Beyond Broccoli is written by Susan
Schenck, who herself was a raw vegan for six years,
followed by a year of raw vegetarianism (including raw
dairy and eggs), and ending with her returning to raw
and lightly cooked meat. "Going raw" proved to have so
many benefits that Schenck wrote a 2-time award-winning
book about it, The Live Food Factor. But after a
few years, she began to exhibit health issues. Her
research, spurred on by Dr. Stanley Bass, led her
to conclude that it was a deficiency of vital nutrients
found fully formed only in animal products that were
causing the problems. The book then begins with the
author's story of why she resumed eating animal products
and how she manages to stay raw even so. It also
includes a chapter on other vegans and vegetarians (some
who eat raw, others who eat cooked) who made this
decision for health reasons. The book addresses
vegetarian myths; why human's brains have shrunk 11% in
the last 11,000 years; the importance of animal foods in
pregnant and lactating women; man's dietary history of
eating meat for 2.6 million years; how the vegan diet
affects the brain and emotions; critical nutrients found
only in meat, eggs, and dairy, as well as some found in
meat only; the difficulty of getting enough healthful
protein on a vegan, especially raw, diet; the dangers of
soy; the different metabolic types, which explains why
some succeed on a "veg" diet while others fail; the
dangers of overeating animal protein; how to eat meat so
that it is not dangerous; the benefits of eating raw or
lightly cooked meat and how to do it safely and make it
taste good; spiritual, moral, and environmental issues
with eating meat; the importance of eating "clean meat"
from compassionately raised animals; eating a high raw,
Paleo diet, which is what we evolved eating; the
importance of eating raw; flaws in the China Study; the
benefits of a low glycemic diet; important foods if you
choose to be a vegan or vegetarian; and more.
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