Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in 12 Steps to Raw Foods in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-law’s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who don’t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet.

This classic guide to green nutrition will appeal to anyone who wishes to develop a healthy diet without making sacrifices to taste or lifestyle Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but consuming the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In Green For Life, raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko reveals an easy way to get the nutrients and minerals you need, in the amount you need: greens and green smoothies. This quick, simple drink eliminates toxins and corrects nutritional deficiencies—benefiting everyone, regardless of lifestyle, diet, or environment. And they’re delicious.Green for Life includes the latest information on the abundance of protein in greens, the benefits of fiber, the role of greens in homeostasis, the significance of stomach acid, how greens make the body more alkaline, and more. Also included are easy-to-follow recipes with nutritional data, inspiring testimonials, and research on how adding just one quart of green smoothies to your daily intake can make a world of difference. This updated edition also provides important new research on the role that omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids play in metabolic health. Offering more in-depth nutritional and experiential information than Boutenko’s Green Smoothie Revolution, Green for Life makes an ideal companion piece to its recipe-rich successor.

Want to look younger and feel better?Want to increase your energy levels, build lean muscle, and enhance immunity?Want to do all this while eating delicious, easy meals that will leave you feeling satisfied and full of energy?Welcome to Ani's Raw Food Detox. Award-winning chef, health coach, and consultant Ani Phyo offers an easy, delicious 15-day program based on nature's real "fast foods." The plan is simple: eat up and speed up the cleansing, detoxing, and fat-burning process by using all-natural whole food ingredients. Watch the pounds fly off as you gain boundless energy and clear, radiant skin while at the same time lowering your risk for chronic diseases. Designed to help you get optimal results and achieve your detoxing and immune-boosting goals, Ani's Raw Food Detox offers:Top detox and fat-fighting strategies and toolsLists of foods that accelerate cleansing, detox, and your metabolismMore than 50 quick, easy, delicious recipesMenus and shopping lists for each phase of the planStrategies for long-term health and maintenance

Easy, Affordable Raw kickstarts your raw food lifestyle with everything that you need to know. How do I organize my kitchen? What kind of ingredients should I buy? Pie for breakfast? Lisa Viger, author and raw food expert, easily breaks down the raw food lifestyle including health and environmental benefits of a raw food diet. She also answers common questions about nutrition, protein, and energy. With more than 100 recipes that are affordable, simple, and quick to prepare, you'll be enjoying a better-feeling, cleaner body in no time. Inside you'll find fantastic salads, entrees, desserts, condiments, cheeses, and more! Make amazing recipes like: Grapefruit Pear and Candied Nut Salad with Blood Orange Dressing, Almond Pumpkin Seed Vanilla Dried Cherry Cereal, and Avocado and Arugula Pizza! Easy, Affordable Raw is a practical handbook and recipe book that makes the raw food lifestyle totally accessible for anyone, anywhere, even on a smaller budget.

Raw snacks are nature’s original fast foods — easy to prepare, delicious, and bursting with the ingredients you need to stay healthy and energized on even the busiest days. Stephanie Tourles offers 125 simple recipes for mouthwatering trail mixes, smoothies, energy bars, juice blends, vegetable chips, cookies, and more. Made from unprocessed whole foods like nuts, fruits, vegetables, and grains, each of these snacks contain fewer than 250 calories and are packed with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and enzymes.

After her health journey led her to a plant-based diet, Gena Hamshaw started a blog for readers of all dietary stripes looking for a common– sense approach to healthy eating and fuss–free recipes. Choosing Raw, the book, does in an in depth manner what the blog has done for hundreds of thousands of readers: addresses the questions and concerns for any newcomer to veganism; makes a plant–based diet with many raw options feel easy instead of intimidating; provides a starter kit of delicious recipes; and offers a mainstream, scientifically sound perspective on healthy living.With more than 100 recipes, sumptuous food photos, and innovative and wholesome meal plans sorted in levels from newcomer to plantbased pro, Hamshaw offers a simple path to health and wellness. With a foreword by Kris Carr,New York Times–bestselling author of Crazy Sexy Diet, Choosing Raw is a primer in veganism, a cookbook, the story of one woman's journey to health, and a love letter to the lifestyle that transformed her relationship with food.

Since its first publication, The Sunfood Diet Success System has been the definitive book on the raw food lifestyle. Now after more than seven years, David Wolfe has rigorously rewritten the entire book, beginning to end, in order to offer the most complete, up-to-date nutrition information possible. No where else will you find the kinds of empowering information and insight that is present on every page of this truly inspiring work.The Sunfood Diet Success System is a groundbreaking book in the field of raw-food nutrition. The book describes exactly how to adopt, maintain, and stay centered on an 80, 90, or 100% raw-food diet by balancing different types of foods through David Wolfe's innovative Sunfood Triangle. Success is inevitable with day-by-day menu plans, delicious recipes, and the best information available on detoxification, fasting, mineralization and success technology all neatly bundled into one book.Each chapter is filled with inspiring quotes, facts, and tips. Dozens of beautiful, never-before-seen full-color images have been added to this brand-new edition, including many stunning Kirlian photographs. The Sunfood Diet Success System also includes a comprehensive listing of raw-food restaurants, healing retreats, and organizations. Be prepared for nothing less than total transformation!

The Vegan Plant-Based Cookbook You’ll Love"Even if you own other vegan cookbooks, this book is going to be the bible of vegan cooking you'll turn to time and again.” —Dee Dine, creator of the Green Smoothie Gourmet blog and author of Crazy Healthy with 4 IngredientsAmazon Editors' Pick: Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine#1 New Release in Gluten-Free Diets, Vegan Cooking, Raw CookingPerfect for spicing up your diet, healing with food, and embracing sustainable livingSimple and Delicious Vegan is a vegan, plant-based cookbook filled with delicious gluten free, vegan breakfast ideas, vegan lunch ideas, dairy and gluten free snacks, and unbelievable vegan dinners.Eat Plants, be happy. Simple and Delicious Vegan makes cooking healthy food that tastes good easy as pie. Enjoy original, easy recipes that are healthy, allergy-friendly, delicious, and good for both your body and the planet. Only a few recipes contain nuts, soy, or corn, with substitutions always provided. This cookbook keeps things simple by providing metric and imperial measurements (cups, ounces, and grams). Lovingly photographed, Simple and Delicious Vegan also offers ingredient shots, so you see what to buy—getting you cooking—and eating—faster!Learn how to cook plant-based food from an expert. Popular blogger and author Michaela Vais, or Ela, was a vegetarian by age six. In 2011, she made her best decision yet and went vegan. She gained energy, cured her cystic acne, and connected with the earth in a new way. In this vegan, plant based cookbook, she shares what she's learned so you, too, can reap the benefits.Inside find: Innovative gluten free breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas Delicious plant-based recipes like banana baked oatmeal, hearty lentil stew, and zucchini brownies Healthy, allergy-friendly foods with recommended ingredient substitutions And much more!If you liked Unbelievably Vegan, Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior, or The Fiber Fueled Cookbook, you’ll love Simple and Delicious Vegan.

Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and SpiritFrom the back of the Book:Do you wish you could achieve your natural weight, have abundant energy and gain a clear mind?Now you can! In your hands you're holding the simple keys to: - Ultra enthusiasm for life - Deep happiness and bliss - A clearer and calmer mind - More energy than you had as a child - Natural weight loss and maintenance - Flawless skin, great muscle tone and a younger appearanceWhat it will do for you: - You'll love the detox plans which soother your soul. - You'll delight in the 100+ unique recipes. - You'll be lifted to new levels with the detox helpers. - You'll be inspired by the success stories. - You'll learn which foods can make you feel great -- for the rest of your life. - You'll love this book as much as it already loves you!Imagine a transformation so profound that it changes your whole life.Within these pages, she explains in simple terms how you can become the person you are destined to be.Are you ready to learn nature's time-proven health and happiness secrets right now?

A new and vibrant vegan cookbook authorized by Instant Pot, from the creator of the Rainbow Plant Life blog.With food and photos as vivid, joyous, and wholesome as the title of her popular cooking blog--Rainbow Plant Life--suggests, Nisha Vora shares nourishing recipes with her loyal followers daily. Now, in her debut cookbook, she makes healthy, delicious everyday cooking a snap with more than 90 nutritious (and colorful!) recipes you can make easily with the magic of an Instant Pot pressure cooker. With a comprehensive primer to the machine and all its functions, you, too, can taste the rainbow with a full repertoire of vegan dishes. Start the day with Nisha's Homemade Coconut Yogurt or Breakfast Enchilada Casserole, then move on to hearty mains like Miso Mushroom Risotto, and even decadent desserts including Double Fudge Chocolate Cake and Red Wine-Poached Pears. The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook will quickly become a go-to source of inspiration in your kitchen.

A fun and irreverent take on vegan comfort food that's saucy, sweet, sassy, and most definitely deep-fried, from YouTube sensation Lauren Toyota of Hot for Food.In this bold collection of more than 100 recipes, the world of comfort food and vegan cooking collide as Lauren Toyota shares her favorite recipes and creative ways to make Philly cheesesteak, fried chicken, and mac 'n' cheese, all with simple vegan ingredients. Never one to hold back, Lauren piles plates high with cheese sauce, ranch, bacon, and barbecue sauce, all while sharing personal stories and tips in her engaging and hilarious voice. The result is indulgent, craveworthy food - like Southern Fried Cauliflower, The Best Vegan Ramen, and Raspberry Funfetti Pop Tarts - made for sharing with friends at weeknight dinners, weekend brunches, and beyond.

From Mimi Kirk, voted PETA’s sexiest vegetarian over 50, comes a raw food cookbook for anyone wanting to be healthier. This is a full-color book filled with recipes that will lead to whole beauty. You will look and feel beautifulEveryone knows that eating well makes you feel your best. Mimi Kirk is living proof that eating well—ideally raw vegan food—can also make you look younger. Her raw vegan cookbook, Live Raw, shares 120 recipes mixed with must-have advice. She covers topics including: Chapters include The Pleasure of Felling Good; What to Eat and Why, About Ingredients and Equipment; Herbs, Spices, and Condiments; Smoothies, Juices, Warm Drinks, Mocktails, and More; Breakfasts, Breads, and Crackers; Soups, Salads and Dressings; Cheese, Pates, Tapenades, Wrap, and Rolls; Sauces; Vegetables and Side Dishes; Main Courses; and Sweets. Recipes include:\nTangerine Green Smoothie, Mango Smoothie, Cacao Almond Milk\nBanana Blueberry Pancake, Granola Cereal or Bar, Bagels\nButternut Squash Soup, Tom Yum Miso Soup, Gazpacho\nFennel Salad, Sweet Pepper Antipasto, High-Energy Salad\nSweet Red Pepper Coconut Wrap, Verde Tortilla Wrap,\nModern Bruss Els Sprouts, Mashed Parsnips and Cauliflower\nKale Chips, Nachos This Side of The Border, Mini Tostadas\nChili, Macaroni and Cheese, Crabless Cakes and Tartar Sauce\nFalafel, Spinach Quiche, Stuffed Grape Leaves\nPizza, Pomodoro Lasagna, Pasta Alla Checca, Sweet Potato Gnocchi\nThai Pasta, Warm Asian Noodles\nVanilla Ice Cream, Chocolate Ice Cream, Strawberry Ice Cream\nChia Pudding, Banana Pudding\nChocolate Caramel Bar, Apple Pie, Baked Fruit\nSweet Crepes, Mike’s Birthday Brownie, Blackberry Cheesecake\nAnd Much More!\n\nLearn how to feel and look better with Mimi Kirk and this low fat raw vegan cookbook.