Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' With Mother Nature
by Dick Gregory
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First published in 1974 and even more relevant today, a natural and whole foods guide the voice of black consciousness, cultural icon Dick Gregory, the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental activist, health advocate, social justice champion, and author of the NAACP Image Award-winning Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies and the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography. Written with Dick Gregory's irreverent wit and informed by his deep intelligence, show more Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat is for real people who are concerned about their health and wellness. Gregory offers an enlightening introduction to natural foods, and offers a wickedly amusing and informative assessment of how our modern diet damages the human digestive tract, and raises our consciousness about the political power of food. Gregory argues that how you treat yourself and your body reflects how you treat others. He discusses various fasts and the ones he's done for both political and health reasons, hunger in America, navy beans, and how Americans are changing the way they eat-the beginning of a movement in the 1970s that is still felt today. He offers suggestions on diets to help you gain or lose pounds and offers advice on natural substitutes for favorite alcoholic drinks. You are what you eat-with Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat you can laugh your way to better health. show lessTags
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From Omnivore to Fruitarian in seven short years, this is the journey that mr. gregory discribes, as he went from 288 lbs to less than 100 lbs and for which he replied "I've lost so much weight that nonviolence is no longer a tactic its a necessity"....yep he's funny and irreverent as ever. He gives very good advice on how to gain weight and how to lose poundage in just four months. Of course his plan is only for the dedicated and definately not for the waffler. Discussed in the book additionally is how to have a healthy baby, how to have a healthy pet and how to help your plants be as nutritionally healthy as possible.....you'll love it.
Ahead of its time in may ways, but at least half the nutrition advice is pseudoscience at best. And I most certainly will not be taking his advice on enemas, lol.
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Dick Gregory (1932-2017) was a comedian, civil rights activist, and cultural icon who first performed in public in the 1950s. He is on Comedy Central's list of "100 Greatest Standups" and was the author of sixteen books, most notably, the bestselling classic Nigger: An Autobiography and the NAACP Image Award-winning Defining Moments in Black show more History. show less
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