A lot of common sense
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This book makes sense of the chemistry of the human body. After only 3 weeks of drinking filtered water with added 'bleach' I have shed almost a stone, and feel better than I have done for years. It takes a little forward planning to maintain an interesting diet based on salads, but the clean fresh feeling inside is well worth it. Minimising sugary fruits also makes sense if one is suffering from a yeast infected gut, but with tomatoes, avocados,lemons, cherries and limes as recommended, and apples as acceptable, eating fruit is not a thing of the past. The book makes for good reading, especially the case testimonies.
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A Revelation
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I bought this book about 6 weeks ago and can honestly say it is one of my best ever "buys"! In spite of the fact that I have many books on nutrition and healthy cooking, I now realise that the "healthy eating" I have tried to maintain for years wasn't that healthy at all! Since making a few simple adjustments in line with the recommendations in this book, I have lost 15lbs in weight (and counting!) and experienced my energy levels and sense of general well-being soar.
Please take some of the "negative" reviews below with a generous pinch of salt. They misrepresent the programme by either presenting the recommendations for those attempting to heal themselves of extreme conditions, e.g. cancer, as being applicable to all (they are not) or take particular references so entirely out of context as to make them ridiculous (e.g. the bread recipe, below, which is actually used in the book as a quotation from the Dead Sea Scrolls and just shows the wisdom we have lost).
For your health's sake, buy this book and begin today. It may well be the best decision you make this year.
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Save your money
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If you are a person who rarely if ever eats vegetables and exists on processed foods then yes, this book might seem like a miracle, as the massive influx of good veggies and dropping the junk will do you a power of good. If you are a person who was already eating fruit, vegetables, whole grains and little or no processed foods then you will be startled, as I was, to be expected to drop nearly all fruit from your diet and add hydrogen peroxide to your drinking water. I prefer my water without added bleach thank you.
There is no index, the "references" at the back of the book could just be a list of books and papers that the author read in his lifetime as they do not seem to refer to specific parts of the book. He makes up his own words, for example "microforms" actually means microphotographic reproduction on film or paper of a document, but I presume he means to use it in the sense of microflora as he is keen to convey a picture of our bodies teeming with these sinister sounding microforms that he says "love to swim in their own waste products". To give him his due he did put the first use of his word "microforms" in quotation marks to indicate that he realizes that the word is not being used in its accepted sense. I could go on and on, touching upon where he got his credentials, the commercial aspect etc. but I will leave you with this handy recipe from the book, the bracketted comments are of course mine:
Sprout 2 cups of wheat for two days then grind (no rush then). Make a pad 1/8 inch thick from this dough (I presume you just add some water to make a dough or will it be moist enough? I don't know, he does not say)
Bake on a flat stone in full summer sun from morning until noon on one side, from noon until evening on the other side (I kid you not, what, you haven't got a flat stone? What, no garden, tut, pop out to the park, spend a day there while your bread bakes)or, if the weather is bad, bake in a slow oven until slightly crisp (well that's an option on a rainy day.) The last line of the recipe says "This is a tasty, hard tack like bread." (yum)
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Excellent book
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I first heard of Robert Young after attending the Anthony Robbins Seminar. The book was so easy to read and made such a lot of sense that I immediately became a vegan and followed all the recommendations. I lost 2 and a half stone in about 4 months and felt full of energy. I have now bought 5 copies of the book and given them to my friends or anyone I know who has health problems. I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants a healthier lifestyle and to feel energised and full of vitality
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Life changing
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I read this book after hearing Anthony Robbins praising the alkaline diet. I read it right through, then started on the plan. Within 6 weeks I had lost the stone that I had been gradually putting on since I was 18, without even trying, felt more energetic than ever, and my skin looked fantastic. I didn't have any major health problems before, but now feel confident I am in the best condition I have been for years.
I did find the green drink he recommended hard to get hold of in the UK, but then found it at alkaline4health.co.uk
I highly recommend this book.
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