Recipes for Life: From the Fitonics Kitchen Book

Recipes for Life can be used on three levels. First, it is a cookbook full of healthful dishes bursting with flavor and color. Second, it can guide you through eating fresh, raw foods and other practices that Diamond endorses and millions of people swear have improved their health. And finally, it is a holistic guide for living, which recommends nine Fitonic principles for creating a lifestyle that enhances your spiritual and emotional, as well as your physical, well being. On the holistic level, Diamond's recommendations are similar to the positive thinking and meditative routines presented by other popular New Age gurus. On the dietary level, advice includes when, what, and how to eat. For example, Diamond suggests eating your main meal at midday and gives guidance for using carbohydrates for a mellowing effect. Her main emphasis, however, is on consuming raw foods. She claims that raw food is so full of nutrients and enzymes that "it digests on its own, without requiring any ... digestive energy from your body." The result is that you have increased vitality for everything from thinking more clearly to losing weight. Much as Diamond favors raw foods, the meat, fish, and poultry recipes created by her daughter, Lisa Neuwirth, who is a graduate of Culinary Institute of America, are as impressive as those for grain-free Fruesli, spicy Gazpacho Arizona, and a whole-grain Lemon-Chocolate Bread Pudding. --Dana Jacobi Read More