Susan Schenck - The Live Food Factor

Copyright 2006, 2008, 2009 by Susan Schenck. All rights reserved

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The purpose of this book is to dispense information. It is sold for informational purposes only. The publisher, author and all others associated with the production and distribution of this book cannot be responsible for your health or how you apply the information herein to your personal life. As this book teaches, only you can be responsible for your health. This book is not intended for use as medical diagnosis or treatment.

Because there is always some risk involved when the body eliminates toxins when switching to a more healthful lifestyle and diet, the publisher, author and others associated with the production and distribution of this book are not responsible for any consequences resulting from the use of any recipes provided, suggestions given or procedures described herein.

Printed in the USA

Second Edition, 2008; Second Printing, 2009
First Edition, 2006

Independent Publisher award winner for Most Progressive Health Book of 2007

Published by:

Awakenings Publications

P. O. Box 712423

San Diego, CA 92171-2423

Back cover photographer: Joseph Peiri (j-pieri@sbcglobal.net)

Cover design: Bob Avery (bobavery@umich.edu)

with logo by Gabriel Spatuzzi (gabecross84@gmail.com)

Chief Editor and Production Manager: Bob Avery

Assistant Editors: Victoria BidWell and Jacqueline Nash

Chief Editors for Natural Hygiene science:

Victoria BidWell and Dr. Vivian V. Vetrano

Raw Diet Consultant: Bob Avery

ISBN 978-0-9776795-1-5

Nutrition/Diet Health Weight Loss Beauty

To Dad ,
whose love of healing
inspired me
You always said
Id make a great lawyer;
I rest my case with this book.

Table of Contents

Section OneRaw Power:
Reasons to Go Raw

1 Ten Reasons to Stop Cooking

Section Two
Raw Proof: The Science

Section Three
Raw Pioneers:
History and Leaders

Section FourRaw Passage:
Your Journey to Raw Life

Foreword by Dr. Vetrano

The Live Food Factor comes like a giant locomotive, roaring down the tracks of two parallel, historic events. First is the growth of the Natural Hygiene movement, the grassroots of which were formally planted in American soils in 1832. And second is the blossoming of the raw food movement, which was planted, as some believe, before Adam and Eve in The Garden, or as some speculate, by our earliest, common, humanoid ancestors. The genius of the second edition of The Live Food Factor is that our newest raw food author Susan Schenck with our pioneering Natural Hygiene teacher Victoria BidWell have brought these two movements together, railroad tied with similarities, rather than driving their rails apart by differences. In so doing, these two women have created the raw food and Natural Hygiene masterpiece of all time in the form of a take-it-home, learn-it-yourself, do-it-yourself owners manual on alternative health care.

My daughter Tosca and her husband Gregory and I read first in awe and then further studied The Live Food Factor manuscript over a two-week period. We put our heads together to collaborate on this foreword. But Greg alone shares one insight that sums up the value of this masterpiece simply and with a salesmans insight: The clich today is that if you attend just one seminar or buy just one book that inspires you to put into practice just one new idea that improves the quality of your life in just one way, the cost involved will be well worth it. Well, this new, little bookand I use the word little as a term of endearment, considering the book has reached biblical proportions of more than 700 pageshas so many practical ideas! When put into practice, each one will improve the quality of a health seekers life enormously. The Live Food Factor can only be considered a treasure chest ! It is filled with well-organized, magnificently indexed jewels, with strings of wisdom pearls, and with how-to-do-it precious coins that will bring high health and high joy to anyone willing to put in the time and energy to do the Natural Hygiene right and eat the foods live. Truly, the book is worth more than its weight in gold when weighed on the scales of life at its best!

When I started first by looking at the Table of Contents, it was full of everything from Hygienic soup to nuts. The books subtitle promises The Comprehensive Guide: this is a huge understatement. The books completeness is astoundingboth in content and authors, doctors, scientists, facts, recipes, and how-to-do-it instructions.

I must say that The Live Food Factor is the very best book on alternative health care ever done . It contains more 1900s research and more 2000s research on the benefits of raw foods as well as on the flip side of the cointhe health dangers of cooked foodsever amassed in one place: certainly more than one may discover even if putting in a months worth of Internet searching!

Since the 1980s, Victoria and I have been writing and editing our work together. And Victoria only entered Susans picture with this second edition, which I am now thrilled and honored to endorse and help promote. Susans exhaustive research and Victorias expertise in keeping Natural Hygiene physiologically correct, combined with all their how-to-do-it tips, cheerleading, and you-can-do-it motivators, make this book the best book on the market now in the field of alternative health care . It will probably remain so for the next 100 years as long as each edition is updated with new research. Someone will have to go to an enormous amount of work to outdo The Live Food Factor .

I totally enjoyed each chapter and thought to myself, This book these two women put together is really going to be a big seller. First, because raw foodism is very popular right now. And second, because the raw fooders need all healthful living practices , since raw foods alone do not insure health. I predict this book will be passed around to reach best-seller proportions, supplying not only the truth as do others, but also the proof as none others do. Its science and long lists of how-to tips will be reproduced and repeated, part and parcel, across America and around the worldincluding in personal conversations, in magazines and newspapers, and on radio and television shows and web sites.

Victoria is presently editing five of my books in which we plan to feature some of the Natural Hygiene teachings and raw food practical tips from The Live Food Factor , as well as promote the book. Victoria, Susan and I plan to carry on a global, joyful campaign to get the word out on live food and health by healthful living habits. I can hardly wait! I just turned 80 years of age, and now I can see that the best is yet to come!

Until now, Dr. Shelton was the most researched and prolific writer in the field of Natural Hygiene. He excelled at explaining the principles of Natural Hygiene in the now archaic, oratory prose, sometimes lofty and elegant in presentation and filled with poetic language that some of us absolutely love, but which is definitely not the wave of the future in literary style. Out of 40 book volumes, many of which were several hundred pages, and 40 years of monthly Hygienic Review periodicals, Dr. Shelton did offer the people a great deal of inspirational essays and encouragements to live hygienically. His volumes were filled with theory, teachings, admonitions, research, and debates. But he never did put together a single manual filled with both theory and day-to-day tips on putting that theory into practice. In short, The Live Food Factor does one thing that all of Dr. Sheltons books combined do not. It makes Natural Hygiene exceedingly simple to understand and inspirationally easy to do. Susan and Victoria, however, do share Dr. Sheltons and my rhetoric: we all tell the reader how very wonderful life can be when lived from the clear vantage point of high energy and high health. These two women have promised high fun to all who jump on for the train ride!