Customer Reviews

The Oil-Protein Diet Cookbook

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This book is the companion to her first book. While the first book is really a compilation of her various lectures to peers over a long span of years, this book actually explains in more detail how her diet works and also suggests diets that are nutritious to the point of being adequate for athletes in training. If I had to choose "one" this would be IT. As a cancer victim myself you can read my review of the other book about how well her diet works. Buying this book and following her diet will be the best investment in your own health you will ever make. Buy and read both her books, but especially this one.

For those who are genuinely interested in the quality of their health and are skeptical of the manufactured/processed interference into our diet, this is the book for you.The diet is SIMPLE and DOES WORK. I am proof of that. This book ideally should be read in conjunction with Dr Budwig's book 'Flax oil as a True Aid against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases' as it explains the research behind this diet. Dr Budwig's recipes are tasty, easy (in the most part) to prepare and above all GOOD FOR YOU. It has taken nearly 50 years for the mainstream medical/scientific world to 'discover' what Dr Budwig had already perfected and had the documented evidence proving it. Most of the recipes have a 'European flavour' but are easily adaptable to everyone's tastes. Substitutions are usually included ie: low-fat cottage cheese or yoghurt for Quark, but there are a few items that are more difficult to obtain here in Oz, such as Kaki fruit or sea buckthorn. Even if you don't follow the diet religiously for health reasons, the recipes in this book will add a healthy, tasty variety to your eating.

I would highly recommend this book to those who desire to improve their health by incorporating flax seeds and flax oil into the diet. The cookbook gives many ways to include flax oil at every meal and even for dessert. The ice cream recipes using flax oil are absolutely delicious.

I took Cottage and ground flax mixed together for 2 weeks and have noticed a very marked improvement in short term memory. Before, I couldnt remember things for more than a couple of seconds and I was always at a loss for words. BOOM, after the diet, I now have NO PROBLEM recalling things and words in conversation. Going to try adding Cinammon, Almond splinters, Honey and prunes to the mix.

This is a miracle mix !!!!!

I am a health nut and highly recommend Dr Budwig's book on Arthritis, Cancer, etc before obtaining this cookbook. This cookbook is wonderful and I have been following the cottage cheese and flaxseed oil with many other vegetables and fruits. I cut up all my vegetables and keep in a
vacuum seal container ahead of time. This enables me to throw meals, lunches together in no time at all. I am looking forward to trying out her ice cream recipe with the cottage cheese.
I truly believe that the Flax Seed oil is a Fountain of Youth. I am 57 years old and have been using for just a month. My crow's feet between my brows is almost invisible as well as around the corners of my mouth.

I highly recommend the cookbook for anyone wanting to change their diet.

If you are determined to follow this "flax-oil and cottage-cheese (or quark-cheese)" diet, say you found out about it somewhere else, e.g., [...], you'll welcome Dr. Budwig's own little book of over 500 recipes. I took heart when I saw that I could still have plenty of interesting deserts, even "ice creams" made with the recipe(s) in the book. But there are lots of other dishes and courses to keep life interesting. Although cooking and sautéing with butter, lard, margarine and almost any vegetable oil is a "no-no" - because the heat breaks them down into toxic components, it is still possible to cook, carefully, with pure cocoanut oil - a solid at room temperature. If you are a creative cook, after mastering preparing the basic ingredients and principles, you should have no trouble coming up with your own delicious recipes. The book mentions that fresh fish (non-farmed) and game (free-run poultry?) are permissible sources of protein. I cook these by baking or poaching rather than pan-frying.

It's a giant secret here but everyone is dying from lack of Omega 3's. We're talking cancer, heart disease,
plus all those maladies that just make your life barely livable such as painful arthritis. The author of this
book was nominated for the Nobel Prize no less than seven times. It was never awarded to her thanks to
drug companies and research labs. Why fix something when you can keep it broken and profit ?!! This book
is a goldmine for those of us who want to keep feeling good instead of slowly deteriorating into useless beings
who cannot care for themselves or anything else...

This book really surprised me. It does meet its purpose. If you read Dr. Budwig's Flax Oil As a True Aid Against Arthritis Heart Infarction Cancer and Other Diseases (3rd Edition) this one compliments it. A must read.

If you or someone you care for has cancer and you would like to manage it through diet then this is the book for you.

I became quite interested in Dr. Budwig's work through research. My chemistry skills are pretty old, so I struggled mightily through her lectures embodied in the companion volume "Flas Oil As a True Aid ..." etc.

Now, this book is supposed to be a cookbook. The substantial value of the diet is the preparation of the flax-based key ingredients that are then replicated in every ensuing recipe.

What this book needed was a decent editor. It is a translation of work that was mainly done 60 years ago! One cannot go to Germany circa 1960 in order to implement the food plan, and so the editors needed to do just a little bit of work to make this relatively painless for implementation.

There is virtually NO decent editing work done here, and the references to Dr. Budwig's patented, offered products is not suitable. For instance, one of the key ingredients in these recipes is a "Muesli" carefully designed by Dr. Budwig. (One of her colleagues stated that he wished the beneficiaries of this diet - the users - all had a PhD in chemistry so they could understand the quality of Dr. Budwig's work.)

This Muesli ("Linomel") was once branded by Dr. Budwig, apparently, and the book references an 800 number to call. However, when you do call, they tell you that was a "misprint" in the book, and that they sell flax seed oil, and not "Linomel," Dr. Budwig's patented product.

The fact is, you will look in vain for what Linomel truly is, and therefore will have to go without it. Some internet sites tell you to simply use 4 teaspoons of freshly-ground flax seeds, and to eat them within 20 minutes. Others simply replace it with flax seed oil and cottage cheese, which, in the book, is called something else.

Therefore, when buying this book, be prepared to do a whole lot of head-scratching and web searching to get the basic ingredients down.

Also, be prepared to pay a fortune for your flax seed oil, as the cheapest it can be found, even buying bulk, is $12.50/qt. More likely you will be paying around $15 per cup!