The Sunfood Diet Success System: 36 Lessons in Health Transformation [Paperback]

David Wolfe (Author, Editor), Stephen Arlin (Editor), John McCabe (Editor), Ken Seaney (Illustrator), Dafna Mordecai (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Maul Brothers Pub; Revised edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965353338
• ISBN-13: 978-0965353335
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for beginners and others, January 7, 2000

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John (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sunfood Diet Success System: 36 Lessons in Health Transformation (Paperback)

This is the first book of its kind, that basically summarizes how to be successful on the living and raw food diet. I believe that David has summarized what I have struggled to learn on my own, on how to be balanced on the diet. It is an excellent book for beginners and people that have already embraced this way of natural living. I wish the book would have been published about 5 years ago, it would have made my life much easier, but I did enjoy the (much slower) path of learning on my own, what he shares in his book.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Raw foods only, May 16, 2005

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Hope "pixcess" (INDIANA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Sunfood Diet Success System: 36 Lessons in Health Transformation (Paperback)

This is a very good raw food book. It's a book for the person who is determined to make raw food their diet choice. It's full of raw food information, which makes it a great reference book. If you're a busy person, maybe a more recreational reader, and need/want something concise and easy to read, this might not be the book for you (yet). If your goal is to be as informed as you can be about what you're eating and what it does to your body, energy, well being, and just about everything else, then this is a book you must buy, read, and keep on your bookshelf as a reference.

73 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Information, but insubstantiated., November 1, 1999

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This review is from: The Sunfood Diet Success System: 36 Lessons in Health Transformation (Paperback)

Overall, I tend to agree that living foods are the way to go, and intuitively, the idea of the sunfood triangle in the book makes sense.

However, there are some serious problems with the book. For example, the author claims that the "high" one gets from the alkaloids in coffee and psychoactive drugs (hemp, etc.) is due to the alkalizing effect of the alkaloids on the blood. This is not correct. While it is true that ALKAloids are ALKAlizing, the general class of plant alkaloids used in herbal medicine (which includes caffeine, etc.) work by forcing metabolic change in the body, or by directly influencing brain chemistry. Eating lots of spinach is NOT equivalent to (herbal) plant alkaloids.

There are other errors in the book, such as applying the "quantum jump" metaphor to explain evolution - a situation where Quantum Mechanics does not apply. In general, the author makes many claims without providing a source, which given some of the more radical claims less believable. I would take a lot of the information with a big grain of NaCl.

However, the more specific advice makes a lot of sense. (avoiding seedless fruits, the sunfood triangle, buying organic, etc.)