Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: or, Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! [Paperback]

Joe Alexander (Author)

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Publication Date: June 3, 2009

Most people live on an omnivorous diet, that is, anything that is possible to chew up and swallow and live long enough to tell about, they will eat. Raw foodists maintain that only uncooked foods are fit to be eaten, that cooked food is the cause of virtually all disease and is always harmful to some extent. A cooked-food eater will, if he or she adopts a raw food diet, come to feel lighter, more energetic, and just happier about being alive. The greatest value of the raw food diet is its ability to transform you into a new and better person, with new goals and desires, with better health and more energy. You become more of your essence, your true and natural self. "This delightful book is packed full of useful information for the living food advocate, and the easy natural manner in which it is written makes it most worthwhile reading." J. Vanderborg

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This delightful book is packed full of useful information for the living food advocate, and the easy natural manner in which it is written makes it most worthwhile reading. -- J. Vanderborg

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The greatest value of the raw food diet is its transformative value. To a great extent, when you take up the raw food diet, you become a new and different and better person. You don't just stay the old person, only a little healthier. You become, to a great extent, a new being with new interests, a new philosophy and outlook on life, new goals and desires. You become more of your essence, your true and natural self. You become a person who is more a part of the one great life of Nature and less of the confused human world. You become less "of the world" and more "of the Earth."

Such transformations of course are impossible to imagine before you have experienced them. So the raw food diet doesn't so much "improve you" as "replace you" with somebody better! One of the most common statements of people who take up raw food diet in middle age or later, is that they now feel younger than they did even as teenagers. And yet at the same time they feel possessors of an ancient and ageless and eternal wisdom. The spirit is old and wise, and fresh and young at the same time.

Raw foodists get new insight into how much better (than we commonly imagine) life can and should be, how Nature intended it to be. The common little miseries of life, such as frequent colds and flu, indigestions, chapping of the hands and lips in cold weather, bad breath, sluggishness and depression, disappear, and become seen as not natural and normal parts of life at all, but indications of an unbalanced and unhealthy, chronically poisoned condition.

Unfortunately most of us who take up the raw food diet in our adult years have already been badly damaged by our preceding years and generations of unnatural living. Most of us already have decayed teeth and other deformities. But we do the best we can, and hope that by writing books and spreading this knowledge we can influence a widespread return to more natural living so that future generations do not have to suffer as we have. And of course there is the matter of reincarnation: we want to propagate knowledge that can help make this world a better place to be reborn into! That is one reason why I am trying to spread the knowledge and practice of a raw food diet. If reincarnation is true and I am to be reborn into this world, I want this knowledge widely available so I can rediscover it again!...

You can make a comparison between a meal of raw vegetables, and a meal of the same types of vegetables cooked. The raw vegetables leave you feeling light, fresh and alert, whereas the same vegetables cooked will make you feel lethargic and sluggish. It is common experience, how one feels lazy, dull and sluggish for hours after a big meal, such as Thanksgiving dinner. But meals of raw food don't produce such lethargy and dullness. Vegetarians don't believe in killing for food, but too often they kill their food by cooking it!

Raw food diet is a sort of rational and healthy austerity. It is the sort of discipline that makes you more free. For example, a skilled draftsman and painter is free to make pictures that look like anything he or she desires to create. The unskilled person is free only to fool around and make childish-looking pictures. A raw food diet is a healthy discipline that frees you to be more creative, work harder and think more clearly. It also makes you more free to enjoy the beauties and wonders of the natural world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing, Inc; Revised edition (June 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931892147
• ISBN-13: 978-0931892141
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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82 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For those simply sick and tired of being sick and tired, August 18, 1999

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Al Judycki ([e-mail]) (Springfield, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: or, Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! (Paperback)

Being an avid reader, it is typical for me to being involved in reading no less than six books at any one time. When I received "Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda!" I begin by reading the introduction and didn't stop until I reached the end of the last appendix. While not a spine tingling mystery thriller, this book is tough to put down. This book is well written and appropriately authoritative given the controversial nature of the subject. What I found particularly refreshing was that unlike other health-related books that I have read, Joe Alexander doesn't `push' his philosophy on people. Rather, he simply presents a logical case using scientific research and personal testimonies. While living on a raw food regimen is not something that everyone can swallow (no pun intended), this book is an excellent introduction for why living on a raw food diet is the most logical diet available. I would highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to radically improve their health and especially so to those who are simply sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.

71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interested in raw food eating? READ THIS!, April 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: or, Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! (Paperback)

I was attracted to researching raw foodism because of my pets (two dogs, two cats). I heard about raw diets for them, researched it, tried it, and am thrilled with the results in the improvement in their physical well-being. So, I thought, if it's good for them, why not for me? I searched for information on the web which eventually led me to this book. I ordered this book and another at the same time. I started reading the other one first and was so turned off I was tempted to toss both of them. I started reading this one and was immediately drawn into the author's sense of peace and wholeness and oneness with nature. I read the book in its entirety and am convinced that I want to start incorporating raw food eating into my way of life. I didn't need to be beaten over the head (as the other book did), I just wanted information. Reading this book made me believe I could make the switch comfortably even though I grew up on bologna, peanut butter and jelly, soda pop, and McDonald's. Joe Alexander is obviously a 'regular joe' whose journey to raw foodism was taken a step at a time, sometimes falteringly, but with resolve propped up by the results of his experience. The descriptions of his journey make me believe that I, too, could successfully follow the same path. If raw foodism holds any intrigue for you at all, please read this book. (No, I'm not being paid to say this!)

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Orginally published long before 1990, May 11, 2001

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A. Avalon "[e-mail]" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda: or, Sell Your Stove to the Junkman and Feel Great! (Paperback)

When I bought this book I was looking for something that was short and filled with good persuasive facts so I could have my boyfriend read it and possibly 'convert' him. This isn't that book. This book is a good source of information about the history of raw foodism. Joe Alexander devotes quite a good portion of the book to short sumaries of the major ideas and theories of well-known raw foodists over the last 100 or more years. Joe Alexander has a quirky eccentric sense of humor and at times his eccentricity and that of the raw foodists he is describing is laugh out loud funny. For that reason this isn't a good book to share with someone who is just getting interested in raw foodism because Joe Alexander may scare them off with some of his wackier ideas about why raw foodism is a superior diet. Because this book was originally published some time ago, (in the 70's I think) some of his theories about raw foodism now seem silly by a more scientfically and nutritionally aware reader. Though this isn't a good book to start with as an introduction to raw foodism, it is an entertaining and worth while read if you are already a raw foodist for your own reasons.