Dear Victoria,

I received The Live Food Factor on 10/7/2008. I have started reading it — skipping around from place to place. I read what is important to me first. I’m doing it this way because I already understand the practical reasons for eating raw foods and Natural Hygiene. Your excellent teaching over the years has served me well. I’ve been eating raw or mostly raw for 26 years. I especially enjoy the real experiences of actual people. Everyone who eats should have a copy of this book! This is the TRUE CHANGE that all people need.

Raw foods = healthy people + a healthy environment. More fruit trees, nut trees, and gardens would need to be planted, thus keeping people employed, working in the great outdoors.

The section on eating raw meat just did not appeal to me. Even cooked meat does not interest me. I just do not desire to eat the flesh of an animal. This book gives us the science behind the God-given Genesis 1:29 diet. If the first people had done what God wanted, our world be a paradise today! AMEN!

Sharon Stevens in Arkansas

Dear Victoria,

I would like to congratulate you and Susan for your magnificent work. It is a very impressive, valuable, complete, informative piece of art. Thank you for your contribution to humanity, to health, to the planet, and to the animals. The truth will dominate one day, soon. We will all celebrate our freedom to health, to simplicity, and to the majesty of all natural processes in our bodies and our lives. The very best to you and to all the work you are doing.

Very Truly Yours,

Dr. Zarin Azar in California

Dear Victoria,

Thank you for sending the four, spiral-bound Live Food Factors. I am a private person, so I won’t be writing anything much or use my last name, as I wish to remain anonymous in your listings. But, between you and me, it was extremely good to see The Live Food Factor’s package in my mailbox! What an excellent book to have and to also give as a gift. I did not want to put it down after I started reading it. What a masterpiece! Congratulations on a job well done! Blessings to you and all things good!

Love & prayers,

Gene in Wisconsin

THANKS! THANKS! What can I say, Victoria? The book is amazing and contains more information than we have ever seen in 1 book = how you got it all together = WOW! What can I say? We love the book and know how very hard you and HighJoy worked and suffered on this. Gave my grandson one, and he won’t put it down.

THANKS, AGAIN, VICTORIA!

Peg Thieman in Wisconsin

Victoria,

I waited a long, long time for this book to arrive. I knew it would be a great book, but I didn’t know it would be THE GREATEST HEALTH BOOK I OWN! It has everything you need to know to become healthy. It has a wealth of knowledge, a treasure of inspiration, and a pile of testimonies. This book will end any confusion. The wait was well worth it. Hats off!

Thanks, Thanks, and Many More Thanks,

John Franco in Pennsylvania

 
Dear Victoria,

Congratulations and THANK YOU for completing The Live Food Factor project. All of us will use and appreciate the wonderful references of Natural Hygiene information backed up with Susan’s collection of research supporting raw eating! You are a treasure!

The world is interesting. WE are experiencing a shift. People change when something forces them to change. In the on-the-street people level of work I do in both health and environment relative to food, I see an opening. Reality is beginning to show itself. People are opening up — making small movements to shift a bit.

On behalf of all GetWell Friends, I want to say: “Bless all of Victoria’s and Susan’s efforts for compiling this compendium for all of us!”Victoria, you are now at the peak-top of your game. What else have you planned for us? Please send me another 10 books!

Mary Papavasiliou, Health Counselor, Teacher, Speaker, Sierra Club and Raw Food Activist, Simple & Raw Pot Luck Organizer in California

Dear Victoria,

Your new book, The Live Food Factor, has just arrived in the mail. I haven’t been able to put it down yet, because it has got be the very BEST book on detoxification and healing I have ever read.

It’s very easy to find anything I want to know on health, by the wonderful way you set up “The Table of Contents.” I LOVE the way each chapter is headed by big, bold letters. I can find my many questions on the subject of Natural Hygiene quickly. And I do have many, many questions.          

So far, I haven’t had much success in getting others to look into Natural Hygiene when they find out that they have to cut out the junk foods, like pizzas, burgers, cake, cookies, candy, ice cream, and the like.

A doctor who has been 1 of my piano students for 10 years asked me, “How can you play such difficult music by Chopin, Rachmeninoff, and Mozart at your age?” I told him it was my diet and lifestyle that made it possible. I have removed all toxic foods. He wanted to know what my diet was. Upon hearing, his eyes got real big. He almost went into orbit: “Your diet is as bad as being in a prison in Siberia living on cold potatoes and water!”

Other adults I have talked to said they would take medication any day over giving up their favorite foods. Nevertheless, I am ordering 2 more of The Live Food Factors to share with people who really need the teachings. I want to leave 1 in my piano studio, with the idea that some of the parents will read it. The cover should grab most people’s attention.

As a piano teacher of 53 years, I see so many young people with poor health. It is depressing. I ask them, “Do you eat a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner?” They are happy to tell me exactly what they eat. Their diets are so bad I think they would kill a horse! I know that SAD foods play havoc with young bodies and minds. The high sugar diet has made children very hyperactive, as have all the drugs they get from their medical treatments. I am now witnessing a great decline in the minds and bodies and ability to focus among today’s youth. This wonderful Live Food Factor should open many doors to TRUTH. The drug industries have had their ways with us for too long.

Sincerely,

Wayne Reid in Illinois

Dear Victoria,

I just received my giant, raw book in the mail… it has so much information. I love the “before” and “after” pictures. I can’t wait to read it, cover-to-cover!

I have signed up for my first raw food preparation class, which will be at the end of the month in a local cafe: “Borrowed Earth Cafe” in Downer’s Grove. A husband and wife team owns the cafe. Her husband regenerated his back through raw foods, stretching, and mental work. I will bring your book. Maybe they will carry it.

Hope you can now get some rest. Say “HI!” to HighJoy!

Linda Pryka in Illinois

My Dear Victoria,

I enjoyed your greeting card picturing an eagle, an animal known for its ability to soar gracefully and effortlessly thousands of feet above the surface of the Earth, and which could not for 1 moment be able to ascend to those winged and panoramic heights were it not for God’s watchful eyes as He sustains it in flight.

You asked me for my opinion of The Live Food Factor: “Did I do good?” Let’s look at this adjective “good” from the 3 degrees of grammar. Is the book of the positive, comparative, or superlative degree? Good? Better? Or Best? I give you a SUPERLATIVE RATING — THE BEST! The new book is a scholarly tome, superbly compiled and meticulously detailed.

Those who have patiently contributed to The Live Food Factor’s publication have distinguished themselves in a laborious and persevering effort to accomplish their goals. It is my belief that your readership will respond favorably to the well-established, authenticated, and convincing facts outlined in the over 700 pages.

Enclosed: my check in the amount of $50.oo to apply where most needed at The Homestead and as a reward for your work of 2 years.

Love,

Harold in Indiana

Dear Victoria,

AlleluYah! I’ve been waiting so very long for The Live Food Factor. I almost thought it was not destined to come out… but you know, God Almighty may have had a hand in this; and it just wasn’t meant to come out before this. Maybe in these dire times we are facing, people will look at themselves and pay attention for all need to be in the best of health to face the turmoil that is surely ahead of all of us on the national front… putting aside our personal problems. And I know Canada is in financial straits… just as surely as America is!

Thank you so very much for sending me a copy of this exciting book that has the plastic combs so the pages can be opened and stay opened as needed for good study! I didn’t expect you to gift me with that, and I am so very appreciative.

I promise I will send you a more thorough book review once I have had more time to have fun reading through it. I have already, however, found out what a wonderful index you have, for I looked up “dog food” immediately once I opened it because that is a question I have and haven’t had time to search for my answer. I constantly look through the book for other things, as well.

And then I went to “The Table of Contents.” WOW! It is a long one… and how complete! As I looked through it, I wanted to take the time to read through every section you have included… I realize, and happily, that you have arranged it with such complete descriptions, that whatever my problem or question, I can go right to the spot I need to help me out. For I, like you, am always trying to help people to eat better and to live more healthy lifestyles… and many are not inspired to change. And I did read through all the objections you and Susan have included to change, and you have hit every objection right on the head! Maybe just using the way you have pointed out the weaknesses of those needing help may instill some with inner strength and resolve.

Everything I have read and looked over so far is so far better than I could have hoped for. Thank you again, Victoria, for all the work you have done to get this edition fixed. “Doctor Vetrano’s Foreword” is really descriptive and makes anyone reading it want to jump right in and be part of a movement to restore their good health.

I pray this mailing finds you and HighJoy in health and happiness. And I know prosperity will surely follow your part of His Ministry. Thank you for being my friend.

May Our Saviour Bless You,

Love,

Susan Jean Erhard in Arkansas.

P.S. If you would like me to send you something extra for the special binding of one of these volumes, please do let me know. It is well worth it.

Dear Susan, Victoria, and of course, HighJoy, too!!!

I spent about 2 weeks looking over the wonderful Live Food Factor and realized something every time I picked up the book: All of us who are now owners of this book are in possession of a GOLD MINE!!!

The very first positive is that it is so easy to read. I didn’t have to have a dictionary handy to look up every other word. It is understandable and easy-to-comprehend — and that would hold true for someone who would pick up the book for the first time having no “health” knowledge whatsoever. What a bonus for all those seeking better health after years of abusing his or her body!

I prefer eating my food raw. According to the majority of people these days, that is grounds for being “weird”! Of course, it isn’t quite as bad these days as it was many years ago (when I first started) and when it really wasn’t “cool” and certainly NOT good for anyone! Upon first picking up this book, I found it to be an instant friend. It had so many familiar topics, and yet, had additional information that was most beneficial. In particular was the Vitamin B12 issue/controversy. I appreciated the thorough discussion and thought it brought to light the reason why there is a B12 deficiency and how it can be overcome before it surfaces as a problem.

“The Table of Contents” is my lifesaver to direct me to the topics that are of personal interest. It is a treat to go back and forth from one part to another — a process that literally becomes addictive. (Whoops — that’s a good thing?) The “Index” is second to none!! The “Glossary” — perfect!!! And believe it or not, you even had the Ecopolitan in Minnesota listed in the “Restaurants”!!! WOW! It has been my pleasure to have dined there — two different times when in the area! Really Good!

Thank you for keeping at it and doing this special favor for all of us! The Live Food Factor will take its rightful place as a back-up to the best of the best: The Health Seekers’ YearBook. I need no others. These 2 say it all!

In Love,

Marth Jensen in Minnesota

Find out for yourself why Dr. Vivian Vetrano says " The Live Food Factor is the very best book on alternative healthcare ever done."

Victoria, I have just finished reading The Live Food Factor. This is a landmark book. It is most comprehensive in that it leaves out no ideas, authors, related books of importance, or research findings. As far as live food/raw eating is concerned, all web addresses, bibliography, and supplier contacts are given. Indeed, this book is the fruit of the labor of love. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Please pass my congratulations to Susan Schenck. There is going to be a great demand for this work. Best Regards, Mohammed in India

Dear Victoria, First of all, let me thank you for sending me 3 books with the special bindings as your gift! THANK YOU! By the time I get around to writing you at length my opinion of Susan’s book and yours, all the superlatives will have been used by others; and I will need to invent a new super-word, which this book surely so richly deserves. I call the book: “A Life Owner’s Operating Manual.” It has helped me enormously on my own road to rawness. I am sure that it will help others to help themselves to a more healthful life, even if each reader only comes to realize that he himself or she herself is “The One and Only Keeper of My Own Flame of Life!” In all the years I have been advocating Natural Hygiene, I had never been able to convince even one single person to pursue it — until now. The lady friend, to whom I had asked you to send a book anonymously, has begun to adopt many of the Energy Enhancers and methods expounded in it! By likewise distributing the book to friends and relatives, they have come to see some of the grand benefits of Natural Hygiene — finally! Some of them are trying hard to implement as many of the precepts as they are able, given that they have spent their lives formerly so deeply immersed in another philosophy altogether. I want to thank you personally for all your many kindnesses to me for, LO, these many years now — and — to thank all of those who worked so hard to bring this marvelous book to fruition. Always in your corner, Victoria, as you fight the Food Giants into submission. With Great Affection, Judith Shuter in Hookset, New Jersey

VICTORIA! The Live Food Factor was GREAT!! Now reading Health Seekers’ YearBook with The Best of Common Health Sense. Hope all is well with you and that beautiful HighJoy!!! The week of November 5th, 2008, I received — along with some delicious snackies — The Live Food Factor. I began reading it the very next day. On the 18th, I started MY RAW JOURNAL to track anything and everything from emotions to weight loss. Today is December 14th, 2008. To date, I have released 13 pounds, fasted on water only for 1 day (to celebrate being health- conscious most of the month!) and have increased my self-knowledge and self-mastery. I finished reading The Live Food Factor from cover to cover yesterday. I truly believe it has given me the encouragement I have been without to go raw and stay A-LIVE! God gives us an amazing smorgasbord of live foods — so, pick something yummy and delight in it! Anna Kulcsar in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dear GetWell Friends — I have promised Victoria a “Praise Report, and I have had an opportunity to read some of the glowing reviews of The Live Food Factor on Amazon.com, but I see no point in repeating others’ praise and prose or variations thereof. I can, however, bring something totally unique among the many Live Food Factor book reviews by inserting my ‘2¢’ in this way: “I WAS THERE!” Indeed, from mid-December 2007 to mid-February 2008, I was a guest at Victoria BidWell’s “Health Seekers’ Hacienda” in Concrete, Washington, aptly named “Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods.” While there, I witnessed the first meeting between Susan Schenck and Victora BidWell. Susan had left the sunny clime of San Diego to sally forth into the frosty Northwest in order to discuss key details and their contract. I say “first meeting,” because up to that point, their Live Food Factor relationship had been carried on via telephone and Internet, a period of 18 months. Ah! Distinctly, I remember. It was in the bleak December,” to quote Edgar Allen Poe. I have a likewise distinct memory of sitting with the two authors in the cozy living room of the guesthouse, as the arguments for or against various points went back and forth, such as how much emphasis to place on a given topic or sub-topic. They even allowed an outsider to make the odd suggestion! So, over the 9-week period of my stay in Concrete, I was a ringside witness to the huge task these ladies were undertaking. And I marvelled at Victoria’s marathon editing/rereading sessions, which several times went on until dawn. This book, in my opinion, deserves a second “Most Progressive Health Book” award, this time for 2008, to bookend the first one garnered in 2007. When I received the 25 copies I ordered from Victoria, I showed The Live Food Factor to those health advisors with whom I work: medical doctor, health specialist and consultant, naturopath, chiropractor, nutritionist, raw-food retreat owner, and dentist. All them bought one copy of the book except for my dentist. He purchased four. Enough said. Congratulations to Victoria and Susan for this book! I am absolutely sure it will help all who read and apply the principles and suggestions! Compared to life without the live food factor applied, these energetic Health Seekers will surely reach greater heights of health and find higher realms of joy while bound for prosperity and glory! Greg Crook in Ontario, Canada.

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Up until about five thousand human generations ago, it was unheard of to cook one’s food. As man and food evolved, the two have become less and less compatible, especially given modern man’s penchant for artificial, processed, refined, sugar-laden, fatty "foods." In her first book, titled The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit, & Planet, author Susan Schenck weaves scientific proof, testimonials, and history, presenting the most comprehensive raw foods guide ever. Need scientific proof of healing via raw diet? Schenck has reviewed more than 60 scientific experiments from all over the world. For those needing more handholding, Schenck gives a blow-by-blow account of "going raw," both cold turkey and more gradually. This 660-page tome is split into five sections: One is an overview of the benefits of going raw. Two showcases the scientific reasons for going raw. Three highlights the raw movement’s history and its leadership. Four is a complete how-to manual. The final section presents additional reference material with comprehensive bibliographies and an extensive Resource Guide that includes listings of health retreats and fasting institutions, pertinent web links, raw food restaurants, and mail order sources for raw foods and kitchen gadgets. Over 130 flavorful recipes round out the book, called by the president of Living Tree Community Jesse Schwartz "the best compendium we’ve seen on alive food." The just released Second Edition has been expanded, revised, and updated in collaboration with natural health educators Victoria BidWell, Dr. Vivian V. Vetrano, MD, and Dr. Tosca Haag, MD, to include new testimonials from long-time raw fooders, a chapter on how to raise children raw from birth, a comprehensive primer on the nondietary factors of health including a compilation of the Laws of Life and a list of the ten energy enhancers a chapter on therapeutic fasting, another on detoxification methods and symptoms, and additional material on techniques for breaking addictions of all sorts. You will find the rules for proper food combining along with the category classifications of individual foods, sample menus, and a seasonal eating plan. There is a an appendix on the history of the pharmaceutical drug scam, another on behavioral modification techniques for overcoming addictions of all sorts, and even an appendix covering the practice of raw meat eating and the theories that support it. The First Edition of this book won Independent Publisher Publication of the Year first place award as Most Progressive Health Book of 2007. "For 24 years the mission at Independent Publisher has been to recognize and encourage the work of publishers who exhibit the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society." Author Joe Alexander (Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda!) has declared Schenck’s book to be "the most impressive and convincing book on the subject I’ve ever seen. … It will be the new classic of the raw food movement." Raw food author and chef Paul Nison concurs with many others when he declares, "The Live Food Factor is the most comprehensive book ever written about the raw food diet. Anyone interested in health should own a copy. Susan Schenck did a great job. I’m excited about this book because I know it will help people." About the author and her collaborators: Susan Schenck is a licensed acupuncturist (L.Ac.) with a Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine (M.T.O.M.) degree from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She also has a B.S. in education and an M.S. in Applied Linguistics from Indiana University. She has taught all grade levels from preschool through university. Extensive travel throughout the world has enhanced her receptivity to new ideas. Victoria BidWell is a former high school teacher who has more than two decades experience in writing, teaching, counseling, and promoting natural health practices. Dr. Vetrano has over 50 years of clinical experience in helping sick patients regain health. Her daughter Tosca Haag, raised raw from birth, has chosen to carry on her mother clinical work. Editor and raw diet consultant Bob Avery has more than 15 years experience living the diet and writing and researching it independently.

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