Dear Friends,

This is the peak of the summer and one of best time for picking of the wild edibles growing around us. One of the most prevalent edibles (and perhaps the most under-appreciated) is the dandelion.

In previous video Sergei discussed how you can use dandelion greens in smoothies, salads, and other dishes to reap all of their nutritional goodness.

And what about the flowers? Dandelion flowers are extremely nutritious; they are an excellent source of vitamin D, similar to their greens. In addition, dandelion flowers help detoxify our inner organs, and alkalize the body. The following  instructional and entertaining video demonstrates three fun ways to eat dandelion flowers.  

So, find dandelions that have not been sprayed, harvest and enjoy healthful and delicious meal!

Love, Victoria and Sergei Boutenko 

Dear Friends,

After years of taking people on wild edible walks, Sergei decided to create the ultimate wild edible identification tool. What could be more useful than a colorful wild edible guide in your iPhone?

Adding wild edibles to your diet will benefit your life in many ways! Wild edibles are packed with vitamins and minerals, they vastly expand your food choices, and give you the upper hand in wilderness survival. This Wild Edibles app is a quick way for people to learn how to identify healthy, edible plants, in a safe and easy manner. In addition to vivid photos and elaborate plant descriptions, this app provides the user with helpful tips regarding identification, uses, nutritional highlights, and recipes for each plant. For additional safety, the app also includes valuable information about the top most poisonous plants in North America."

This app also offers:
Edible and poisonous plant reference guide
Field guide of plants with images, descriptions, and delicious recipes
The ability to add your own plants to the data base, i.e. you can take photos of the plants you find and add your own descriptions, notes, and / or mark them as edible or poisonous
Great educational tool for school classes or individuals wanting to learn about plants
The ability to save your favorite plants for easy access
Great tips on harvesting and eating wild plants
An incredible survival tool in the palm of your hand
Flashcard style interface to help you study
Detailed, vivid photographs of each plant
Great references for further education

To purchase Wild Edible App, follow this link.

Love,

The Boutenko Family

Several years ago, I started to have dental problems from not eating enough greens, lack of chewing and whatever other reasons. I found that it was difficult to find a holistic dentist who would cooperate with me, agree to use less toxic materials and not making fun of my unusual requests. 

I went from dentist to dentist and I was left feeling rather frustrated. Years went by and my dental health was continuously declining.  The dentists offered me treatment plans that I was not comfortable with due to my beliefs.   You might think that I am too picky, when in fact I am a very patient patient!   I had lots of unanswered questions and I needed the answers not only for myself and my family, but for my readers and followers.  Finally I decided not to look for any non-traditional, already alternative doctor, but find a young, ambitious, well-educated dentist that loves his work and does his job well.  This is how 5 years ago I walked into the office of Dr. Jared Anderson, who has been my dentist since then.

First I was attracted to the fact that Dr. Anderson is a graduate of 2 prestigious dental schools in the United States.  Most of all, it appealed to me that Dr. Anderson loves his dentistry and his patients more than anything in the world and he cannot hide it.  His office is overflowing with the finest pieces of equipment.  He proudly informed me that he doesn’t use Amalgam fillings and uses only the best materials and procedures that he is aware of.  I was already experienced in how to irritate dentists with my never-ending queries.  With Dr. Anderson, I tried to keep my mouth shut even when it was wide open!  Dr. Anderson appeared to be a curious young man.  When I presented him with my book “Green for Life” he read it, asked many questions and was brave enough to try a green smoothie.  Another time, Dr. Anderson tried my jaw exerciser for himself and gave me feedback.  I lent him some documentaries from my library.  He especially liked “The Beautiful Truth” about Gerson Institute and the role Mercury fillings play in human health. 

I asked Dr. Anderson why he doesn’t have Mercury fillings removal listed among his services. He explained that American Dental Association doesn’t officially recognize these fillings as harmful and strongly discourages advertising of their removal. That is why I am writing about that.

If you need to remove Mercury fillings and live not far from Oregon I wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Anderson for this special task.  He has all the necessary skills and equipment for this procedure, including high volume suction and tooth isolation. Dr. Anderson’s phone is 541-488-5088.

You may also consider beginning to educate your own dentist by sharing your books and DVDs with them.  Keep in mind that at the dental school only 2 hours is given to studying nutrition.  I have even met dentists, who advised me that meat is good for teeth and sugar has nothing to do with cavities.  If the dental schools don’t have time to educate them, we can take the time to help our dentists understand nutrition better. 

Love, Victoria

Dear Friends,
It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you one of my heroes and one of the best doctors in the United States: Dr. Thomas Lodi  from Mesa, Arizona. Dr. Lodi is an invaluable friend to many cancer patients.
Valya and I visited his outstanding healing center and did this interview with him. If you like what Dr. Lodi says, please don’t hesitate to support this brave man by leaving a comment and marking the "like" button. Feel free to pass this video to your lists and websites.

I resonate with Dr. Lodi’s work because I too trust the healing potential of the human body. Every time anyone asks me about healing cancer, I always recommend them to watch a documentary Healing Cancer from Inside Out by Mike Anderson. Several times I bought ten copies of this brilliant video and gave away to other people. On two occaisions I paid my close friends to watch it and I beleive their lives have been saved by it. You can order this video here.

Love, Victoria

Dear Friends,

We are so glad that you enjoyed our previous post with information about the outstanding benefits of pomegranates. Many of you asked exactly how to juice these miraculous fruits. Here is how we do it in my family. You may use any electric citrus juicer. We especially like the CitriStar we bought from Tribest.com because of its powerful motor. Since juicing pomegranates is a bit more complicated than juicing oranges, Valya and I made these photographs for you.

Good tip #1: Choose smaller, dark red ripe pomegranates that yield slightly to the touch.  Cut pomegranate in half.

Good tip #2: Place a plate under the pomegranate to avoid staining your cutting board red forever and to save some extra juice.

When cut correctly, you will be greeted with a beautiful red star.

Begin to juice just like you would juice an orange.

When you get to the seeds hidden in the folds as shown in this picture, tilt the pomegranate so that the ream of the juicer is pointed towards each pocket of seeds.

You will see that is very easy to juice most of the seeds.

To collect every bit of the precious juice, you may grab the seeds and the pulp and squeeze them with your hand.

Freshly squeezed pomegranate juice is often tart in taste. In my family we like to juice an orange or two on top of the pomegranate.

This picture shows a juice made of two pomegranates and three oranges. I like to drink this cocktail every morning during the short pomegranate season

Enjoy!

Love, Victoria