In search of the perfect human diet, Victoria Boutenko compares the standard American diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share an estimated 99.4% of genes with humans, but their diet is dramatically different from ours. The most glaring difference is that chimpanzees consume significantly more green leaves than humans. Victoria developed a series of greens smoothies that enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a very palatable way.
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Victoria Boutenko is the author of Green For Life, Raw Family, 12 Steps to Raw Foods and several raw recipe books. She teaches classes on Raw Food all over the world. As a result of her teachings, many raw food communities have formed in numerous countries. She continues traveling worldwide sharing her gourmet raw cuisine and her inspiring story of change, faith and determination. Victoria touches the hearts of her listeners, assuring us that we can choose to live raw, be healthy and live the life we imagine!
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111 of 115 people found the following review helpful
By booklover 17
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I was attracted to read this book as over the last few months I have been reading about people eating a raw food diet. I am not yet on the diet, but have been thinking about trying it. I have read mainly good, but a small amount of negative stories of how people have found the diet. I think this book explains brilliantly what our diet should approximately be like. That of chimpanzees of course! It all makes sense. We have almost the same DNA as them, so why shouldn't we eat like them? Victoria conducted a lot of research into the chimps' diets and found that they eat a high percentage of greens - i.e. dark green vegetables. She found that her and her family's diet was lacking in greens despite them already being on a raw food diet, so they started to have green smoothies daily. The family noticed huge improvements in their health, and have continued to drink them everyday since. She decided to do a study of volunteers from a town who drank her green smoothies daily for 30 days - some of them on a standard cooked diet. It seems that most of them found huge health improvements including their general energy levels and quality of sleep. This is a truly inspirational book and has personally got me thinking that I will give eating raw foods a go, firstly by drinking a green smoothie a day. I would to like hear how other people's views too.
65 of 68 people found the following review helpful
By M. Caruso
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I used to do a lot of juicing in the past but it is very time consuming and really messy. My problem is over since I got Green for Life. Making smoothies is a great alternative to juicing. It is much faster, less messy, and you also get some fiber in addition to juice. In addition to great recipes for making smoothies the book is also a good source of information about proper nutrition, the importance of hydrochloric acid in the stomach and much more. Get this book!! Another great volume that you may not miss is Can We Live 150 Years. These two books together make a perfect gift of showing the way to healthy living just for anyone.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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This book is completely brilliant, well written and simple to understand and easy to follow. I love everything by Victora Boutenko anyway because she's so inspirational :-) ... If you haven't watched any of her DVDs, I highly recommend you do so.
It would surprise me if anyone reads this book completely and then doesn't adopt a green smoothie a day attitude! They really DO taste great and make you feel and look great!
Although I am high raw, this book would also be extremely useful for non raws and non vegans who want to improve their diet. A litre (3 glasses) of green smoothies would cover most of an adults nutritional needs for a day. I have 2 large glasses for breakfast and a glass mid afternoon - very energising. I am totally hooked!
Best bit is, they are so easy to make and don't cost much to create. This is the best health insurance for my money!
It would surprise me if anyone reads this book completely and then doesn't adopt a green smoothie a day attitude! They really DO taste great and make you feel and look great!
Although I am high raw, this book would also be extremely useful for non raws and non vegans who want to improve their diet. A litre (3 glasses) of green smoothies would cover most of an adults nutritional needs for a day. I have 2 large glasses for breakfast and a glass mid afternoon - very energising. I am totally hooked!
Best bit is, they are so easy to make and don't cost much to create. This is the best health insurance for my money!
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I have purchased a few copies of this for friends and relatives with varying degrees of health problems. It is easy to read and informative. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Elizabeth Ingram
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This is a very interesting book.
Victoria Boutenko only eats raw foods but even if you do not want to do that but would like to get healthy anb have more energy this is a great book to read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by MariaM
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Changed my way of thinking about food
Purchased this as wanted to change my eating habits and sort out a health problem. It came highly recommended by a friend and I was not disappointed. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Poppyfields
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Great reading
Really great book. A pleasure to read as Victoria speaks from heart to heart.
Very interesting the HCL (Hidrochloric acid) explanation and how important it is. Read more
Very interesting the HCL (Hidrochloric acid) explanation and how important it is. Read more
Published 11 months ago by anmator
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Amazing
This book really does what it claims........I have MS & I've been doing this for 3 weeks now and I honestly feel so much better, my walking is a bit easier and I feel more awake... Read more
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EVERYONE Needs To Read This Book!
I've been suffering from full-body Eczema for around 4 years. Around 3 months ago, it got so bad that I couldn't just ignore it, so I began looking for answers to completely rid... Read more
Published 13 months ago by A Virdi
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Very good and also bad a bit
What I liked about this book was the concept of making green drinks - giving you a choice in-between just eating greens as they are and juicing them. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Jodi-Hummingbird
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Life style changes
This book gives a real insight to the benefits of eating your greens. If we all took notice of Victoria Boetenko then there would be a dramatic drop in ill health. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Jan kent
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The answers to all your health problems
I cannot stress enough how wonderful and simple to understand this book is. Some have stated her lack of knowledge in some areas of the book. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Monica Kyek
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A well produced glossy-covered paperback with (to me) a wealth of interesting information.
The Boutenko story is told elsewhere. Read more
The Boutenko story is told elsewhere. Read more
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