What is a green smoothie?Simply put, a green smoothie is a blended drink consisting of approximately 60% fruit and 40% greens.
Why drink green smoothies?
Though it may look green in colour, a green smoothie is suprisingly tasty, sweet and packed full of essential nutrients. And being a raw food beverage, it contains an abundance of enzymes your body needs.
Green Smoothie Revolution
In her book, "Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health", Victoria Boutenko promotes the healing benefits of drinking green smoothies and making them a daily part of your food intake.
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Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency. Green Smoothie Revolution takes aim at this silent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets.
Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200 recipes, Green Smoothie Revolution offers both simplicity (4 ripe pears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enough variety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealth of options.
Ms. Boutenko and her family have been raw foodists since 1994, adopting the raw food lifestyle because of chronic illnesses in the family that have since been eliminated or brought under control through a diet of raw foods.
Highlights from Green Smoothie Revolution
- 1. Leafy greens contain Chlorophyll, which is in essence "liquefied sunshine". Plants literally produce and synthesize food from sunlight. And virtually all creatures on the planet are trying to consume this "liquefied sunshine" either directly from plant food, or by eating an animal that has consumed it directly. It seems logical to get the sun's energy directly from plant sources.
- 2. This book is highly informative and has over 200 green smoothie, raw soup and pudding recipes. There's even special green smoothie recipes for children and pets.
- 3. There is a helpful section for beginners that features simple, easy to prepare green smoothies. As well as a "tips and techniques" section to help make your smoothie preparation much easier.
- 4. A chapter on "blending versus juicing" covers the nutritional benefits of both, and how blending green smoothies can be more advantageous.
- 5. The book ends with case studies and personal success stories, and how the Boutenko family discovered the benefits and health advantages of the raw foods. It is inspiring to read how this family overcame their health problems by adopting a raw food lifestyle.
In Summary
Overall, I highly recommend this book. I've been an evangelist for the Raw Food movement and promoted the health benefits of delicious 100% Raw Cacao-Banana Smoothies, but reading this book has convinced me that green smoothies can truly deliver. Already, I have tried a few of the recipes in the book, I can definitely feel the nutriontional boost in energy from this amazing beverage!
"In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise.… Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. That’s no small achievement for one small book."
—A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School
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Green Smoothie Revolution is published through North Atlantic Books "a leading publisher of alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles."
