Most persuasive book?

[KatK]

I have a friend who I recently found out has a number of serious health problems -emphsema, diabetes, cholesterol problems. He's determined to heal his problems naturally. It sounds like he's trying some sort of diet involving whole grains. I was thinking about sending him a book on raw food and/or natural hygiene. What do you think is the most persuasive book on the subject?

[Raspberry4]

Alissa's book, no doubt. It gives alot of good information and some testimonials on how people have changed their lives. Also, it gives help on menu planning and alot of good recipes for delicious food.

[Azura Skye]

my fav three books of late are

THE CHINA STUDY by T.C. Campbell

The 80/10/10 Diet by Dr Douglas Graham

The NEW AGELESS AGEING by Leslie Kenton

three great persuasive books indeed!!

[Malina]

Still waiting for Alissa's book to arrive in the mail, so I can't comment on it, but I'm sure it's awesome. I would recommend:

Your natural diet : alive raw foods / T.C. Fry and David Klein.
Living Nutrition magazine / David Klein
The China study / T. Colin Campbell
The 80/10/10 diet / Douglas Graham

[Revvell]

Alissa's book AND dvd series so your friend can see how easy the food is to make

The China Study
Eating dvd

Revvell

[aliciamatheson]

Alissa's book because of the amazing and inspiring stories which are a large section of first part of the book.

[northernstars]

The Live Food Factor by Susan Schenck!

She has a lot of info from many studies and sources.

[subbacultcha]

Shazzie's books are very inspirational - just seeing how alive she looks is enough for me!

I also love Karen Knowler's books - she comes across as really level-headed and well-informed.

[JennaBoBenna]

Alissa's and Buotenko's "Raw Family" are the books that get me really excited about raw food.

[Rawkinlocs]

Living on Live Food - Alissa Cohen

Dying to Get Well - Shelly Keck-Borsits

Green for Life - Victoria Boutenko

[lily]

I love The Live Food Factor by Susan Schenck -- it's the book I now give to anyone who expresses an interest in raw food.

lily

[KatK]

Thank you for all the suggestions, ladies!

[rawbeliever]

the one that really did it for me, especially in terms of healing, was Victoria Boutenko's "Raw Family." That really inspired me. Also, I love the info in David Wolfe's Sunfood Diet Success System (though, this one is a little touchy-feely), and Alissa's book for all the best recipes. Good luck!

[Riiiya]

THE CHINA STUDY!!!!!!!!!!! Great information

I also found The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe to be really inspirational!

[Raene]

The 80/10/10 Diet by Dr Douglas Graham



I haven't purchased this b/c it's expensive but am curious as to if he talks about how to GAIN weight and does he recommend still eating 80/10/10 for weight gain? I'd definitely be more interested in buying if he talks about how to gain b/c I really need help.

[jacsam]

Livin on live food - Alissa Cohen (also her DVD)

[Clare]

Wouldn't it be great if we could do a book exchange/sale? Of good books other than Alissa's (which I totally want to keep). For example, I enjoyed Green for Life very much, but I am done with it. I read it twice and copied the cool chimp diet chart :-) but I would trade it for a different raw book. I would love to get the 80 10 10 one but it's $30. Yikes. My library only has Juliano's Raw, which was worth checking out but that's about all, imo.

[jenjen]

the china study and alissa's book

[lytlsprout]

12 steps to raw food, by the raw family!

[Raene]

Wouldn't it be great if we could do a book exchange/sale? Of good books other than Alissa's (which I totally want to keep). For example, I enjoyed Green for Life very much, but I am done with it. I read it twice and copied the cool chimp diet chart :-) but I would trade it for a different raw book. I would love to get the 80 10 10 one but it's $30. Yikes. My library only has Juliano's Raw, which was worth checking out but that's about all, imo.

I just had a similar idea this morning...what if we could do a raw book library, where we could "check out" books from each other and it would only cost postage? I can't afford to buy every raw book I want, but I'd love to borrow them from others.

[Raene]

Also there's this http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php which is similar to your idea. Maybe not many raw books on there, but could be...who knows

[Bookish Lass]

On bookmooch.com, you can set it up so you only trade books with "friends", so you could set up something like this using their software. :)