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Nourishing Traditions The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

Nourishing Traditions The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message–animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.

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5 Stars Awesome book
Even if you never make a single recipe from this book, reading the first seventy two pages of nutritional background will change the way you eat. The author has taken the time to include references and cite research that support some amazing dietary choices. Good reading!

5 Stars Have I had an AH-HA moment with this book….
This book goes to great detail about what foods we should be eating and which ones should be avoided at all costs….can you say “trans fats”? Very indepth and educational. I’ve worked in the weight loss industry for almost 15 years. Today, much of us dieters are cutting back or eliminating fat (especially the animal fat) and going with canola or spreadable diet butters. Let me tell you…reading this book has opened my eyes. I had a few great ah-ha moments and have changed the way I look at meat and dairy. She gives the background and the data of what she’s talking about.

Previously, I’d read the book called IN DEFENSE OF FOOD…that lead me to this book. How the food industry has most of us wrapped around their little fingers…adding sugar to almost anything they over process…that book is also a good read.

About the recipes in this huge book:

I’ve tried a few of the recipes and like everything that I’ve tried. This is a fantastic book that I will not lend out to anyone! Get your own.

5 Stars A Mandatory Kitchen Tool
From ketchup to baby formula to kombucha, this cookbook has it all!

I try to avoid as much packaging as I can, but now, making homemade condiments and other delectables (much healthier versions too) I will be able to avoid countless plastic bottles!

I love this cookbook!!!

4 Stars great resource
I am really enjoying this book, both for the recipes and the extensive information in it. Most of the recipes are really good, I give it 4 stars because sometimes the instructions are not very clear and there are a few recipes that are not very good as written. But a great starting off point for changing my diet and I rely heavily on this as a base for all my cooking.

4 Stars A real eye-opener
This book is a real eye opener. It will tell you exactly why the politically correct nutrition is mostly wrong. By looking at the traditions of our ancestors and at the work of the nutrition Pioneer Weston A.Price, the authors were able to deliver both a invaluable source of knowledge backed up with scientific evidences, and a practical manual of great cooking. Some recipes may seems a little bit challenging or daunting at first, but once you will get your hands “dirty” in the kitchen, and most of all once you will have sample the recipes, you will be hooked. Just try to soak and slowly roast some organics nuts and you will enjoy an amazing taste compared to commercial nuts, which are not properly prepared to be fully assimiled by your body. And the list goes on and on : homemade yoghourt, sourdough bread, saurekraut…

To conclude, a fantastic book which definitely challenges modern nutrition. As usual do not belive the hype : try for yourself, and see how you feel! I am myself recovering from many dietetic mistakes (raw veganism etc:) which compromised my digestive system, thanks to Weston A: Price and Nourrishing Traditions!

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Green for Life

Green for Life

Author’s clear, masterful concept, so powerful - we can expect to see the world of health rocked to its foundations. — Thomas C. Chavez, Homeopath, Author of Body Electronics

Author’s clear, masterful concept, so powerful - we can expect to see the world of health rocked to its foundations. –Thomas C. Chavez, Homeopath, Author of Body Electronics

It will bring health to millions and make life easier for all of us now. A must read! –Dr Ruza Bogdanovich, an internationally renowned lecturer and teacher on true nutrition, author of the famous book, The Cure is in the Cause.

Victoria’s new book will bring health to millions. A must read! — Dr Ruza Bogdanovich, author of The Cure is in the Cause

Victoria’s new book will bring health to millions. A must read! –Dr Ruza Bogdanovich, author of The Cure is in the Cause

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5 Stars A Way to Get Lots of Greens
The bottom line is that you will learn how to get lots of greens in a way that tastes and feels good. I thought my weight had leveled and reached its ideal. I was slim. Then I started drinking green smoothies and dropped another couple pounds and lost another half inch off my waist.

I recommend this book.

Jerry Katz

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4 Stars Green for Life
The book makes good sense. My friend and I are trying the recipes. She has lost weight in just three days. We feel satisfied after using the drinks. It has been fun and we know we are doing something healthy for ourselves.

5 Stars Green for Life
Excellent book, great life story as well as her research about the benefits of raw greens. Recipes are included for drinking greens in various smoothies. Recipes tried on her children and husband, all are engaged in this project.

5 Stars This book may give you back your good health and your life
This is one of the most important books I’ve ever read and has helped me to realize how important raw foods, especially greens, are to our health and well being. It made me re-think what I thought I knew about “nutrition”.

In my opinion, based on my own relatively minor health issues, eating a raw diet (with greens) could clear up much of the illnesses we see today in hospitals and the dr’s office. I am now motivated to eat RAW - and not just “just smoothies” - and to have both my medical and non-medical healthcare providers develop a food plan for me that I can stick to without having to worry about getting enough nutrients. Since I have many food sensitivities, I do need a food plan written out for me so that I’m less likely to stray.

If more of us ate a well-balanced raw diet, with plenty of raw fat like whole food avocado and nuts, I think eczema - or even colitis - could become “extinct”…unless your eczema is of the contact variety, caused by coming in contact with chemicals, etc. But who knows, perhaps we wouldn’t react to chemicals at all if we were eating this highly nutritious way. Books like this are a wake-up call to our McDonald’s - and pasteurized milk/pasteurized juice way of life. Yes, did you know that ALL juice in those grocery cases are treated with heat that destroy the enzymes!? Be sure to read the part where she explains how greens have as much protein ounce for ounce as steak, etc. This is what clinched it for me!

Although I wish that Vicktoria had included more recipes in this book, her newest book will have 150 recipes. After experimenting, what I found is that there is an art to mixing greens, fruit, and fresh herbs in order to make a tasty smoothie drink. The recipes in this book are delicious and tasty for that reason. I haven’t gotten very good at making my own recipes yet. Never did I think I would find myself loving a smoothie with kale in it. It may take some of you a little while to cleanse your palette of processed sweets, and cooked/fried foods. Before long you’ll find that Smoothies Rock!

5 Stars This is extraordinary work
I’ve been studying nutrition with an almost overly-zealous passion since I was about 18 years old and I’ve run through so many paradigms and points of view they run the gamut from athletic old-school nutritional ideas (like loading up on big juicy steaks before athletic events) to “the Zone”, food combining (of which I am a practitioner and believer), anti wheat/gluten/dairy/meat lifestyles, high protein fads (never even tried this because it made NO sense on any level to me) to the strictest Candida cleanses out there (lived on the Body Ecology Diet for years, and it did change my life at the time) and then finally found my way to the whole raw foods movement.

Eating raw foods for the enzymes, pure nutrition and life force just felt right to me, but when I’d pick up raw meals or look at recipes I saw the need for expensive kitchen equipment I neither wanted nor could afford, and overly complex recipes I didn’t even want to think about attempting. In what might be an intuitive aspect, I hate cooking! I used to joke that if there was some kind of drink or mush we could live on in perfect health, like Robocop, and it tasted good I’d be all over it!

Well, I got closer when I found Dr. Doug Graham’s book “The 80/10/10 Diet”, which has some fabulous concepts and ideas, but when I applied them it wasn’t quite the perefct fit. Close, but no banana, so to speak. This whole green smoothie concept came to me through Facebook of all things, and while I’ve only been adding these to my life for about a week, I am already a firm believer that THIS is the missing piece to the nutritional puzzle for me.

I began reading this book last night to augment the knowledge and recipes I’d already found in doing online research and I absolutely love this. Victoria speaks from the heart but also obviously put so much time and focus into looking into this from a scientific standpoint, the research is admirable. Personally, I don’t really need science to tell me what works, I try things out (other than Atkins) and see how I feel. But the science is certainly interesting and validating. Some people might scoff at using champanzees as nutritional models for us to follow or look to for advice but if you leave aside human ego for a moment and open your mind the tiniest bit there is SO much to be gleaned from this point of view.

I’ve had the oddest and most overwhelming cravings for fast food and junk food my whole life, especially lately and I’d find I could eat incredibly healthy and hydrate myself so well for a while, then I’d swing into ridiculous binges. When I read another review on here raving about these smoothies stopping those cravings I literally went to the store that night, loaded up on gorgeous greens and fruit and tried it. And they were right. The cravings were gone before I was halfway through my evening dinner smoothie. I wasn’t hungry or thirsty and even my emotional comfort food trigger was silenced. That seemed impossible but it happened. So I kept at it all weekend, making sure I always had at least one good pint per day, preferably two. Here’s what I’ve noticed in just this first week:

- better memory

- increased clarity and ability to focus at work

- while everyone here, even the healthy folks, are dropping like flies with some virus floating around, I have no symptoms whatsoever

- physical pms symptoms that were present recently are gone

- chronic asthma is lessening day by day

- better sleep

- several really great bowel movements per day

- waking up easily and before my alarm even! (haven’t done that in ages)

- decreased appetite and cravings for sugar, etc

And this is just from having about one per day for 6 days. Seriously. This book answers many questions for me and gives me yet another fabulous tool in my quest for total well being. I’ve always wondered why I found greens in quantity so hard to digest, even when taking enzymes with them, and she explains that very clearly and logically here. Now I know that by blending these greens, we are essentially “pre-chewing” them for our bodies until they relearn how to digest what we are meant to rely on for most of our nutritional needs; greens. And since these include ample amounts of fruit these smoothies taste great.

I’m so grateful to Victoria for her tireless work and for sharing this with everyone ready for really stellar health. If I feel this wonderful just adding them into my usual daily routine, I can only imagine what awaits.

I used her husband’s smoothie recipe this morning (spinach, lime, banana, apple and water) and it’s fantastic. Replaces my long-time cravings for some kind of sweet breakfast (which used to be a blended or iced coffee drink with a scone).

And personally, I love that she shares the experiences of herself and her family along the way as anecdotal support for her journey into this way of living. It takes interesting concepts and makes them more relevant and real for me. But nothing replaces my own experience, as she wonderfully points out in the beginning of the book, and for me this has been life changing already.

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Dr Fuhrmans Secrets to Healthy Cooking DVD

Dr Fuhrmans Secrets to Healthy Cooking DVD

I just finished watching the new cooking DVD. There are really good pointers along with great recipe ideas. Dr. Fuhrman and his wife did a great job. They made it look easy. –Theresa

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2 Stars PAINFUL -
This DVD is a PAINFUL approach to very healthful cooking. The Docs wife SLAUGHTERS each and every demonstration of the VitaMix. OMG - GET A professional - Every other month Costco has a team of about ten people who can practically do back flips and cartwheels with a VitaMix - and you use YOUR WIFE?!? WHO CAN’T EVEN GET THE FRIGGIN TOP OFF THE BLENDER?!? If I were an executive at VitaMix, I’d sue to shut down this video.

Next comment - use a professional CHEF.

This video is a real hack job. I am sure the doctor and his wife are lovely people and his message is of the utmost importance - - - but to charge $25 for a DVD - I want to learn Kitchen BRAIN SURGERY - not experience two hacks. For $25 I want Jacque Peppin or America’s Test Kitchen folks - hell, I’ll even embrace a couple of students from the CIA (Culinary Inst.).

I want my money back! lol This video is PAINFUL to watch.

Please don’t let this video turn you off to VitaMix - they are SO MUCH BETTTTTER than what is demonstrated here. Go to Costco and see the demo - you have to see this machine to believe it.

There has GOT to be a better hardcore healthy cooking video out there - I will keep searching and let you know when I find it

4 Stars Eat to Live cooking class
This is not of the caliber of the Food Network, but it is charming and informative. It was enough to get me convinced to start the ETL program, seeing that it was not that difficult to prepare. I will admit I also bought the VitaMix blender after this as well — I was amazed at what they were able to do with whole veggies — even more than my food processor. But then, I am a kitchen gadget junkie! Back to the DVD, interesting recipes included and demonstrated — a great accompaniment to the book, Eat to Live.

5 Stars Enlightening and entertaining
Inspires you to crave good-for-you foods. Lots of interesting information and healthy eating tips. Dr. Fuhrman and his wife work well together on this and it is a pleasure to watch.

5 Stars Healthy Raw eating Made Easy
If you are looking for a DVD to show/instruct you on how to prepare healthy and raw meals. Then this is the DVD. It removes any unknowns in your mind on how do I eat raw and healthy foods other than just salads and be satisfied. The instructions and recipes prepared along with the guidance given will give you the know-how and the motivation that you can easily make anything. For me, it opened up my mind in how easy it was to prepare certain meals in a more simpler, easier and faster way. I made/prepared all the recipes they showed and they all tasted great. I feel like a raw food chef. Recommend this DVD highly.

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