Victoria Butenko has been a raw foodist since 1994. Despite the fact that this type of nutrition helped solve many health problems, seven years later, Victoria and her family members felt worse. The woman began to look for a way out. She studied specialized literature, consulted with doctors, experimented. Butenko managed to find a magical tool and prove its effectiveness. She came up with a cocktail - a creamy substance from water, crushed in a blender leaves any edible plants and fruits. “Greens for Life” is a book in which Victoria describes in detail her path, experiments, and the healing effect of a green smoothie.
Deterioration of health
Once, Victoria weighed 120 kg, had serious heart problems and, going to bed, was afraid not to wake up. Doctors predicted her 38-year-old husband's death after 2 months or (at best) a wheelchair. The son suffered from diabetes, and his daughter suffered from allergies and asthma. Then the Butenko family was saved by a raw food diet. These people, having difficulty getting out of bed in the morning, already after three and a half months participated in a 10-kilometer race.
In the book "Greens for Life," Victoria Butenko tells us that after seven years of 100% raw food intake, a rollback occurred. Former energy was replaced by heaviness, drowsiness. There were problems with the teeth, not one of the raw foods climbed into the throat.
Search for a solution
In her book, Greenery for Life, Victoria describes how she looked for a way out. She learned that only grass contains absolutely all the substances necessary for a person. The woman had two questions: how to force yourself to eat this unappetizing product and how much to use.
Butenko decided to study the diet of chimpanzees, because the genotype of these animals is 99.4% the same as ours, and they are actively used in medical research. It turned out that from 40 to 50% of their diet are plant leaves. Another 50% is fruit. Seeds, nuts, insects, bark, chimpanzee vegetables are eaten little and rarely - during a drought or under adverse conditions.
Victoria understood how important greens are for life, but the body refused to take it, nausea and heartburn immediately appeared. Studying specialized literature, Butenko learned that in order to get that huge amount of nutrients that are contained in plants, it is necessary to destroy the walls of their cells. This is possible only if you carefully chew the leaves to a state of gruel. Victoria decided that she could not do it, so she chopped a bunch of greens in a blender, adding a little water. The problem was that the greens even in this form caused nausea. Then Victoria added banana to the resulting mass. To her surprise, the mixture smelled very good and tasted amazing. The sweetness of the banana interrupted the bitter taste of greens, but the drink was not sugary. Butenko began to experiment with cocktail formulations.
Health effects of green smoothies
Butenko’s book, Greenery for Life, describes positive changes in detail. After a month of eating exclusively cocktails, Victoria noticed that her face skin tightened, wrinkles disappeared, moles on her body disappeared. The woman's eyesight was aggravated, her nails were strengthened, her gums and teeth improved.
Previously, when Victoria felt tired, she was invariably drawn to heavy and fatty, albeit raw-eating, food (for example, dishes made from nuts and seeds). This craving passed by itself, without any volitional effort. There was no longer a desire to salt salads, season them with oil.
Inspired by the lightness and energy that the green smoothies gave her, Victoria brought the blender to her office. She began to treat her employees and visitors with a drink. Many people did not change their diet, but simply added a liter portion of the cocktail to it every day. After a short time, they shared their successes: someone had gray hair and dandruff disappeared, someone took extra pounds and sugar levels returned to normal, someone went allergic and their intestines started working. Then Victoria, wanting to help even more people, wrote a book and sent it by e-mail to everyone she knew. The result was a stream of grateful feedback from readers.
Greens for life
The healing properties of herbs:
- A huge amount of nutrients. The leaves of many plants are bitter, so it is not surprising that people prefer to eat the roots of carrots, radishes, beets, and not their tops. Root crops have a pleasant or neutral taste due to sugar, and the tips are bitter due to the saturation of vitamins and minerals. In the tops of these substances, tens or even hundreds (depending on the plant) times more.
- High protein content. In a 450-gram bunch of greens it is more than the recommended daily allowance. This protein is not at all the same as that found in animal food, it does not need to be split into amino acids, it is absorbed more easily and faster.
- The ability to alkalize the body. Back in 1931, Warburg received the Nobel Prize for his discovery: cancer develops when the body's pH level is shifted towards acid. By eating enough greens, the balance is restored. Alkaline environment also prevents the growth of fungi, pathogenic bacteria, parasites.
- Cleansing. The leaves of plants, like a sponge, scrub slag out of the body. In the book "Greens for Life," Victoria complains that the average person eats only 10-15 grams of fiber per day with food, while chimpanzees consume up to 300 g.