Every now and then, a fellow blogger will graciously give away some of his or her cookbooks in an effort to downsize. I’ve got a habit of hoarding keeping cookbooks, so you won’t see me donating them anytime soon, but I am far more generous with my video collection.
Some time ago, a dear friend gave me an almost complete series of video lectures from the famous Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida. This health resort is often known as the throne of the live foods movement; they make supplements, educate interested people in the nuances of sprouting, and offer their own health practitioner certification course.
The video lecture series covers all of the basics of the Hippocrates brand of a raw foods lifestyle: a very detailed account of food combining, supplements, fasting, detoxification, and so on. They’re inspiring and positive, and they’ll certainly make any rawcurious viewer even more motivated to explore! I will offer a full disclosure: these videos aren’t really copacetic with my own practice of a semi-raw life. For one thing, they’re geared toward people who eat, or wish to eat, close to 100% raw. For another, there’s a spiritual emphasis in the language that I don’t relate to. Most of all, I don’t agree with a number of the practices discussed (such as fasting and the systematic use of home enemas), and in fact I think that they can be hazardous when practiced by people who are interested in raw foods for the wrong reasons (for example, unnecessary weight loss).
Still, it’s always valuable to explore viewpoints that are different from our own, no? And while I don’t agree with much of what’s taught at Hippocrates, I do admire and support their longstanding efforts to promote good health through the teaching of raw and vegan dietary principles. There’s no doubting that Hippocrates is a formidable institution, and I think that anyone who wishes to explore a more exclusive brand of the raw lifestyle should check the videos out!
Lecture 1 - Principles of Health: A brief history of how Hippocrates came into being. A comprehensive explanation of the food groups in the Living Foods diet.
Lecture 2 – Internal Awareness: The basics of the digestive / eliminative system and how to detoxify.
Instruction on the proper way to use enemas and implants.
Lecture 3 – Supplements, Algae, Herbs, and Homeopathy: A guide of the diffrerent acailable supplemtents and their benefits. Also alternative opinions to complete the needed consumption that our human body requires.
Lecture 4 – Ancient and Current Self-Help Techniques: Many helpful healing techniques that can be done at home. For challenges of cuts, burns, impaired vision, infection, pre-mature gray hair, and many others. These time-tested remedies are at your fingertips.
Lecture 5 – Fasting on Liquid Nourishment: The benefits of fasting on green juice rather than water. A review of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual benefits of fasting.
Lecture 6 – Questions and Answers I: Questions on the science, psychology, and food of the Living Foods Lifestyle. The responses provide clear and thoughtful information.
Lecture 7 – Detox and Elimination: The workings of the elimination systems (Lymph, Liver, Lung, Kidneys and Skin) and your bodies’ reactions to a detoxifying program).
View in English
Lecture 8 – Practical Living: How to really live the Hippocrates Lifestyle when you return home. How to have what you need at home, work, and in social situations.
Lecture 9 – Questions and Answers I: Questions of the participants are posed. The responses provide clear and thoughtful information.
Lecture 10 – Bringing it all Home: The physical, emotional and spiritual healing process. How to achieve your highest goals in life. Applying the Hippocrates lifestyle at home.
Lecture 11 – Food Combining: Proper combining of foods for good digestion. Foods that should never be eaten together. Key information for optimal health.
Here they are, having lived a nice life on my shelf, right next to season 4 of The Wire (takes a moment to bow head in solemn reverence for the greatest show of all time).
Hmmm. According to my home video library, I’ve got rather eclectic tastes.
In two weeks (that’s July 25th), I’ll announce the winner of this 11-video set.
To enter
- Leave a comment on this post telling me which of the videos would interest you the most, and/or
- Tweet the following: “check out @choosingraw’s Hippocrates Health Institute video giveaway! http://bit.ly/aMBGiC” and then comment to tell me that you did.
Gooood luck!
xo
I'm a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a former book editor, and a post-baccalaureate pre-med student at Georgetown University. I'm passionate about helping people to discover and enjoy plant based foods in a simple and healthy way. My name is pronounced like "Jenna." 
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i am interested in detox and elimination. i would very much love to learn more!
Awesome! I’d be most interested in the Ancient & Current Self-Help Techniques DVD.
These all sound awesome, but I’m particularly interested in #3 – Homeopathy! My mom practices homeopathy and her remedies always work better for me than anything any of my doctors have said
#4 sounds really good too… actually all of them sound good 
I just tweeted it – @TheSaladGirl
I would be most interested in the Detox & Elimination DVD! Thanks for the chance to win these!
I tweeted the giveaway:
http://twitter.com/calmond/status/18327491797
I would be most interested in Detox&Elimination or Food Combining. They are both topics that I have been interested in learning more about this summer. I recently transitioned into a vegan, semi-raw lifestyle and the digestion problems that have plagued me for the past three years are basically healed! Super exciting. Your blog has been a great source of information for me during the transition, so thank you!
I’d love to see Lecture 3, mainly for the herb parts. I’ve been getting into TCM a lot lately and it’s impressive seeing what those doctors do with just a bagful of herbs.
Wow, this is great! i would like the food combining or the detox video. I know food combining worked for me and would love to focus on that.
I am most interested in Lecture 10, Bringing It All Home. In the interest of ensuring the info is available to the largest possible audience – I would like to donate the materials to the Nashville Public Library. If the library is unable to provide assurance that they would add it to their collection (in some cases – they sell materials that they feel wouldn’t be a good addition) – I would like to donate them to our local raw food meetup. You’ve made a really nice offer – good luck with your contest!
Someone is going to score big! I’d love to view the detox & elimination dvd in particular, but they all sound pretty amazing!
#4, 6, or 11…but gosh, I want it all, enter me please!
That looks like a great set!I’m really interested in the food combining DVD.It might help my digestive issues:-)cc
tweeted this one!
I would be most interested in Lecture 11 or 7, although nearly all of them sound great.
Also, I have to agree COMPLETELY with you about The Wire. I love that show!!!
http://twitter.com/jdayl
I think that I would be most interested in #’s 8 and 10 although they all sound very helpful, as a vegetarian with a vegan partner we try to live a healthy lifestyle including a raw diet as often as possible.
I’m interested in all of them! But I’ll say 4, 7, or 11 all look very interesting to me. Food combining is something that has always been recommended to me, but I’m never able to do it 100% right, or I get too obsessive with it and it stresses me out which just makes my stomach/digestion worse. So I need to understand it better, calm down, and take an easier approach.
All of the videos sound worth watching, however number 7 (Detox and Elimination), would be the most interesting to me
Thanks for having this giveaway!
I am really interested in Lecture 4: Ancient and Current Self-Help Techniques. I sounds extremely compelling!
I’m most interested in the practical living video. As a 16 year old healthy, semi-raw vegan I sometimes find it hard to juggle social situations with a diet as specific as mine. I also tend to eat less veg when I don’t have a lot of time on my hands. I could definitely use more creative ideas so I don’t end up neglecting my social life or my healthy lifestlye. The other ones sound great too
As much as I’d like to win, I have to say that the idea of donating ‘em to the library is a fantastic idea and would probably benefit the largest amount of people.
Lecture 11: food combining has always interested me! I feel sometimes I get so gasy and other times not at all!! Yet I eat the same stuff. . Is it the combo? Plus I have heard of food combining that without trying can lead to healthy weight loss
thanks for holding this giveaway! the set sounds like an incredible source of information! right now lecture 11 would be very helpful to me as I’ve already started food combining and it’s really helped with my digestive issues! i would love to learn more!
I’ll be most interested in Lecture 10 – Bringing It Home. I’m truly curious if their advice would be practical and socially viable.
I often read about bringing your own dressing to restaurants as a way to be 100% raw which I personally cringe at so out of morbid curiosity, I would really like to find out how a revered organization such as Hippocrates would dish out tips on how to be as raw as possible in daily life.
Hi Gena, Thanks for holding this giveaway. I’d be really interested in lecture 3, Supplements, Algae. Herbs and Homeopathy. I’m a student naturopath and herbalist and often feel that the naturopathic and the herbal approaches tend to differ in several key ways so I’m always looking at ways of combining them into a more united whole to give clients the best opportunities for healing. The internal Awareness DVD about the workings of the digestive system etc looks interesting too!
Hi Gena!
I’d be most interested in Lecture 1: Principles of Health.
And I just tweeted this!
Christina
Heya!
Considering that I am a psychologist, I would like to have this:
Lecture 6 – Questions and Answers I: Questions on the science, psychology, and food of the Living Foods Lifestyle. The responses provide clear and thoughtful information.
I have twitted your giveaway (http://twitter.com/JosephSzenasi).
Congrats for deciding to share!
Thanks Gena! I am most interested in the detox & elimination DVD.
I tweeted (@IEatTrees).
Great Giveaway, Gena!
I would really love # 10, it just totally sounds like me
Lecture 7 looks really interesting and helpful!
Wow – these sound amazing and very applicable to what I am personally working on right now. I have been voraciously reading about Raw/Living foods lifestyle, detoxifying, etc and would love to view these dvd’s. The one that interests me the most is probably #10 – bringing it all home.
On a different note – I just want to say how much I enjoy your blog. Not only do you share great recipes, but your posts that discuss various deeper topics related to food, body, and our mental health hit so close to home with so many of us. I also feel enlightened when I read your insightful words.
I’m interested in both the Practical Living disc and the Food Combining disc.
I tweeted as well.
detox & elimination and food combining sound interesting!
There are so many of these discs I’m interested in! I think #8 is probably the one I would watch first, though.
And I tweeted this at beatificdreams.
#7 would be the most interesting to me – Detox & Elimination. It would be the most helpful as well.
I tweeted the link!
I’m definitely interested in the detox/elimination video because I think it’s an important part of overall health. i’m interested in learning about all the different ways to get the job done!
I would be thrilled to see lecture 11 – Food Combining
Hope you count me!!
Wow -Thanks Gena! #8,9,10, and 11 sound the most needed here. How to apply, get started, and STICK WITH IT at home is the toughest part.
Thanks for the chance to win Gena! I’d love to know more about food combining (dvd #11)
Lecture 4 – sounds like a great addition to my Nutritional Healing resource book. Thank you!!
Wowee! #8 please. How generous!
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!
They all seem so interesting–probably most interested in the practical living!
I just tweeted, too!
I would LOVE the detoxing video! I’m currently thinking about doing a course at Hippocrates, and this would give me such a great taste of what they really offer. In addition, my acupuncturist and I have had many many talks about my need to detox my liver, so this would be a great resource. AND, if I won, this would be like a 2-for-1 deal, as I would share it with my best health nut buddy so we could both reap the benefits.
i just tweeted from @GreenJunkieLiv for the detox video. Fingers crossed!
The second lecture on Internal Awareness: The basics of the digestive, sounds interesting!
I actually would love to check out all of them, but the supplementation is really interesting to me now.
Twitted http://twitter.com/elenawilkins/status/18361925397
I would love to learn about how to integrate the raw food lifestyle into my own routine – video #8 would definitely help me to make healthy decisions throughout my daily office grind!
I would be most interested in “ancient and current self help techniques.” I would like to live a life less dependent on contact lenses and heal a burn from lighting off a firework on the fourth of july.
I would find several of them interesting, but I think the Detox and Elimination would be my first choice.
I’m most interested in Lecture 2 or 7. Thanks for sharing these with your readers!!
I’m very interested in the food combining video:)
Hi, great giveaway! All of the lectures sound really interesting, but I would say I’m most interested in lecture 11 Food Combining. My husband and I are working towards a vegan mostly raw diet, but are having some trouble with digestion. Very informative blog
I also tweeted your giveaway as well!
Courtney
Oh boy they all look great! But I think I’m most interested in Lecture 8. Thanks for the giveaway : )
I tweeted about the giveaway!
I just tweeted! I am interested in this entire series and I love your blog! @sinbadtothebone
Hi Gena! My mother went to Hippocrates Health Institute almost 5 years ago now, and she bought all the DVD’s. I agree with what you said, and when watching, what I had to be careful about was that before I was more secure in my eating habits, I felt that I needed to follow their recommendations 100% and that can be overwhelming since they do promote more of a strict way of eating. Great information though!
It all looks so informative. I’ve hit my one year anniv. on the Raw and starting to hit my stride with it. It’s such a big thing to wrap ones mind around. So the info on these DVDs would be such a BIG leap in my motivation to keep going. But I think #8 and #11 speak to me the most. . . I still have lots to detox, and I’m working on the practical ways to live this lifestyle.
Keep up your AWESOME Blog! Thanks Me!
Gena!
I tried your banana softserve (BSS) this morning. Oh. My. God.
It is so good and decadent and simple. It shocked me how good it was.
So, a word of caution that you’ve probably already figured out. I tried adding frozen peaches to the banana in my second batch and it completely changed the texture dramatically, (for the worse, too watery and not creamy and dense enough).
Word to the wise: keep it simple with the BSS. Just bananas. Then add stuff later, like toppings.
Strawberries on top were nice. A touch of vanilla extract was nice too.
But the plain version was simply divine (and the best!).
I am going to make it again tomorrow morning. Add toppings like a regular sundae. Any topping ideas?
Thank you for the inspiration!
Food Combining, I think. Thanks!
Hi Gena,
It’s awesome to see how generous you are with sharing your knowledge, skills and resources! I love your blog. I’m a poor college student, and am struggling to stay raw on a tight schedule, and constant temptation from seeing peers eating junk. I could really use Lecture 8, Practical Living and apply it directly in my college life.
I don’t have a twitter account, but I do love your blog, and check it out everyday to see your inspiring posts.
I would be so thrilled to win the set, but the video that i would be most interested in is the food combining. I would love to learn more about that. I hope i win
and also i love your blog. it is so interesting! never disappoints! keep going!
i think it would be great to learn more about how to juice and fast healthfully! not that it’s something i know i need to do often, but i’ve heard so many great stories!
just tweeted too
I just Tweeted!
I think Practical Living would be my choice because I KNOW the right choices to make but it doesn’t mean I always make them.
hands down lecture 10, about holistic healing – including the spiritual. oh boy, is it ever important.
i tweeted! @nutellacube
Oh my gosh – the possibility of winning these DVDs is so exciting! I looked through the list a few times and had a hard time narrowing down to just one, but I think I’d have to say the Food Combining video would be at the top of my list. Mainly because I have such a sensitive digestive system!
Thanks for offering such an informative giveaway, Gena!
They all sound very interesting, but I think I would like the most to watch food combining, detox and elimination and fasting!
This is the greatest giveaway ever
this is an amazing giveaway! I just researched these…they’re like $200. I’m most interested in the 3rd lecture: supplements, algea, etc.
tweeted! @healthypurpose
Interesting giveaway! I think I would be most interested in the Practical Living and the Food Combining videos. I am still learning about food combining and I always look for more tips on staying true to my food values in a culture where it is often hard to do so.
I like the juicing video! I want to juice more. And the detox video seems very interesting as well. Thank you so much for sharing. Glad I found / happened upon your site! I’ll def be checking back often!
Hope I win!
andrea
Number 10 would be a nice refresher for while we do all these lovely things.
. Also I’d be very interested in experiencing this “spiritual language” for myself.
much love.
The Practical Living one seems to be one that I need. I have so much head knowledge about eating healthy, but still eat what my family eats instead of just healthy food.
Thanks
All of them look great! I like the looks of ‘Bringing it all home’ I am interested in the raw food spiritual connection.
I am really interested in all of them!
Thank you for this opportunity! I think I would be most interested in Lecture 7 – Detox and Elimination, but all of them really.
It has been Tweeted.
I would like all of them and I tweeted as well
Oh gosh…it is hard to pick one that would be better to have, they all seem so intreging. I suffered from food confusion for most of my life. I had an eating dissorder throughout my years in high school and could not see myself to saftey and happiness until I started understanding how to live on a healthy and pure diet. I became vegan three years ago which marked the beginning to my recovery away from anerexia and into healthy eating. It has been a very long journey but I am healthy and fit and loving life. I am a gluten free vegan that stays away from soy and incorporates a large amount of my diet into raw foods. I am still educating myself on nutrition, and the more resources the better! That is why I love blogs such as yours that keeps my knowledge up to date on how to eat nutritionally. If I had to pick one of the dvds, although they all sound great…I would go with Internal Awareness.
I’d love to win #8 …I find it very difficult to deal with the social implications of living a healthful lifestyle.
These videos sound really interesting! If I won I would certainly watch them all. In particular I am interested in Lecture 2 – Internal Awareness and Lecture 11 – Food Combining. I have just found out about a number of food intolerances (soy, lactose and large amounts of gluten) and while I am feeling much better after eliminating those items, I’d like to learn more about my digestions and reactions to food. I think there are lots of other things I could do to improve my tummy even further!
What a great idea for a giveaway. I think I would be most interested in the practical living title. Always good to know how to really walk the walk. =)
I’d like to just get the whole raw thing in a version that I can sit down and take in. There is lot’s of raw information, but not much that’s packaged like this for me.
I tweeted as well.
SugarFemme23 on the twotter machine.
They all look ineresting, but def. lecture 8. It’s only thing to know these principles; it’s entirely different to apply them to one’s life.
Lecture 11: Food combining
Most interested in dvd #7 and #10. They all sound great though.
I will tweet about it too.
Hi Gena, They all sound amazing but the one I’m really drawn to is Bringing it all Home.
I’m interested in the detox and elmination video.
I’m interested in the ancient and current self-help one.
The practical living one looks perfect for me.
Hi Gena,
I discovered your blog a few months ago and I went back and read every post since the beginning. You write beautifully and cover a wide range of topics. I’ve tried a number of your recipes and all of them have been fantastic. I also have a background in nutritional counseling and currently work with patients at a Chiropractor’s office in VA. I have always been interested in raw foods but more so lately. It’s been fun to expand my horizons as they say…. Anyway, my reason for the post is that I have been intrigued by the work of Ann Wigmore and the HHI for years and have always wanted to attend a weekend or week-long program, but time and money haven’t allowed for it to date. I read their magazine and have checked out their website but find them kind of secretive. Access to the videos would allow me to view and learn more about their programs without having to attend! I’d love to glean from the videos what I think would work for my clients (and myself) knowing that I probably also won’t agree with everything they promote. I know they have helped a lot of people with serious health issues, and I’ve love to learn more about their approach. Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this give away!
Hi, I am most interested in “Bringing it all home” We are in the process of moving across the country with a toddler and another baby on the way, My husband is switching from working at home to working in an office….and I would love to know how to bring it all home;-)
Practical living seems like it would be interesting… well, all of them do!
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