Eating
Without Heating
Favorite Recipes
from Teens Who Love Raw Food
by Sergei
& Valya Boutenko
$11.95
Paperback
- 146 pages - with photographs
Sergei and Valya Boutenko are two teenagers who are living proof
that the Raw/Live food lifestyle really works. Both of them suffered
from life threatening serious illnesses as young children.
Sergei
and Valya were introduced to the Raw Food Diet and Lifestyle by
their mother, Victoria.
Sergei had been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and his mother,
Victoria, found this information devastating and unacceptable. After
crying a river of tears, Victoria started looking around for some
way to return her family to health. While Sergei's diabetes had
been the catalyst for change, the whole family was suffering with
serious ailments. Valya had asthma, Victoria had heart disease and
her husband, Igor, had had nine surgeries for various ailments and
now the doctors were telling him that they wanted to remove his
thyroid gland. When the doctor told Igor he had no choice because
his disease had progressed too far, Igor jumped down from the examination
table and said "Yes, I do, I will go on a raw vegan diet."
His doctor said that the newest Thyroid Sourcebook recommends
exactly the opposite - cut down on fruit juices and fresh fruits
- and consume more butter, cream, cheese and other dairy products.
. . peanut butter, mayonnaise and animal fat.
Prior to Igor's diagnosis, Victoria had discovered the raw food
diet in her own unique way. She figured that because she could not
find the answers she wanted in medical books, she would search for
people that looked very healthy and then approach them to ask what
they did to be healthy. One day Victoria was in the bank behind
a woman who seemed to be glowing with good health. Victoria overcame
her embarrassment and approached this woman with her question, but
she was not prepared for the answer. "What do you mean, everything
raw?" This woman answered all of Victoria's questions and set
her on the path towards renewed health.
Once Victoria had secured Igor's cooperation, she cleared the kitchen
of all food and appliances. When Igor and the family came home they
could not find any food to eat. They had to go shopping and Victoria
only bought from the fresh fruit and vegetable section of the supermarket.
At first the children wanted to rebel but Victoria won them over
by asking them to just give it a try for a couple of weeks. They
agreed. And it was during that couple of weeks that they all saw
so many changes for the better in their health. Eventually they
became enthusastic raw and living food proponents.
Sergei and Valya have written a delightful book. In it they recount
how they transitioned into the raw food diet and how it changed
them. The book is also full of awesome raw recipes that Sergei and
Valya created and that are very simple and easy to prepare.