12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked FoodWith eye-opening self-tests and questionnaires, this step-by-step guide will help you replace unhealthy eating patterns with a diet of fresh, raw foods Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices? Why is dieting so difficult? Using the latest scientific research and an open, conversational tone, 12 Steps to Raw Foods addresses these vital questions and explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh—versus cooked—foods. But rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-law’s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines. Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who don’t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet. |
Contents
Where My Search Began | 3 |
What Was Missing | 13 |
Modern Science Studies UnCooking | 25 |
What Is Life? | 36 |
What the First Humans Ate | 49 |
Convenience versus Health | 59 |
How My Family Eats | 65 |
What About Insects? | 76 |
I Love You No Matter What You Eat | 149 |
Avoiding Temptations | 161 |
Getting Support | 169 |
Gratitude and Forgiveness | 175 |
Notes 245 | 178 |
Actualizing Dreams | 181 |
Embracing Other Healthy Habits | 189 |
Gaining Clarity | 202 |
Human Dependency | 83 |
How Important Is It To Be 100 Raw? | 90 |
The Addictiveness of Common Foods | 96 |
Looking for Comfort | 107 |
How to End Your | 117 |
Nourishing Your Body | 130 |
Giving Support to Others | 213 |
Raw Family Green Smoothies | 221 |
Cant Believe Its Just Cabbage | 227 |
| 257 | |
Other editions - View all
12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food Victoria Boutenko Limited preview - 2009 |
12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food Victoria Boutenko No preview available - 2007 |
12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food Victoria Boutenko No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
acrylamide addictive adopting a raw-food agave nectar animals Ann Wigmore bacteria become bell pepper Blend blender body bread breathing cancer carrots Celtic sea Celtic sea salt chopped clarity conditioned to think consume crackers cravings cup water dehydrator delicious dependency on cooked diabetes disease dishes drink dulse eat raw food eating cooked food energy example falcarinol favorite feel following ingredients fresh friends fruits garden burgers gluten exorphin gourmet grateful green smoothies healing human Igor insects juice lemon lifestyle live foods look massage meals meat milk nutrients nutrition nuts olive oil organic person pizza plants potlucks push-ups raw vegan raw-food diet recipes restaurant resveratrol Russian salad sea salt seeds sleep soup spiritual sprouts stay Steps to Raw stress sugar tablespoons tablespoons olive oil taste optional teaspoon temperature temptations tion tomatoes vegetables Vita-Mix vitamin winter swimming