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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A feast of a book, 6 Mar 2008
Well, contrary to the first reviewer, I'm in my second year of raw food and I AM thriving!! I've read lots of raw books and some, although inspiring and entertaining, can be read in days. SDSS is different. It's a lovely long feast - and one I enjoyed over several weeks.
Every chapter starts with inspirational quotes - from the Bible, philosophers, raw fooders, self-help gurus...At least half the book isn't about raw food as such. If you see raw as 'not just about the food', but part of a bigger picture, there will be many things in SDSS that will resonate with you. If you believe life is very much what your thoughts make it, you'll find this book very motivating. To quote DW: 'To succeed in life you have to work harder. But not on your family,or on your friends, or on your job, or on whatever comes your way. You have to work harder on yourself first. Only happy people make others happy.' And: 'You will make incredible progress in your life when you accept 100% responsibility for everything that happens to you. You are where you are and who you are because of one person - yourself.'
The raw food chapters are full of advice on how to transition to a raw food diet, and the benefits of doing so, covering all the usual issues (eg protein) and discussing associated topics such as wild and hybrid food. There are also chapters on, for example, 'skin', 'teeth, 'sun', and 'breathing' - this is so much more than a book on raw food. Later chapters focus on single foods, eg the olive, the avocado, and yes it does include recipes (though just a few) and daily diet plans.
I see the prices on 'Used and New' right now are high - perhaps suggesting that people don't actually want to sell their copies? Perhaps a birthday request? Whatever the case, 'Sunfood Diet Success System' is worth the money.
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15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fiction Not Fact, 1 Mar 2008
Here is a book of a man's opinions and philosophy on diet, lifestyle and even evolution. It is his personal outline of how to become a sort of super human. Much of it is simply fiction that is not supported with studies, trials or data.
I decided to experiment and followed his diet for 6 months, all the time waiting for the magic to happen. All that happened was I lost loads of weight to the point I looked like I had an eating disorder (which in a way I did), and I had continual loose stools from the huge amount of plant matter I was consuming. My body temperature dropped from being normal at around 36.8 Celsius to around 35.5 Celsius (not far above hypothermia with the possibility of of heart irritability)... I could go on.
Apparently you go through a detox, lose loads of weight, and then put the weight back on and become all healthy. Well the weight wasn't coming back, and the exuberant promised energy was forever elusive, and I was fed-up organising and obsessing over food. People never any longer commented that I looked well, but did point out how thin I became. So I stopped. It has taken 3 months to recover from it.
So I conclude it doesn't work for me. I think raw foodists often feel better in comparison to their previous lifestyles and benefit from eliminating processed foods, cereal grains and dairy from their diets. You can survive on a raw diet, but in my opinion, not thrive. For me the best advice I have got is from reading books like: The True You Diet by Dr John Briffa; The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain PhD; and The Protein Power Life Plan by Michael R Eades MD and Mary Dan Eades MD. However I would endorse going vegan and raw for a few days once in a while if you wanted to give your guts a good scrubbing and save on colonic hydrotherapy.
There are some great and creative recipes to be learned from raw vegans, but beware the likes of David Wolfe, in this book he says that he aims to become a "liquidarian" or in other words eat 100% raw, vegan, liquidised meals, and that " I prefer to eat alone, standing up, in a meditational state, listening to success tapes or reading books'.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An amazing book, a Bible not a cook book!, 25 May 2009
This is a must have book if you want to learn about 'raw' food philosophy. It has helped change my life for the better where I'm on a 80% raw diet and feel so much better, I don't get the review about having no more energy, at the very least I need two hours sleep less a night and have lost the gut I've been trying to get rid of for 15years. What it is not is a cook book, but then there are loads of good ones about, 'Raw' by Juliano Brotman is one we like. It covers so many related topics and pulls the whole subject together, it is BIG in it's ideas, bordering on revolutionary, bring it on!
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