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

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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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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, cometo feel lighter, more energetic, and just happier about being alaive.

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.

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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: 8.3 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #424,411 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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81 of 83 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

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

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.

67 of 69 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

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!)

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	A. Avalon "[e-mail]" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.