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The Green Smoothies Diet: The Natural Program for Extraordinary Health Kindle Edition
Looking for a quick, flavorful and nutritious way to stay youthful and healthy? The Green Smoothies Diet provides the perfect solution! Green smoothies are the best way to power up your body and supercharge your health in just minutes a day. Packing a tasty, nutrient-filled punch in every sip, these ultrahealthy smoothies pair leafy green vegetables with delicious, antioxidant-rich fruits. Discover how green smoothies help you:
•Lose Weight
•Detoxify the Body
•Increase Energy
•Fight Heart Disease
•Prevent Diabetes & Certain Cancers
•Boost the Immune System
•Make Skin and Hair Beautiful
Features easy-to-make recipes like:
•Rad Raspberry Radicchio
•Black Kale Blackberry Brew
•Red Pepper Mint Julep
•Grapefruit Cilantro Booster
•Big Black Cabbage Cocktail
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUlysses Press
- Publication dateAugust 25, 2009
- File size2862 KB
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3 large collard leaves, including stems
1 cup water
½ cup ice
2 peaches
1 banana, frozen in chunks
¼ whole lemon (including peel)
½ tsp. stevia
Blend first two ingredients on high for 2 minutes in BlendTec, add remaining ingredients and blend until smooth. Serve with a mint sprig.
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Spinach Raspberry Medley
2 large handfuls spinach
1 cup water
½ cup ice
1 Tbsp. agave nectar
1 cup frozen mixed berries
1 banana, frozen in chunks
Blend spinach and ice until smooth in BlendTec, add other ingredients and blend 60 seconds. Serve in tall glasses with straws.
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Kale Concoction
3 large stalks of green or black (Lacinato) kale
1 cup water
2 pears
1” of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
1 cup water
1 banana, frozen in chunks
½ tsp. stevia
Blend kale and water in BlendTec until smooth, then add other ingredients and blend 90 seconds more.
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Tropismoothie
1 large handful spinach
1 large handful arugula
1 large handful leafy lettuce (romaine, green or red lettuce, anything but iceberg)
1 cup water
1 cup fresh pineapple, coarsely chopped
1 cup papaya
1 banana, frozen in chunks
1 Tbsp. honey
½ cup ice
Blend first four ingredients in BlendTec until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and blend until smooth. Serve in frosted glasses.
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Super-Antioxidant Chocolate Shake
1 large handful spinach or kale
1 cup coconut liquid (fresh or canned)
2 Tbsp. raw chocolate powder
1 cup ice
1 stalk celery, coarsely chopped
1 banana, frozen in chunks
¼ cup raw or roasted almond butter (or organic peanut butter)
¼ cup dried goji berries, soaked 1 hr. and drained (optional)
2 Tbsp. agave nectar
Blend all ingredients 2 minutes in BlendTec, adding extra ice for more shake-like consistency if necessary, and serve immediately with straws.
Product details
- ASIN : B003ODHODG
- Publisher : Ulysses Press; Original edition (August 25, 2009)
- Publication date : August 25, 2009
- Language : English
- File size : 2862 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 242 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #373,046 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #58 in Vegetarian Diets (Kindle Store)
- #153 in Raw Cooking
- #220 in Low Fat Diets (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Robyn Openshaw is the author of 15 books, including bestsellers The Green Smoothies Diet and 12 Steps to Whole Foods. Her latest book, Vibe: Discover Your Energetic Frequency for Health, Love & Success, will be released by Simon & Schuster in October 2017.
She is a former psychotherapist, university professor, and lectured in over 450 cities in the 6 years after launching her popular site GreenSmoothieGirl.com in 2007. She's a single mom to four children who are now flying the coop. She skis and plays tennis competitively in Utah, and believes that everything is possible if you leverage the highest frequencies in the Universe.
You can find her podcast, Your High Vibration Life, on iTunes--also look for Green Smoothie Girl on Facebook, and visit her website GreenSmoothieGirl.com.
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But back to the book. It's very informative as to why green smoothies are beneficial, which greens are best and why, and how to go about implementing them into your family and life. There is even information on how to start growing your own greens so you can save money and have better nutrition. There are plenty of recipes and a 3 day green fast detox and also a 30 day detox fat burner cleanse. Both are very simple and easy to implement.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to regain their health! Robyn is wonderful and a delight to read. I have been a GreenSmoothieGirl.com blog reader for years and even with all the information she has there....this just adds another dimension to my understanding of how and why I and my whole family need to be doing this. I am proof that the green smoothies can improve your digestion, your energy and your weight along with so much more. I have even begun to notice a few gray hairs that have turned back to my dark brown. This is my 3rd month of doing the smoothies. But I have also begun removing meats and dairy. I can't even begin to tell you the health improvements. I have been an avid "You need lots of meat/dairy to get enough protein" person for years. So I was very skeptical. But nothing was helping my health and I was continuing to get worse despite being what I thought was healthy. Boy was I wrong. I am very thankful to Robyn for all the information she makes available. She really helps you to understand why this works. And what could be simpler than to add a quart of green smoothie a day? It's such a simple addition that can have far reaching effects. When you begin to feel better, it will give you that push to make further changes.
Much evidence is offered regarding why a plant-based diet is ideal, and the author presents green smoothies as a delicious and easy way for anyone to improve their eating habits. The remainder of the book provides the juicy details on green smoothies:
Which greens to eat, growing your own greens, buying/storing greens and fruit, super foods to add to your smoothies, how to make green smoothies, and green smoothie recipes.
The book ends with page after page of inspiring stories from people who have reaped the benefits of green smoothies: increased energy, decreased cravings for sugary processed foods, greater endurance, healed ailments, and the list goes on.
For me, this was a life-changing book, convincing me to at least incorporate a daily green smoothie and hopefully to greatly decrease my family's consumption of processed foods, dairy, and meat (though the film "Food,Inc" helped with this as well!). The "green smoothie diet" is not an all-or-nothing approach. The author makes it clear that changing any of our poor eating habits is a step in the right direction, but with the immense positive effects from a green smoothie lifestyle, it's pretty easy to have motivation to make some impressive changes!
Overall, while I initially sought a book chocked full of green smoothie recipes, I gained incredible insight into the reasons for drinking green smoothies in the first place. The author provides such a wonderful understanding of green smoothie basics that I find myself not even needing the recipes but instead fully confident to experiment with my own smoothie creations.
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