The RAVE Diet & Lifestyle

by Mike Anderson

Book Overview

The RAVE Diet & Lifestyle describes a weight loss program that is also designed to reverse heart disease and prevent our common cancers, as well as a host of other diseases. The author explains why... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972659048
• ISBN13: 9780972659048
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: RaveDiet.com
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Life changing book that will save your life

This book is very well written and easily read. It flows great and kept my attention from the first page on. The DVD will change you forever. I am not easily swayed and a strong willed person yet it had a great impact on me. I grew up not eating animal foods only because I was raised in a 3rd world country where I saw how badly animals were slaughtered. So at age 14 I decided I was not going to eat animal foods. I was slender, energetic and full of life. Then I moved to the US at age 17. A few years later I started eating more refined foods, still a vegan but I started eating white breads, pastries, desserts, etc.. Then I started eating foods made by animal fat like gravies, pasta sauces and so forth. By the time I was 29 I gained over 20 pounds and didn't feel good in many ways. I saw an endocrinologist in my city and was given a lecture that I didn't eat enough protein and that I needed to eat animal foods. After being brainwashed for several months, I started adding animal foods in my diet. I thought I started feeling better and then I started getting overweight. In total I gained about 35 pounds. This is even with my usual and regular exercise. Then my cholesterol went up and all medical issues came up. I was told that it just comes with age and your metabolism slows down after 30. I believed that for awhile thinking oh well... Then I read this book and realized that everything I did as a child - staying away from animal foods, eating whole foods and my regular exercises was what kept me healthy, vibrant and in shape. Except this time I did it because I now understood what animal foods do to your body. Back then I just did it because I love animals. I've since lost 20 pounds in less than a year and my vitality has come back. Age has nothing to do with it. I will continue this way for the rest of my life. Thank you, Michael Thompson for bringing me back to life. I hope I get to meet you one day to do so personally.

A truth that needs to be told!

The title "RAVE Diet" title may initially give the false impression of another fad diet. However, its initials are meant to serve as a reminder of the foods we need to avoid--refined foods, animal foods, vegetable oils, etc. The RAVE diet simply emphasises a natural, whole-food plant-based diet--A diet that we gave up nearly one-hundred years ago with the increase of animal products and introduction of refined & processed foods-- a diet that many other healthier countries continue to follow. Both the book and the DVD (especially the DVD!) are eye-opening, logical and straight-forward and obviously very thoroughly researched. The point that is emphasized is that the standard-american diet is responsible for a majority of our nations health problems. By going back to a simpler, old-fashioned diet we can actually prevent or reverse many common diseases and cancers. This diet is not original--it is the diet that is emphasized in "The China Study" and many other scientific books and articles that examine health and nutrition. But do your own research--and allow this to be your starting point...Anderson has clearly done his! The video is so powerful that I plan on buying many copies to give out to friends.

The Rave Diet

The first part of the book is an excellent summary of the detrimental consequences (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc) of our typical eating patterns and the dangerous fad diets that abound today. The second part provides the details of the Rave Diet. With amazing simplicity and a few changes in our lifestyle we can obtain optimal health and even reverse disease. The book is very easy reading and well grounded in scientific research. It is one of the most influential books I have read in my lifetime.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Uncovered

This book points out how the weapons of mass destruction attack us every day. They are disguised by the acronym SAD which stands for the Standard American Diet. With it's enormously high fat, fiberless foods, rancid oils, and sugar in everything, we are like lemmings going off the cliff to the waiting arms of disease and early death. "The Rave Diet & Lifestyle" should be required reading in our medical schools and for everyone. It will save your life!

What a "Wake Up" Call!

This book/DVD set is much more than an informative diet for health conscious people. It is truly a compelling, insightful, common sense approach to addressing the maladies and ailments that so many people suffer from today. This honest look at the faults of the (historic...hysteric?) standard American diet will definitely get your attention. The "Eating" DVD is a powerful statement against the way that most of us think about the food we eat. How can a society be so dumb about what we are doing to our bodies? I exercise and try to watch my weight, but I have really been missing the "big picture". This program puts it into proper perspective. Check it out! The answer is simple and has been right in front of us forever--history and facts are difficult to ignore. I think this program takes up where Dean Ornish left off. If you are tired of the "band aid" approach to symptoms, leery about taking more medication, concerned about what is actually going into your body, and don't understand why medical research or the government can't seem to come up with solutions: then you need to view this film, read the book and take control of your future. Thank you Mike Anderson for opening my eyes--I think I get it now!