Recipes for Life: From the Fitonics Kitchen - Hardcover

On the holistic level, Diamond's recommendations are similar to the positive thinking and meditative routines presented by other popular New Age gurus. On the dietary level, advice includes when, what, and how to eat. For example, Diamond suggests eating your main meal at midday and gives guidance for using carbohydrates for a mellowing effect. Her main emphasis, however, is on consuming raw foods. She claims that raw food is so full of nutrients and enzymes that "it digests on its own, without requiring any ... digestive energy from your body." The result is that you have increased vitality for everything from thinking more clearly to losing weight.

Much as Diamond favors raw foods, the meat, fish, and poultry recipes created by her daughter, Lisa Neuwirth, who is a graduate of Culinary Institute of America, are as impressive as those for grain-free Fruesli, spicy Gazpacho Arizona, and a whole-grain Lemon-Chocolate Bread Pudding. --Dana Jacobi

MARILYN DIAMOND, co-author of Fit For Life, the best-selling diet and health book in publishing history, has been a leading spokesperson in the natural health movement for more than two decades. Her recently published FITONICS FOR LIFE, co-authored with her husband Dr. Donald Burton Schnell, takes the Fit for Life message to a new level with a total wellness program that includes exercise, diet, and spiritual awareness.

RECIPES FOR LIFE: From the Fitonics Kitchen, co-authored with Marilyn's daughter Lisa Neuwirth, continues the mind/body/spirit connection, making healthy eating more attractive than ever with delicious easy-to-prepares for all occasions.

Ms. Diamond has reached out beyond her writing to become a tireless worldwide emissary for healthy living. In frequent demand as a lecturer, she has made multiple appearances, on "Oprah," "Donahue," "The Merv Griffen Show, "Sally Jessy Raphael," "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," "The Home Show," "Larry King Live," "The Today Show," and many others. Her other books include: TheAmerican Vegetarian Cookbook and A New Way of Eating from the Fit for Life Kitchen.