How Can "Eating for Energy" Help You Lose Weight and Prevent Disease?
Eating for Energy, Transforming your life through living plant-based whole foods, by Yuri Elkaim, has 359 pages of extremely useful information to help us figure out what we should be doing to lose weight, feel better and avoid preventable diseases.
You can learn to take the necessary steps to make your health much, much better and have a ton of energy. The really cool thing is that a raw food diet plan can help you to safely lose weight AND learn how to prevent and reverse disease.
It's true, many, many diseases are preventable or possibly reversible by eating a nutritious raw food diet. Preventable. As in, you don't have to EVER suffer from them. What diseases? Heart disease, diabetes, allergies, asthma, to name a few.
Yuri first talks about the need to understand Nutrition:
Then there is a huge section about what to do, what to eat in order to feel amazing and have a ton of energy:
There is a whole section about nutrition for athletes and the last half of the book is devoted to meal plans and recipes. Easy recipes. You may have dipped your toe into the raw food waters before and discovered many complicated recipes. Not so with Yuri's plan. Easy to make, delicious food that will keep you going, help you lose weight, help you to avoid preventable diseases AND even may help you reverse disease you may already have.
You can learn to take the necessary steps to make your health much, much better and have a ton of energy. The really cool thing is that a raw food diet plan can help you to safely lose weight AND learn how to prevent and reverse disease.
It's true, many, many diseases are preventable or possibly reversible by eating a nutritious raw food diet. Preventable. As in, you don't have to EVER suffer from them. What diseases? Heart disease, diabetes, allergies, asthma, to name a few.
Yuri first talks about the need to understand Nutrition:
- The information Yuri presents is not dry, nor is it overwhelming. It is well written so that we can understand the basics about nutrition, learn about his raw food diet plan and understand what our body needs to be truly healthy.
- Yuri includes his story, his grandfather's story and a couple other people's stories, as well as general discussion about the condition of the world today with regard to how many people are overweight and suffering from diseases that are preventable. Yes, preventable. We take disease and medication as a given, but it doesn't have to be.
- Yuri explores the connection between all living beings and challenges us to take responsibility for our lives and our effect on the world.
- Yuri talks about the dangers to your body of bad nutrition, and the effect our modern society has had on us and our environment.
- The balance needed in our bodies between alkaline and acid.
- The importance of enzymes and eating foods that are high in enzymes so you don't deplete your enzyme bank early!
Then there is a huge section about what to do, what to eat in order to feel amazing and have a ton of energy:
- what raw food to eat to make our bodies more alkaline (that is optimal for good health)
- tips and techniques on how to better process the food you eat
- easy recipes, no hard to find exotic foods
- 12 natural “super” foods that will fortify your “recovery”
- 15 logical, do-able guidelines to help you with a smooth transition
- 14 handy utensils and small appliances that will be helpful – you probably have most of these in your kitchen already
- 10 habits to adopt for success
There is a whole section about nutrition for athletes and the last half of the book is devoted to meal plans and recipes. Easy recipes. You may have dipped your toe into the raw food waters before and discovered many complicated recipes. Not so with Yuri's plan. Easy to make, delicious food that will keep you going, help you lose weight, help you to avoid preventable diseases AND even may help you reverse disease you may already have.