We Want to Live 2005 Edition

Great read. Although quite pricey, definitely worth having this information at hand. One of the best books written

If you read the health magazines or go to health food stores, you can't help but see ads and articles all over the place touting the "raw" diet. There are two main reasons why I hate to see raw food diets being sold the way they are being sold today. One is that some people are capitalizing on the raw food movement and the ignorance of the public by selling raw dead food, dead from processing. It hasn't been cooked, but that's about all you can say for it. In my opinion, once people find out that raw dead foods are useless as far as making them healthier, they will reject the whole raw food movement as just another fad, and it will fade away along with all the other food fads. Number two, most if not all the raw food gurus you see are touting a strict raw vegan diet which includes no dairy, eggs or meat. This book was written to show you a different way. And I believe that anyone who is really interested in improving his or her health needs to read it to get the whole picture of not only how raw living foods can improve their health but how and what to eat in the way of raw foods in order to maximize their health giving qualities. If you look at the health magazines, you will see that all the advocates of the raw vegan diets are young, and that's not a bad thing, but how much experience can they have? The author of this book is over sixty years old and has had over thirty years of experience with all kinds of raw diets including vegetarian and fruitarian, not to mention sharing experiences of many many clients who used raw food to cure themselves of various diseases and health problems that wouldn't respond to any other kind of treatment. I believe a wise and judicious person should get the whole picture of what raw foods can and cannot do, and they can't get it unless they read this book because this author is the only one who knows enough or is willing to tell the whole truth about diet. People interested in diet should read it first, then they can read all the other raw diet books and magazine articles they want, if they still want to. There are consequences, Mr. Vonderplanitz points out, to being a strict fruitarian or vegetarian, especially when certain foods are emphasized, which include symptoms of over-emotionality to the point of becoming bi-polar or manic depressive, hyperactive, irritable, even getting tooth decay. It happened to him, and it can happen to you. He spends a lot of time in the book explaining the difference between raw and cooked foods and that you can eat foods raw, such as butter and cream, without suffering the same health ailments you would suffer if you ate them after pasteurization (cooking). Did you know that pasteurized (cooked) milk actually removes calcium from the body instead of putting it in? One of the things I like about the foods advocated to be used in this book is that they are mostly everyday foods that we are familiar with. I am the owner of a number of other raw food books which include all kinds of expensive and exotic foods in the recipes. You have to spend money on these things having no idea what they will taste like. One of the books, which I reviewed earlier, has nothing in it but pretty pictures and little else. You won't learn much from reading it, but it sold because it came out under the name of a young man who was the raw foods poster boy at the time. I have removed it from my library because I can't afford to give space to useless books. So, if you are interested in going raw or interested in optimal health through diet, be smart, save money and read a book written by someone who has been there and done it all.

Wonderful book; I really like it.

Received the book and the book condition is very good. Thanks, The author’s own life changing diet. It saved his own life and his son’s. I will enjoy this book and start self heal. Just read a few pages so cannot comment on it yet. But I am sure I will be amazed when finished in reading it,

Super book with ultimate truths about food and health, tried and true on my family and several patients of mine