Raw Family Book Review

Posted on 12.29.08 at 12:29 pm

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Over the weekend I read Raw Family again. It really is an awesome book written by the Boutenko family. It follows their story and how bad their health was. The mom was told she had heart disease and might die in only a few months. The father was told that a wheelchair was in his near future and that if he couldn’t slow his pulse down, he too would die soon. The son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and the daughter had nightly asthma attacks. They were in pretty bad shape.

Victoria (the mom) couldn’t make any sense out of all the contradictory health advice she was getting in books and from doctors. So she started looking around when she was in public trying to spot the healthiest most vibrant people she came across and ask them what they were doing. This is how she met a woman on a raw, vegan diet and that is what spurred the whole family to go cold turkey raw, vegan. Within a couple months the family ran a marathon together and all their ailments reversed including the heart disease, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes.

The story is told in part by each family member. My favorite part is when the family hiked the Pacific Crest Trail together…it is a dream of mine too.

Raw Family is kind of small so you can easily get it finished in single evening. I highly recommend it!

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