Eating in the Raw: A Beginner's Guide to Getting Slimmer, Feeling Healthier, and Looking Younger the Raw-Food Way

by David Roth and Carol Alt

Book Overview

Ten years ago, Carol Alt was feeling bad. Really bad. She had chronic headaches, sinusitis, and stomach ailments; she was tired and listless. And then Carol started eating raw and changed her life.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140005284X
• ISBN13: 9781400052844
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

excellent

Very well written, very easy to read, conversational style. Considering that this educational book is written by a model, Carol Alt has taken just the right tone and approach. I am very, very glad that raw dairy, fish, and meat are included. I love dairy and have been consuming raw milk for a few months now, and despite the price (!) I'm sticking with it. If you've ever been irregular, drink 2 glasses per day and see the difference. I am slowly adding more raw foods to my diet after having eliminated most processed foods. I just finished Eating in the Raw and I started reading The Raw 50. I am probably about 10 years younger than Carol Alt and if I didn't have other health reasons for the switch, I'd go raw just to look that wholesome at 50 years of age!! She is clearly genuinely interested in helping people live healthier and enjoying life. It made me wonder how many of the 'perfect' looking stars must be eating raw as well.

Perfection

I simply loved this book! This is the answer I have been looking for on the raw food front: this book is one of the few (if any) written on raw food that also incorporates the consumption of raw cheeses, seared meets, and sashimi, as well as eating the 'usual' creatively prepared raw plant based fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. As a former model and musician, I was always looking for a way to maintain my weight. I was unable to be model thin in the past without smoking cigarettes, drinking tons of coffee, and consuming very low daily calorie intake, which was total torture. When I quit these unhealthy behaviors, my weight stabilized at 'normal' but I was never at my former, 'glamorous' weight and I no longer made a living as a model. I ate an extremely healthy diet with a lot of salads, chicken, sprouted wheat bread, eggs, pasteurized dairy products, fresh fruits and vegetables, tofu, brown rice and raw nuts. Sounds healthy, right? Well it was, but in my late twenties/early thirties, I began having hair loss and nagging energy problems. (My thyroid and iron all came back normal.) I then went searching for answers and started getting into raw foods. The raw vegan diet wasn't substantial enough for me, so I continued to eat some cooked foods, which is fine, but I had actually wondered why most raw foodists were vegan (it had occurred to me to make a caesar salad and eat sashimi). I knew from the moment I ordered this book that is was the answer for me, and boy, was I right! This was a way to eat raw (or mostly raw) for life. No matter what, when you eat cooked food, you will always be 'hungry' and trying to avoid hunger. When you eat fresh, living raw foods, your body is getting what it needs, feels less hungry, and properly utilizes nutrients. As a result, you feel more energy and vitality, look slimmer and more youthful without dieting, and have a greater sense of joy and well-being. Now who doesn't want that???

The best raw foods book I have read.

I had read three other raw foods books previoius to reading Carol's. The three left me feeling confused and overwhelmed before I even got started. Carol's book is easy and enjoyable to read. It explains everything a person needs to know to get started with out having to wade through a lot of other stuff. After reading it I knew just what appliances and foods to buy and where to get them. The recipies are simple and really delicious. It was easy to be sucessful in starting this new lifestyle of eating raw.

Excellent Book For Beginners

I absolutely love this book. Carol is the reason I started on the Raw-food diet nearly a year ago. I happen to catch a glimpse of her on one of those "celebrities and their diets" shows on E and while typing away on the computer and partially listening to the show I was able to put my cynicism for some of the diets aside long enough to listen to what Carol had to say about dehydrated chickpeas sprouts turning into raw hummus and other details about eating raw while she was pushing a cart around a Whole Foods market, a place I frequent. I initially thought who on earth would purposely eat this way. Apparently she said something in that short segment that really stuck with me because 2 weeks later, out of no where, I found myself searching for anything I could get my hands on to make since of this whole raw-food lifestyle. After one day of searching I was able to find a few websites to get me going and I started cold turkey with nothing more than my Vita-mix, which I already had. I felt great immediately, but found it somewhat burdensome that every other recipe required that I sprouted this or juiced that and when it came to resources I definitely experienced information overload. I didn't want to buy expensive equipment while deciding weather or not I would continue eating this way. Where on earth do I find Spirulina Flakes? I sure wish I had Carol's book then because she answers those questions and many more. So many of these recipes are basic and require no expensive equipment which is very appealing to someone with a busy lifestyle or to someone with no interest in investing hundreds of dollars before reaping the benefits of raw foods. If you are ready to buy there is a great guide in this book, which points you in the right direction. I bought my juicer, dehydrator and Saladacco only recently after reading her book. Anyone who eats raw should be thrilled that Carol has taken on this lifestyle and furthermore written a book about it. Carol is a very beautiful woman and super model who comes off as a very real person thus breaking down a few barriers one being the very cultish feel that permeates throughout raw-food community. Carol through her book gives you the comfort in knowing that everyone can painlessly take part in this lifestyle change. The ailments she describes are things that any normal everyday person could be experiencing including myself before I removed toxins from diet. I had no knowledge of Carol's reasons for going raw when I initially trusted her opinions and started down this road but she motivated me to make a very positive life altering change, now that I know of her reasons I can certainly identify with them. Something as simple as allergies, fatigue, poor eating habits hypoglycemia and even a poor mental attitude which can lead to depression should alert you to change your diet to get motivated to take control of your health and go raw before you are actually chronically ill. So many people end up at this v

Beginner's Guide to Raw Food

I anxiously awaited the arrival of this book after reading about it in Travel Magazine where Carol Alt was the on the cover. I have thought about going vegan for about a year now, so I thought I would see what Carol had to say about it. I did not expect an experts guide considering the title. What I found was an interesting journey Carol went on to find a healthy lifestyle. Most important to me were the exact brands of foods, supplements and appliances she finds to be the best! The recipes were what I expected and look forward to making. Thank you so much Carol for such a awesome beginners raw food book! Susan Y.