Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet

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Summary: don't waist your money
Review: I am into the raw foods diet, have never felt better in my life, but I think this book is pretty useless. Just babbles on and on, with occational bits of helpful info.. I also don't care for the fanatical style of writing.

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Summary: Angry Tone
Review: I bought this book thinking it will further educate me to the positive effects of eating raw. Continuously, angry adoloscent communication is portrayed throughout the book. I feel the book was written to offend, criticize and judge those who do not hold the belief that the body can heal itself by eating raw food. I was looking for a more mature book from authors like Ann Wigmore;Leslie and Susannah Kenton-Raw Energy; Norman Walker; Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. I wanted actual information on the positive effects that transpire in the body not judgements on those that aren't interested in better health through a raw diet. There are positive important facts given in the back of the book that will open your eyes to our food and our health.

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Summary: A little long on rhetoric... but sound thinking.
Review: I found the author's style a bit daunting at first. They are so darned certain!! They are young, male and there are three of them... It is to be expected they would be assertive of their opinions. In addition, I entertained an idea, at the point of almost giving up - that perhaps what was giving this book a hard time in my mind was my cooked mentality, not the authors' attitude. I might be just as confident were I raw as long as they. I finished the rest of the book slowly and with careful thought.
I am embarking on 100% raw now because I read this book. I particularly liked Appendix C.
I have been blinded by science often in the past, they simply say it in every way a person can understand why raw food is superior nourishment for all creaturekind. Especially humankind.

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Summary: Not the best approach
Review: I have been gradually transitioning to a raw-foods diet (I have been vegetarian for a little over two years), so I have been reading a ton of books on the subject. It's a good thing that this was not the first one I read. It's a shame that the authors, while being highly motivated and passionate about a raw-food diet, have chosen to advocate the subject in such an in-your-face, absolutist manner. It's really a turn-off. They have taken stances that are easily supported by documented facts, but instead of supporting them with facts, they choose to make raw-foodism sound like a religion. It's not a religion, it's just a way of eating. I'm sure their approach is a turn-on for some people, so perhaps it's good that a book like this exists for those people who need to hear the message this way.

That said, I'd avoid this book until you've read some more sane and well documented books like Dr. Norman Walker's "Enzyme Nutrition," which is the most scientific and documented of all the literature on the subject. Other good books are Ann Wigmore's wheatgrass book and some of her other books; any of the books by Steve Myerowitz; and the "How I Conquered Cancer Naturally" book. I have also heard that two books called "The Raw Life" and "Blatant Raw-Foodist Propaganda" are good. The Natural Hygiene literature is generally very good as well. Take advantage of all the raw food related web sites out there.

Sorry to diverge from the review, but after getting off coffee, soda, aspartame, refined sugar, and other obvious evils, I have been increasing the raw food in my diet gradually to the point where my diet is 80-95% raw most days. The results have been incredible. I feel amazing (everyone always says that, but it's true) and the pounds are just falling off. I don't feel deprived at all, and eating takes on a new meaning when you can feel the food nourishing your body in a way that cooked food never did. You owe it to yourself to try this, especially if you are infirm or overweight in any way. Take it one step at a time. No need to switch 100% your first day.

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Summary: Work of Plagiarism
Review: Nature's First Law is a mockery. The original work. Raw Eating by A.T. Hovanessian, was stolen, reworded, and repackaged as Nature's First Law with no acknowledgment to the original author who was imprisoned and probably killled for speaking his mind in Iran. To think in this day and age that we would allow these men to build a successful business on a lie of this magnitude and to allow several follow-up additions to be made without prosecution is beyond me. Here a man rots in prison for writing a great book while three nobody's steal his work, use their names and build a business. Not only is this plagiarism but downright disrepect for a tortured soul. Do not buy this book. Instead, get the original and make sure you send NFL a message afterward and let them know you know about the lie and will not buy Mr. Hovanessian's book with their name on it!

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Summary: don't waist your money
Review: This book is not nearly as good as David Wolfe's two other books, "Sunfood Diet Success System" or "Eating for Beauty." The tone of the book is too harsh and was a bore to read. There are much better raw food books out there.

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Summary: Blatantly plagiarized!!!
Review: This book takes no prisoners. The message is clear: "Eat raw or die, cooked food is poison". This message is pounded into you with each chapter. I would have like a bit more variety in the topics and considerably more science to back up the claims for raw foodism. I would also like to have some research on raw animal foods, which can certainly supply deficits in the raw vegan diet (i.e. vitamins B12,D). Having adopted a raw diet myself to lose weight, I have to agree with the authors that one can pretty much eat any raw foods as desired and still loose weight. I eat at will including such "forbidden foods" as avocado & coconut oil and still lose weight every week, which is something I need to continue doing until I reach a good weight. I feel better than I ever have. This book may sound awfully dogmatic in places, but it will help you if your quest is to eat raw. Read it.

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Summary: Where's the Science?
Review: This is a book of rabid propaganda to scare people into eating raw, and buying over priced items at the authors' web based business.

If, you are interested in raw foodism, and want a workable set of books that can give you an introduction, and road map into the world of raw foodism, please read Norman Walker's series of books on the subject. They are, while not backed up by "hard science", very good at helping the reader along this path.

This book is opinion based, scientifically lacking. In fact, I believe someday, science will prove the validity of the raw food diet. But it won't happen by the evidence presented in this book.