Beyond Broccoli: Creating a Biologically Balanced Diet When a Vegetarian Diet Doesn't Work

by Susan Schenck

ReviewThis is one of the very best I have read on the subject, and I will recommend it highly to all who are instructed in superior health. --Dr. Stanley S. Bass, ND, DC, PhC, PhD, DO, DSc, DD I believe this is a very timely and important book, and commend Susan for her courage in bearding the lion in his den , as she confronts the issues involved in vegetarianism/veganism, versus omnivorism. And yes, many seem to be, and are, successful in their vegetarianism/veganism. On the other hand there are many who are not. This book gives credence and validity to those who are not. --Dr. John Fielder, hygienic doctor, Australia This book is like a brainstorm on the topic of diet. I applaud Susan s courage for boldly opening up this controversial discussion, as it is the only way to find the truth.--Victoria Boutenko, raw food author --Dr. Stanley S. Bass, ND, DC, PhC, PhD, DO, DSc, DD, -Dr. John Fielder, hygienic doctor, Australia, and Victoria Boutenko, author of Green for Life, 12 Steps to raw foods, and Green Smoothie RevolutionI especially admire how this author readily admits how her former judgmental attitude towards people who continued to eat animal products has rebounded on her. And while she is now eating meat and other animal-based products, she has not wavered in her conviction in the importance of consuming mainly raw foods and lots of vegetables as the healthiest lifestyle. ---LindaJoy Rose, Ph.D. Author of Raw Better Living Through Living Foods (volumes I & II) I'm a smart guy. I know how to do research. But I still spent a lifetime struggling through the confusing maze of nutritional data to find a comfortable, healthy, ethical way to eat. This book could have saved me 30 years of pain if I found it as a teenager... get it, read it, use it! --Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. - Windham, NH --LindaJoy Rose, Ph.D. and Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. - Windham, NHAfter being on a 100% raw vegan diet for 15 years, I have come to the conclusion that it is not the ideal diet I once thought it was. I'm so thrilled a book is finally written on this topic. Thank you Susan, for letting people know the real deal about healthy eating. I pray people can have an open mind and heart to understand why this information needs to be told. --Paul Nison, author of numerous raw food diet and health booksProduct DescriptionBeyond 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 just a bit of 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 such as deficiencies in B12, memory problems, muscle tissue loss, bloatedness, irritability and cravings. Her research, spurred on by Dr. Stanley Bass, led her to conclude that it was a lack of vital nutrients found only in animal products that were causing the problems. Dr. Stanley Bass, ND, DC, PhC, PhD, DO, DSc, DD, who has over 50 years of clinical experience with raw vegan and nonvegan diet counseling, wrote a foreword. The book then begins with the author s story of why she resumed eating a bit of animal products and how she manages to stay mostly 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. This book addresses the following 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 pro

Genres: Nutrition, Diets, Health, Food

268 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2011

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This woman is totally nuts! Instead of a fair assessment of the science of different kinds of diets, this book is full of strange new age mumbo-jumbo like "Death isn't real" and "our bodies are just spacesuits." Some valid points about the problems inherent in factory farming, but other authors have made the same points much better.

[Jessica Buike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beyond Broccoli explores the nutritional side of diets, especially vegan and vegetarian diets. I enjoyed that the author was very straightforward about how she doesn't have all the answers and that not every diet is right for every person. Vegan, vegetarian and raw diets have become more and more popular and have been interesting to me, and I like how the author explained both their benefits an their drawbacks. I appreciate that she differentiated between men and women when it comes to health, because our systems don't always respond the same to different diets. The author is brave to stand up against the popular vegan/vegetarian myths. I also like that she touches on the problem with our ever-growing population and what it is doing to our food sources.
My favorite quote from the book was where the author states "...no amount of philosophy is going to change the body's nutritional requirements."
Some of the language in the book is pretty difficult and scientific, but it shows that the author has done her research and isn't just sharing opinion. It can also make the book a little more boring for some people. Also, during the testimonials it switched back and forth between first and third person, which was pretty annoying - perhaps if there had been quotation marks used for the first person portions, it would flow a little better.
Overall, this book is crammed with a whole lot of information on how to create a better-balanced diet that increases brain and body health. It's a very long read that forces the reader to think, so if you are looking for one of those "fast read fad" diet books, you'll have to look somewhere else.

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have never been a big meat eater so for me it has always been natural to tend more towards a vegetarian diet. While I do feel better when I eat vegetarian, I crave carbs so I eat a lot of complex carbs which even as whole grains seem to come with their own set of issues. All in all, a raw foods diet seems to work pretty well except for the protein related deficiencies like B12 and Iron.

Since I’m always trying to work with and around my diet, I was eager to read Beyond Broccoli. As I knew the author promotes a raw diet I was very interested in what she had to say. Imagine my surprise when she started talking about eating meat. Definitely the right book at the right time for me. Two years ago, I would have completely ignored what the author denotes but because I’ve been looking for solutions to my own health complexities, this intrigued me, especially the part about eliminating carb cravings and protein related deficiencies.

Much of the book presents an argument for a Paleo Diet. Specifically, we are looking at eating mostly raw foods. If cooked, lightly and at lower temperatures. This includes meat and meat alternates such as eggs. Here we are looking specifically at the highest function of the body and mind not at the moral or spiritual implications. We are also looking towards wild, free range, organic, and fresh local resources, essentially the closest to natural as possible. Well worth a look.