12 Steps to Whole Foods

GreenSmoothieGirl Resource Library
Dr. Joel Furhman: Eat to Live
This book presents excellent data about a plant-based diet versus meat and processed foods from a courageous
medical doctor willing to recommend vegetarian lifestyle changes instead of drugs and surgeries. The book
contains a limited number of simple recipes at the end. Possibly because many of Furhman’s patients are
cardiac patients, he is preoccupied with “low fat” in Eat to Live, which I think is unnecessary and even possibly
harmful for most people, but it’s a small criticism of a great book.
Dr. Edward Howell: Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept
This is a 162-page abridgment of this medical doctor’s lifelong work that originally culminated in a 700-page
book with 700 references. It is an old book, published in 1985, reviewing all the scientific literature from the
beginning of the twentieth century pointing to enzymes being the most critical element that our diet is now
deficient in, as we have strayed from raw foods. It draws conclusions and postulates scientific theory long
before the recent raw-food movement gained any traction.
John Robbins: The Food Revolution
This is a pivotal book with a compassionate voice for the Earth, the animals we abuse raising them for food,
and the people of the planet. The son of Baskin Robbins’ founder, John abandoned his business career destiny
to instead teach people about the virtues of a plant-based diet—and you will be forever changed by reading his
book that comprehensively documents why we should eat lower on the food chain. The author is precise with
data and he covers all the data points comprehensively, from cancer and heart disease risk, to genetically
modified foods, to global warming, to animal cruelty. Also recommend his Diet for a New America.
James and Colleen Simmons: Original Fast Foods
This book is pure in its intent: to help others experience the same profound health improvements that the
formerly very ill Jim Simmons achieved when he undertook a whole-foods, plant-based diet. The book is
expensive but intelligently written, and it contains tons of information and lots of good recipes at the end, all of
them easy. This is currently the only book I sell by another author on GreenSmoothieGirl.com.
Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley Young: Sick and Tired, The pH Miracle, and Back to the House of
Health
Dr. Young, with multiple doctorates, is the most credible authority on why an alkaline diet is the most
important aspect of disease prevention and treatment. His ace-in-the-hole over other authors is that his wife is a
recipe developer and, therefore, gives practical help (with the many excellent recipes) in addition to this
century’s leading-edge nutrition theory.
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