12 Steps To Raw Food by Victoria Boutenko
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12 Steps To Raw Food by Victoria Boutenko

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Forward - By Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H)

Twelve Steps to Raw Food is a breakthrough work for the live food movement. The breakthrough is the understanding, humbly articulated by Victoria Boutenko for the first time, that there are many people who are literally addicted to cooked food. Because of this addiction to cooked food they have a very difficult time transitioning gracefully to a full live food diet. This book is an answer to their problems. Victoria, in a very thoughtful and compassionate way, outlines a breakthrough 12 Step program to support people successfully in their transition to live foods. She takes much of her understanding about the idea of cooked food addiction from the tradition of 12 Step programs. Starting with this as a base, she has formulated a very compassionate system for helping people make a successful transition to live foods.

Another aspect that makes this book very positive for people is its support for turning people into their own best expert. There's a lot of confusion in all fields involved in nutrition, whether it's live foods or not. And her clear way of approaching this is encouraging people, once they're through the detoxification, to trust their own body cravings because these cravings often tell a person what they really need for their bodily health at that moment. Another aspect to her work is a very excellent chapter on detoxification as part of the transition to healing. She skillfully covers all the symptoms that people commonly have and turns the detox into a celebration. In fact, she turns this whole transition process, which for so many people is not the easiest thing, into a celebration - a celebration of life and of love for ourselves.

This book is destined to become a classic. I am grateful for the opportunity to write an introduction and I strongly recommend it to anyone who is helping others move into a live food lifestyle, to any teacher of live foods, and to any live food friend who needs support at any level. This book is one of the most supportive and nurturing offerings in the live food movement that I've seen in years. Victoria Bountenko has made a wonderful contribution with this book and I am grateful for this breakthrough!

Blessings to your health, well-being, and spiritual joy,

Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H)
Director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, author of "Conscious Eating" and "Spiritual Nutrition and The Rainbow Diet."