Two years ago at the age of 53 I was diagnosed with several health problems. The doctor I was seeing wanted to put me on prescription meds and expensive supplements.
At that time I began searching for dietary solutions to my problems.
I made progress with the Right For Your Type lifestyle, but this book answers all the questions and presents the perfect solution for me.
I had already begun juicing and looking into eating raw, but didn't know how to start.
This book explains a raw lifestyle clearly and concisely with the reasoning our bodies thrive on it and explains food combining with crystal clarity. It is unfortunate to me that it calls itself a "diet", I find it to be more of a lifestyle and feel I have finally found my way to the correct source for all my dietary and health problems.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is a Type A blood especially, but also anyone who just wants an easy, healthy guide to food consumption. It should be required reading for all families interested in their health

This little book was recommended to me by a trusted friend and it has proved to be one of my best buys. I too would recommend it to anyone trying to lose a little weight painlessly and stay healthy at the same time. The green lemonade recipe is easy to follow and provides the simplest way to obtain your "5-a-day" and get those anti-oxidents into your system every morning.

I enjoyed this book immensely because as a beginning raw foodist, I had a lot to learn. The author makes it easy to understand the basics and gives several excellent suggestions for detoxing to take place.

She takes care to let the reader know that it's a one day at a time thing and not to fret if the person falls off the wagon or doesn't become 100 percent raw. She gives easy to use recipes that any novice can put together in a hurry.

I'm in my second reading of the book because I enjoyed it so much. I've promoted the book at my blog and several of my readers have purchased a copy for themselves.

I do recommend it, obviously.

Love the book...received it in only 3 days

Changed my life..I see better & feel 20 years younger

I'm a guy and have a I have a chronic stomach illness (IBS).

Before starting this book, I was trying to balance my doctor's and acupuncturist's advice, with a yo-yo diet of junk food (ice cream sandwiches are my kryptonite) to healthy and no real direction.

Then my girlfriend recommended this book. The short story is that I have lost 26 pounds and many of my symptoms have gone away (even though I still can't have balsamic vinegar or too much ginger).

The book is easy to read and offers a 14 day plan for all levels of raw food. However, you don't HAVE TO follow the meal plan if you don't want to - it's about making the right choices. The tone is empathetic to how hard this diet can be and does everything to ease you in gradually.

The recipes are delicious and aren't there as your limitations, but to teach you how to cook raw. The Carrot/sweet potato bisque soup is one of my favorites and after a week of eating it for lunch some odd skin problems I had went away.

The downside is that it's really geared towards women. If you're guy, just stick through it. Also, yes, she doesn't advocate eating meat. However, I have balanced my love of meat into my diet and reduced my portions of protein and upped my veggies with proper combining and healthy ingredients.

Anyway, I can't say enough good things about the book and have been succesfully using the diet for 6 months with no wear and tear to my psyche.

This book is great. After a friend let my boyfriend and I borrow it we just had to own it. Although we haven't gone completely "raw" yet, we learned alot and it's great having this book on hand to reference.

The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss very informative

This is a really well-written book with practical advice for those of us who may not be ready to go 100% raw. I found it very inspirational!

I have now been following this "diet" for about a month. I hate to call it a diet because I feel it is a change for life. I am eating raw for breakfast (usually "juice" and fruit, and for lunch as well with a cooked dinner. I have found it to be easy to follow and maintain. I crave the recommended green lemonade in the morning, and have the gazpacho for lunch at least every other day - DELICIOUS. I feel healthy, lean and have a ton of energy. How could anyone argue with eating more fruits and veggies? The food combining takes a little practice and thought, but I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants a healthier way of eating with a bonus of shedding pounds!

I am new to the world of raw food and if you are too, this book is an excellent place to get started...in fact, it will carry you from where you are currently with your eating all the way to totally raw, if that's where you want to go. A questionnaire will help you decide at which of 5 levels you should start with the program, so don't get freaked out if you are currently subsisting on Big Macs and diet Coke...you don't necessarily have to do a 180 right off the bat. The book is filled with excellent information and rationales as to WHY this is a desireable way to eat, and anyone should be able to ease in to it. The recipes are wonderful, and you won't have to be buying rare, exotic foods in order to make it work. A juicer is recommended, and I bought the one the author suggests. It is amazing. Simply, if you are wanting to explore the world of raw eating, start with this book. I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at how easy it can be to incorporate!

From cover to cover this book speaks the truth about our terrible eating habits in America. This is both a very simple and very difficult diet to put into action because it runs counter to what we find readily available in supermarkets and restaurants. Vegans will find it particularly easy to adjust to. It would be helpful to get the whole family on board because you have to "cook" at home to realize the full benefit of the program. It isn't cheap either, but then what is your health worth? If you can follow this plan, you will feel incredibly good, lose weight (if you want to) and probably stave off a multitude of diseases. The author promotes several levels of dietary changes, so it isn't an all or nothing type of program. Even implementing the first level will have long-term health benefits. This is a quick read, so you can start right away.

I've been a vegetarian for the last 3.5 years so started at Level 3 of the detox diet. There are a lot of rules and it's really hard to remember all of them all of the time so I've been picking and choosing what I feel like doing. I'm not following the diet to lose any weight but, in following the basic tenement of not mixing certain food groups together, my digestive system has become slicker than ever. Before starting the regimen, I would go 1-2 times every day. Now I go 3-4 and there's never any straining. A friend of mine who has battled with constipation for a long time also started this diet and is now regular w/ 1 movement every day.

This book has a really unusual mix of advice - some good, some bad - so if you decide to buy it, read it with a healthy dose of skepticism.

The author really shines in advising you how to make the transition to a more or entirely raw food lifestyle, and her recipes are tailored to raw food for busy people. Because of this, they place little emphasis on sprouting and dehydrating. A common frustration for people trying to get into raw food is leafing through their raw "cook" book for a recipe for dinner, only to find that they needed to sprout something 3 days ago, or dehydrate something for 12 - 24 hours in a dehydrator - not useful if it's 7PM and you're hungry NOW. If you continue to pursue a raw food lifestyle, you'll learn to adapt to this mode of food preparation, but at first it can be a real barrier. These recipes focus on quick preparations, and so sidestep these common pitfalls.

The author is not so great at explaining the detoxification process, and she makes some pretty dramatic claims (implicitly and explicitly) without any citations to back them up. She appears to be a believer in the idea that mucoid plaque builds up in the intestines, and that soy is poison; however she doesn't explain how she arrives at these conclusions, and she doesn't point the reader to any source to find out more. Consequently as a health guide, I find those claims dubious at best.

Her recommendations for monthly colonics and/or regular enemas strike me as reckless and quite possibly antagonistic to the process of truly detoxifying your body. Improperly administered colonics and enemas can introduce foreign bacteria and toxins directly into your colon, and make you sick. If you have any disorders of the intestinal tract, such as diverticulitis, colitis, ileitis, crohn's disease, ibs, or intestinal permeability ("leaky gut") you will definitely want to talk to your physician before starting any type of colon therapy. If you don't suffer from any such ailments, consider whether your money might be better invested in a really good juicer or a vitamix! ;) Even the food combination rules are questionable at best, so read them with a healthy dose of skepticism.

There are other examples of just plain bad advice in the text. The author suggests that you won't need to be concerned about hydration or sunscreen on a raw food diet, for example. If you're trying to detoxify your system, you would do well to drink plenty of water and use sunscreen. Proper hydration will help you eliminate toxins and help you regulate your appetite, and since your skin is your body's largest eliminative organ, you should protect it! An EXCELLENT guide to the detoxification process is "Internal Cleansing" by Linda Berry. It describes sources of toxicity, and provides a very holistic approach to eliminating toxins from your food, environment and body.

If you think you may be heading toward an eating disorder (anorexia/bulimia), or if you already have one, you'd do well to consult with a counselor or medical practitioner before making a switch to ANY structured eating plan, since it's possible to go overboard with the food rules and use them as an excuse to deprive yourself of nutrition. Especially if your body has already been compromised by malnutrition and/or abuse of laxatives, work with a nutritionist, naturopath or physician who is familiar with eating disorders and can help you develop a healthy and lasting lifestyle change.

If you want to make a lasting change to any aspect of your life, take your time, be gentle with yourself, focus on the process, and pay attention to triggers that cause you to lapse back into unwanted behavior patterns. You'll also want to pay careful attention if you find yourself getting too fixated or rigid with your diet. This book does a good job of gently guiding you through the behavior change as long as you're careful to avoid some of the bad advice served up along the way.

I really enjoyed this book even though a lot of it was reiterating things I've always known - fresh vegetables and fruits are healthy for you, and make you feel amazing. However, it was very smart of the author to include meals that help you progress to eating more raw meals gradually, since cold turkey diets set people up for failure so often! I thought it was very helpful the way the digestive process was described, and it was very readable. I'm definitely recommending this read to some of my friends!

I guess I have a problem with hypocrisy. Yes, we're all hypocrites at times. But when it comes to a published and greatly esteemed book spouting out a hypocritical statement in the first 30 pages of its 243, I tend to put up my guard. I was a little shocked that Natalia Rose said "cows milk was designed for baby cows - not humans!" and then goes on to encourage the consumption of goat and sheep milk products. Okay, so baby goats and lambs aren't entitled to a little of mama's milk? Vegans, this book isn't for you. The only part of this book that I believe is valuable is the food-combining information.

I was very disappointed in this book. The title is deceiving. I am a vegan and thought this book was for health. Meat, eggs, cheese and lots of oil are not healthy for you. These products are full of cholesterol and artery clogging fats. She discourages the eating of legumes and soy products. May I suggest that this author and others that are interested in health read the China Study by T. Colin Campbell,PhD and Diet for a New America by John Robbins

I love this book! It's my new Bible for health and healing. I am not new to healthy eating, but this just ramped it up a notch.

I bought this book because it seemed to me that the Hallelujah Diet was just a little too cold turkey (no pun intended)into the raw food vegetarian lifestyle. This book rightly explains that to not make this a somewhat gradual change could have some really uncomfortable effects as our bodies need time to transition from our old ways of eating. I like that the book gives tips and recipes for whatever level you're at. The author has some really strange theories on how to maintain proper bodily functions which I mostly disagree with but aside from that, it is a helpful book.

This is a great book for changing the way you eat a little bit at a time. The section on families is filled with great advice. I've lost 20 lbs in four months and after the initial shock of eating mostly raw fruits and vegetables, it's easy. I crave my fruit smoothie in the morning and raw salad at lunch. Then I eat a healthy dinner. The recipes in it are excellent. I've made the Peace in the Middle East salad to bring to parties and people love it. The dressings are great too. The only thing I'm not into are the colonics she mentions. I'm not ready for that one. Other than that, I recommend this for anyone who wants to change their diet and lifestyle forever.

An excellent foray into this lifestyle. A lot of information and goal setting for every level of participation, casual or full tilt, you can find recipies, product references and sources in here.

Another "best" book ever. Great information to become the healthiest ever. I couldn't put it down. I also bought several copies to give to friends and family. Good health is everything. What good is money if you don't have your health?

I am glad I checked this book out of the library because this diet just won't pan out in my life. She makes some good points about eating healthy raw foods, but the section most important to me 'Raw on a Budget' tiptoed around the fact that you can't afford the really good raw stuff unless you've got plenty of disposable income, but if you really want to make it work you'll magically find the money. I will take away healthier choices, but going through a head of celery a day for some juice and getting monthly colonics while brushing your body daily is more Hollywood than real life. Mostly this book will just make you feel bad about the food you're going to keep eating because living raw isn't totally viable for average people.

I decided to read this book after counting my carbs and walking 4 miles a day didn't even MOVE the scale.
I'm no vegan and happen to HATE salads so I thought this would be a bust for me. But willing to try anything ONCE I started doing all of the suggestions. (minus the juicing since my juicer won't be here for another week) Even without the benefit of green lemonade, and while eating what I wanted (Including meat) for dinner..I'm losing about 5 lbs every 3 days.
I'm a believer!
I also read Carol Alts book on the subject. She is a meat eating raw foodie as well.
I lost weight, I look loads younger than my 40 years and I can keep up with my toddler. What more could I ask for?

I found this book really helpful as a person who has transitioned from a Vegetarian to a Vegan to now a Raw Vegan over the past few months (you do not have to be a Vegetarian to follow this book). The details on food combining are great for weight loss and the green drinks are amazing, they will give you more energy than a double shot at Starbucks! Even if you are not interested in weightloss; the principles this book is founded upon will provide you with optimal health..If you are still eating processed, packaged, chemical laden, carcinogenic food, grab this book ASAP it will save your life. I am disgusted by the way I used to eat (and was thinking it was healthy..frozen meals, dead food..gross!).

My goal was only to get more fruits and veges into my family, so I'm not to strict about the actual "diet." I do try to make the Green Lemonade every day or every other day and my non vege eating husband pronounced it "not bad" and will drink it, as will my 16 month old son (4 year old daughter has said "no thanks" thus far.) My book is already water and food stained from trying the recipes; my favorite being Guacamole Salad (both kids beg for it when they see it!) and Marinated Portobello Mushrooms. It has inspired me to add almond milk to their cows milk to try to reduce the dairy. It has also caused me to simply buy more fruits and vege and offer them to the kids (and myself.) This is why my son ate almost an entire pint of blueberries the other day and my daughter took 1/2 a cucumber and ate it like it was an apple. My goal to get the family to eat more vegetables has been satisfied with the help of this book!

Yeah! Loved the section for feeding children. This extremely picky boy I feed likes this type of food. I needed other suggestions. He loves soy chips, juice, fruit, nuts, cereal, smoothies, and high protein pancakes and wholesome bread (if I bake it myself, zuchini with protein powder etc.) Loved the additional suggestions. A nice way to think about salad alternatives if you aren't going to go raw foods all the way, you'll still learn something and be healthier for reading this book.

Like you, I have been doing a lot of research on raw diets recently and because of this, I've bought a lot of books on the subject. This one by far is my favorite, I knew from reading just the first 3 pages that I found exactly what I've been searching for. Unlike others that have "no rules" and keep you busy dehydrating everything all day, Natalia Rose has a much different and better - in my opinion, approach. I love - LOVE the green lemonade, detox pizza and quesadillas - and that's only a few that I've tried so far! Everything in this book makes complete sense to me, one example of that is to start off incorporating raw foods to your diet slowly, it's okay to have a cooked dinner with your family. It's not as extreme as other books suggest. I'm also learning to buy healthier things such as sprouted breads, which my two children love to toast. It's just a much easier approach to not only raw foods, but a healthier life. Buy this one, you won't regret it! My only other suggestion is to check out the book, "The China Study".

This book was fantastic and very easy to read and understand. I loved it and am following the ideas set out in the book.I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to lose weight and understand about good health.

This book starts off making lots of sense & gets you all hyped up....but when you start to read what it's really all about...the actual diet...you're very discouraged. It's not a practical diet for the everyday life of a working mom. I'll stick to Weight Watchers. I returned the book for a refund.

This book has been very helpfull as I start down this road to raw food health. I have tried many recipes and most have been very good. She does have some extreme views towards cleansing that I'm not quite sure about at this time but I am new to this so we will see. I do like the fact that she does not say you have to eat all raw and stresses not diving head first into a raw food life style as to not fail, but says the goal is superior cell health, not exclusively a raw food diet.

I love this book and this "diet". I didn't get this book to go on a diet, but to eat in a healthier way. It was very interesting to read and learn about the way our bodies react to food. I do feel the difference in eating this way. I also like the fact that you don't just crash into this diet, there are five levels of eating this way so I started in one level and my husband actually joined in on his level because he liked it so much. We all agree that there is definitely a change in energy when you eat the raw food diet. I would suggest this book to anyone who wants to feel better overall!

This book was instrumental in getting my raw food diet off the ground. She helped me understand why the foods I was eating were making me feel so bad and gain so much weight, and her 5-step process of changing to the diet made it really easy.
I really liked all of the recipes she had in the back of the book. I don't even like vegetables (weird choice of diet, I know) but a lot of the recipes made even ME love them!
While I know that a lot of people might want to do this for a short amount of time just to lose some weight or get healthy, once you've started it's really easy to do it for life.
Good luck!

If you are trying to detox, loose weight and transition to raw foods, this is the book for you. It is a perfectly laid out plan of attack based on your past eating habits and personal issues. It helps you get there without going "cold turkey". You don't have to give up your meat, dairy and eggs right out of the gate and you will feel great each step of the way. It is all in the book. It has EVERYTHING you need to take your new journey. It is a book that you will keep on the kitchen table and use every day if not at every meal. It is a MUST have. The recipes are truly delicious and easy and my life has truly changed for the better because of this book. Don't pass this one up! Blessed be All...

I love Natalia's book: it differs from other raw recipe and information books because it does not require a 100% immediate transformation to a new way of eating. Natalia offers a gradual and safe program for those interested in making a permanent change to their diet and health program by delineating five coherent and progressively more healthy phases for change.
Natalia's advice helped me relax and enjoy my eating program, and focus on the my real goal: healthy cells!

I read this book a week ago and have mostly forgotten all the aggravations, but I what I remember most is my desire to tear it up and throw it against the wall. Rose made up a diet for herself that works, and now she is telling the whole world to do the same thing.

There are a couple of positives (that don't make the book worth buying): It is true that starting the day with a green lemonade such as the one in her book is extremely healthy (or to get greens and green juices into the body daily, at any time, something she does NOT mention). Also, her attempt to list recipes that don't require purchasing whole new sets of tools and dehydrators is admirable, although I personally find most of the recipes uninspired and uninteresting, as well as unappealing to lots of children, despite her claims.

The things that stand out the most are these: Her intricate food-combining rules exclude wine and coffee, which are considered "neutral." She claims the body processes alcohol as fat, but somehow it's okay to have it with any meal with no regard to her strict combination rules. (Hmm, you think it's because she likes to have wine herself, something she mentions more than once?) I believe salad dressings were neutral, too, but that also doesn't make sense when compared with her food-combining rules. Here's a good explanation, though: SHE'S NOT A SCIENTIST! She has no degree in any kind of nutrition- or science-related anything. She's a "nutritionist," which in most states means taking some correspondence classes or simply calling oneself a nutritionist. If you want to know what to eat, ask someone with a nutrition or food science degree, or RD. (But don't ask an MD, either; they get about 6-12 hours of nutrition training in all of med school.)

The single-most-alarming issue is her advocacy for Splenda (aka sucralose), which is included in many of her recipes. Any real nutritionist would know that sugar is better for you. This should discredit her entirely, and her publisher should have responsibly rejected this book.

--MS/RD student, SF

P.S. If you are looking for a DIET, check out The False Fat Diet. If you are looking for a good raw food recipe book, go for Living Cuisine, for complex and wonderful, or Raw Food for Busy People, for less inspired and less tasty but very simple.

Best book ever for those interested in taking charge of getting your body back into a life-sustaining mode. People who don't like the book are either not ready for the concepts or haven't read it clearly and understood it. Food combining is crucial and Natalia takes it to a level that no one else has or is afraid to because it may not have scientific proof by all the debunkers out there. As we know, science isn't always the best tool to gauge something by. Remember when they thought the world was flat? hmmm....By far, the best book I ever read. I absolutely LOVE the recipes and found it so easy to transition into the combining of foods.

Natalia Rose has an unhealthy obsession with poo, plus she thinks you can gobble down tons of avocados and coconuts (both teaming with calories and fat) and still loose weight! She also wants you to skip breakfast--one of the key things every other dietitian tells you NOT to do! This "diet" left me feeling light-headed and nauseous. I need real food, not juice and water. This book is for crazy people.

This book was the first I'd read on Raw Food. I'm interested in health and nutrition and read a variety of books in that area. This book was well written, explaining the pros of raw food. As any diet book, it has menus and ideas, but this book has several stages to 'ease' you onto raw foods. I like how the health benefits are tied into how your body works. I've bought this book for others, and shared my copy of the book with friends. It even inspired me to go out and get a juicer, something I've been thinking about for years, but have never done.

I own atleast 20 Raw Food books and although I have many great ones and have learned alot of great info from them, nothing compares to Natalia Rose's "The Raw Food Detox Diet". Her approach makes the most sense to me and instead of getting caught up in all the labels of "high raw" and "80% raw" or "vegan", it's so much easier to follow her "quick-exist rules" and proper food combining!!!! IT WORKS and her recipes are great and easy, too!! I highly suggest that anyone who is interested in detoxing, changing their lifestyle, eating more raw or just feeling more clean and energized should GET THIS BOOK!
P.S.
her "Green Lemonade" recipe is what I have every morning for breakfast and I've already noticed a change in my digestion from it!! It's delicious, too.

The book is awesome, the raw food detox diet is really working for my family, and the raw recipes are amazing. I highly recommend this book.

I've never felt better and have returned to a weight I had in my twenties (I'm in my forties now). Once I understood the science of food combining, my previous ways of "just grabbing a sandwich" went by the wayside--in that a simple turkey, cheese, mayo and veggie sandwich took 8 hours to get through the stomach. But a properly combined sandwich like veggies with avocado on whole grain sprouted bread is digested in just 3 hours--and tastes delicious! That left the other 5 hours to detox my system and lose the weight I was holding onto for years. I also agree with other reviewers in that Ms Rose leaves it up to you to decide how far you want to take this in your own diet. No judgement if you choose to eat meat or drink wine either--so it's a very accepting book for an individual to create a food lifestyle that fits for you. I've told many friends about Ms Rose's book and those that have tried it--are also singing her praises.

This book is a godsend to me. It was exactly what I was looking for. It is not a lecture nor is it technical. It gets to the point of how to get results in a very real and attainable way. No tricks. And it completely makes sense. After reading several other raw books, this is the one that really spoke to what my goal is and how to acheive it. Many other raw food books just discuss the health benefits, but this really outlines how and why to start at any level regardless of your purpose. And no fancy kitchen stuff! I am reading all of Rose's other books and am a new fan.

I have yet to completely finish the book but the first half is pretty good. I like her approach and the reasons behind her explanations, and her modified guidelines for stages of transition to a raw food diet. I enjoy Natalia's blog quite a bit so her book is an extension of her ideas and theories on nutrition. So far, I do recommend the book and the recipes.

This book is just fabulous! Aside from all the delicious recipes, the best part is all the great information she provides especially for us newbies to the raw diet. She also offers a guide to the different levels of eating raw so anybody can make this fit their lifestyle. The recipes are also much less complicated than other raw recipe books I've seen because sprouting/soaking and expensive equipment is not necessary. I'm so glad I own this book and will purchase more as gifts for interested friends and family. Highly recommended!

Great book and great seller. Would gladly purchase from this seller again.

Thanks so much.

This is one of the best books on Raw food I have ever purchased. If you are a just learning about raw foods Natalia makes the transition easy! Don't let the word DETOX scare you away! It is more than a detox plan it is a plan for life. If you are new to the raw food movement and you are looking for a comprehensive and simple place to start I urge you to buy this book!

I borrowed this book from the public library. After reading this book, several other books on nutrition/diet, and web searches and forum discussions, plus trying out her plan up to phase 3 for several weeks, this is my take on it: It certainly encourages you to eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, which is a very healthy thing. I'm pretty good with eating fruits only until noon. That's easy and I like it most of the time. However, all the food combining stuff is a pain in the rear, and pretty much unfounded (no scientific basis for it at all). I will say that while I was following this plan, I became very regular. Every morning like clockwork. So that is a plus. I never got to the juicing stage, although I am intrigued by it, and some time within the next year I will probably buy a juicer and try doing veggie juices. The real plus about this book is the gradual approach she encourages. She even allows you may want to just be "raw vegan" for breakfast and lunch and eat a regular dinner with your family (i.e. meat/animal products). In that sense, this is a very doable plan for almost anyone. She doesn't try to insist that you go 100% raw vegan, but that you take from the book what works for you. The recipes seem pretty decent. I made a few of them. I'm not doing this books so closely at the moment, but it has influenced my eating. I eat more fruits and veggies than I did before reading this book and trying out the plan for a few weeks. And I do feel better, too.

What I really enjoyed about this book is that it understands the key fact about most human beings - even with the best of intentions 100% is a hard thing.

That's where this book is ideal for people looking to transition to the raw food lifestyle. Because it does not ram 100% compliance down your throat it makes it an easier book to work with.

The way it is written is warm and friendly and encourages you to try more raw food in your diet while respecting where you are today.

A good all-round book for a wide audience.

This is a good book to start with if you're thinking of going raw. All the basics are here. The author encourages you to start slowly and introduce raw foods gradually into your diet rather than going raw overnight. On this diet, it is so important to food combine properly, which is explained in the book. Also, she includes easily digestible foods that are not raw. I would have given this book 5 stars, but she did not fully explain that apples and lemons can be combined with vegetables, so I think it looks like she is contradicting herself when she includes a recipe with apples, lemon, and greens. Earlier in the book she says that fruit must be eaten alone. Also, she says that avocado is metabolized as a starch, but all other food combining sources say it is a protien. It's okay that she has a differing opinion, but she doesn't state why she thinks so. Read this, get what you can from it, but also do your homework and read from other sources, as well. Gourmet Raw is also good.

I learned some interesting things about transitioning to raw, and the importance of sequencing your food intake by anount of time that particular food takes to digest. Very informative.