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"Empowering, Life-Changing, Life-Saving. I'm here to testify, brothers and sisters. This is the book I wish I'd had twelve years ago. No, make that the book I wished I'd had fifty years ago. I ate the Standard American Diet for 50+ years until my body started breaking down. My daughter was only six years old, and I wanted to see her graduate from college. For two years I read every nutrition book I could find, and the best of the best recommended EXACTLY the regimen that Christy Harden suggests. I follow Christy's diet and I've never been healthier. This friendly, helpful straight-from-the-heart book has it all: why you should shift your diet and how you can make that shift. If you want to add 20-30 years to your life, if you want to feel great, if you want build your body up with the foods that it craves instead of the toxins that tear it down -- buy Christy's book, read it, and do what she says. When you've made the shift, you'll wonder what took you so long."

~ Karl LaFong

"Absolutely love the book! Quick and easy read! Extremely helpful! I wish a book like this would have crossed my path years ago! Just grateful to have it now! Excited to apply all that I've learned to help me look and feel better!!"

~ Edward Magallon

Christy Harden, M.S., M.A., is a certified Integrative Nutrition Coach through IIN and a Raw Food Consultant through raw food O.G. David Wolfe. She holds master's degrees in English and Speech Language Pathology, and a bachelor's in Environmental Studies. Christy is the author of the transformational how-to book Guided by Your Own Stars and the loving mother of two kiddos, her favorite "accomplishment" of all time. She works, plays and eats raw in Los Angeles.

You can connect with Christy at christyharden.com

contents preface: my journey xv part i: why go raw? 25 the raw food manifesto 3 a deeper look into food decisions: the new “normal” 14 what we won’t be eating 35 raw: is it for you? 52 part ii: how to go raw: the nuts & bolts 54 the kitchen 56 meals and meal plans 70 where to buy your food 100 restaurants & dining out 108 how to travel and dine in raw vegan splendor 123 part iii: beyond the fork: the raw food lifestyle 141 raw lifestyle basics 143 health care 152 basic nutrition and supplementation 156 raw pregnancy: a few notes on my experience of eating for two! 168 raw food claims, myths, promises and fantasies 173 how to stay raw without going nuts 181 conclusion 190 recipes 194 resources 204 notes 206 about the author 213