Enzyme Nutrition

A great book to help take the mystry out of food choices and managing a healthy lifestyle. These concepts will help eliminate obesity simply because it sets forth medical studies and concepts that encourage taking control and managing many health problems. If anyone is tired of yo yo lifestyle this book helps create more time and the ability to take control of our lives, if nothing else, simply because you will cook less and eat more raw foods.

This seminal work by Dr. Howell fills a much needed void in the nutrition paradigm. With abundant clinical research to back his findings, he explains the critical importance of consuming foods rich in natural enzymes and how these life-sustaining molecules are destroyed by our modern methods of cooking, sterilizing, and processing foods. Written on a level basic enough for people with little nutrition background, yet comprehensive enough to take a doctor like myself to a new level of understanding regarding the power of raw foods in both health and disease. He even takes one quote from the standard "bible" of anatomy for all U.S. medical schools, Gray's Anatomy, which points out that the human stomach is actually similar to the well known ruminant animals in having two seperate divisions for digestion. This book, which took over 20 years to compile and originally spanned over 700 pages, was written by a man who dedicated his life to patient care and research. This is an excellent primer for anyone interested in learning the value of unadulterated food in its natural state for health maintenance, as well as the ultimate natural weapon in conquering disease.

This book turned my conceptions of food, nutrition, disease, disorder, and digestion up-side-down. If you have doubts about *why* a raw food diet is a good idea, and why in many cases it can save a person's life, then this is the book to start with. "Enzyme Nutrition" is pretty much a scientific book. It is not a manifesto, or a how-to book, but rather a presentation of one man's life-long research into the role that food enzymes play in human digestion. Don't let that scare you away, however, because the language is very easy to understand, and the book is easy to read. In fact, this book is a condensation of the author's unpublished 700 page book, a book that supposedly took him 20 years to write.It is really a shame that this book is not a bestseller, and that Dr. Howell's theories are not more widely known. The ideas in it are, pardon the possible hyperbole, revolutionary. Many of the ideas that you read in other raw food and enzyme books are based on Howell's research (although, to be accurate, not all raw food advocates are advocates of Howell's ideas). I can not recommend this book highly enough. I hope I live to see Howell's theories accepted by the mainstream "medical establishment," just as the discoveries of vitamins and minerals (which are only two-thirds of the equation) have.

For anyone interested in health and disease, THIS book will open your eyes to a vital, yet overlooked nutritional element that is the single largest deficiency in the world. Startling examples of how traditional diets are lacking in enzymes, and the relationship to degenerative disease processes.I utilize this book in my professional nutrition work and patients are able to read and understand the plain language used to describe the facts. This helps them become personaly involved in improving their health!

This book lays out so well the role that "enzymes" play in our health, that by the time I finished reading it, I switched to a "live-foods" diet. This book is a must read for anyone who's interested in improving their health.