By Susan Schenck LAc
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First tagged by Susan Schenck "Author of The Live Food Factor, the Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet and Beyond Broccoli"
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Beyond Broccoli is written by Susan Schenck, who herself was a raw vegan for six years, followed by a year of raw vegetarianism (including raw dairy and eggs), and ending with her returning to just a bit of raw and lightly cooked meat. Going raw proved to have so many benefits that Schenck wrote a 2-time award-winning book about it, The Live Food Factor. But after a few years, she began to exhibit health issues such as deficiencies in B12, memory problems, muscle tissue loss, bloatedness, irritability and cravings. Her research, spurred on by Dr. Stanley Bass, led her to conclude that it was a lack of vital nutrients found only in animal products that were causing the problems. Dr. Stanley Bass, ND, DC, PhC, PhD, DO, DSc, DD, who has over 50 years of clinical experience with raw vegan and nonvegan diet counseling, wrote a foreword. The book then begins with the author s story of why she resumed eating a bit of animal products and how she manages to stay mostly raw even so. It also includes a chapter on other vegans and vegetarians (some who eat raw, others who eat cooked) who made this decision for health reasons. This book addresses the following issues: vegetarian myths; why human s brains have shrunk 11% in the last 11,000 years ; the importance of animal foods in pregnant and lactating women; man s dietary history of eating meat for 2.6 million years; how the vegan diet affects the brain and emotions; critical nutrients found only in meat, eggs and dairy, as well as some found in meat only; the difficulty of getting enough healthful protein on a vegan diet, especially raw; the dangers of soy; the different metabolic types, which explains why some succeed on a veg diet while others fail; the dangers of overeating animal protein; how to eat meat so that it is not dangerous; the benefits of eating raw or lightly cooked meat and how to do it safely and make it taste good; spiritual, moral and environmental issues with eating meat; the importance of eating clean meat from compassionately raised animals; eating a high raw, Paleo diet which is what we evolved eating; the importance of eating raw; flaws in the China Study; the benefits of a low glycemic diet; important foods if you choose to be a vegan or vegetarian; and more. This book addresses issues such as the fact that not everyone can efficiently convert plant nutrients to critical nutrients needed by the body, such as omega-3s into DHA and EPA needed by the brain; beta-carotene into true vitamin A; essential amino acids into nonessential ones; vitamin D2 into D3, and vitamin K1 into K2. Not everyone has the metabolic type to go veg, either. A resource section with related websites and doctors who approve of a raw nonvegan diet is located in the back of the book. Read more
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