The Raw Crunch Diet: Strengthening Your Body from the Inside-Out

By Kathy Feldman

THE RAW CRUNCH DIET is to diet books as the ‘One-Minute-Manager’ is to bulky Harvard management books – it’s small (100 pages) – it’s succinct and to the point – it’s easy to read and more important... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932623094
• ISBN13: 9781932623093
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Ssi Inc Pub
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A diet for life that actually works!

I first read Kathy's book THE RAW CRUNCH DIET several years ago when I first ordered her incredible Raw Crunch Bars Organic Blueberry Raw Crunch Bars (Box of 12 Bars). This book's sub title reads, "Strengthening your Body from the Inside-Out," and that's exactly what Kathy tells you how to do. Her knowledge of nutrition, exercise, and cellular biology comes across the pages of this book in clear, no nonsense, easy to understand terminology. Kathy's "voice" as an author makes you feel she is speaking directly to you, sharing her expertise and knowledge with you to help you reach your health and fitness goals. Kathy's diet plan, like most things which "ring" with the sound of truth, is incredibly simple and straightforward. Her book tells you how to eat for life. Following her diet plan will make you incredibly healthy. Everything else just flows from there.

Short and sweet

A great book for those looking to get started on a healthy diet. This diet may not appeal to those looking for a complex multi-step diet, but it's simplicity is the reason that I was able to find success and get my eating under control. Yes the book does mention the bars several times, but they are called Raw Crunch bars and the book is named "The Raw Crunch Diet"! They are kind of important! She also tells you to just substitute any bar you like for them (although I have yet to find a raw bar that can compare).

This is how to get raw to appeal to a SAD eater

If the woman on the cover of this book looks familiar, that's because you've probably seen her in one of countless fitness magazines, sporting a winning smile and a fabulous figure. I used to read some hardcore fitness magazines until I realized that the women featured in them had made working out their lives...and I wasn't ever going to go that far. I used to marvel at the strict regimin of low fat, high protein mini meals coupled with intense daily workouts. Being an on-again-off-again raw vegan for years, I used to wonder what they would say about strength training and the raw diet. Well, now there's someone doing it! When national fitness competitor, model, and personal trainer Kathy Feldman was diagnosed with hypothyroidism causing excessive weight gain, she began looking for new answers to her diet and exercise regimin. She discovered raw foods and learned that she no longer had to over-exercise to keep her lean and strong physique. Kathy recommends an 80% raw diet consisting of fresh juices with Vitamineral Green for breakfast followed by fresh fruits; an early afternoon snack, one of her delicious Raw Crunch Bars; a mid afternoon salad; another Raw Crunch Bar in the late afternoon; and your dinner of choice (cooked). She highly recommends vegan eating, but this is not a strict, boring diet, and it will definitely appeal to the average eater of the Standard American Diet (SAD). Kathy keeps it simple; this book is short and sweet and explains all the basics of eating raw without getting too deeply into the details of nutrition for those who are anxious to get straight to the information about transforming their bodies. Her background in cellular biology combined with an easy-going writing style make this petite diet manual a real plus to the field of fitness and nutrition. Like Fit for Life, which helped countless people change their eating habits back in the 80s, this book will appeal to anyone wanting to transition to raw foods or just incorporate more raw foods in the diet without going to extremes. But let me tell you, the real kicker here is that the diet includes her Raw Crunch Bars, which are just to die for. I'm totally addicted.

great starting book

this book gives a great positive view point on raw option dieting