and more than 100 healthful, delicious recipes, Living Foods for Optimum Health provides everything you need to take control of your health and well-being.
"An important and eminently readable book for the new era of self-care."
—Marilyn Diamond, co-author of Fit for Life
"A landmark guide to the essentials of healthy living."
—From the foreword by Coretta Scott King
"This book will open the way to a healthier and happier millennium."
—Helen Nearing, author of Living the Good Life and mother of the Back to Earth Movement
"Living food will change your life."
—Kenny Loggins, musician and composer
"The way to optimum health is more natural food. Thanks, Brian, for leading the way."
—Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., Apollo Astronaut and founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences
About the Authors
Brian R. Clement, a leader in natural health and healing, is director of the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, and founding director of the Coalition of Holistic Health.
Theresa Foy DiGeronimo is adjunct professor of English at The William Patterson College of New Jersey and author of numerous books, including The Natural Way of Healing Chronic Pain.
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful
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This book may seem drastic at first if you are a regular McFood client, but actually, it allows for quite a bit of moderation. In Chapter 6, there is a six-month plan mapped out, with incremental changes, and says under "Personalizing the Program": "If you consistently make living foods at least 75 percent (by weight) of your daily intake, your dedication to achieving total body health will bring rewards that know no bounds".
I'm at the 75 raw/25 cooked point myself, and at 58, I'm in better health than at any other time in my life.
I'm at the 75 raw/25 cooked point myself, and at 58, I'm in better health than at any other time in my life.
In Chapter 1, we read how we have exchanged, in the last century, a plant-based diet for a meat-based one, and how "the results have proven to be disastrous for our health and the environment".
The regeneration of cells is a fascinating topic (it takes 7 years to complete a full regeneration), and Mr. Clement states that "It's not added years that cause the body to age into a diseased state. It's the cell starvation that results from years of ingesting processed and cooked foods" (pg.42).
The causes and cures for many diseases are discussed, as well as depression and alcoholism, and the "Mind/Body Connection".
There are numerous food lists, and show how to combine foods for the best nutritional results and ease of digestion.
Under "Shopping for Recreational Foods", some cooked food is listed, so one can have a little "fun with food" from time to time.
There's a chapter on sprouts, and how to germinate them, and the value of doing so, as well as over 50 pages of recipes. Page 235 has this simple one:
"Avocado Cups
1 ripe avocado, peeled and pitted
4 apples, cored and chopped
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup pure water
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Pour into glass custard cups and serve immediately.
Makes 4 servings"
"You'll come to see that the Hippocrates diet isn't a trial by sacrifice, but rather a challenge of change. It's time to look in new directions for the food your body needs" (pg.114)
If you want to maximize your health and increase your energy level, I highly recommend trying this raw food diet. If implemented gradually, there will be little in the way of withdrawal symptoms, and I'm amazed that I no longer crave either sugar or coffee...this coming from someone who has had an addiction to sugar since childhood.
35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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This book changed the way I eat. Since having breast cancer seven years ago, I have been exploring ways to improve my physical health. Brian Clement and Theresa DiGeronimo's clear explanations of the value of living foods and explicit instructions on how to grow them made improving my diet easy. I am now drinking wheatgrass daily and experimenting with delicious sprouts and germinated seeds to get more life energy into my diet--and into me! I recommend this book to anyone who has faced a health challenge. I feel the vitality that living foods have brought into my life. --by Barbara Stone, author of Cancer As Initiation: Surviving the Fire
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of the best books I have seen on the subject of living foods diets and lifestyles. It's full of practical information and I refer to it often. Highly recommended.
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For anyone who wants to eat healthily
This is a book that is easy to read and packed with information on how our bodies use food and what they need to stay functioning well. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Fufa
Solid introduction to raw and living foods - its a must!
I chose this to specifically understand the innovative and pioneering work of the Hippocrates Centre, led by Brian Clement in the USA. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Jennifer Hunter
Living Foods for Optimum Health: Staying Healthy in an Unhealthy World
This book has a lot of good information however, a lot of what is in it can also be found in their other book Hippocrates LifeForce: Superior Health and Longevity so I felt there... Read more
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I soooooo believe in this. I am 73 and was not in the best of health for many years but this and other books from the Hipoctates team gave me a new direction and now I am super fit... Read more
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