The Sunfood Diet Success System: 36 Lessons in Health Transformation

by David Wolfe, Stephen Arlin (Editor), Jolie Arlin (Editor)

David Wolfe is an internationally renowned health lecturer and one of the world's foremost authorities on raw-food nutrition. In this book, he describes how to use simple, whole, raw plant foods to heal, rejuvenate, and feel great. The Sunfood Diet Success System effortlessly drops away unwanted pounds, boosts your immune system, enhances your relationships, lengthens life, brings you closer to the spiritual realms, allows you to think more creatively, clears emotional blockages, improves your performance in business, and creates a healthier, happier life for you and those around you. The Sunfood Diet Success System describes exactly how to adopt, maintain, and stay centered on a raw-food based diet by balancing different types of foods through The Sunfood Triangle.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Food, Nutrition, Diets, Vegan, Self Help

552 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

David Wolfe is a self-proclaimed Nutrition and Wellness Expert. Author of Eating For Beauty, Superfoods: Food and Medicine of the Future, Amazing Grace, Sunfood Diet Success System.

Reviews

[Pat Meath]

An ode to food. I'm not a raw food vegan, vegan maybe someday, raw foods only, probably not. Nevertheless, if you're looking for the passion of an evangelical super-church all in praise of food, you've found your bible.

[Laura]

about halfway through i started skipping the corny poetry that david has interjected throughout the book, but the rest of it is golden! an inspiring how-to book for raw foodists or anyone who wants to get healthy, connect to the god-force and their own potential.

[Noah Laith]

This book is one of my favorite if not for a long time it was my favorite of more than 40 books about health that I own.

David Wolfe's book dicusses how you can create massive changes in your health using the raw food principles.

I've listened to a couple of his audios and attended some events and workshops in Amsterdam and I find his message to be fresh and mind opening when it comes to nutrition. Though I will warn you, that for some people it might be too "healthy extreme", especially if you think that chickenbreast with some salad is a healthy meal.

David's main argument comes from Dr. Edward Howell which is the Enzyme doctor that prooved that coocked foods is dead foods and raw food contain more "live value" or the enzymes, nutrients, and energy that we need to regenerate, rejuvenate, and re-energize.

The new Sunfood Diet Success System will benefit raw food beginners and experienced raw foodists. It is a "success system" rather than a book about raw food book because it is packed with great insight and philosophy about raw foods and life in general, which most of it is mental than physical. It's a great starting point for whoever want to take control of his health.

One thing I didn't like is the poetry part into it, but that's only a personal preference of mine.

[Martha]

I have had the original edition of this book for a few years. This is the kind of book
you can have on your side table to pick up and randomly open to any page to be re-inspired
with David's words. Goes much deeper than just the food we eat. It's straight talk about
living life to the fullest in all areas. I highly recommend this as a book to add to your shelf
especially if you are interested in eating well.

[Lauri]

This book makes the most compelling case for raw veganism that I've ever heard/read. The author explains why a raw food diet is so important, explains how to go raw and what foods to eat and why. I could do without the bad poetry and bible scriptures, otherwise, this was a fantastic book full of useful information.

[Andrea Lambert]

This book is SO packed with wonderful information about the raw food lifestyle, eating raw, what to expect, tons and tons of case studies and science. I love science and love it when a book speaks so clearly to me.

[Sophie]

This book is a raw food Bible! I like that it's not a pushy manifesto, but a true and pure in depth look at health in general. There is more truth in here than in anything your doctor could tell you.

[Syharn]

some real knowledge about health & nutrition and mind power.

[Ronit]

Just had it signed by the author when he was in town!

[Viviana]

The sun-gazing and not using spf is unsettling. I understand that greens can protect you from sunlight, and the sun is healing...I'm still going to try to use SPF face and body lotion, though. Don't need the recipes in the back, would prefer more info..or a less bulky book. Beautiful photos, maybe more photos of plants or Kirlian photography and less photos of raw dishes? I feel like a jerk, but less poetry, too. David Wolfes enthusiasm and videos on minerals and such have been great. Just try not to go overboard. Salesman-y
I'd like to give the book and in between 3 and 4, maybe

[Shelly Smith]

I like David Wolfe for a variety of reasons. He explains in this book why raw food is best. It's not all about losing weight, in fact I didn't buy it for that reason. It's all about feeding and nourishing your body with all the wonderful varieties of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, seeds, and more that the earth offers us. It has totally changed the way I view food...namely cooked food.

[Aelita Hopper]

Top recommended book to read about raw-plant diet. Information is gathered from other plant-based diet authors too such as: Markus, Anthony, Norman… It gives a big picture on why and how to manage a good balance diet on different purpose.

[Ronit]

The information in this book isn't credible or even healthy. It isn't written by anyone who is an expert or even qualified such as a nutritionist, doctor, PhD, etc. and the style of writing is dumb.

[Avalon]

Not recommended. Poorly written and awful poor illustrator.

[Thor]

Ridiculous. Bad nutrition and this diet regimen could actually be harmful. Really unimpressed and had little relevance to science.

[Vu Phong]

4,5/5*

[Sandeep Gupta]

A heart-felt ode to raw veganism. Quite enchanting.

[Seemy]

Amazing in dept discussion and good health principled I've ever read. Boy was this a lengthy book I've read on the subject ( and that was even after skimming / at times skipping past the poetry )

Everything in this book made sense to me - health indeed has so many more aspects than we are taught - and David covers each and everyone with nothing left to chance or imagination

Many of my own health questions / challenges and journey will be aided greatly by this work and no doubt will I be consuming everything David Wolfe puts out there now

Highly recommended

To Our Continued Success!
Seemy
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[Kristin]

Loved this book! Not a fan of the poetry littered throughout but the raw food and superfood information is great. There are also meal plans for basic raw food diet, 80/20 and 100% raw - big plus. There are consistent and persistent messages to love yourself, be your best self, develop your inner awesomeness and any variation of this type of message you can think of, so be prepared for the abundance of positive affirmations.

[Christianne Hedtke]

This guy is kooky but I love him! He's soooo positive you can't help but smile when you read this, even if you find it impossible to eat an organic raw vegan lifestyle. If you're interested in raw food and it's properties this is a fun one, although be forewarned that I can't think of anything more new agey. (Let's put it this way - there are many poems inspired by food in here.) But this guy is a riot.

[Meagan]

I do like this book... Nutrition is hard everyone has an "opinion" backed by research! Interesting how all opinions n research says such different things! That is the only reason I have it 3 stars is because you truly have to take what you like and what works for you and leave the rest! All in all though worth a read and I really like how he connects mind body soul as the key to success cause if we get real that's the bottom line. "Garbage in garbage out"

[Shelly Spafford]

I like David Wolfe for a variety of reasons. He explains in this book why raw food is best. It's not all about losing weight, in fact I didn't buy it for that reason. It's all about feeding and nourishing your body with all the wonderful varieties of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, seeds, and more that the earth offers us. It has totally changed the way I view food...namely cooked food.

[Terry]

I love reading this authors books on live foods, and exactly what they do for the body. I've read several dozen books by different healthy eating authors, but DW is by far my favorite. He is well informed on all aspects of good nutrition.

[Krissy]

best book on how to eat that ive ever read, he also includes the importance of your thoughts and how they affect your body.

[conor]

Great book if you're a spiritual hippie. Annoying book if you're actually intelligent. Fraught with logical errors.

[Saskia]

David Wolfe, you are my hero

[Cynthia mercado]

my new raw food bible. do yourself a favor and read it!

[Nina]

Still waiting for it to find it's way back home to me...

[T]

Simply lifechanging...

[Kyle]

amazing book about clean nutrition and how the thoughts and feelings we spend the most time with shape our health and our future