Victoria Boutenko - Raw Food Transitioning and Green Smoothies
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How to Transition Your Family into the Raw Diet with Victoria Boutenko of "The Raw Family"
In this excerpt from Victoria Boutenko's interview for the Raw Summit, Victoria Boutenko discusses how she introduced raw food to her family and how to make the transition yourself. The Raw Summit is a complete interview encyclopedia of cutting edge living and raw food knowledge. You can find the complete transcripts and audios at www.RawSummitArchives.com. Raw Food World Summit Interview Excerpt with Victoria Boutenko Kevin Gianni: Hi everyone, this is Kevin Gianni, Optimal Health Expert, and I'd like to welcome you to another very special Raw Summit Teleseminar, which can be found online at www.RawSummitArchives.com. The purpose of the Raw Summit is to pass along cutting edge information about raw and living food technologies for you to reach optimal health, wellness, and success. Today I have an incredible guest on the line. She is an author and speaker. She an incredible resource and also very bold because in 1994, she decided to go totally raw and bring her family along. So, today's guest to the Raw Summit is Victoria Boutenko. Victoria, I want to welcome you aboard. Victoria Boutenko: Oh, hello, it's my pleasure. Kevin: I am excited about this call. It's such an amazing feat to take your family from eating regular food to raw food. So, first why don't you just tell us a little a bit about your story and why you're here? Victoria: In 1993, my family became very ill. We now like to joke that we were lucky to get sick altogether. My husband, my two younger children and myself we got a very serious illnesses that the doctors couldn't help us with. My husband had rheumatoid arthritis and hyperthyroid. He had 12 surgeries in his body. I was 120 pounds bigger than I am today and I had edema and I had arrhythmia, which is irregular heart beat and this disease took my father. My daughter was diagnosed with asthma and allergies, and she was coughing every night. And then my son was diagnosed with diabetes. And, the doctors told him at that time that it was type 1 and that he had to go on insulin. And we spent enormous amount of money on insurance and medical visit and drugs. But then eventually doctor told me, "Victoria, I don't think we could anything else for you, you just have to pray now." Kevin: Wow. Victoria: At this point, I was only 38 years old. I didn't want to die. I started to look for an alternative and then I started to approach anybody who looked healthier than others and asked them about anything they knew about health. And, in two months, the universe placed in front of me the lady who I believe could be the only raw foodist in Colorado who lived at that time. I lived in Colorado then. And so, when she told me about raw food I was really disappointed in her because who could believe that stuff - just eating carrots and celery could cure you? I mean, that does not make any sense. However, whatever she told me everything made sense. She said for example the birds don't cook and I knew it, it was true. She said the snakes don't cook. She said, "Victoria you didn't come in to this world with a cooking stove attached to your belly." I said, "That's true." And, she said I've been doing it for 15 years and I got rid off my colon cancer which was stage four 15 years ago. I said, "Wow," and I knew she was not making it up. It took me another several months to put myself together to go on raw food because how would one go on raw food? How do you do this? At that time, 13 years ago nobody knew how to go on raw food. Nobody knew about raw food. Everybody would make square eyes and say, "What? Raw food? What is that?" They just did have no clue. And, how does one become raw and then I was thinking. Well, my brother's birthday is in two weeks. I cannot go before that and then Christmas is coming and then after Christmas, sale is coming and then my favorite chocolate cake is on sale. I'm just, how does one decide when, what time like is it 12 o'clock, is it 8 a.m.? I'm like how does one go on raw food? How do you become weird and just stop having a pleasure? Kevin: What was the most of the things that you were eating before? Victoria: Before we were eating everything and when we went on raw food it seems like we ate nothing. Kevin: Yes. Victoria: And because we didn't like vegetables, we are... we just bought fruit like banana and like some of the most generic like basic fruit, like oranges and Washington, which is the apple and they were not even organic. But, as soon as we became hungry, there were just piles of peels of bananas and oranges and very quickly I run back to the store and bought every possible thing there was on fruit section and I just chop and put a lot of oil or pepper and salt on it and we were just eating them like crazy. We were eating in style and within a matter of hours, we started to feel better. It's amazing that since January 21, 1994, when my family became a Raw Family, our Raw Family birthday, the next morning, we felt better and my daughter never had another asthmatic attack since then. Kevin: Are you serious? Victoria: Yes. And I found my son's sugar in the morning in the kitchen pricking his finger with this blood sugar monitor and he said, "Oh my machine is broken." I said, "Why do you think it's broken?" He said, "Because it doesn't show the right numbers." I said, "What's the right numbers?" He said, "It used to be 270, 300 my sugar and it is now 125." Kevin: Wow. Victoria: And it's never been that low. So, the change was so quick and my husband didn't have to do the surgery thay said that without this surgery he will die in less than two months. And, I started to lose weight so easily. In three and half months, my family ran a 10-kilometer race. So, from being desperately ill, in January 21 1994, three and half months later on memorial day weekend we ran the Boulder Bolder Race with 40,000 other athletes and Valya was only eight, Sergei was only nine, and we did it. At that point, we felt that the health - our health is now enhance and next morning I called my insurance and I canceled my medical insurance because now I knew that I could manage. I could monitor my health. And I was thinking I paid $550 every month. How many organic mangoes can I buy for that $550? And so since then, we've been on a raw food diet. Kevin: Transitioning is such an incredible task. How - a lot of people that are going to be on this call either have family members that they want, who would like to see eat healthier and even they are the mother in the family, the father in the family they just want the health of their children to be better. How did you approach your family? Victoria: It took the longest to talk with my husband in to that. He - at first, he told me I am Russian man and I cannot live or eat raw food and he said, "I love my Russian borscht with pork," and he said, "If you go on the raw food diet, I am going to divorce you." But when the doctor really scares you, when the doctor actually told him this words that, "You're going to die from hyperthyroid if you are not going to do the surgery right now." And my husband said, "How soon will I die?" She said, "In less than two months." Kevin: Wow. Victoria: Then he said - then he replied to the doctor, "I am going to go on raw food diet." He was ready to do whatever but his imagination was that he was just go on that diet for two weeks. It was like a fasting for him and then he will get better and then he shouldn't have to this diet. Kevin: Right.
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