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What this book’s about
When Victoria Boutenko, who wrote Raw Family, was teaching classes on raw foods she saw something very interesting. People who wanted to be 100% raw foodists weren’t able to stay on raw foods. She started investigating and came to the conclusion that eating cooked foods was an addiction. Using the model of the 12 Step program she devised this program for transitioning to raw foods and staying there. The information is good, the advice sound and has worked for many people.

Check out her family’s other books Raw Family, Eating without Heating, and Green for Life.

Updated
This book has been revised and updated to incorporate all the new information Victoria has discovered.

View product details at Amazon: 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food [Revised]

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What this book’s about
Seigei and Valya, the children from the Raw Family, have put together a book of raw recipes that they created themselves. There’s even a section to help you create your own raw foods. I like the recipes and always enjoy seeing Valya’s artwork and hearing more of their story.

What’s in this book
There are recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts with fermented foods, juices, crackers, seasonings and trail mixes. The recipes are easy to follow and make. Check out the beautiful pictures of the raw foods especially the one of the monster un-chocolate cake.

Suggestions
I would recommend an index be added if they create a new edition of this book so individual recipes can be found easily. Indexes are missing from quite a few raw recipe books. This book is short enough that it doesn’t stop me from using it, though.

View book details at Amazon.com Eating Without Heating: Favorite Recipes from Teens Who Love Raw Food

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What this book is about
This is the amazing story of the Boutenko family and their journey from critically illness to vibrantly healthy. Victoria Boutenko wanted to find a natural way to cure the illnesses of everyone in her family and found it with raw foods. They have all achieved a state of incredible health and stamina; Seigei’s teeth even regenerated causing his fillings to pop out.

Comments
I’ve been to a couple of lectures that Victoria has given and have received their free newsletter for quite some time. They are an inspiring, loving family who has paved the way for others to follow. They have their own website with links to raw and living food resources and support. They also teach classes all around the country. Valya is an artist who loves creating pictures of raw foods. The whole family is gifted and inspiring. I know you’ll like this book.

Conclusions
If you are interested in raw foods and are looking for inspirational stories this is certainly one of them. It really helped me understand the journey from cooked food to raw food.

Other books
Check out their other books Eating Without Heating: Favorite Recipes from Teens Who Love Raw Food, 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Addiction to Cooked Food, Green for Life.

View book details at Amazon.com Raw Family : A true Story of Awakening
The book has a new cover now and it looks different than the one on this page.

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Updated and revised to be even better!

What this book is about
If you downloaded the first edition of the Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts e-book that I presented to you on the site back in September, this second edition has been reworked a little to include photos, clearer directions and even more loving intention! I’m sure you’ll appreciate it.

The original promo for Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts
I love dessert and I especially love raw desserts. Believe it or not, if you have all the ingredients ready to go it takes less time to make many raw desserts than it does to make a cooked dessert. As an added bonus, raw desserts energize you, they don’t make you sleepy and the raw chocolate recipes produce a feeling of well-being. You are just going to love this.
Do you like eating dessert?
Most of us love dessert but don’t like the sluggish feeling that comes with eating them. Here’s a solution: treat your family, friends and yourself to raw desserts and eat as much as you want without feeling sleepy or eating too many sugary desserts. There’s no guarantee that you won’t gain weight since the largest factor in gaining weight is what you believe (the law of attraction as explained in Ask and It Is Given) but you’ll certainly feel better about what you’re eating.

Special recipes
Same great child and hubby approved raw food desserts, now with pictures!
It’s my gift to you. Tell your friends, pass it along, and let me know what you think.

Download the revised and updated version: Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts

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What this book’s about
Although he died quite a few years ago his healing system still works and is relevant today. He points to mucus in the body as the cause of all illness and guess where it comes from, mucus forming foods. Mucus forming foods are the foods that most people eat. Wow! We are eating ourselves into illness and death. Just imagine the natural cure for cancer, diabetes, baldness, bad breath, dandruff, grey hair, attention deficit disorder, wrinkles, menstrual cramps, infertility, cavities, myopia, etc. is in the foods we eat. That sounds WAY to simple and you may ask, “Can it be done?” Well, in his healing centers he healed many people of many of these illnesses and many more diseases. This book includes a great diet for transitioning to a “Mucusless diet”. It’s only eight weeks long and works wonders!

The transition diet
(I’m not a doctor, nor do I pretend to be one. So this isn’t medical advice, just the review of a book.) As Arnold Ehret found in his experiments on himself, (he completely cured himself of the “incurable” Brights Disease) fruit is what helps stir up the mucus and poisons in the body and vegetables (roughage) push it out. Now, if this is done too quickly the body will be in A LOT OF PAIN!!!! You must follow his diet and not go from whatever diet you are on to eating just fresh fruits and vegetables. The way he does it is gently, incorporating cooked fruit in the beginning so the body doesn’t detoxify too quickly. It was a great transition diet, and as I said before, I didn’t have any cravings while I was following the transition diet. As the mucus is released from the cells it enters the bloodstream on its way out of the body. This is when cravings can happen because you “taste it again” when it’s in the bloodstream.

My experience with the transition diet
After one day of eating the transition diet I had more energy and felt better than I had in years. After ten days I was breathing deeper. At day 11 a cut in my nose, that previously had continued to reopen and not heal for more than a month, was suddenly completely healed. At 12 days I wasn’t as hungry as I had previously been and ate less. When I was following his suggested diet I didn’t have any cravings for the “wrong” kinds of food. Now several months into this diet I have noticed a renewed sense of life. I sleep deeper, exercising gives me better results sooner and I’m happier. I used to be quite moody, as you know from reading my post on How the Foods We Eat Affect Our Life Experience.

What parts to read
Read the whole thing. It’s really important that you understand his system and why he recommends what he does before you change anything. And don’t think you understand the whole book just from reading this review. Uh, uh. Don’t do that to yourself. You can cause yourself a lot of pain. I also suggest reading all of his other books. I wanted to get the complete picture and reading his other books defiantly helped fill in the gaps.

Other books by Arnold Ehret
Rational Fasting (Ehret’s Health Literature), Definite Cure of Chronic Constipation Also Overcoming Constipation Naturally, The Story of My Life, Thus speaketh the stomach: The germinating center of all disease! also, The tragedy of nutrition, The cause and cure of human illness, Physical fitness thru superior diet, fasting and dietetics: Also a religious concept of physical, spiritual and mental dietetics.

Important note
First and foremost you MUST turn to page 85 and, over the second paragraph from the end (where it says "LUNCH:", write “Menus for the Second Two Weeks”. This was left out of this edition of the book and confused me until I got to “Menus for the Third Two Weeks” and saw that there weren’t “Menus for the Second Two Weeks”. That’s when I realized my mistake. I had been alternating between the first two weeks and the second two weeks because it didn’t identify the second two weeks as “Menus for the Second Two Weeks. Oh, well.

Not a fancy title
Although the title doesn’t sound sexy it’s very descriptive of the purpose of this book. Have you ever wondered why people don’t call things exactly what they are? I have. Here he has used the true words instead of something in Latin that sounds fancy.

Comments
This book is actually a translation from German so it’s a little stilted at times and some of the words we don’t use anymore but the information is so vital that I suggest reading it anyway. You’ll make it through, just be patient. Glowing health is on the other side. I really give my commendation to the publisher for putting this out into the public at this time. This information is not easy for anyone to hear but it’s so vital to our survival.

Thanks
Thanks to my mom for giving me this book. It has taken my healing journey that much closer to my goal of vibrant health.

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