"Sun Food Diet" by David Wolfe

560 pgs., paperback

Stop! Stop listening to anyone in any field who is not getting the results you desire! If you want vibrant health, a beautiful body and future, a life filled with fulfillment and happiness, this is the book for you. To achieve the highest level of health, incorporate the master system of one who has achieved it!

David Wolfe, the internationally renowned health lecturer who has electrified audiences the world over, shows you how to tap your dormant powers. In this remarkable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on raw-food nutrition presents his complete system for attracting massive abundance, vibrant health, and eternal beauty. David presents a whole new paradigm of possibility and success potential.

The Sunfood Diet Success System effortlessly drops away unwanted pounds, boosts your immune system, improves your performance in business, enhances your relationships, gives you access to higher spiritual realms, allows you to think more creatively, allows you to tap into Infinite Intelligence, clears emotional blockages, and creates a healthier, happier life for you, your family, and all those around you.

The Sunfood Diet beautifies and rejuvenates the body, mind, and spirit. Sunfoods carry with them the vitality of health and life -- the vibrant Sun energy. The Sun nourishes all Life on Earth. By taking in the energy of vibrant Sunfood you can overcome any health challenge. You can improve your life in every way. You can achieve total prosperity. When your health improves, every other aspect of your life improves simultaneously.

Based on years of personal experience, reading, intense research, and communications with thousands of raw-foodists the world over, David introduces The Sunfood Triangle which shows us how to stay totally balanced on a totally raw-food vegetarian diet. No one has communicated with as many 100% raw vegetarians as David has -- in this book, he reveals the secret of success.

David provides strategies involving specific raw plant foods which allow one to eat to lose weight, gain weight, maximize athletic performance, maximize mental clarity, achieve one's spiritual potential, raise healthy children, etc.

The Sunfood Diet Success System is about simplicity. It is about simplifying our lives. The Sunfood Diet is a beautiful way to live; the Sunfood Diet makes you beautiful. In this book you will discover just how good your life can be. This is truly one of the most fascinating books you will experience.

The Sunfood Diet Guideline
Copyright © 1998 Nature's First Law

Green-Leafy Vegetables, Fruits, and Fats:

A fruit is any natural food containing seeds (e.g. tomato is a fruit, cucumber is a fruit). Eat fruits with seeds (avoid seedless hybrid fruit).
All types of vegetables are great, however, preference should be given to green-leafed vegetables. Avoid hybrid vegetables (i.e. carrots, beets, potatoes).
All types of raw plant foods which contain fats help transition over from cooked foods to The Raw-Food Diet. They fill you up and satiate your hunger. These include avocados, olives, coconuts, nuts, seeds, etc.

If one is sensitive to sugar, it is a good idea to add oils (flax, olive, etc.) to smoothies or fruit salads. This will allow a slower time-release of sugar into the blood. If one is extremely sensitive to sweet fruits, replace sweet fruits in the morning with grapefruits, cucumber, tomatoes, or other low-sugar fruits. Some sweet fruit, however, is necessary in the diet.

Eat nuts and seeds moderately. Quantities should be kept to less than 2.0-2.5 pounds (0.9-1.2 kg) of nuts per week. Eat nuts with green-leafed vegetables for ideal digestion. If one is sensitive to nuts, then replace all nuts listed in the menu below with avocados or olives.

All daily menus should contain a healthy balance of green-leafed vegetables (i.e. chard, collards, lettuces, kale, spinach, etc.), sugary fruits (oranges, melons, mangos, papayas, etc.), and fatty foods (i.e. avocados, olives, nuts, seeds, etc.). Chlorophyll foods build the structure of the body. Sweet fruits fuel the system with glucose. Fats lubricate and oil the body.

Salad Dressings:

For salad dressings combine a raw plant fat with a sugar. For example, we can blend half an avocado with an orange in the blender and pour that on our salad as dressing. If we look at most commercial salad dressings on the market, we can see they consist of two basic ingredients a fat (oil, pasteurized dairy milk) and a sugar (high fructose corn syrup). People love fats and sugars with greens because they complete the Sunfood Triangle!

Water:

The amount of water one drinks should be dictated by thirst. Raw fruits and vegetables contain so much high-quality water one may find that thirst disappears. If you drink water, drink distilled water with a squeeze of lemon at least 30 minutes before you eat a meal -- drinking water after a meal dilutes the digestive juices and interferes with digestion. If distilled water is not available, look for Evian water in glass or, if not available, in plastic.

Alcohol:

If one drinks, s/he should preferentially choose wine over all other alcohols. Most wines have not been heat-processed. Seek out organic/no-sulfite varieties. All beers are brewed (cooked). One should choose dark beers with more minerals preferentially over refined commercial beers. Dark beers have a less dramatic effect on blood sugar levels. Gradually letting go of alcohol will increase the strength of one's immune system and decrease the risk of an early death in an accident.

Dairy Products:

Any pasteurized dairy products have long-range destructive effects on health and the digestive system. The only reason pasteurized dairy products are found in stores is because they have a longer shelf life than raw dairy products and thus they bring more money to the dairy industry. If dairy products are included in the diet, they should be raw. Children who simply refuse to eat healthy portions of green-leafed vegetables may have raw dairy products in their diet for calcium. Soy milk is also a bettter option than cooked milk. It has a high-fat content, and may be used to "cut" tea or coffee.

Chewing:

Be sure to fully chew every mouthful of food. The famous Dr. Fletcher recommended 50 chews per mouthful. Try eating with chopsticks instead of kitchen utensils as they will help to slow the rate of your eating.

Transitional Strategy:

Eat as high a percentage of raw-plant foods in your diet as possible. Feel free to eat large quantities of raw plant foods if you feel so inclined. Discover sources for raw organic foods either locally or through mail order (reference the Resources section at the end of this book). Items which may be unfamiliar such as flax seed oil or spirulina may be found at the health-food store or through mail order.

Any cooked foods should preferentially be eaten in the evening and then only one type at a time. Always combine any cooked food with the evening's large salad and freshly-made vegetable juice. Cooked starches should be those which are lower on the Glycemic Index Chart shown in Lesson 11: The Secret Revealed, Sugar such as yams or sweet potatoes. Transitioning off of red meat initially, then pork, chicken, and finally fish is an excellent way to let go of animal foods. For all the reasons I have outlined in this book, it is very important for our own health and success to let go of these food quickly.

Remember the simple rule: Simplicity is bliss.
Be flexible. Be easy on yourself. Transition at your own pace.