Natural Healing Books

This book is well written and very understandable. The author provides information that everyone should know about how to eat.

This book has completely changed how I choose food--and I thought I already knew a lot about healthy eating. Now I know how to maximize nutrition even in the foods I already eat (like melon and broccoli) by how I cook and store them. I have seen a real difference in my nails and hair, and my eye doctor recently told me, after examining my eyes, "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it."

I love watching La Puma on his ChefMD.com website--he's funny and gives great advice. And his book is funny and well written. Highly recommended.

Unfortunately I found the Big Book of Culinary Medicine to be mainly boring with little new information to offer.

Thanks for bringing this topic into mainstream western medicine ~ most of what I learned about nutrition over the last 30+ years can be attributed to studying cultures who base their diet on their own medical systems, such as Indian cooking, based on Ayurvedic medicine. Books I read in the seventies and cooks I worked alongside of, knew the usefulness of each ingredient. It is truly amazing what we can do when we 'let food be our medicine'. I look very much forward to reading your book (will give it five stars for the idea alone), and having a blog to continue this evolving discussion is brilliant ~ see you there!

Found the book to be a little basic and was hoping for many more recipes. Good for folks who don't understand what their high sugar, high fat, low fiber diet is doing to them.

I am amazed at the information available in this book. I have given copies to anyone interested in learning how to improve their overall health and well-being. This is my "Go to" book. I highly recommend this book to anyone truely interested in making positive changes in their life.

I have now purchased four of these helpful health guides and given three to family members!
This book is helpful and informative!
I highly recommend it for anyone interested in being as healthy as possible!

I love this book it is so informative I refer to it on a regular basis.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing is a very informative and easy to follow guide book. It not only offers information for you to discern on your own, you can follow up on the the information they give you to double check it for your self-It has been quite helpful and true to diagnoses. I would recommend it for reading just to be informed on what is going on with our own bodies, even if you have no symptons to treat !

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This book is written for the layman in explaining what the disease is, what the mineral , vitamin , amino acid, water, herb is and how to use it --it has been divided into sections. with all allphabetized -- I started with the 3rd edition and then when the 4th edition came out grabbed that one --I have given quite a number of this book as gifts to family and friends --it is well worth the money and time for your health and understanding of your body --stay happy and healthy - get this book

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This long awaited, eagerly anticipated cookbook is sure to please fans of Tosca Reno's overnight weight loss success story, who have been clamoring for more eat-clean recipes. Following up on the heels of best-seller The Eat-Clean DIET, which also included food guidelines and preparation ideas, The Eat-Clean DIET Cookbook takes readers to a whole new level of flavorful enjoyment.

The Eat-Clean DIET Cookbook features over 150 EASY recipes. Yes, they really are pretty easy, incorporating quicker stir-frys, crock pot cooking, handheld blenders, and food processors. Trying the Applesauce Oatmeal Muffins and the Power Oatmeal Pancakes, I found the recipes simple to prepare, low in sugar, protein adequate, and whole grain inclusive. Plus, my family loved them! Tosca Reno, herself a mom, knows the value of kid-approved meals. Many of the recipes are Canadian, Asian, and Mediterranean influenced, offering tastes for everyone.

Throughout the book, a bargain soft cover affordable to most, the Clean-Eating Principles Tosca Reno uses to maintain her weight loss, are applied:

Eat 5-6 small meals daily, every 2-3 hours.

Combine lean protein and complex carbs in each meal.

Drink a minimum of 2 liters/8cups of water daily.

Don't skip meals, especially breakfast.

Carry a cooler loaded with Clean-Eating foods for the day.

Avoid all over-processed, refined foods (white sugar, white flour), all trans and saturated fats, alcohol, calorie-dense foods with no nutritional value, sodas, colas, and juices.

Eat fresh fruits, vegetables, and healthy fats.

Eat proper sized portions.

The Eat-Clean DIET Cookbook is eleven chapters long, beginning with Tosca Reno's acknowledgement of a "globesity" crisis hounding North America and a recap of her story in the Introduction. She explains the need to be a voice that speaks against "Super Size Me." Other chapters include Breakfast; Soup; Grains; Sauces, Spreads, and Salsas; One-Dish Meals; Proteins; Vegetables; Pasta; Sweets; A Festive Occasion; and a Question & Answer section, which covers the most popular queries the author receives.

Tosca Reno introduces novel foods to readers--Vegetarian Chili (with dark chocolate as an ingredient), Yogurt Cheese, Olive Butter Spread, Wild-Grains Rice Pilaf (using a wheat berries and whole wheat couscous), and Quinoa With Oats. The photos of the dishes are dynamically maximized and beautiful.

Another noteworthy point are valuable charts and explanations. Such as, "What Does 25 Grams of Protein Look Like," which details the calorie count and amount necessary for preparation.

Tosca Reno, herself the "formerly fat housewife turned fit," understands what it takes to physically transform the body. She notes that the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that 65 percent of North Americans are overweight. After weighing in at 200lbs plus and losing over 70lbs, Tosca Reno committed herself to eating-clean. The Eat-Clean DIET Cookbook is her testament to fantastic health.

A BestSeller Review

5 Stars

Some of the recipes I think will take a lot of courage for me to try, but for those that I've already prepared-- I love. It's easy, simple, and CLEAN. It's not a diet, it's the way everyone should be eating-- healthy.

This book has a lot of great recipes for making otherwise boring and tasteless food appealing both to the eye and to the taste buds. It's great because it's all healthy for you to eat. I've tried a few recipes so far and my husband and I have liked all of them. Some of the ingredients may be hard to find for some dishes. I like a one stop shopping experience for groceries and some of the ingrdients aren't carried by my local Kroger. I do live in a smaller city so for the bigger stores you may have a better chance of finding speciality ingredients. The only thing that would make this book better is if there were alternatives listed for some of the speciality ingredients that can prove hard to find in small town USA.

I was checking out another book in this series that was recommended by a relative (she finds clean eating helps tame her food sensitivities)when I came across this one. I lovvvve it!! It's an easy read for any age group --kids and adults alike! Lots of pictures ...I also like how Tosca addresses the growing concern about obesity in North American kids today and offers some healthy alternatives. Great recipe ideas too!!

Author Tosca Reno is married to the the publisher, owner of the notorious Robert Kennedy Publishing empire. Instead of just putting out 1 or even 2 volumes with all the info you need, they have created an "Eat Clean Diet" juggernaut, pumping out endless books rehashing the same info and filling up page space with tons of glossy, magazine-style pictures instead of condensing it down to just solid info, with a few illustrations. She says in no less than SIX BOOKS what could have been condensed into 1 or 2 at most - with more on the way!!!! There are now 2 versions of the original Eat Clean Diet book alone, plus a journal, a workout book, this cookbook, a "families and kids" book - and she's currently writing "The Eat Clean Diet for Men"! All of these are relentlessly hyped online, and in the couple's various magazines. Give me a break.

This "expanded edition" is totally unfair to all the customers who bought the original version, which has 90% identical info, with just a few extra sections added. She could have simply marketed a cheaper supplement to the original book, for her existing customers, instead of reaming them for full price again. GREEDY.

If you are an Oxygen or Clean Eating magazine reader (yes, both published by her husband), you'll have ALL the recipes you need within a few issues. Seriously. Don't waste your money on products from this exploitive publishing empire.

Instead, Google "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" by Tom Venuto. It's a single volume, COMPREHENSIVE downloadable e-book, with nothing but solid info - no superficial fluff, no illustrations, inspiring, easy to follow and implement. It's ONE BOOK containing the EXACT SAME INFO as Tosca is putting out in multiple books. You pay once, and that's it. You have all the info you need.

PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKERED INTO MAKING THIS WOMAN AND HER PUBLISHER HUSBAND RICHER THAN THEY ALREADY ARE.

This cookbook is pretty simple, but I gave it four stars because I think it's a superb raw food book for beginners.
It was one of the first raw cook books I ever purchased, and it made the preparation of raw dishes seem less foreign. However, I am an accomplished chef, so I did find many of the recipes to be way too easy. Even if you are new to raw food, if you have a lot of cooking experience you might want to find something a little more challenging.

Her recipes are easy but a lot are very simple or start out like her ar the ingredients oh but 1 or 2 of the ingredients are another recipe in the book so now go find this one and also make that. It would be easier if she did not break them up as much.

I honestly can't find anything wrong with Jennifer's book except for perhaps the fact that she hasn't finished her dessert book which is supposed to come out next. I found that from getting needed supplies, to how to soak nuts/fruits, she's covered pretty much everything. I've tried several of her recipes and found them to be easy and very tasteful. Many raw books have recipes which call for items I've never heard of or are hard for a newbie to procure. That was not a problem for me with this book. Jennifer also does a good job of offering options/alternatives in a recipe, which I found to be very helpful.

This book was definitely made for me -- a novice raw food enthusiast flying solo and not investing in expensive raw accoutrements like a VitaMix and a dehydrator. Cornbleet walks you through the most obvious preparations and activities, from how long to soak your nuts to how to mince onions. I really appreciated the simplicity of this book, and everything I've made so far is delicious. I'm especially hooked on the zucchini pasta with either marinara or mock peanut sauce, the chocolate mousse, and the sun-dried tomato tapenade. These recipes are easy to modify to your liking, especially once you get more confident in your raw ways, and it's wonderful (in my experience) to be able to live by the same basic ingredients each week. Whether you're interested in going fully raw, living by the general guideline of 80% raw, 20% cooked, or simply want to integrate more raw foods into your diet, this is the perfect introduction to a cleaner, clearer, non-dogmatic and beautifully simplified way to eat.

Okay, I'm a jerk - I admit it. I went 30 days eating only raw food to give me something to complain about in a blog. I did absolutely no preparation prior, and the night before starting, I picked up this book. I expected disaster - I wanted disaster - disaster makes for colorful blogging. What I got instead was 30 days of great food. This book is easy, it's accessible to uncooperative, it didn't require a bunch of specialized tools (a food processor is required), and the food is actually good. The raw marinara sauce is unbelievably good.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone - raw foodist or not. You'll actually use this one.

The precocious Boutenko duo is all grown up! Having co-authored Eating Without Heating: Favorite Recipes from Teens Who Love Raw Food during their teenage years, Sergei and Valya of the famous "Raw Family" now present wisdom from fifteen years of raw foodism.

Fresh includes "over 250 recipes from the Raw Family test-kitchen," both favorites from earlier Boutenko books, as well as new recipes using raw cacao, goji berries and wild edibles. They offer full color photographs of common "wild foods" like nettles, sheep sorrel, chickweed and purslane often belittled as "weeds" and show how such no-cost foods can supercharge salads and smoothies without breaking the bank. Readers who recall stories of the Boutenkos foraging for wild lettuce and berries on their Pacific Coast Trail hiking journey can now harvest some of nature's best superfoods at home. The book lists the twenty-three most toxic plants (excluding mushrooms) and encourages readers to be safe and learn how to identify them. Despite this warning, Fresh focuses on the abundance of nutritionally dense and beneficial plants available sometimes, quite literally, in our own backyard!

All recipes exclude meat, fish, eggs, and dairy, but some do contain honey. Vegans can easily substitute raw agave nectar or dates for the honey, though. In fact, Sergei writes an entire section on the importance of improvisation and customization. For those with gluten allergies, this book offers an almost gluten-free experience. A few recipes call for sprouted barley or rolled oats, but the vast majority are completely gluten-free, vegan and tasty!

Besides recipes, Fresh offers some of the best advice on how to thrive in mixed-diet relationships. Whether vegan, raw, vegetarian, carnivore or omnivore, you will find valuable tips on how to maintain your dietary preferences in a non-judging and non-threatening way. Valya, in particular, offers valuable insight into helping children choose and enjoy healthier foods. Given the epidemics of childhood obesity and childhood diabetes from which Sergei healed naturally this information provides hope and instruction to well-meaning parents dealing with "rebellious" eaters.

Because Sergei and Valya spent much of their childhood as raw foodists, they can offer insider advice from both angles that of instructors and that of children forced to embrace a new and unusual dietary regime. From them, we learn how they dealt with teasing, peer pressure and social services. With humor, gratitude, and wisdom beyond their years, they reveal a perspective that few, if any, others can share yet.

Chef Cherie Soria, founder and director of the Living Light Culinary Institute, where both Sergei and Valya have trained, provides a heartfelt forward. In Cherie's words,"Sergei and Valya shine as living examples of what is possible when we resolve to squeeze every drop of juice out of life." On a recent visit to Living Light, I repeatedly heard this idea validated by students, visitors and employees. The compassion, presence and creativity one finds in Fresh will touch the lives of anyone who reads it, just as Sergei and Valya's love, clarity and maturity continue to impress and inspire in person.


[This review, written by author Laura Bruno (If I Only Had a Brain Injury),first appeared on VegFamily's June 2008 Online Magazine.]

I have at least four other raw food cookbooks. The recipes in them always have a thousand ingredients and take forever to produce. I wind up not using them because of the exotic ingredients or the time it takes to make the food. Soaking, cutting, blending, juicing, dehydrating, all in one recipe usually!

This book uses simple, available ingredients and a minimum of time to prepare. I can usually prepare a dish from what's already in my house, which if you've used any other book, is usually impossible. Yes you might need to blend something and then dehydrate it, but you probably didn't have to soak it and juice it and hang it somewhere first.

The other thing I really like about the book is that if you use their recipes for salad dressings, for example, you are not just adding flavor, but you are also adding nutritional content. It's all very well thought-out. It's a lovely little book that I recommend to anyone who is interested in making simple, elegant raw food dishes that taste great.

This was my first raw food cookbook I purchased. It had a good introduction and I liked the personal stories of the authors. Some of the recipes were great and others were not so good for a first time raw cooker (who had eaten cooked food for 28 years). Some of the recipe require an acquired taste. But overall, I got some good ideas from this book.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE, LOVE, LOVE WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK, FROM THE TOUCHING STORIES OF THE FAMILY'S HEALING EXPERIENCES TO THE ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS RECIPES. I HEARTILY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE RAW WORLD, OR EVEN A SEASONED VETERAN, THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE.

Great "cook" book with very simple yet delicious recipes. Uses everyday ingredients and gives great insight into fresh, raw foods.

This book is a great little package - it's certainly not something you can thumb through and look for recipes like an ordinary cookbook, instad the recipes are found every few pages by food type. My husband remarked that it was like a tomb when I took it out of the box. I think the greatest thing about this book though is that the recipes really do take just 10 to 15 minutes and they taste amazing! The author said he didn't put one food in that was healthy but unpleasant tasting and he was right!

I have only had time to look through the book but it seems very technical and cumbersome, even for someone who had read and studied about the best way to eat for almost 30 years. It doesn't seem to be arranged very well and you have to know exactly what you are looking for to find anything.

This book provides a great resource on what nutritional components are in the foods we eat and the food's overall nutritional density. Although much of the information can also be found at www.whfoods.com it is valuable to have at your finger tips.

Anything you want to know about healthy food is in this book. I can't believe the amount of helpful information in one book. I was told by my doctor to lose weight and a short time later I had a heart stent put in so this book has helped my husband and me get into a healthy life style change.

This book should be in every home where someone cooks or someone eats. In other words, this is an essential book! Certainly for anyone who is seeking guidelines for healthier eating, this is your best source. There are over 800 pages of information that is concise, neatly organized, and easily found. I have been cooking for over 40 years and am learning new things from this book all the time.

I found that this book was really hard to follow. The recipes are time consuming and difficult. As a beginner cook I would not recommend this book I had to return it.

I can't afford all organic food right now, so I just buy the ordinary stuff which works just fine. I really enjoy using this book. Her directions for the food prep, with different options are helpful when you don't have much time to devote to the process. The recipes encourage me to not be afraid to let my baby try new things. I hope that by trying out a new recipe every few days, this will help my baby not become as big of a picky eater as her dad! Only issue: watch out for allergies. Read up on what not to feed your baby somewhere else, that incorporate that into your meal plans.

I bought this book based on other customers' reviews, and I am very glad I did. I compared it with some other famous baby food books, and this one is by far my favorite. I like how the recipes are grouped by age-group (6-9 months, 9-12 months, etc.). I like how there are instructions for different cooking methods. I like how it includes recipes you can use later, after the baby is finished with 'baby food" and ready for finger foods and table foods.

Other books have so much information and so many "tips" that I feel overwhelmed. This book has the perfect balance of information and recipes, which is what parents actually want!

I have a bunch of recipe books for baby/toddler food, but this one is my favorite. I've made about 10 recipes from the book and each one is easy to make, healthy and delicious. Most of the recipes are great for the whole family - not just toddlers, and I love that she emphasizes the value of organic food. I'm ordering another copy now to give as a gift.

I already had Super Baby Food at home for my 2nd child. It's a good book, but I wanted to find some other baby food recipes to make for my 3rd child. I purchased both Blender Baby Food and this book, The Petit Appetit. I enjoy both books, however I am very impressed with the details that this author, Lisa Barnes, goes into. She talks about food safety, nutrition, the benefits of homemade vs. store bought, organic foods, and other good topics. The chapters are divided into the ages/stages when certain foods can be introduced. She also has some great recipes that I can't wait to try.

My son is only 9 weeks old now, so he's not quite ready to begin sampling these great foods, but I figured that summer is the perfect time to catch foods at the farmer's markets while they are in season and at their freshest. I can start making, freezing and perhaps even canning some of the recipes so that they are ready when my son is ready. This book is a great resource to have at home. Don't be afraid to try making your own baby food. With my first child, I remember standing in line at the grocery store lining the conveyor belt with tons of jars of food. I never thought that I could make my own food. Between that time and the birth of my second child, I started down the organic road and realized I could make my own food. "Duh! What did people do years ago before jarred baby food!" I thought to myself. It really is easy to do but it just takes time. If you're willing to take that time, you'll benefit from buying this book!

EXCELLENT resource book. Chock full of useful information, research to back up assertions and testimonials galore. No promises are made, no pushing a particular product or idea - just information to use to guide your personal journey. An empowering read.

While gathering information on alternative cancer treatments I came across this author and this book. I wish I had started with it. The writing is clear and consise. The author gives background, any substantiating trials or research done on protocol, as well as websites, phone numbers and addresses for products or literature discussed. It's an EXCELLENT resource that I keep by my chair and refer to regularly. It is also chocked full of testimonials, often of medical professionals who support alternative therapy and sometimes in conjunction with traditional therapy. It will impact not only your thinking regarding alternative treatments for cancer but also your current lifestyle.

I really liked that the book is very easy to understand, easy reading. Very informative, easy to get the vitamins. We are trying some of the prevantative treatments, and I have my father-in-law trying some of the cancer treatments, diet, and vitamins, etc. Thank you

I have the original version of this book. I began using the advice given in it devotedly when I was released onto hospice from a 3 week hospital stay in Jan 07. A whole team of doctors thought I'd be dead in a couple weeks but almost 2 years later I am still here! My tumor was huge and so it's still there but lysing every day and the cancer that was in my bones is GONE. I never used chemo or radiation. Get the book & USE it!

If you have cancer, don't want to get cancer or have a loved one with cancer, you MUST read this book. It is very thought provoking and I have every reason to believe Bill Henderson has done his homework. God bless him!!!

Ok, I gave this cookbook five stars because I personally feel that the recipes are scrumptious and delightful. This is a fantastic cookbook. There, I've said it. If you are new to raw food, pick up a copy of this little beauty. The recipes aren't too frightening, and she rarely uses a dehydrator. Dehydrators can be scary and intimidating if you aren't accustomed to using one, and I think Miss Ani considered that.
Sure, when I was thumbing through it I got a bit peeved at all the silly pictures of pretty Ani and her raw-food-eating-planet-saving-self. And yeah, I kinda felt like beating my head into the wall after reading all her blurbs on living green and loving animals and all that stuff. I mean, jeez, it's a COOKBOOK.
but then i realized just how much thought she put into her cookbook, and how proud she must be of the recipes and the book as a whole... and you know- that's pretty nice.
besides, sarma and mathew's book (raw food real world) is littered with cutesy couples pictures. ani won points for not going THAT far off the deep end. i much preferred the pictures of her dog, kanga.
do you think raw foodists are just more prone to being elitist snobs that are in love with themselves? meh, i forgive them.

She gives a lot of green tips. Her recipes are easy and delicious. You can also go to you tube to see her videos.

While I wish the publisher had used less toxic printing materials (my copy still smells like ink and dye a year later), the book is amazing. Her recipes are fantastic and the natural living advise is practical and doable. No matter if you are a raw food person or not you will enjoy these recipes.

this is a wonderful book, and i really didn't mind looking at ani at all ;) every recipe i have tried (and i have tried them, this book, to me ,is so inviting, the recipes beautiful) has been excellent. in fact, i have a mom who loves her meat but couldn't get enough of the flavor of ani's veg pate. i also made the "tuna" salad at another lunchoen and my mom was sure there was tuna fish in it. these are easy recipes that have complex flavor. she hasn't let me down yet.

I've read and prepared recipes from at least 6 raw cookbooks that are on the market - and this is by far the worst. It's not much more than a vanity piece that is low on nutritional content, low on key information on raw food prep or flavor variety. But then again, she was trained by Juliano - not a surprise!

This book really has some good info for people that are looking for the next step in juicing, fasting. Talks about the differences in REAL fasting and juice fasting, which the author feels a juice fast is really not a fast at all but a liquid diet. Fasting according to the author is consuming only water for a period of time. Still a good book for beginners.

Not too bad. Has some very useful information on Juicing and on Fasting. It does go somewhat overboard with claims.
Overall quite worthwhile for anyone wanting to fast using juices.

This is tne most informative, well put together publication on Juice Fasting I've yet to see. It was a tremendous help to me on my most recent fast which lasted 12 days! I would recommend this thumbs up for anyone considering either a long term or a short term juice fast. Filled with all sorts of useful information on various situations one comes across while fasting. I've even stocked a bunch in my reception room (colon hydrotherapist) to sell to my clients!! One can sense the author has experienced first-hand all that he shares. Easy to read and understand. What are you waiting for? Order it now; you won't regret it!

The books is a nutshell to know why is detoxification important for us. The author has given different types of fasting methods to help us in detoxify our body.

I bought this book to better help me in managing my Crohn's disease during flare-ups. I pretty much bought the book based on the title and thought it would be helpful.

The author right off the bat says that if you are going to fast, you REALLY need to fast without ANY intake of food except water, but if you are going to juice fast, this is how you do it. He concentrated more on fasting than juice fasting, which seems to make this book title mis-leading.

He also goes as far as saying that self-purging (finger down the throat) may be required to purge the body of inpurities. Whoa, time out, that is a bit extreme.

I cannot give the book just one star, because there was some good information in there about fasting symptoms and other general tid-bits, but since this author has absolutely no credentials, I would seriously question anything he suggests to do.