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Known as hip-hop’s medicine man, Supa Nova Slom has helped the biggest names in hip-hop get healthy. In this two-part health guide, Supa Nova Slom shares his program for restoring health and balance to your body. In the first half, he introduces his Chlorophyllian Cleanse, which revitalizes as it cleanses by flushing and feeding your body. The second half of the book focuses his Five Week Power Plan, which provides amazing energy and the pathway to real weight-los… More >>
3:39 am on April 12th, 2010 1
The Remedy is not just another book about getting super healthy through cleansing and healthful eating. (I should know, since I have read nearly all raw food and cleansing book, and wrote one myself.) The health activist author, Supa Nova Slom, has the distinction of being known as hip-hop’s Medicine Man who has helped some of music’s biggest names on their road to health. While most African Americans were “the guinea pigs for the processed food industry,” Supa Nova was blessed to have had a mother that raised him on wheat grass, sprouts, vegetarianism and detoxing. Raised in the hood, Supa Nova observed that “gansta life is as high-stress as any corner-office corporate gig.” He and his mother educated people about health, first in the gangsta circles, then hip-hop circles, and finally in outreach education and speaking engagements. WOW. I can’t imagine how being raised like that. What an edge this guy must have over those of us raised on what he calls “the Toxitarian diet”! Hi mother, Queen Afua, also writes the foreword.
Part 1 presents the remedy, a four-day cleanse. It’s simple: anyone can do a four day cleanse of green drinks without medical supervision. (Nonetheless, the author advises that you seek medical advice if certain symptoms appear–probably mentioning this for legal protection since there is really nothing the doctor can do since these are detox symptoms: your body is just trying to get rid of the toxins).
Supa Nova describes how he moved beyond vegetarian or vegan and became a “cholorophyllian.” I usually just chug my green drinks down since the bitter taste is not pleasant. But to hear Supa Nova describe the green elixir he devised for the four-day cleanse, I found my mouth watering. I couldn’t wait to get home and try it. This will definitely be this year’s “spring cleaning” method for my body. It is better than water or juice fasting because you are giving the body the nutrition and alkalyzing it needs. “My whole life I’ve done juice fast, the Master Cleanse, water fast–almost every kind of fast and cleanse that there is–and I can personally attest to the fact that The Remedy cleanse program is the greatest, quickest and easiest mental, physical, emotional and spiritual natural reboot I’ve found to date,” he tells us. He makes us forgo TV during the four days, so this is a fast for the mind as well!
Part 2 outlines the 5-week cleanse for those serious about changing their lifestyle. Week one is flexitarian, eating some meat but forgoing red meat and sugar. Week two you become a vegetarian, with 50-75% of the food raw or lightly steamed. Week three you are a “supa raw food vegan.” Week four is a juice fast. Week five you find your own rhythm, find what works for you from you four-week experience. No dogma–I like that. Everyone is different and we can’t all be vegans, vegetarians, or 100% raw. We must listen to our own bodies.
The book also has testimonies and advice sprinkled throughout from some of the big and influential names behind the scenes and on stage in hip-hop. It includes motivational principles, history and facts behind the steps to be taken, physical exercises, and recipes (vegan, both raw and cooked). It also has recipes for juices aimed at cleansing specific organs and tissues: kidney cleanser, liver cleanser, blood builder, lymphatic flush juice, respiratory cleanser, immune booster, and colon cleanser. These refined and perfected recipes alone are worth the price of the book. They also made my mouth water and I can’t wait to try them out.
The author discusses how it is hard to communicate with today’s youth, and that he is a “translator.” So I was expecting someone to be at least 30 or 35. But when I saw his photo, I was astounded by his radiant youth. Judging by his life experience, he probably IS at least 30 to 35–proof that all that cleansing, chlorophyll-ating and eating raw has sure kept him youthful!
Rating: 5 / 5