Product Description

The Thrive Diet is a long-term eating plan that will help you develop a lean body, sharp mind, and everlasting energy, whether youre a professional athlete or simply looking to boost your physical and mental health. One of the few professional athletes on an entirely plant-based diet, Brendan Brazier researched and developed this easy-to-follow program to enhance his performance as an elite endurance athlete. Brazier clearly describes why its easier for the body to utilize nutrient-rich foods in their natural state than refined, processed foods and how to choose nutritionally-efficient, stress-busting whole foods to maximize energy and health. And because plant-based foods are more environmentally friendly to produce, youll also help the planet while improving your personal health. The Thrive Diet features a 12-week whole foods meal plan, over 100 easy-to-make recipes with raw food options that are free of dairy, gluten, soy, wheat, corn, refined sugar, including exercise-specific recipes for pre-workout snacks, energy gels, sport drinks, and recovery foods, and an easy-to-follow exercise plan that compliments the Thrive Diet program. With The Thrive Diet, you can lower body fat and increase muscle tone; diminish visible signs of aging; increase energy and mental clarity; sleep better and more restfully; experience better moods; build a stronger immune system; lower cholesterol; and eliminate junk-food cravings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #489522 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Passionate without being preachy
I take my hat off to Brendan.
Despite - or because of? - not being a nutritionist, he critically deconstructs many commonly held beliefs about what we all 'normally' eat and replaces it with what actually works in terms of performance and nutrition.
He comes at it from the perspective of a (high achieving) athlete, but I find his prescription for a mainly raw, whole food eating programme (let's lose the word 'diet') also fits with my own environmental and ethical world view.
Most of all, it makes you feel great - I've felt clear headed, energetic, and lost weight without actually trying to.
Yes, there are some new ingredients and different ways of putting together meals (lots of seed oils for omegas, for example), and you have to get organised to do the prep. But in the last three months as I've been gradually getting more and more into it, I've been less stressed, more satisfied by my food, and noticed significantly more balanced moods, especially during my premenstrual phase (food as medicine, and it works).
It'll make you look differently at food and what it does to your body.

A prescription for vibrant health the whole-food way
Most Westerners' typical diet is absurdly unhealthy: junk foods, fast foods, big meals with artery-clogging red meat entrées, rushed breakfasts, sugary snacks, corrosive sodas and super-sized portions. Professional triathlete Brendan Brazier presents his "Thrive Diet" to introduce the gluttons stuck in this fat and flabby world to fresh, unprocessed, healthy foods. His main premise: Many people expend more energy digesting dreadful food than the food delivers, so they are tired and "nutritionally" stressed. Instead, Brazier argues, people should eat easily digested, nutritious whole foods. Based on raw vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, sprouts and other "nutrient-dense" foods, Brazier's diet is as healthy as the typical Western diet is harmful. Yet some readers may find it hard to eat (popped amaranth hemp seed salad?), complex to stock (where do I buy spelt?) and time-consuming to prepare (how long do I soak my pumpkin seeds in purified water?). Of course, people should eat nutritious, whole foods, but Brazier's seed beet pizzas and pomegranate green tea pancakes sound like lots of extra effort in the market and the kitchen. getAbstract thinks that this heartfelt book raises two questions: Do you want to be healthier? And could this rigorous regimen be the way?