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The Recipe for Living Without Disease

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After reading his first book "We want to live" I had to have Aajonus' 2nd book. This book, "The recipe for living without disease" lists some more practical and very useful information about a healthy primal diet. Aajonus discusses some healthy food combinations and gives some valuable recipes (suited even for babies!).

As I have found out with many of the MDs and PhDs I've listed in my other review of his first book, they all advocate using a blender and a juicer. It reminds me of what Richard Schulze M.D. always said: a blender and a juicer saves lives! It's so true.

In this book Aajonus discusses what cooking does to nutrients in food, if microbes are dangerous to humans and bacterial food-poisoning etc.

I was very pleased to read that Aajonus is writing new books and that CD/DVDs will be published that show how to make recipes and use kitchen equipment etc. Anxiously waiting these arrivals...!

Aajonus's first book was a little too New-Agey for my tastes. This, his 2nd book, is however OUTSTANDING. It contains numerous references to various scientific studies and reports, which I have seen referred to in New Scientist magazine among other sources. The previous book neglected this aspect to a certain extent.
The beginning and end of the book deal with the theory behind the diet, demolishing the irrational concerns of society, such as regards parasites and bacteria, while the middle part deals with recipes and the like.
All in all, I have to say, that I have tried numerous other diets out there(Palaeolithic Diet, Vegetarianism, Raw Vegan, Hay Diet,Instincto, Atkins, "balanced diet" etc.) but the Primal Diet is the only diet which actually restored my health. This book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in improving their energy levels or in curing their long-term health problems.
I would like to add that my former (very serious) health problems were only got rid of completely once I switched to a fully Raw, Palaeolithic variation of this Primal Diet:- I had to eliminate raw veggie juice and all raw dairy from my diet(like many RPDers I have a very strong food-intolerance/allergy towards raw dairy), reduce drastically consumption of raw honey, raw fruit, and raw (solid) veg, to minimal amounts, and eat mainly (raw) organ- meats(especially high-fat ones like bone-marrow/suet/tongue etc.), glands and fatty muscle-meats in place of overly lean muscle-meats. Combining this modification with all other aspects of the Primal Diet, such as "high-meat" etc., helped cure a number of long-term health problems. I also found that doing IF(Intermittent Fasting) helped greatly to improve energy levels.

Great information on the benefits of a raw diet that is not vegetarian. This is not a diet, but a completely different perspective on health. This is only for the truly committed. For those familiar with the Paleolithic Diet, this author offers lots of pertinent information.

I have reviewed the dietary philosophy of this author and my experience with it previously, see my review under "We Want to Live", which you may want to read before this one.

"The Recipe for Living Without Disease" is a great complement to his first book in that it is much more practical, with lots of great recipes and tips, in addition to fascinating information on personal health.

Seriously.Forget about the recepies.You'll never make them anyway,beside the basic ones(shakes,moisterizing drink).Once in raw diet,you'll eat your meal mostly plain.Get We Want 2 Live too.Lots of info.You'll need to read it over and over 10-20 times in order to stick.This book changed my life.I can't say enough about it.I saw him in person too.Great man!God bless him!
Prior to this diet I did everything there is.You name it!Macrobiotic,vegeterian,Atkin's,lacto,etc...Never felt good. A year and a half on raw meat and fish,I feel different person.Thanks AV.

This book will change the way you look at everything you put into your body. Aajonus has information that you will never hear anywhere else. It should be a requirement for every physician to read in medical school.

I can't say enough about Aajonus Vonderplanitz.

I owe my health and wellbeing to this guy. I used to suffer from chronic cystic acne. I would get recurring infections that would not go away and would leave large scars behind when they finally did. Eventually I found out it was cooked and refined, sugars, starches and fats that was causing the problem. Eating a mostly raw diet of meats and veggies has brought health to me beyond what I even hoped for. I now have more energy, I'm not perpetually cold, I've finally gained weight and of course, my acne is gone.

This book is great both as an introduction to raw eating and to help those of us who have been practicing this diet to understand why and how it works.

It includes plenty of references so you can chase down his claims.

The recipes are great, they allow you to enjoy things that you wouldn't be able to eat as much otherwise.

The only complaint I have is that I want more. I really hope he writes another book or five delving further in to the mechanics of nutrients in the body and maybe even a separate book on the benefits to tooth and bone.

Wonderful book, thanks so much Aajonus!

You will find significant discoveries in The Recipe for Living Without Disease. It is a completely original work. The recipes are all healthful. This book will change the course of dietary history when people read it and think for themselves.

I've been eating Aajonus diet for 6 months now and I feel awesome.

Okay. So you've read The Primal Diet, and you have learned that there is a recipe book. That's great! But, there's just one little problem; how to get the ingredients. I don't know about the rest of you, but I live in a state that licenses raw dairies, but not to sell in stores or even at outdoor produce markets. I have no idea what these licenses are for. Many states don't license dairies at all. No doubt, unless you live on a farm, there will be problems getting raw milk, raw butter, raw cream, raw cheese and meat from grass fed cattle to varying degrees depending on your location. But, not to worry; there is a way. Buying clubs are springing up like mushrooms all over the country. That's one of the things I learned about when I started looking into raw food diets. Many people are determined, in spite of the interference of government, to get real living food for themselves and their families. These clubs are composed of everyday citizens just like you and me who want the kind of food they know will keep their families healthy. In fact, there are so many that it's going to be hard for the government to convince the general population that the desire for natural food is just a fad promulgated by a few wild-eyed fanatics. The author's point is that raw meat and dairy are far safer than the government would have us believe. And raw dairy products taste better by far.

The Recipe for Living Without Disease is well worth buying if you are serious about going raw, and even if you are not. It educates about the digestive system, and tells how to eat your food depending on what diet you are on, whether it's raw, cooked, or part raw, part cooked. There is a wealth of information about how the human digestive system works and what foods work best within it. The author talks about how we wage war on our bodies instead of working with them to keep ourselves healthy. Some people probably won't like this book because it brings home the fact that our bodies belong to the animal world whether we like it or not, and they have to be taken care of like the animals they are, no matter how spiritual we are or we think we are. He explains the role of bacteria and parasites in a way that I am sure you have never heard before, but this is information you need to see, even if only as food for thought. If you think long enough, you might realize that what he says makes sense. More than a recipe book, this is a book for serious study.

Reading this book has both dismayed me and given me hope. I am dismayed by the deliberate attempts of the government to protect the purveyors of dead food at all costs and to remove all opportunities to obtain the living foods that our bodies need unless they are covered with chemical sprays and/or genetically modified while at the same time telling us we are not doing enough to stay healthy. It's amazing to me that we are as healthy as we are considering the obstacles they have put in our way.

Have you ever smelled some of the baby formulas available today? I remember that long ago they used to smell like vitamins, but I recently came across one that smelled like moldy hay. The baby being given this formula was screaming his head off and drawing his legs up the way babies do when their stomachs hurt. Does someone actually believe that since babies can't talk they can put anything they want in these formulas and nobody will know the difference? Are the makers of these formulas getting the close scrutiny that sellers of raw dairy products get? If so, they need to explain what nutritious item in these formulas happens to smell like moldy hay.

I have hope for the future when I see the strong community spirit among the buying club members and the way everyone works together and tries to be of help and service to their fellow members. I find this very heartening and uplifting in a world where the American People have been dissed and denigrated in every way possible. The Media paints us as the dumbest and most immoral people in the world, but when you get down to the grass roots, that's not what you see at all. What you see are smart people, thinking people, caring people who want healthy and happy families and who will buckle down and do the work that's needed to make that happen in spite of the obstacles being put in their way.