Alarmed by the number of heart attack deaths among their co-workers, his friends working in the film industry encouraged John McCabe to write a book specifically for the overworked, overfed, sleep-deprived craftspeople working as "crew" behind the scenes of Hollywood TV and film productions. As an answer, McCabe compiled this book using some of his previous writings combined with new writings. He sprinkled the text with a wide variety of informative quotations from various experts and studies on health, nutrition, medicine, and science. While the film industry might be perceived as glamorous, the reality is that working as crew often involves long days and sleep deprivation for months on end. Crew then experience the health issues relating to their exhaustive work hours, sleeping patterns, dietary choices, and lack of exercise. Crew working enough years to gain full pension often do not live long after retirement. The often repeated example is that of the many assistant directors who do not live long beyond retirement. Some die of heart attacks while others experience chronic and degenerative diseases common among those who spent years eating what has become the standard American diet of toxic meals rich in meat, dairy, eggs, salt, oil, sugar, fried foods, bleached grains, gluten, synthetic chemical additives, and farming chemical residues. This book details how to avoid common chronic and degenerative diseases - the vast majority of which are diet and lifestyle related. This is not a book about counting calories or following set meal plans. Instead, it is about being pro-active in health while avoiding disease-inducing foods, and choosing clean foods that resonate with truly vibrant living. --- McCabe is the author of Raw Vegan Easy Recipes, Igniting Your Life, Sunfood Diet Infusion, and other books relating to thought, food, health, animal welfare, wildlife, the environment, and commercialized culture. This is his tenth published book.
About the Author: McCabe's first book was Surgery Electives: What to Know Before the Doctor Operates. It was an exposé of the financial ties of the medical school, hospital, pharmaceutical, and health insurance industries whose unethical business practices result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the U.S. every year. The book was endorsed by some congresspersons and by all of the patients' rights groups in North America. McCabe also wrote a Plastic Surgery Hopscotch. Published in 1995, it detailed many of the risks involved with the various surgeries, and in dealing with the medical industry in general. Realizing that medical care in Western culture is largely the end result of horrible dietary choices centered around toxic foods, McCabe turned to writing about how a plant-based diet can prevent and reverse a wide variety of diseases while also protecting the environment. Becoming an advocate for raw plant-based nutrition, McCabe coined the term raw vegan. Raw vegan is now an internationally recognized term defining what is becoming an increasingly popular dietary choice rich in the nutrients on which humans thrive in health. In 2007 McCabe's Sunfood Living: Resource Guide to Global Health was published by Random House and North Atlantic Books. McCabe is also the author of the reference book Sunfood Traveler: Global Guide to Raw Food Culture. It includes a variety of short chapters on various topics and includes a country-by-country list of raw vegan restaurants, chefs, businesses, and retreats, and also natural foods stores. McCabe wrote the 2011 book, Sunfood Diet Infusion: Transforming Health and Preventing Disease through Raw Veganism. McCabe's book, Vegan Myth Vegan Truth, was published in 2013. McCabe repurposed some of his previous writings while adding additional chapters and a vast quantity of quotations from a variety of people voicing their concerns for animals and advocating for the health, cultural, and environmental benefits of a vegan diet. As a way to expose the dire situation of the damaged environment, McCabe's Extinction: The Death of Waterlife on Planet Earth was published in 2012. McCabe is the author of Marijuana & Hemp: History, Uses, Laws, and Controversy, which details the world's most useful plant. McCabe's Raw Vegan Easy Healthy Recipes was published in 2013. As an author of numerous books and a ghost co-author of many books by other writers, McCabe has had his hand in more raw vegan books than any other writer.