David Wolfe Books

Some of the best books on raw foods and raw food nutrition out there are David Wolfe Books.  They are unusual in that they’re not just recipe books, but they give raw and living food recipes along with tons of practical health advice about the raw journey, and especially how to have longevity as a partial or full raw foodist.

David Wolfe Sunfood Diet

My favorite (and probably the one to start with) of the David Wolfe Books is The Sunfood Diet Success System (now in its 7th edition).  This book has been thoroughly revised over the past decade of David Wolfe’s personal research both on his own body, and in the lives of thousands of clients and students all around the world.

In my view, this particular book out of all the David Wolfe Books (and out of many other raw food guides in general), is the best, because it doesn’t just advise you to “eat more fruit” or tell you “only eat this many fruits per day, a few veggies, and minimal nuts and seeds–everything else is poison”.  Thank God!  Many raw food books out there do tell you these types of very strict and almost militant principles.

The Sunfood Diet Success System is the “bible” of the various David Wolfe Books.  The best summary of it might be that it combines the best of “you are what you eat” with the best of “you are what you think about”.

It has full chapters of many challenging concepts of creating the best diet for one’s self, including how to determine how much protein, carbohydrate, and fat you need on a daily basis, and how to get that specific percentage from raw foods.

Another very important chapter in this David Wolfe Book is on “mineralization”.

Very few raw food books even mention this idea—that perhaps more imporant to our bodies than even vitamins are minerals:  such substances as calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, molybdenum, selenium, oxygen, and hydrogen.  Real, bio-available, food sources for these minerals can be one of the healthiest additions we make to our diets.

David Wolfe Naked Chocolate

Naked Chocolate is one of the David Wolfe Books you can truly give to anyone, and they will “get it”, because it’s not a preachy book about converting everyone to raw foods.  It simply talks about one of the most widely eaten foods in the world, and its “secret” story–the fact that almont no one has ever eating the real actual raw chocolate nut (or the raw chocolate bean), which is the original source for everything we know as “chocolate”.

Naked Chocolate is half text (including a full description of every possible nutrient found in the raw chocolate bean), and half recipes (including some of the greatest raw chocolate recipes you’ve ever heard of!).  Full glossy pages, and full color photographs throughout.

For more information about just what is so significant about raw chocolate, see my earlier posts: Why Raw Chocolate and Cacao Beans: Nature’s Perfect Superfood.

David Wolfe Amazing Grace

The David Wolfe Book Amazing Grace (co-authored with personal development coach Nick Good) is an outstanding book.  It takes a markedly different approach than many other David Wolfe Books, though it sort of it a culmination of his previous work as well.

This book is much more spiritually-oriented than the other David Wolfe Books, and talks at length about the interrelationship of consciousness, food, life-force, and our soul’s destiny.

What I really like about the Amazing Grace book as opposed to other David Wolfe Books is that this book puts diet (especially a raw-food diet) into a more “cosmic” context, helping the reader to realize that food can actually be a part of our path to the actual felt experience of oneness with God, and oneness with our life’s mission–in addition, eating “ormus-rich” foods (check out the book for details on that) can significantly raise our awareness, our consciousness, and our ability to be “in the flow” of our dharma (the reason we are on this planet).  Highly recommended!

David Wolfe Eating for Beauty

The David Wolfe Book Eating for Beauty is a wonderful and succinct collection of tips and health practices to really become physically beautiful from the inside out.  It’s probably obvious to anyone who’s read David Wolfe’s Books before that he has a very holistic approach, and isn’t into a “diet” message that is separate from feeling the best ever, and truly getting in touch with and living your soul’s purpose.  This is really the deeper meaning of “Eating for Beauty”.

Specifically, this book discusses how to have radiant clear skin, healthier and stronger nails and thicker more lustrous hair.

It discusses detoxification, which helps intentionally purify the body of toxins so that your natural beauty can shine through.  Eating For Beauty discusses how to achieve the acid/alkaline balance, which when achieved, may in and of itself eliminate many health concerns.

This David Wolfe Book, perhaps more than any other, focuses on natural holistic longevity, and what foods to focus on to achive that.  Lots of food suggestions and recipes that can help with particular “Eating for Beauty” health conditions are included.

David Wolfe’s Superfoods

One of the newest of the David Wolfe Books is the book Superfoods: The Food And Medicine Of The Future.  David specifically defines a “superfood” as a food that has such nutrient-density that “you could practically live off of it alone”.

He uses the term “superfood” to distinguish such foods are raw chocolate nuts, goji berries, spirulina, aloe vera leaves (fresh), blue-green algae, marine phytoplankton, and hemp seeds from such “everyday” foods as lettuce, celery, and tomatoes, which, though those latter foods are nutritious in their own right, they may not have the desity of nutrition to get people out of chronic disease, heal deep mineral deficiencies, and extend longevity to perhaps hunderds of years.

One of the greatest parts of this David Wolfe Book Superfoods is the recipes that are included with each chapter.

These recipes are not your “typical” raw food recipes, but they are generally alchemical smoothies that have the power to make you feel more energetic, centered, and optimistic than practically any other food you’ve ever consumed.  I definitely attest to their sheer power!

One of the criticisms of this book is the thought that many people have that David Wolfe seems to be veering off the path of simply recommending people eat high amounts of natural, organic, whole, raw foods (such as spinach, avocados, brazil nuts, etc.), and move more into a diet high in these so-called “superfoods”.

In my opinion, it’s not possible to tell what a diet may feel like for you (one based on sound dietary principles), unless you actually try it out for yourself–since it’s totally experiential!  I recommend getting some David Wolfe Books and trying some of the recipes and principles for yourself and seeing what works for you!