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Viktoras Kulvinskas is a Lithuanian holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, and raw foods advocate. He received his M.S. in pure mathematics from the University of Connecticut and taught mathematics there before pursuing alternative health activities.

Early in his career, Kulvinskas co-founded the Hippocrates Health Institute with Ann Wigmore in the late 1960s, where he served as Director of Research. He was also the personal health consultant to Dick Gregory during Gregory's peace run.

Kulvinskas co-founded the Hippocrates Health Institute with Ann Wigmore and served as its Director of Research. He also helped found and direct the Hippocrates Clinic of Asia in the Philippines.

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Viktoras Kulvinskas
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Viktoras Peter Kulvinskas (born 23 February 1939) is a Lithuanian


(http://www.viktoras.org/#!about) holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, raw
foods[1] advocate and author.
After joining Ann Wigmore's Boston-based Rising Sun Christianity movement,
Kulvinskas co-founded, with Wigmore, the Hippocrates Health Institute, a
health resort in the United States, in the late 1960s[2] where he was Director of
Research, and is active in the living foods movement.[3][4]

Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early years
1.2 Alternative health related activities
1.3 Speaker and advocate
1.4 Awards
2 Books
2.1 English
2.2 Other language editions
2.3 With others
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Biography
Early years
Viktoras Kulvinskas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania during World War II. He
received his M.S. Degree in pure mathematics from the University of
Connecticut, where he later taught mathematics.[2]

Alternative health related activities


After co-founding the Hippocrates Health Institute,[5] he began 35 years
operating as a practitioner in the area of holistic treatments and techniques.
He is also a lecturer, chef, and a Bishop of the First Christian Essene Church of
Christ (San Diego, California).[6]
As a nutritionist, he was the personal health consultant to comedian/activist
Dick Gregory during his 900-mile run for peace, and has been a Nutritional and
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Education Director at Gregorys Obesity & Substance Abuse Resorts (Florida &
Bahamas).[2] His theories on cancer were practised at the Hippocrate Institute,
and documented in his book "Survival in the 21st Century",[7] along with his
theories on a new model of menstruation with program to eliminate PMS.

Speaker and advocate


Kulvinskas also trained the sta in Enzymatic Nutrition and Live Food
Therapies for Degenerative Disease at his Hippocrates Clinic of Asia in the
Philippines, 2002.
After opening a culinary school in 2002, Kulvinskas continued to be active in
enzymatic theories and development of foods, as well as lecturing and writing
in the eld of alternative wellness and enzymatic therapies. He was one of the
rst to popularize the long out-of-print works of Chicago enzyme researcher Dr.
Edward Howell (October 30, 1898 - March 30, 1988) of the Lindlahr
Sanitarium (Illinois).[8] Kulvinskas was also one of the rst to promote
sprouts,[9] algae, wheatgrass, plant enzymes and herbal formulations[10] to
oset the claimed impact of cooked foods, environmental pollution and
inherited weaknesses.
Kulvinskas currently oers lectures and retreats on healthy living at his home
in Montezuma, Costa Rica. [11]

Awards
Kulvinskas received "The Lifetime of Achievement Award" at the "2000 Raw
Food Culinary Showcase", Jamaica, where he was a keynote speaker. [12] He
was also awarded the "Live Food Culinary Chef and Instructor" Certicate of
Accomplishment by the Light Culinary Institute.[13]

Books
English
Don't Die Without Enzymes
Life in the Twenty-First Century, 21st Century Publications
For The Love Of A Sprout, Connecticut: OMango Press, 1970s
Love Your Body: Live Food Recipes, with Dick Gregory, 1972
Love Your Body: Or, How To Be A Live Food Lover, Mass: OMango Press,
1972
Love Your Body: Or, How To Be A Live Food Lover, with Dick Gregory,
1975
Survival Into The 21st Century: Natural Planetary Healer's Manual,
Connecticut: OMango d'Press, 1975
Sprout For The Love Of Everybody, Survival Foundation, 1978
The New Age Health Directory Holistic Health Guide, 1978

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Survival Into The 21st Century: Natural Planetary Healer's Manual, 1979
The New Age Health Directory Holistic Health Guide, 1981
Survival Into The 21st Century: Natural Planetary Healer's Manual, 21st
Century Publications, 1981
Sprout For The Love Of Everybody, 1988
The Lover's Diet, 2000s
Survival Into The 21st Century: A Planetary Healer's Handbook,
(Millennium Edition), Arizona: Ihopea Incorporated, 2002, 318 pages, with
New Foreword.
Survival Into The 21st Century: A Planetary Healer's Handbook,
Woodstock Valley, Ct.: 21st Century Publications, 2006
Raw Survival (DVD), 2008
Survival In The 21st Century: Planetary Healer's Manual, Book Publishing
Company, 2010

Other language editions


Sund med Spirer: nringsindholdet i spirer og grs, oversat af Arne
Herlv Petersen, Thaning & Appel, 1985. Denmark, Schlagwrter: Helse,
Kogebger.
Le Mythe Menstruel: La Menstruation est-elle Ncessaire la Sant et
La Fcondit?, with Ann Wigmore, Morges: M. Dgallier, 1986
L'elixir Vert du Rajeunissement, Morges: M. Dgallier, 1986
L'importance de La Nutrition pour le Dveloppement Oculaire et la
Fonction Visuelle, Morges: M. Dgallier, 1986
Comment Passer du Vgtarisme au Respirianisme, Morges: M. Dgallier,
1986
Nutricin En La Nueva Era, Mandala Ediciones, 1992, ISBN
84-86961-51-3, ISBN 978-84-86961-51-0
Leben und berleben: Kursbuch im 21. Jahrhundert, by Viktoras
Kulvinskas; Ursula von Wiese, Mnchen: Hirthammer, 2001
Csratelek: atalods s gygyuls az Anyatermszet segtsgvel, ford.
Gazdik gnes, Budapest: Mandala-Veda, cop. 2007.

With others
The Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity, with Edward Howell, Lotus
Brands Inc.
Intuitive Eating: Everybody's Guide to Vibrant Health and Lifelong Vitality
Through Food with Humbart Santillo and Regina Sara Ryan, Hohm Press,
1993
Dining in the Raw: Groundbreaking Natural Cuisine That Combines the
Techniques of Macrobiotic, Vegan, Allergy-Free, and Raw Food Discipline
with Rita Romano and Nancy Jolly, Taschenbuch 1997.

See also
Raw foodism

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References
1. Stossel, John; Sancho, Miguel (2008-09-05). "Orthorexia: Obsessing Over Health
Food". ABC News. Retrieved 2016-04-28. "Kulvinskas is a leading advocate of the
'raw food' diet."
2. "Viktoras Kulvinskas Bio". Raw Food Planet. Miami Beach, Florida. Retrieved
2016-04-28. "He also co-founded, with Dr. Ann Wigmore, the Hippocrates Health
Institute in Boston, where he was the Director of Research."
3. Sarasota Herald Tribune; Wednesday, November 08, 2006; Getting connected;
With plenty of activities and groups, Sarasota is becoming a raw-food haven.
(FLORIDA WEST), Byline: ABBY WEINGARTEN, "Meanwhile, Patty Foley was
planning a lecture by internationally known raw guru Viktoras Kulvinskas."
4. Raw energy, Vegetarian Times; June 01, 1998; Reiss, Valerie; "Spearheaded in
the early 1970s by the late Ann Wigmore, M.D., founder of the Ann Wigmore
Institute in Puerto Rico, and Viktras Kulvinskas,"
5. The diversity and eectiveness of natural cancer cures. (includes related article
on conventional cancer treatments), The Ecologist, March 01, 1998, Last, Walter,
"Together with Victoras Kulvinskas she formed the Hippocrates Health Institute
in Boston"
6. http://www.essenes.org Essene Church
7. Symposium Examines the Raw-Food Diet Phenomenon. Athens Banner-Herald
(Athens, GA), March 02, 2004, Byline: Kimberly E. Mock "Kulvinskas claimed a
diet of raw foods can rid the human body of ailments."
8. Edward Howell. Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity, 1994; Enzyme Nutrition,
1966; The Status of Food Enzymes in Digestion and Metabolism, 1946
9. Protein and vitamins and enzymes, oh sprouts!, Nutraceuticals World, May 01,
2006, Schutt, Ellen
10. Green foods: a research perspective. Nutraceuticals World; May 01, 2003;
Sandoval, David, "The number of companies with green food oerings has
increased steadily since the late 1790s when the second green foods revolution
was being led by the likes of Anne Wigmore, Bernard Jensen, Christopher Hills
and Victoras Kulvinskas. These advocates of non-conventional theories were
basing their advocated therapies on ideas dating from the 1930s, the banyan
days of the rst green foods revolution when Dr. Charles Schnabel, V. E. Irons
and other chemists"
11. "Viktoras Retreats.com". 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
12. http://www.vitalities.org Vitalities.org
13. "Living Light Culinary Institute". Fort Bragg, California. March 2016. Retrieved
2016-04-29.

External links
Pour un point de vue sur Viktoras Kulvinskas, voir les rfrences du
Professeur franais Henri Joyeux [1] (http://pagesperso-orange.fr/joyeuxbio/index.htm)
Viktoras Kulvinskas Oicial Website (http://www.viktoras.org/)
Survival in the 21st Century (http://www.bookpubco.com/products
/survival-21st-century)
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