Many say that the movement really began in 1975 when a man named Victoras Kulvinskas wrote a book called Survival Into the 21st Century, in which he described the health benefits of eating only raw foods and how such a diet could greatly extend human life and rid the world of various ailments

Viktoras Kulvinskas, author of Survival Into The 21st Century, The Lover's Diet, Sprout For the Love of Everybody, and other books, is a leading authority on raw foods. He has also contributed articles to many new age journals, among them "Vegetarian Voice," "Vegetarian Times," "Vegetarian World," "Health Street Journal," and "Alternatives."

He travels extensively and has given seminars for the World Symposium on Humanity in Canada and Australia and has lectured at such events as the New Earth Exposition, the Whole Earth Festival, the World Vegetarian Congress, the Cancer Victims and Friends Convention, the National Health Federation Convention, and many others.

Founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute with Ann Wigmore in the late 1960's, he has since done much work and research into the value of living foods and plant enzymes.

The International Raw Foods Association considers Victoras "The Father of the Modern Raw Foods Movement" and has given him its highest award...the Golden Branch Award.

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