Green for Life Book Review

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Over the weekend I dived into a book I have had for awhile now. It is called Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko. I read a few of her other books like Raw Family and 12 Steps to Raw Food, I even have a DVD documentary her daughter made so I am big fan.

Green for Life has to be one of the most important health books I have ever read though…if not THE most important book. It is no wonder it has been so highly acclaimed. If you are not familiar with the Boutenko family you should really read Raw Family and learn more about them. Igor Boutenko had been given two months to live, his wife Victoria was also in poor health with a heart condition and quite a bit of excess weight. Their daughter Valya had bad asthma and was having attacks every night. Their son Sergei had just received a diagnosis of juvenile diabetes. Raw foods healed all of them.

After 7 years though Victoria was still searching for something in their diets. She knew raw was best but there had to be something she was still missing. She found the answer in greens. Interestingly she began her search by studying chimpanzees. We share an amazing 99.4% of our DNA sequence with Chimps and many scientists believe they actually should be classified as humans. They have the same A-B-O blood groupings to. With all of the similarities between us why do they not also have our degenerative diseases? Victoria believes the key is in their diet. A Chimpanzees diet consists of 50% fruit, 43% greens, 5% pith, bark, and seeds, and 3% insects and on rare occasions…small animals.

Humans eat no where near that amount of greens. And no I am not talking about veggies like cucumber, zucchini, mushrooms, carrots, cauliflower, etc…because chimps don’t eat that stuff. Greens are not veggies and they eat a ton of greens and without drenching them in oils and fats like we do. So are humans eating nearly 50% of their diet as greens? Not even close. According to the chart in the book our greens consumption is more like 2%.

Realizing that she wasn’t eating enough greens Victoria started making green smoothies until she was eating about 2 pounds of greens a day. Her wrinkles disappeared, 2 moles and a wart just melted off of her body, and she felt better than ever. She even started craving greens. Her husband followed suit and whereas his hair had been growing in gray it now started growing in dark black like when he was a young man. Both looked YEARS younger and all of their friends and family noticed.

I also appreciated Victoria’s information about fiber intake and the need to properly chew your food. When you don’t chew your food properly until the food is like a liquid paste in your mouth…you are not accessing all of the nutritional benefit. For this reason the Boutenko’s let their Vita-Mix chew their food for them quite often. It has great info about colon health, proper eliminations, and it is full of charts and graphs so you can get a visual of all the great info in this book.

Since I read it I have been making green smoothies twice a day with a romaine, kale, or spinach base. Already I feel a difference. My skin just glows and my energy levels have been off the hook. Here is to eating more greens!

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