Books

I believe educating yourself is the best way to take responsibility for your own health and not have to depend on others or outside sources to make the right decisions. The following books have completely changed my perception of eating. Reading will open your mind and literally move you into a higher plane of consciousness. With the knowledge absorbed and processed by your own brain and emotions, it’s easier to jump on the raw food movement and never look back. Raw living foods is not just some fad diet, it will absolutely change your life from the very core of you outward. I know it has for me and for many other souls in this movement.

Best Raw Food and Health Books

The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet
Here you will find rock solid PROOF that we are ALL genetically designed to eat UNCOOKED food. This book contains 66 scientific studies showing the superiority of raw, plus studies showing the toxicity of cooked food? This comprehensive guide includes everything you need to know about how to transform your life by eating food as nature created it!

12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food
This book will convince you that cooked food is addictive. It inspires you to go raw and tells the story of the Boutenkos, “raw family.

Green for Life: The Updated Classic on Green Smoothie Nutrition
This is one of my favorite books I’ve found on real nutrition. It’s perfect for those who are seeking to move away from the SAD (Standard American Diet) into a healthier lifestyle, and for experienced raw foodists as well. Amazing studies, very interesting information, charts, and super easy and fun to read. Highly recommend it! Check out an excellent excerpt from the book on my post Animal Protein Vs. Plant Protein.

Enzyme Nutrition
This is a classic and must read for anyone interested in raw foods. It contains a lifetime of research by Dr. Howell on the necessity of consuming raw foods with enzymes intact.

Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices
I absolutely love this book! It’s a bit older but very informative. Walker is one of my heroes, and in this book he breaks down the facts about each vegetable or fruit. He tells you which juice can help with which ailment. I personally found this book most helpful for juicing. It is a must for all people interested in learning about juicing!

The 80/10/10 Diet
Explains how raw foodists often overeat fat and how to keep an good ratio of carbs, protein and fats in your diet. This is a super clean diet, primarily targeted to athletes, but I wouldn’t recommend this as a long term diet. It is definitely a good start to detox, lose weight and great for athletes during their active days.

The Raw Cure: Healing Beyond Medicine: How self-empowerment, a raw vegan diet, and change of lifestyle can free us from sickness and disease.
Excellent for beginners! If you’re still eating meats, dairy and processed foods, this is the place to start. I think this book covers many important topics. Solid research work and very informative for someone new to raw foods coming from S.A.D (Standard American Diet).

Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future
David Wolfe profiles delicious and incredibly nutritious plant products such as goji berries, hempseed, cacao beans (raw chocolate), maca, spirulina, bee products, and a host of others. Each superfood is described in detail, accompanied by easy and delicious recipes. This accessible guide presents great arguments, based on sound science, for the role of superfoods in promoting nutritional excellence, health and well-being, beauty enhancement, sustainable agriculture, and the transformation of diet, lifestyle, and planet.

Quantum Eating: The Ultimate Elixir of Youth
This book is an absolute gem for the seasoned raw foodist. It contains mind blowing international research on the new edge of science, and is focused on radiant health and anti-aging by following things like the circadian rhythms of vital organs, raw foods as concentrated sun energy, breathing for optimum weight, oxygen therapies… and many more. Tonya is a true master! Her youthful appearance is a testimonial that her method really works.

Colon Health Key to Vibrant Life
Dr. Walker focuses your full attention on this forgotten part of the body. He will lead you on a tour of each vital organ of your body explaining how it is affected by the condition of the large intestine, the colon. Learn how-through proper care of the colon-you can prevent and experience relief from constipation, asthma, colds, allergies, respiratory disorders, digestive problems and numerous other ailments.