Product Description

The book tells why raw food diet is superior and how to maintain successfully a 100% raw food lifestyle. The text is illustrated with stories from author's personal experience which makes reading easy and plesurable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #242250 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the foreword by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D., H
"This book is destined to become a classic."

Gary Garver, Seattle, 2001
"Victoria's 12 Step program has changed my life and has kept me on the raw food path."

About the Author
Victoria Boutenko teaches classes on Raw Food at Southern Oregon University. Her classes are highly in demand. As a result of her teachings, many raw food communities, have been formed through the world.

Victoria and her family of four have been staying on a 100% raw food diet for eight years and all four of them have cured their "incurable" illnesses.

When Victoria is not teaching or writing she enjoys hiking,swimming and biking with her raw family in Ashland Oregon.

Customer Reviews

It Convinced Me!
I've read many books about raw and I stayed at 85%. I was not able to go all out and I didn't see why I had to be a 100%. After reading this book, I immediately got excited and started a 100% with understanding much better.

Only in America...
...could this type of religious-sounding hype written in hollow language could attract so many praises. As I was reading it, I had the sensation that the author departed from the premise that all of her readers are naturally idiotic. I felt like a 2nd grader reading it. The parts coaching the reader on how to avoid anything cooked or how to talk to someone who's offering you cooked food...were just plain offensive to any person with a remotely decent IQ.
I have always liked raw preparations but I have a hard time believing that if you have some fresh, non-processed, slightly cooked food, you commit a morbid sin. Of course raw food is good for you. It is probably best to eat more raw than cooked. Of course exercise is good for you.
But how about some common sense in the way we live our lives? Do we really need such fanatical hysteria to understand that the modern lifestyle has brought with it many negatives for one's health?
Does it really mean we'll be dead if we slightly steam a bit of broccoli?
Oh, COME ON! Industrialization brought with it quick canning, pre-packing, processed foods and other junk - but it is NOT Industrialization that invented cooking. Cooking has been around FOREVER, long before the rates of degenerative, chronic disease soared. I do agree that it is not OK to eat dead food from those frozen dinners packed with "mono-poisonites" ...or all sorts of other junk foods to be found on shelves at mainstream grocery stores. HOWEVER, if I slightly steam/bake fresh veggies or any food that comes directly from the ground - I doubt that will cause any harm whatsoever. On the contrary, some argue it may even do some good by releasing nutrients from the cell walls.

I visited the author's site and it is clear she is in this whole thing for profit. That's her "little business". She asks for donations to support the "raw lifestyle" but it is not clear where that money is going to go and how. Plastic hype, overstatements, sensationalism - all those funny things that go so well in the country of all opportunities. She is a smart immigrant who caught on early what America is supposed to be about.

Good, but I have read better
This book is good to help ween you off of cooked food, but it does not provide a lot of recipes. I would reccomend any books by Shazzie, such as Detox Delights.