The Maker's Diet: The 40 Day Health Experience That Will Change Your Life Forever by Jordan S. Rubin
Just finished reading The Maker's Diet myself.
I think I must have every book ever written on alternative diets that claim to improve health. But I'll have to say, this is the first one to really make sense. And I've studied alternative medicine just on my own for about 18 years.
If you will notice, Jordan has a lot of regular foods in his diet...in fact, MOST of them are every day foods ... the difference is ... THERE ARE NO additives !!!!!
What did our grandparents eat, and our great grandparents? They ate a lot of what we eat NOW ... except, they GREW THEIR OWN vegetables, and fruit, raised free range chickens...but back THEN, they weren't CALLED "free range" ... they were just the "chickens out there roaming the yard" (haha)...when they wanted MEAT...which, by the way, was probably almost every day... they just went out in the country side and brought home a rabbit, or deer, or turkey, or they processed their OWN beef or pork.
I am head over heals in love with the message in The Maker's Diet...and I think if a person followed it to the letter, they would see profound improvement in their health in no time at all. And while I think the supplements he recommends are probably some of the best you can find anywhere, I don't think...unless you're battling serious or heaven forbid... terminal illness, that you really "have" to take them to see improvement.
About 3 years ago, the Hallelujah Diet was the rage in our area. (www.hacres.com) I bought all the books, even the videos, because I knew 3 people who had made drastic improvement in their health using that diet. My husband and I (our children are grown) went on the diet...and stayed on it for 3 weeks. We juiced the vegetables, left off the sugar, quit meat...and I can tell you for a fact, that after about 1 1/2 weeks...we felt so good and energetic..our thinking was so CLEAR...we could NOT believe it...but then we started "wanting" meat...and "wanting" ice cream...and our health was fairly good...so we thought..."Oh, why fool with this..." But NOW...we're getting arthritis, our vision could be better, etc...and we're thinking..."OK, "maybe" diet WILL make a difference."
Our ancestors started the day off with bacon and eggs, biscuits and gravy, coffee with sugar...and ended the day with fried chicken, whipped potatoes with real cream and butter and red eye gravy...with four gravy on the side...corn cut off the cob...and topped with a big dollop of butter...and covered with salt and pepper...fried okra, green tomatoes and squash...and then topped it all off with a big apple pie and a bowl of ice cream...AND LIVED TO BE IN THEIR 90'S!!!!!!
BUT...they raised their own chickens...grew their own potatoes.. milked their own cow and made their own cream and butter... grew their own corn, okra, tomatoes and squash...picked the apples off of their own tree...and churned their ice cream.
AND YES, that takes TIME...but, oh, what a life...we're newly retired...and just now going "back " to that way of life...and I can tell you for a fact...it's priceless !!!!! I wouldn't trade a day in our garden for a week in the Mall of America.
The peace and quiet of the country ... roosters crowing ... ducks quacking ... I feed dozens of bluejays, cardinals, blue birds, robins, etc. every morning...I have a "squirrel tree" that 17 squirrels come to and I can toss bread and nuts right to them..and they'll stand there and wait...I've lured in a herd of deer that started with 3...now have 11...this fall that should almost double...I feed them every day...and we allow no hunting....
We ALL need to learn to slow down and LIVE ... THIS IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL ... life is NOT about MONEY and STUFF ... it's about how you feel inside and who you have beside you...
Anyone interested in the Maker's Diet can also check out the website of Dr. Joseph Mercola ... author of Total Health Program.
I think his site is www.mercola.com Tons of good information on his website ......
Kathryn 101
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