The Raw Food Kids
November 16, 2009 by admin
Filed under Updates on the Movement
This video rocks! Make sure to leave your comments for Sergie so that he knows what you think of his video!
Here are Sergei’s own words about his beating diabetes:
“I was nine years old when I was diagnosed with Diabetes. Doctors told my parents and me that I had to go on insulin immediately. My parents refused and instead began searching for alternative treatments. After trying numerous diets that did not work, in 1994 I tried raw food as well as vigorous exercising. I noticed a difference almost immediately. Within a few months of changing my diet and sticking to my exercise, my blood sugar was consistently lower and my symptoms were slowly but surely growing more faint. A few months after that, I sold my glucose monitor machine to my math teacher for $5.00 because I was tired of pricking my finger and having a normal reading each time. I feel extremely lucky to have been given another chance at being healthy. I know that the active lifestyle that I live today would not have been possible to live had I had diabetes. I am very grateful to my parents for not being afraid to try something out of the ordinary and for not being afraid of what others will think of them. It is because of them that I have my health today.”
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Fabulous! I love the way you and Valya keep coming up with new and creative ways to get the message out about healthy eating and living!
Thanks, it was awesome and I am forwarding it to my friends.
Libby
Great, awesome
I loved the video. Thanks for spreading the word in an upbeat and fun way!! Have a lovely day! Melissa
Great video — lots of fun, thanks! We hope the message reaches lots of kids and other people, too. We are going to forward it to the Ellen Degeneres show. We hope she invites you guys onto her TV show!
Thanks for your info and your passion!!!!!
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT……..U R RAWWWWWSOME!!!!!!!
That was awesome! Thanks for making the video! Lotsa love!
great video - very clever and creative — thank you and I am forwarding it along
Loved it!
I’m going to share it on FB!
adorable smart and hilarious
thanks “hommies” I am totally “digging” this shhh%%^
Sergei-How cute is this! I love your energy and your fun and spirited message, Love Nomi
Nomi Shannon
The Raw Gourmet
rawgourmet.com
Sergei, you’ve done it again, great work my friend.
You really inspire me, your family, your sister, your books, and your creativity. Please continue man.
I’ve lost my way a bit on my raw food path over the last month, but today, after some much needed cleansing, a new moon, your You Tube video, and The Raw for Life dvd which I am watching again tonight as we speak - I’m heading back on my rightful raw-life food path. Well done for turning around Diabetes, for good. You are a source of upliftment.
Love to you.
Louisa (UK)
Sweet little video - had me moving AND THINKING!
Yes! I want my grandchildren to see this! God bless and keep you is my prayer.
Thank you, very much. Your music video is quite creative; I’ll show it to my grandchildren asap. I am a vegan caterer and prepared a vegan, raw meal to support Color of Film’s screening of “Simply Raw” in Roxbury (Boston), MA last month, at Haley House Bakery Cafe. For the first time in the two years of the event, “Dinner & A Movie”,Color of Film is screening Simply Raw again on 11/20 along with the same raw menu I served last month. I’m buying the documentary while its on sale. I was in the kitchen so much last month I only caught a few moments of the film. I’m pre-diabetic, morbidly obese and vegan-especially when it comes to high-fat vegan baked goods and fried seitan. Simply Raw is growing on me. Peace & Love, SistahZa/Zakiya Alake of SistahZa’s V-Spot @ Haley House, Roxbury, MA
It was funky but enjoyable. (I am 67 years old, so that explains my response) It should reach more youth, I would think. You kids have had a great life! Keep up the great work!
Raw Love
ALice
Great video. Granddaughter and I loved it so it appeals to all ages. Keep it up
Sergei,
Thanks for entertaining us while educating us.
Hopefully this fun message will
hit home for many and help to make important changes in their diets and their health.
Very cute video! Would be awesome if it could get in the schools!! Thank you for sharing…. hey, how about Dr. Oz show?
I love love love this. You guys are awesome. Thank you for your contribution to world health.
Great video and fantastic message! I am a 20 year diabetes veteran from South Africa and I am about to embark on my “raw” lifestyle. The message is spreading….!
WOW! You’ve got talent! So glad your mom found a better way.
Loved the video. Important info amongst the humor.
Awesome you guys!!!!
Wonderful! I can’t wait to show it to my kids. My son loved reading about your story in “Green For Life” and it has inspired him to promote raw food with his friends!!!
love, Love, LOVE it! I am a raw foodist in a family that does NOT eat raw. My four year old has diabetes - can’t wait to show her your video. THank you!
Hey guys,
That was awesome!!! All 5 of my kids were gathered around within 1 minute of the video starting!! Now I just need to learn the song, so I can sing it to them when I am trying to get them to eat right!!
Would love to see more from both of you-you have alot to offer!
Tracy Bordewyk
Awesome, thanks for the clear, wonderful message and the fun, fun, fun!
Great video! I think I see a new artist emerging on the consciousness music scene!
This is so great.
I am incorporating some ‘raw’ days into my eating and this makes it all the more fun.
Thanks for sharing!
Gina
This definitely is a good vibes video! Loved it. As with anything we do, mean business and have fun at the same time. What an awesome way of doing that, keep it up.
This is so awesome. We need an old folks version of this showing how great raw
seniors look.
That is such a clever and fun video.
Love it!
My kids loved this!!! Thank you for sharing this fabulous video with us. It’s so great for them to have raw role models to look up to. Keep up the good work!
Fabulous! Great way to get the raw message out to kids!!!
That was absolutely great! We need more of these to educate people in a fun way! Keep up the great work!
Awesome video! I love it and am happy to find this in my email today
Greetings,
Great video! I just emailed the link to my co-workers and plan to send it to my family members. I have family memebers with diabetes so hopefully this message using humor will get them to take notice. Thanks again.
Peace,
Denise
This a fantastic! I love it! I’d like to show it to my students.
Awesome! I loved your video… and everything about it. Very cute and clever.. and very beneficial!
Way to go!
A-mazing guys. Amazing!
You did a great job, loved it.
Great video! Will be sharing it with everyone I know!
I love it!!!
I want to stick this as a link on my blog somehow! Thank you, Sergei! It’s so wonderful to have living proof to show my family how Cool and HEALTHY LOOKING raw can be!! Love yours and Valya’s cookbook too! You guys are GREAT!!
What a great video!
Great!!!! Nice job
Great! Should run non-stop at every fast food restaurant!!
Is this for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?
this is great! fun and simply put it deals with the bumps on the path beautifully.
This is great, entertaining and educational at the same time. My husband and two children and I are all raw foodists. My kids really appreciate watching your videos, I think it makes them feel good to see someone else who strongly believes in this diet and can still have a good time. Thank you for helping to get the message out that it’s both ok to be different and to listen to your body and take care of yourself.
Thank you for putting out “cool”, positive and healthy images for young people! My 10 year old loved it!
Nina Manolson
Body Alive Body Aware: Wellness From Within
BodyAliveBodyAware.com
That was great. Funny and informative. I think too often people think of healthy eaters as not having much of a sense of humor. Thanks for helping to dispel that ugly rumor!!
Hey - great job - and I hope Ellen takes note of your video too. I’m dancing…and grooving…and sharing! Aloha!
it was very good, at the end of video, i had an idea for the guy that threw his sandwich away and walking off, i was hoping he would enter a smoothie shop !!!
maybe in next one !!!
hazel
Hi guys, very cute and a lot of work congrats. from Australia
Awesome!!!!
Thanks for the wonderfully creative effort, and thanks to your parents for giving the world a chance to learn healthier ways through you. You are blessed to have such wise parents.
hey , love it , keep up the great work !My 10 year old son asked is it really that easy , I said of course , that is why I am raw …
take care
Sherry
Love it! I bring a smoothie to work every day, (I work at a school) and the kids are getting better about trying my smoothies. They will love your video!!!
Thanks,
Nancy
Well done!!! Very funny, what a great flick. Thank you all for
working so hard to get the message out there!
you are awesome and very very funny! i loved the costumes, song and that funny voice synthesizer! go sergei! love, pamela
Thanks for being so inspirational in so many ways for so many aspects of life.
What’s with the furry outfit, yo! Fun rhymes for fun times.
I was wondering when that sandwich was gonna get spat out. Good job! Bring the show on the road in August!
-b
Very cool, Sergei and Valya. Now to get my grandchildren to watch this.
We are all grateful to have the Boutenko family supporting our health.
Rawvelous Sandy
As a 40-something, I think the lyrics and the beat are great, but the video is stupid!! Which means my teenager will love it! so thanks!
And now please make one for adults so we can pass it on to our non-raw friends and family and they won’t think we’re nuts!
cool vid! the “Raw Food Kids” is a great idea!
Very cute! I will definately show my daughters.
Great clip. I bet you had fun making it. I think it does need to be said, however, that the diabetes that you were cured of Sergie was, in all probability, Type 2. People at the point of diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes simply do not have the luxury of time to find an alternative treatment: it’s insulin now or diabetic coma quickly followed by death.Still, it’s a great message and you are an inspiration to us all.
Very cool and very inspirational. Can’t thank you enough! I know what I need to do, starting now! Well done!
Fabulous and brilliant, thankyou. My 3 year old son made me play it for him 5 times in a row!!!!!!!
How cool!!!! Another one with GUMPTION!!
Great job guys! Very entertaining, cute, creative, fun! Love the words to the song too. In the end I could relate to the guy hesitating to throw out his sandwhich. It’s so hard to give up what tastes so great to us, but in the end, our value for health must remain the top priority. Congratulations on your creation. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for putting the message out there. My grandson (22yrs) is an example of a diabetic who gave into peer pressure to lived on junk food, alcohol & drugs in his teens. Now he’s lost his short term memory from coma/brain damage & is unable to remember if he ate or had his injection. Gone is his career & old room-mates/freinds because he needs 24 hr care. Please kids, don’t even think about that route. It’s a funny video but the matter is serious !!!
Raw Vegan Gramma
that was soy cheezy…. love it.
Your creative hearts shine! Keep spreading the word…
What a great rap and video ~ thanks for your healthy message!
first class keep up the great work
great video guys - with great message!
Great video!! Can you make more to stress the importance of raw foods in preventing all diseases?? Looking forward to any new ones…
Tha vid was dope!
Ha ha ha!!! Great work, Kids!!!
Hey, wow you guys! Good message for everyone. Very well done, too. Thank you!
Lots of people think there are not enough proteins in that kind of a diet to support weightlifting and aerobics workouts. That’s a great topic to address. Our bodies have all it takes to turn raw foods into proteins, I believe. (According to Stanly Burroughs - The Master Cleanse booklet and it has proven to be correct for my body - on day 34 now)
Encore Encore More Please!!
I think this video is awesome. My son was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile diabetes when he was 10 (last year 2008). He’s loving it. I saw this video so many times. However, he is a hip hop dancer and wants to be in whatever other video you shoot. Holla back
That was so funny, very entertaining. I liked it!!! I try to eat a salad with brocccoli and califlower and other stuff atleast 4 times a week and I drink my green drink with avacado, lime, almond milk, english cucumber, green powder (chlorophyll). very filling and good for you. I am working my way to the better way of eating. I work out 4 days a week, cardio and weight and i am feeling good and looking better.
that was the cutest thing ever! i love your family and have slept with my windows open since reading your (moms?) book years ago. love.
more. and more.
Woo-Ho! This just shows that people who eat raw and healthy living foods have more brain and creative powers. You are “the Bomb” Sergei and I will send this out to everyone I can think of. Keep up the good work and give our love to your awesome rawsome family from whom so much knowledge is flowing out to spread the TRUTH about what real nutrition does for peoples’ health and wellbeing!
You two are wonderful. Keep up the good work. Be proud of your parents. Am looking forward to helping with the raw babies dvd. Great to see you at the Raw Spirit Festival. Hopefully in the future there will be more raw food there!
your parents definitely took a strong stance in what they believed and what they wanted for you, but take credit for continuing to choose for yourself health and well-being as a young adult. great song, great message!
OMG GREAT JOB! I’m sending the link to everyone I know. And every site i go to!
EXCELLENT!
Thanks so much for doing this! It’s awesome!
Amy Williams
Missouri
Sergio
That was brilliant. Thanks - it really made me smile on a grey rainy day in London!
its a brilliant way of educating us, and i too can relate to the food that is forbidden, i love bread but just got the bread video and it has really made me think about it. i am passing these on to my friends.
Nice song! I love it
That was really cute and funny, I like the end where he spits the sub sandwich out in the trash.
This was just sooooo cute! Thank you, you guys are so creative. Keep going, we need you to make it all fun. Healthy fun. Good luck
very fun and creative, as well as inspiring too!
Loved every minute of it. Great introduction for the raw movement.
Thanks so much for making this video! It’s funny, catchy, and informative at the same time. Well done!
I want this to be required viewing at all elementary schools. Hope we can help that happen. I posted this on my FB page and asked all my friends to pass and share it.
I’ve watched you grow over the years, well, maybe just since 2003, and have been so impressed by the smart work you do in an effort to influence folks taking the road to optimal health. Bravo, you two!!!! (I also helped Fatima finish one of your mom’s books to Portuguese a few years ago. I love what you all stand for!!)