Product Description

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 meticulously rewritten the entire book, beginning to end, in order to offer the most complete, up-to-date nutrition information possible. Nowhere 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. This book describes exactly how to adopt, maintain, and stay centred on an 80, 90, or 100 per cent raw-food diet by balancing different types of foods through 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-colour 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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #248388 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

Review
"David Wolfe, in a beautifully authentic way, plants the awareness of the power of a live-food diet and healthy thinking that is transforming to each individual and to the very planet itself."
--Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D., author of "Conscious Eating "and "Spiritual Nutrition"
"Anyone can benefit from David Wolfe's knowledge and understanding of raw-food nutrition."
--Anthony Robbins, author of "Awaken the Giant Within "and "Unlimited Power"
"This breakthrough book not only demonstrates a profound understanding of Nature's physical laws of health-building, but also masterfully integrates the under-recognized motivational, mental, and emotional components needed to create overall success in life. A unique contribution to the field and I highly recommend it to all success seekers."
--Viktoras Kulvinskas MS, author of "Survival Into the 21st Century"
"This book advocates a simple, yet profound, plant-based diet that would heal many illnesses, support the growing organic food industry, shut down the abusive animal-farming cartels, and reverse much of the damage humans have done to this planet. It is a wonderful book and receives my highest recommendation."
--John McCabe, author of "Surgery Electives: what to Know Before the Doctor Operates "and "Plastic Surgery Hopscotch"

Customer Reviews

A feast of a book
Well, contrary to the first reviewer, I'm in my second year of raw food and I AM thriving!! I've read lots of raw books and some, although inspiring and entertaining, can be read in days. SDSS is different. It's a lovely long feast - and one I enjoyed over several weeks.

Every chapter starts with inspirational quotes - from the Bible, philosophers, raw fooders, self-help gurus...At least half the book isn't about raw food as such. If you see raw as 'not just about the food', but part of a bigger picture, there will be many things in SDSS that will resonate with you. If you believe life is very much what your thoughts make it, you'll find this book very motivating. To quote DW: 'To succeed in life you have to work harder. But not on your family,or on your friends, or on your job, or on whatever comes your way. You have to work harder on yourself first. Only happy people make others happy.' And: 'You will make incredible progress in your life when you accept 100% responsibility for everything that happens to you. You are where you are and who you are because of one person - yourself.'

The raw food chapters are full of advice on how to transition to a raw food diet, and the benefits of doing so, covering all the usual issues (eg protein) and discussing associated topics such as wild and hybrid food. There are also chapters on, for example, 'skin', 'teeth, 'sun', and 'breathing' - this is so much more than a book on raw food. Later chapters focus on single foods, eg the olive, the avocado, and yes it does include recipes (though just a few) and daily diet plans.

I see the prices on 'Used and New' right now are high - perhaps suggesting that people don't actually want to sell their copies? Perhaps a birthday request? Whatever the case, 'Sunfood Diet Success System' is worth the money.

Fiction Not Fact
Here is a book of a man's opinions and philosophy on diet, lifestyle and even evolution. It is his personal outline of how to become a sort of super human. Much of it is simply fiction that is not supported with studies, trials or data.

I decided to experiment and followed his diet for 6 months, all the time waiting for the magic to happen. All that happened was I lost loads of weight to the point I looked like I had an eating disorder (which in a way I did), and I had continual loose stools from the huge amount of plant matter I was consuming. My body temperature dropped from being normal at around 36.8 Celsius to around 35.5 Celsius (not far above hypothermia with the possibility of of heart irritability)... I could go on.

Apparently you go through a detox, lose loads of weight, and then put the weight back on and become all healthy. Well the weight wasn't coming back, and the exuberant promised energy was forever elusive, and I was fed-up organising and obsessing over food. People never any longer commented that I looked well, but did point out how thin I became. So I stopped. It has taken 3 months to recover from it.

So I conclude it doesn't work for me. I think raw foodists often feel better in comparison to their previous lifestyles and benefit from eliminating processed foods, cereal grains and dairy from their diets. You can survive on a raw diet, but in my opinion, not thrive. For me the best advice I have got is from reading books like: The True You Diet by Dr John Briffa; The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain PhD; and The Protein Power Life Plan by Michael R Eades MD and Mary Dan Eades MD. However I would endorse going vegan and raw for a few days once in a while if you wanted to give your guts a good scrubbing and save on colonic hydrotherapy.

There are some great and creative recipes to be learned from raw vegans, but beware the likes of David Wolfe, in this book he says that he aims to become a "liquidarian" or in other words eat 100% raw, vegan, liquidised meals, and that " I prefer to eat alone, standing up, in a meditational state, listening to success tapes or reading books'.

very good condition, fast delivery
this isnt all about food, its about a whole new way of life, thinking feeling as well as eating.

ideas of daily food intake and some recipes too