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Dear Health Enthusiasts!I am so happy to share these collected PRAISE REPORTS

from GetWell Friends. I hope you will use them to feel thefriendship and fun they exude and use the inspiration andmotivation they provide! Many of these GetWell Friends I haveknown for many years, and some are brand-new to Our Great,Global Health Revolution. I hope you will share these PRAISEREPORTS around the world! As you can see, these are not onlyinstructive. They are entertaining and even adorable to read —simply because they are so personalized, as would yours be!

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1•••••Dear Victoria,

I received The Live Food Factor on 10/7/2008. I have started reading it — skippingaround from place to place. I read what is important to me first. I’m doing it this way becauseI already understand the practical reasons for eating raw foods and Natural Hygiene. Yourexcellent teaching over the years has served me well. I’ve been eating raw or mostly raw for26 years. I especially enjoy the real experiences of actual people. EVERYONE WHO EATSSHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THIS BOOK! This is the TRUE CHANGE that all peopleneed.

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

The section on eating raw meat just did not appeal to me. Even cooked meat does notinterest me. I just do not desire to eat the once living tissues of an animal. This book givesus the science behind the God-given Genesis 1:29 Diet. If the first people had done what Godwanted, our world be a paradise today! AMEN! Sharon Stevens in Arkansas



I would like to congratulate you and Susan for your magnificent work. It is a veryimpressive, valuable, complete, informative piece of art. Thank you for your contribution tohumanity, 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 naturalprocesses 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


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 inyour listings. But, between you and me, it was extremely good to see The Live Food Factor’spackage in my mailbox! What an excellent book to have and to also give as a gift. I did notwant to put it down after I started reading it. What a masterpiece! Congratulations on a jobwell done! Blessings to you and all things good! Love & prayers, Gene in Wisconsin

4•••••Hi, Victoria!

Thank you for the special binding you treated me to — it makes the book much easierto handle. I haven’t read the entire book, but it is a masterpiece. You and Susan should becongratulated for the monumental job of creating it and rewriting it. It will save generationsto come with the valuable information it contains. I’m sure it will be recognized as theultimate answer to all questions regarding Natural Hygiene and “The Great American HealthRevolution!” Ron Riley in Florida

5•••••Dear Victoria, Congratulations and THANK YOU for completing The Live FoodFactor project — finally — after your 2 years of effort. All of us will use and appreciate thewonderful references of Natural Hygiene information backed up with Susan’s collection ofresearch supporting raw eating! You are a treasure!

The world is interesting. WE are experiencing a shift. People change when somethingforces them to change. In the on-the-street-people level of work I do in both health andenvironment relative to food, I see an opening. Reality is beginning to show itself. People areopening 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’sefforts for compiling this compendium for all of us!”

Victoria, you are now at the peak-top of your game. What else have you planned forus? 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


6•••••Victoria, I waited a long, long time for this book to arrive. I knew it would be a greatbook, but I didn’t know it would be THE GREATEST HEALTH BOOK I OWN! It haseverything you need to know to become healthy. It has a wealth of knowledge, a treasure ofinspiration, and a pile of testimonies. This book will end any confusion. The wait was wellworth it. Hats off! Thanks, Thanks, and Many More Thanks, John Franco in Pennsylvania

7•••••THANKS! THANKS! What can I say, Victoria? The book is amazing and containsmore 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 andsuffered on this. Gave my grandson one, and he won’t put it down. THANKS, AGAIN,VICTORIA! Peg Thieman in Wisconsin

8•••••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 Ihave ever read! Thank you for rewriting Chapter 14 and writing almost all of Chapter 15!

It’s very easy to find anything I want to know on health, by the wonderful way you setup “The Table of Contents.” I LOVE the way each chapter is headed by big, bold letters. Ican 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 whenthey 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 youplay such difficult music by Chopin, Rachmeninoff, and Mozart at your age?” I told him itwas my diet and lifestyle that made it possible. I have removed all toxic foods. He wanted toknow what my diet was. Upon hearing, his eyes got real big. He almost went into orbit: “Beingon 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 uptheir favorite foods. Nevertheless, I am ordering 2 more of The Live Food Factors to sharewith people who really need the teachings. I want to leave 1 in my piano studio, with the ideathat 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 isdepressing. I ask them, “Do you eat a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner?” They are happy totell me exactly what they eat. Their diets are so bad I think they would kill a horse! I knowthat SAD foods play havoc with young bodies and minds. The high sugar diet has madechildren very hyperactive, as have all the drugs they get from their medical treatments. I amnow witnessing a great decline in the minds and bodies and ability to focus among today’syouth. This wonderful Live Food Factor should open many doors to TRUTH. The drugindustries have had their ways with us for too long. Sincerely, Wayne Reid in Illinois


9•••••Dear Victoria, I just received my giant, raw book in the mail... it has so muchinformation. 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 themonth in a local cafe: “Borrowed Earth Cafe” in Downer’s Grove. A husband and wife teamowns the cafe. Her husband regenerated his back through raw foods, stretching, and mentalwork. 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

10•••••My Dear Victoria,

I enjoyed your greeting card picturing an eagle, an animal known for its ability to soargracefully and effortlessly thousands of feet above the surface of the Earth, and which couldnot for 1 moment be able to ascend to those winged and panoramic heights were it not forGod’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 lookat 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 SUPERLATIVERATING — THE BEST! The new book is a scholarly tome, superbly compiled andmeticulously detailed.

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

Enclosed: my check in the amount of $50.oo to apply where most needed at TheHomestead and as a reward for your work of 2 years. Love, Harold in Indiana

11•••••Amazon review by Dr. Stanley Bass, ND, DC, PhC, PhD, DO , DSc, DD — 90 year-old Natural Hygiene Doctor

The Live Food Factor is a veritable treasure-trove of valuable techniques andinformation for changing one’s body, mind, and spiritual direction into physical and mentalhealth and happiness. I found it so fascinating that I just could not put it down! I would wakeup at 2 A.M. and could not put it down till 7 A.M. I lost sleep over it! The case history studiesare most interesting and inspirational. I admire the author’s open-mindedness in presentinga broad spectrum of diets which include foods and regimens different than most raw fooddiets — diets which are Paleolithic as used by hunter-gatherers, the writings of Dr. WestonPrice, etc. This book is encyclopedic in scope and should be in the possession of all doctors,nutritionists, and lay people. It’s full of excellent information, which can be valuable for allpersons interested in vibrant health and a meaningful life. I recommend it very highly.

Warning to all: Those who dare to open this volume should give up all hope ofremaining the same afterward! Your life will be changed — forever and irrevocably!


12•••••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 facethe turmoil that is surely ahead of all of us on the national front... putting aside our personalproblems. 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 plasticcombs so the pages can be opened and stay opened as needed for good study! I didn’t expectyou 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 tohave fun reading through it. I have already, however, found out what a wonderful index youhave. I looked up “dog food” immediately once I opened it because that is a question I haveand haven’t had time to search for my answer. I constantly look through the book for otherthings, as well.

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

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

I pray this mailing finds you and HighJoy in health and happiness. And I knowprosperity will surely follow your part of His Ministry. Thank you for being my friend. MayOur Saviour Bless You, Love, Susan Jean Erhard in Arkansas. P.S. If you would like me tosend you something extra for the special binding of one of these volumes, please do let meknow. It is well worth it.

13•••••To Victoria BidWell:

Here is my review we talked about. The Live Food Factor, in plain English, isencyclopedic in scope. It is also, contrary to many books in the field of nutrition, fair inpresenting different expert opinions, thus giving the reader broad information for makingintelligent decisions. This is an excellent book for anyone who works to keep his or her bodyand mind in excellent health! Dan Lessner in Claymont, Delaware


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

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

The very first positive is that it is so easy to read. I didn’t have to have a dictionaryhandy to look up every other word. It is understandable and easy-to-comprehend — and thatwould 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 abusinghis or her body!

I prefer eating my food raw. According to the majority of people these days, that isgrounds for being “weird”! Of course, it isn’t quite as bad these days as it was many yearsago (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 familiartopics, and yet, had additional information that was most beneficial. In particular was theVitamin B12 issue/controversy. I appreciated the thorough discussion and thought it broughtto light the reason why there is a B12 deficiency and how it can be overcome before it surfacesas a problem.

“The Table of Contents” is my lifesaver to direct me to the topics that are of personalinterest. It is a treat to go back and forth from one part to another — a process that literallybecomes 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 Minnesotalisted in the “Restaurants”!!! WOW! It has been my pleasure to have dined there — twodifferent times when in the area! Really Good!

Thank you for keeping at it and doing this special favor for all of us! The Live FoodFactor 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, Martha Jensen in Minnesota

15•••••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 beautifulHighJoy!!! The week of November 5th, 2008, I received — along with some delicioussnackies — The Live Food Factor. I began reading it the very next day. On the 18th, I startedMY RAW JOURNAL to track anything and everything from emotions to weight loss. Todayis 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 coveryesterday. I truly believe it has given me the encouragement I have been without to go rawand stay A-LIVE! God gives us an amazing smorgasbord of live foods — so, pick somethingyummy and delight in it! Anna Kulcsar in Baltimore, Maryland.


16•••••Dear GetWell Friends —

I have promised Victoria a “Praise Report, and I have had an opportunity to read someof the glowing reviews of The Live Food Factor on Amazon.com, but I see no point inrepeating others’ praise and prose or variations thereof. I can, however, bring somethingtotally unique among the many Live Food Factor book reviews by inserting my ‘2¢’ in thisway: “I WAS THERE!” Indeed, from mid-December 2007 to mid-February 2008, I was aguest at Victoria BidWell’s “Health Seekers’ Hacienda” in Concrete, Washington, aptlynamed “Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods.” While there, I witnessed the first meetingbetween Susan Schenck and Victora BidWell. Susan had left the sunny clime of San Diegoto 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 carriedon 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 ofthe guesthouse, as the arguments for or against various points went back and forth, such ashow much emphasis to place on a given topic or sub-topic. They even allowed an outsiderto make the odd suggestion! So, over the 9-week period of my stay in Concrete, I was aringside witness to the huge task these ladies were undertaking. And I marveled at Victoria’smarathon editing/rereading sessions, which several times went on until dawn. This book, inmy 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 Factorto those health advisors with whom I work: medical doctor, health specialist and consultant,naturopath, chiropractor, nutritionist, raw-food retreat owner, and dentist. All of them eachbought 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 helpall who read and apply the principles and suggestions! Compared to life without the live foodfactor applied, these energetic Health Seekers will surely reach greater heights of health andfind higher realms of joy while bound for prosperity and glory!

Greg Crook in Ontario, Canada

17•••••Victoria!

I hope you hear from my niece soon. She promised to me that she would buy The LiveFood Factor from you, for her mom my sis, but also because she is obese... and cannot yetsee the light. I hope the book will wake her up also. GREAT JOB! This book is a mini-encyclopedia, chock full of good information and pointers. I will keep spreading the word!Thank you, Victoria, for everything you keep doing for us every day. The Lord bless yourgood heart. Love, Aida Suarez in Tuscon, Arizona


18•••••By Doug Neagles:

This is the most comprehensive coverage of the live food diet ever. For both those whohave followed is the addition of contributing author Victoria BidWell’s information on theNatural Hygiene Movement. Evident by the multiple forewords, acknowledgments, andprefaces, this book was a global effort. Susan Schenck is not just out to make a buck, althoughThe Live Food Factor is worth every penny. She is genuinely concerned about the health ofher fellow man and wants to lay it all out for you to see the truth about the damaging effectsof a cooked food diet and how eating raw can provide your body with what it needs so thatit can heal itself. Susan Schenck’s primary goal is to get the most current, most accurate, andmost complete information out to the public. She surrounded herself with the mostknowledgeable people in the field and let them write the parts that they know best. She listsmost every known scientific study on the subject of raw food and most every known literaryand online resource available. The Live Food Factor is not meant to be the final word in rawfood, but a starting place.

I initially found this book to be overwhelming in size. Then I started reading, and thepositive energy set forth in the opening pages sent a tingle of excitement through my body.I felt like I was about to open the door to a secret world of health that few know about. Thetestimonials of people who have started eating raw foods just continued that feeling. ThenSusan gets into the science. This section is important for grounding the reader in fact andproof. I admire Susan for not giving just a 1-sided approach to issues. She talks about thenegative effects that can come from a raw food diet. I think this is very important in convertingnewcomers as well as getting backsliders back on track. You have to know all the ups anddowns to be able to weather them. The Live Food Factor is all that it promises and more. Thereis a large family of raw fooders out there that is just waiting to embrace us cooked-foodaddicts. This book is the first hug.

19•••••M. Hagerty in San Diego, California:

I recommend The Live Food Factor to anyone who is interested in health. This bookis a great help to Baby Boomers to prevent or reverse disease and slow down aging. Butyounger generations should also read it to keep their youth and health.

My husband and I knew Susan when she was battling Hepatitis C. She looked pale,haggard, worn down, and depressed. Then one day, we saw her radiant, glowing, andenergetic! She said it was due to the raw food diet. This inspired us to eat more raw.

We LOVE the recipes in her book. But this book has so much more than recipes! It ispacked with many inspirational testimonials and enough science to convince even medicaldoctors. It is a complete “how to” and reference book to keep forever. This second edition ismore complete than the first since it includes many other health tips besides diet. It goes intomuch greater detail about the true causes of illness. It includes several new [and completelyrewritten] chapters, such as fasting and how to feed children with this diet [the bulk of whichwas written exclusively by Victoria BidWell and edited by Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano].

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20•••••Dear Victoria,First of all, let me thank you for sending me 3 books I had on order — and with the

special bindings as your gift! THANK YOU! By the time I get around to writing you at lengthmy opinion of Susan’s book and yours, all the superlatives will have been used by others; andI will need to invent a new super-word, which this book surely so richly deserves. I call thebook: “A Life Owner’s Operating Manual.”

It has helped me enormously on my own road to rawness. I am sure that it will helpothers to help themselves to a more healthful life, even if each reader only comes to realizethat 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 toconvince even one single person to pursue it — until now. The lady friend, to whom I hadasked you to send a book anonymously, has begun to adopt many of the Energy Enhancersand methods expounded in it! By likewise distributing the book to friends and relatives, theyhave come to see some of the grand benefits of Natural Hygiene — finally! Some of them aretrying hard to implement as many of the precepts as they are able, given that they have spenttheir 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 manyyears now — and — to thank all of those who worked so hard to bring this marvelous bookto fruition. Always in your corner, Victoria, as you fight the Food Giants into submission.With Great Affection, Judith Shuter in Hookset, New Jersey

21••••• Hi, Victoria,

I have read most of The Live Food Factor, and I can honestly say: “It is the most factualand informational book on health I have ever read. It’s like having Doctors Shelton, Vetrano,Tilden, Trall, Bragg, and so many others speaking directly to me as personal advisors.” Thebook is so complete. It also gives many opinions on various subjects to look at and make upmy own decisions. I appreciated that. YOU ALL DID A GREAT JOB! Jim O’Kelly inValparaiso, Indiana

22•••••Victoria — I love The Live Food Factor. Could not put it down. Read it from coverto cover. Then went back and read more. I read everything I get from you — over and over!Love, Geneva Brummett in Sarasota, Florida

23•••••Hello, Victoria!

I am enjoying and learning from The Live Food Factor. Such a wealth of information!I bought a copy for my niece who is going to college in Oregon State and is excited to try goingraw. Finds the book most thorough! As for myself — I’m still transitioning after all theseyears. My will power at times is so very weak, but I am staying at it. I am 50% to 60% rawon any given week. This was GREAT WORK! I know you work very hard. Mark Hughes inMiddleton, Pennyslvania


24•••••Victoria,

I can’t understand how you can afford to sell this Live Food Factor book so cheaply.I pay that much for books with less than 200 pages. Keep up the good work. Danny Freemanin Charlotte, North Carolina

25•••••High, Victoria...

Enclosed is $50 for 2 more FACTORs to be sent to my 2 daughters. I just want THEFACTOR in their homes. Like THE HOLY BIBLE, THE FACTOR should be there! They canreach for it as the need arises.

I have a grandson who is healthy. His mom was raised on Maui on mostly papaya andmangoes. Plus, I have 2 grandsons on the way — so, the mothers will have THE FACTORsin their libraries, on the bookshelves. They have to want to read it. They will. So, I thank you2 women for your research and creation of “THE LIVE FOOD NEW WORLD BIBLE.”Michael Bobier in Santa Rosa, California


I loved The Live Food Factor book. I need more copies. I went to a friend’s wedding,and the bride’s father gave a big speech about how his daughter always “went after the truthin all matters.” So, for a wedding gift, I wrapped up my copy that I had not even read verymuch of yet and gave it to her as a present with a note: “For you who want to know the truth,here is a truth that may benefit you.” I also have 2 sisters who are into vegetarian lifestyles.One of them is a veterinarian, and she wants to know: “Where is the proof?” She willespecially appreciate the chapter and appendix. She knows of my extended fast at Dr. D.J.Scott’s Institute in 2003, and I know I need to do it again. To sum things up, I plan to get ridof and settle my previous home, improve my own Natural Hygiene lifestyle, and see if I canpromote a program to not let Natural Hygiene die in this area.

Wishing you all the best in health and success in your new ventures in 2009, BarbaraSeltzer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio

27•••••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 labour oflove. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Please pass my congratulations to Susan Schenck. There isgoing to be a great demand for this work. Best Regards, Mohammed in India


28•••••Dear Victoria,I received the book order 2 days ago with The Holiday Sampler of 25 of your

“GREAT & YUMMY GETWELL EDIBLES”! The raw Nutty Nuggets candy! Wow, it’sterrific! And my husband ate most of it already. I hope you have a recipe for it because Iwill have to start making it for him now.

My brother in Washington will get the first book from this order, but I have alreadygiven 1 of my copies I had to my daughter. Good news, she decided to not have the surgeryand just try nutrition. Not completely raw now but a lot more of it and some juicing, too.I have a juice book by N.W. Walker D. Sc. that I have used in the past and have told herto get 1 of her own.

The book, The Live Food Factor, has been a God-send for me. I have beentransitioning to raw for about 5 years and have never really been able to quite go all theway for any length of time. My husband is a cooked food eater, and I fix his meals, so Ialso end up eating them. This was before I started reading The Live Food Factor.

The Prefaces and Introduction were great, and a lot of the things said were more orless duplicated from other books I have read on going raw. That was why I have been tryingto go all-raw. Then I got to the first chapter, and I read something that made me realize thatcooked food does virtually the same thing in a lesser degree that a microwave does, andI haven’t used a microwave in about 15 years. So if I’m not going to use a microwavebecause of what it does to the food, why should I cook it with the same results? Wow, haveI been dumb — or what?

Anyway, I told my husband that I was finally going all raw on January 1st and thatI would fix enough for both of us and that if he wanted anything other than raw, he wouldhave to fix it himself. He AGREED! What a relief that was. And I’ve been raw ever since.It’s not as hard as I thought it was going to be.

I have read the book from cover to cover and have been using some of the recipesalong with other recipes books I have. My husbands response just the other day was, “Ilike eating this way!” YEAHHHH! Now, I am taking the USANA supplements with Dr.Tosca’s coaching and your sponsoring. I wonder what this New Year will bring with allthese wonderful changes?

Victoria, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You — for all your hard work on the book.I will use it for referencing, for recipes, for passing it on to others who want or need it.

And I will probably read it from cover to cover again. Next time, I will go slowerand look at all the references and web sites along the way. This book will not be put onthe bookshelf after having been read and then forgotten. It will be in my kitchen, ready andwaiting to be picked up quickly along with your book: 2 BOOKS IN 1: The Health Seekers’YearBook with The Best of Common Health Sense. Thanks again for your contribution tothis book. I think it is worth all you put into it. Love, Janet Myerberg in Burbank, California


29•••••DAVID KLEIN, Ph.D., VIBRANCE MAGAZINE in Sebastopol, California,regarding The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet forBody, Mind, Spirit & Planet by Susan E. Schenck, LAc with Victoria BidWell, Ph.D.,Ed.D.

The Live Food Factor is the first comprehensive guide to not only the raw fooddiet, but also the raw food movement itself. This diet is sweeping America as peoplediscover its power to not only make a body lean, but also keep disease at bay and assisthealing of what are typically considered “incurable” diseases. It stands as the most wellresearched book on raw foodism on the market and may stand as the best in its field forall time.

The second edition of The Live Food Factor is an updated, expanded, and revised,comprehensive guide to the raw food diet, with a section on inspiration, a section onscience, a section on the history of raw foodism, a complete how-to section, includingfrequently asked questions & answers and recipes. It contains 66 scientific studies tosupport the superiority of eating raw. This second edition brings a summary of all thebenefits of Natural Hygiene, as well. It includes several chapters and appendices writtenmainly by Victoria BidWell, including the true cause of illness, how to detox, and anentire chapter on fasting. It also includes a new chapter written mainly by Dr. Vetrano andDr. Tosca Haag on how to get children to eat raw. There are new testimonials, many newrecipes, updated science studies, and even 3 new appendices to total 7. The secondedition of The Live Food Factor is packed with new and updated information. In fact, thisedition has about 37% more information! As one reviewer so cleverly wrote: “Everyonewho eats should read this book!”

The Live Food Factor stands as the most comprehensive book on raw foodism everpublished. This treasure trove of life-enhancing information is completely backed byempirical science. As a 24-year raw fooder and health scientist who has read all the rawfood books, personally knows the co-authors, and long ago recovered from a deadlyillness using the Natural Hygienic principles The Live Food Factor teaches, I’ll attest thatThe Live Food Factor is a sound guide to superior health — one that humanity needs toembrace. The variety of topics, especially the healing stories and conclusive scientificstudies, are almost endlessly infatuating. A health lover’s library is incomplete withoutthis 704-page masterpiece. If you desire to be break out of the shackles of conventionalthinking and harmful lifestyle habits and become truly healthy and vibrantly alive, digin and get inspired for life!

I close with this quote from the first foreword: “The Live Food Factor is the verybest book on alternative health care ever done. It contains more research on the benefitsof raw foods as well as the dangers of cooked foods ever amassed in one place.” — Dr.Vivian V. Vetrano, DC, hMD, PhD, DSci


30•••••Dear Victoria:

Congratulations on your contribution to creating, in my opinion, the best book on ourplanet relating to “ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE” and “RAW FOODS.” The Live FoodFactor book provides thorough, detailed, and comprehensive information that shouldenlighten and motivate all open-minded truth seekers in their quest to achieve a “LONGERLIFE SPAN WITH VIBRANT AND RADIANT HEALTH.” I taught Holistic Health atDaytona Beach Community College form 1981-1991. And I told my students: “The best bookon HEALTH is Victoria BidWell’s The Health Seeker’s Yearbook.” I wish I could contact eachand every one of them now and offer The Live Food Factor as an additional source ofenlightenment and inspiration. THE UNIVERSE PROVIDES FOR US EXTREMELYWELL WHEN WE SEIZE THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITIES, John W. Lynch, L.M.T., B.B.A.in Daytona Beach, Florida


The Live Food Factor is a wonderful book. And when I opened the package, all I couldsay was — “WOW!” It was well worth the 2-year wait for all the manifold improvements tothe text to make it Hygienically correct. Nobody could have done this job better than yourself,and your yeoman’s labor on this book is much appreciated. This is a wonderful reference bookto be read and reread. It is certainly a new classic in Natural Hygiene literature. Wishing youall the best in all your labors in the course of Natural Hygiene and a Healthy, Happy,Prosperous New Year. In closing, I am James Heney in Roslindale, Massachusetts.

32•••••Reviewed by Get Fresh! Magazine:

This [704-page] tome, arguably the most comprehensive book ever written on the rawdiet and lifestyle, is surely destined to become a classic. The 1st section covers the benefitsof this lifestyle, the 2nd showcases the scientific evidence backing it up, the 3rd chroniclesthe raw movement’s history and provides a who’s who guide to its leading experts, and the4th is a complete how-to manual.

This last section includes tips on getting started, detailed chapters on detoxification andfasting, tips on staying raw in a cooked world and a section looking at the different raw dietsand the most controversial nutritional issues. This second edition has acquired a NaturalHygiene slant thanks to the addition of Victoria BidWell as a co-author, but that doesn’tdetract from an impartial look at the choices available.

The highlight for many will be the summaries of 66 scientific studies [in Chapter 5] thatfound advantages of consuming raw foods and/or disadvantages of cooked foods. Never hasso much science supporting the raw diet been collected in one place before let alone madeavailable in such an easy-to-read book.


33•••••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 labour oflove. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Please pass my congratulations to Susan Schenck. There isgoing to be a great demand for this work. Best Regards, Mohammed in India

34•••••GetWell Friend Cara Mia Yowell’s Review for Amazon:

At 704 pages, this book leaves nothing out when it comes to the raw food diet. You willfind many recipes to get you started, but don’t think this is another one of those diet booksthat is devoid of content with numerous recipes to increase the page count. The Live FoodFactor has so much relative content and resources you will either become a convert to livingfoods, be supported in your current healthy lifestyle, or seriously consider changing in thenear future.

This guide is not a bunch of New Age fluff. Susan Schenk, the author, included manydocumented, scientific studies along with user experiences with photos. The Live FoodFactor even dares to expose some of the myths surrounding a raw food diet, explores someof the extreme branches of raw foodism, and balances the whole presentation with a greatprimer to the basic tenets of Natural Hygiene by Victoria BidWell.

I agree with Dr. Vivian Vetrano’s assessment that The Live Food Factor is not completewithout Victoria BidWell’s The Health Seekers’ YearBook with The Best of Common HealthSense (otherwise known as the new 2 Books in 1). BidWell’s book provides a whole year’sworth of easy menus for the beginning health enthusiast — including formulas to continuewith menu creation and with NO REPETITION! The amusing, amazing rhetoric and graphicsalone are worth the investment for 2 Books in 1.

If you were ever interested in finding out more about a raw food lifestyle but werediscouraged by the lack of evidence to support it, be sure to read The Live Food Factor. Thenget 2 BOOKS IN 1: The Health Seekers’ YearBook with The Best of Common Health Sense!

35•••••Hi Victoria,THE BOOK IS WOOOOOOONDEFUL! Everything you said

it would be and more. I gave a copy to a lady friend, and she ravesabout it. She takes it with her wherever she goes, quotes it and says“Finally, something I can understand!” You girls are the greatest!Raw Food and Natural Hygiene will never be same! Thank you!Thank you! Merry HighJoy Christmas and Happy, Happy NewYear! Karl Anderson in California


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