Viktoras Kulvinskas

Viktoras Peter Kulvinskas M.S. is an American holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, raw foods advocate and author.

Background

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 where he was Director of Research, and is active in the living foods movement.

Biography

Early years

Viktoras Kulvinskas is a Piscean who was born in Lithuania during World War II. He received his M.S. Degree in pure mathematics from the University of Connecticut, where he later taught mathematics. He then became a computer consultant for Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and the Apollo Project, among others He is a member of the Physics honor society Sigma Pi Sigma and is also known for a variety of mystic and faith-based activities such as palmistry, numerology, iridology, reflexology, physiognomy and acupressure.

Alternative health related activities

After co-founding the Hippocrates Health Institute, he began 35 years operating as a practitioner in the area of holistic treatments and techniques, consulted by a claimed figure of tens of thousands of people through his "lifestyle consultation services". He is also a lecturer (internationally for a claimed over 20,000 hours in the field of alternative and non-conventional health theories), chef (served raw food vegetarian meals to a claimed half a million people), and a Bishop of the First Christian Essene Church of Christ (San Diego, California).

As a nutritionist (the non-official self-claimed title given to alternative versions of qualified dieticians), he was the personal health consultant to comedian/activist Dick Gregory during his 900 mile run for peace, and has been a Nutritional and Education Director at Gregory’s Obesity & Substance Abuse Resorts (Florida & Bahamas). His self-authenticated theory on cancer was practiced at the Hippocrate Institute, and documented in his book "Survival in the 21st Century", along with a new model of menstruation with program to eliminate PMS.

He spent 7 years developing his HHI Live Food program - which has followers in many countries, and teaches at his own Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida [1]. He is an active promoter and salesman of blue green algae, probiotics, enzymes and other nutritional products.

Appearances

Kulvinskas has toured extensively and given seminars for the World Symposium on Humanity in Canada and Australia. He has lectured for over 10,000 hours at alternative health events such 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 others.

Kulvinskas has often appeared as a keynote speaker at Cell Tech August Celebration, Raw Expo, Essene Annual Conference and the Hippocrates Health Educator Intensive. He was also a keynote speaker at the alternative World Congress on Incurable Diseases in Germany in 2002 [2]; Raw World: International Festival of Raw Food Enthusiasts in Costa Rica in 2003 [3], and at various other workshops.

Speaker and advocate

Kulvinskas also trained the staff in “Enzymatic Nutrition and Live Food Therapies for Degenerative Disease” at his Hippocrates Clinic of Asia [4] 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 field of alternative wellness and enzymatic therapies. He was one of the first to popularize the long out-of-print works of Chicago enzyme researcher Dr Edward Howell (born 1898) of the Lindlahr Sanitarium (Illinois). Kulvinskas was also one of the first to promote sprouts, algae, wheatgrass, plant enzymes and herbal formulations to offset the claimed impact of cooked foods, environmental pollution and inherited weaknesses.

Writing

Viktoras Kulvinskas is an author of numerous books on natural living, whole foods, healthy eating and healing, which championed an enzyme rich, low protein, low starch, high liquid, pre-digested uncooked vegetarian diet to include fruits, vegetables, sprouted seeds and grains, weeds, algae, seaweeds, baby greens and seed milks, for health and longevity.

Survival

Survival In The 21st Century: A Planetary Healer's Handbook (with artwork by Peter Max), which sold over a half a million copies worldwide, was the first holistic book published which cited (400) medical journal references and is notable for its coverage of living foods and enzyme nutrition.^{[citation needed]} It was also one of the first books to document Johnny Lovewisdom, who Kulvinskas visited in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, and his work on radioactive fallout zones.

Topics covered in Survival included alternative therapies, body ecology, consciousness expansion, dietary technology, disease, enzymes, food combining, fruitarianism, healing, holistic health, iridology, living foods, longevity, macrobiotics, meditation, physical survival, spirituality, raw nutrition, sproutarianism, vegetarianism and yoga.

In the book, Dr Ann Wigmore, co-founder with Kulvinskas of the Hippocrates Health Institute, called it "The Bible of the Aquarian Age.", Washington Natural Hygienist, Dr Stanley Bass, called it "An encyclopedic and bold attempt at a Whole integrated look at man and the Universe." and Dr Brian Clement, Director of Kulvinskas' Hippcorates Health Institute, wrote: "Viktoras gives you the information you need to move forward.".

Other writing

Kulvinskas has contributed articles to numerous journals including “Vegetarian Voice”, “Vegetarian Times”, “Vegetarian World”, “Health Street Journal” and “Alternatives”.

Unpublished writing

Unpublished writings mentioned in The Lover's Diet include: Eat It Raw, From Longevity To Immortality, Happy Belly, Life Extension Recipes and Youthing With Enzymes.

Coverage

Articles

Articles featuring Kulvinskas have appeared in issues of SPIN, Magical Blend, New Life Magazine, Living Nutrition and other publications. Articles on Kulvinskas appeared in The Heart of Greatness: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Success (1997), Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine: The Complete Guide to Using Grass Foods & Juices to Revitalize Your Health (1998) by Steve Meyorowitz, and Raw Knowledge: Enhance The Powers of Your Mind, Body and Soul by Paul Nison (2002).

Awards

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

Contemporaries

Contemporaries of Kulvinskas have included Ann Wigmore, Marcia Acciardo, Brian Clements Ph.D, Dr. Douglas N. Graham, and Humbart Santillo.

Criticism

Blue green algae, a food advocated by Kulvinskas, is associated with anatoxin and microcystins.

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
• 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: næringsindholdet i spirer og græs, oversat af Arne Herløv Petersen, Thaning & Appel, 1985. Denmark, Schlagwörter: Helse, Kogeböger.
• Le Mythe Menstruel: La Menstruation est-elle Nécessaire à la Santé et à La Fécondité?, with Ann Wigmore, Morges: M. Dégallier, 1986
• L'elixir Vert du Rajeunissement, Morges: M. Dégallier, 1986
• L'importance de La Nutrition pour le Développement Oculaire et la Fonction Visuelle, Morges: M. Dégallier, 1986
• Comment Passer du Végétarisme au Respirianisme, Morges: M. Dégallier, 1986
• Nutrición En La Nueva Era, Mandala Ediciones, 1992, ISBN 8486961513, ISBN 978-8486961510
• Leben und Überleben: Kursbuch im 21. Jahrhundert, by Viktoras Kulvinskas; Ursula von Wiese, München: Hirthammer, 2001
• Csíraételek: fiatalodás és gyógyulás az Anyatermészet segítségével, ford. Gazdik Ágnes, Budapest: Mandala-Veda, cop. 2007.

With others

• The Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity, with Edward Howell, Lotus Brands Inc.
• The Nutritional Evaluation Of Sprouts & Grasses - with Robert Silverstein, Omango D'Press, 1978.
• 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.

External links

• Pour un point de vue sur Viktoras Kulvinskas, voir les références du Professeur français Henri Joyeux [5]
• Viktoras Kulvinskas Official Website
• Survival in the 21st Century