In this eating for energy review, we wanted to know exactly what Yuri Elkaim meant when he said that the standard American diet is making us fatter and sicker than we’ve ever been before. What’s wrong with bread, meat and potatoes? According to Elkaim, a nutritionist and former professional athlete, the problem with bread, meat and potatoes is that we’ve cooked the life out of those foods – and out of all the highly processed carbohydrates available in our supermarkets. Elkaim claims that the key to natural health, vitality, and well-being is a diet of raw, living foods. A living food is one that has not been heated above a certain temperature; because heat denatures many key proteins and vital nutrients, many cooked foods can no longer nourish our bodies. With Eating for Energy, Elkaim introduces these powerful foods back into our diets, allowing them to restore the lost vitality and energy reserves we’ve given up for our love of convenient, unhealthy snacks.