About Plant-Based Secrets

Frederic’s Story

You might be surprised to hear that my education background is in classical music, which I studied (with the guitar as my main instrument) at a music school in Quebec. However, I decided not to pursue a career in music because I discovered the raw food diet and natural health therapies like fasting, and felt that I wanted to become a health journalist instead!

At 21 years old, I moved to California to work with the new pioneers of the raw food diet movement that started in the late 90’s. I worked with David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, David Jubb, and many other important figures of this movement.

My early years as a raw foodist were filled with mistakes! A lot of bad advice was being spread and as a result, I experienced a health decline following this diet rather than an improvement. My symptoms were low energy, dental problems, and an inability to thrive on this diet.

Giving Up on the Diet

Having gone to an extreme in diet, it was natural that I tried going back to the other extreme: eating whatever I wanted.

There were periods in my life when I stopped attempting to eat a healthy diet at all: no more raw, no more vegan: I’ll just eat whatever I want!

Although the extreme of a raw food diet done the wrong way wasn’t working, the approach of eating whatever I wanted also led to other problems such as weight gain, lack of enthusiasm for life, and just feeling plain dull.

Finding the Truth in the Middle

I spent the next few years trying to figure out why so many people experience health improvements on a diet that leads to health problems in others.

This lead me to exhaustively research raw food, vegan, fasting, and other alternative therapies, in order to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The question that I tried to answer: what is the healthiest diet and lifestyle that can bring us health now and in the long-term?

I will not answer that question with a set of strict rules that imply: this is the way it has to be.

At the same time, I will not leave you hanging with the vague advice of simply find out what works for you. I believe you can learn a great deal from my experience, but can also draw some conclusions for yourself.

So that’s why I’m so passionate about what I do.

It may come out harshly.

I may offend a few people on occasion.

And I may even be wrong from time to time.

But I tell it like it is, and I let you make up your own mind. Don’t believe everything that I say, but consider it.

One reader told me recently: “Hi Fred, I love how you make me think outside the square and really think about things!!”

What Books and Programs Have You Written?

Check out the books I’ve written and published on Amazon.com

• The Raw Secrets

• Raw Food Controversies

• The Sunfood Cuisine

• How to Eat Well on a Plant-Based Diet for Under $100 a Month

• How to Learn Any Language in a Flash

• How to Heal Dental Disaster

• And more.