Comments on: Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/ Mouth watering recipes from all over the world that are simple, light on your wallet, quick and easy to make! Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tracy Bunnell http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Tracy Bunnell Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:01:11 +0000 http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/#comment-326 Great nutrition plan for athletes. You can build with this plan. Great info for everyone. Rating: 5 / 5 Great nutrition plan for athletes. You can build with this plan. Great info for everyone.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Alex Kneller http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Alex Kneller Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:51:49 +0000 http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/#comment-325 This book makes good sense and generally provides good advise. The most interesting points to me as an athlete and a vegetarian were about how eating raw food helps with the recovery time, what kind of foods best to eat before and after exercise. He has some interesting recipes for energy bars and shakes. However, there was too much self advertising - gets to be very annoying. Lots of "facts" that are unsupported by any evidence. And I found it to be not very well organized. Rating: 3 / 5 This book makes good sense and generally provides good advise. The most interesting points to me as an athlete and a vegetarian were about how eating raw food helps with the recovery time, what kind of foods best to eat before and after exercise. He has some interesting recipes for energy bars and shakes. However, there was too much self advertising – gets to be very annoying. Lots of “facts” that are unsupported by any evidence. And I found it to be not very well organized.
Rating: 3 / 5

]]> By: The Agnostic Sheep http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-324 The Agnostic Sheep Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:57:38 +0000 http://www.recipesgalore.com.au/cook-books/thrive-the-vegan-nutrition-guide-to-optimal-performance-in-sports-and-life/#comment-324 Yet another 'raw' food book. There is no scientific evidence that a 'raw' food diet is any better than a mainly cooked plant based diet. <br />Some good points about the book: <br />- some good recipes, especially dips, smoothies and snacks <br />- good chapter explaining the different types of grains and why we should eat them <br />- good writeup about various kinds of superfoods <br />Bad points: <br />- an excessive amount of mentions of his 'products' <br />- recommendation to use coconut oil, coconut oil is still highly controversial. An athelete like MR Brazier may be able to easily burn off all the calories in coconut oil but for most non-athletic types, the calories will be turned straight into fat. <br /> <br /> Rating: 3 / 5 Yet another ‘raw’ food book. There is no scientific evidence that a ‘raw’ food diet is any better than a mainly cooked plant based diet.

Some good points about the book:

- some good recipes, especially dips, smoothies and snacks

- good chapter explaining the different types of grains and why we should eat them

- good writeup about various kinds of superfoods

Bad points:

- an excessive amount of mentions of his ‘products’

- recommendation to use coconut oil, coconut oil is still highly controversial. An athelete like MR Brazier may be able to easily burn off all the calories in coconut oil but for most non-athletic types, the calories will be turned straight into fat.

Rating: 3 / 5

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