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Thrive Diet

The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

by Brendan Brazier

Thrive Diet
Publisher: Copyright © 2007 by Brendan Brazier
Published by Da Capo Press, a subsidiary of Perseus Books LLC
Pub. Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781600940606
No. pages: 309

Category: Career & Self-Development
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In this summary you will learn

  • What nutritional stress is and why it is so harmful
  • How the Thrive Diet can maintain your weight and health
  • What this diet says you should eat

Why you should read Thrive Diet

Most Westerners’ typical diet is absurdly unhealthy: junk foods, fast foods, big meals with artery-clogging red meat entrées, rushed breakfasts, sugary snacks, corrosive sodas and super-sized portions. Professional triathlete Brendan Brazier presents his “Thrive Diet” to introduce the gluttons stuck in this fat and flabby world to fresh, unprocessed, healthy foods. His main premise: Many people expend more energy digesting dreadful food than the food delivers, so they are tired and “nutritionally” stressed. Instead, Brazier argues, people should eat easily digested, nutritious whole foods. Based on raw vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, sprouts and other “nutrient-dense” foods, Brazier’s diet is as healthy as the typical Western diet is harmful. Yet some readers may find it hard to eat (popped amaranth hemp seed salad?), complex to stock, and time-consuming to prepare (how long do I soak my pumpkin seeds in purified water?). Of course, people should eat nutritious, whole foods, but Brazier’s seed beet pizzas and pomegranate green tea pancakes sound like lots of extra effort in the market and the kitchen. getAbstract thinks this heartfelt book raises two questions: Do you want to be healthier? And could this rigorous regimen be the way?

About the Author

Brendan Brazier is a vegetarian who has developed his own whole-food products. He is a tri-athlete, and won the 2003 and 2006 Canadian 50km Ultra Marathons.

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