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Green for Life

Victoria Boutenko

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Total reviews: 115 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Great Way to Transition 5 out of 5 stars.
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For years, I have had the "knowledge" in regards to eating more raw healthy foods, but cravings have gotten in the way of the type of success I've dreamed of. Victoria changed my perspective by showing we can focus our concentration on good health by drinking delicious green smoothies. The cravings are fading faster than I could have imagined. IN addition, I turned my neighbor on to this book. She came for a visit after two weeks of green smoothies, and said she was eternally grateful, let me know that out of all the things I've done for her, turning her on to this book was the greatest. Drinking the smoothies have already changed her life on every level. Get this book to see how easy improving you health can be.

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In search of the perfect human diet, Victoria Boutenko compares the standard American diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share an estimated 99.4% of genes with humans, but their diet is dramatically different from ours. The most glaring difference is that chimpanzees consume significantly more green leaves than humans. Victoria developed a series of greens smoothies that enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a very palatable way.

The Big Book of Juices and Smoothies: 365 Natural Blends for Health and Vitality Every Day (The Big Book of...Series)

Natalie Savona

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great Layout ! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Great layout, great pictures, and great information! This book has a nice selection of fruit drinks and vegetable drinks as well. Each drink has a 5 section, 5 star rating. There is a spot on nutrition so you know the vitamins and minerals you are getting. A great book to keep you healthy!

Yummy! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I love this book! I'm new to juicing and some things I didn't think I could handle drinking, but the author did a good job making everything sound so yummy! I really love how she organized the fruits. It's nice to go into my kitchen and see that I have a pineapple I need to use and then have several recipes to go with it. My husband is most likely thinking it's going to end up on the shelf untouched like the rest, but I think this is definately a keeper :)

Editorial Review:

Juice bars are all the rage, but making the drinks at home is an easy — and less expensive — way to sustain a smoothie habit. The Big Book of Juices and Smoothies features 365 healthy and delicious recipes. Many of which can be prepared with nothing more than a blender. Each drink is rated for its energy/immune boosting properties, detoxifying qualities, and skin enhancing abilities, while an at-a-glance nutrient profile lists vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Juice plans, such as a “detox weekend” or an “immune-boosting week” round out the book.

More Smoothies for Life: Satisfy, Energize, and Heal Your Body

Daniella Chace

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Nutritionist Daniella Chace, coauthor of Smoothies for Life, is back with 150 smoothie recipes designed to cure common ailments, increase longevity, and satisfy cravings with fat-burning snacks. Learn how to save money and time by making Starbucks- and Jamba Juice–worthy drinks right in your own kitchen, using the healthiest ingredients on the planet! There’s no easier, more decadent way to provide all the nutrients your body needs. With More Smoothies for Life, you can whip up:

• smoothies that enhance weight loss, increase metabolic rate, and control appetite
•heart-healthy smoothies rich in antioxidants from blueberries, walnuts, green tea, avocados,
pomegranates, and more
•elixirs that heighten mental clarity, improve memory, and support rejuvenating sleep
•quick-and-easy remedies for hangovers, insomnia, and stress
•homemade energy drinks that work and taste like Red Bull, minus the sugar and the price tag

Translating complex food science into easy-to-understand advice, Chace thoroughly explains the scientific basis for each medicinally active ingredient so you know you’re getting the most out of your daily shake. Your blender will never be put to better use!

Smoothies for Life! Yummy, Fun, and Nutritious!

Daniella Chace, Maureen B. Keane

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Blend Your Way to Better Health!
Join the millions of health-conscious individuals who have already discovered the tasty, nutritional, revitalizing goodness of smoothies. In Smoothies for Life, Daniella Chace and Maureen Keane (coauthor of the million-copy bestseller Juicing for Life) show you how to make high-energy, delicious smoothies right in your own home! All you need is a blender (or food processor), a few, simple ingredients, and you're ready to embark on a new taste and nutrition adventure. Learn how you can:
·Beat fatigue with Mocha Magic
·Build athletic endurance with Tropical Elixir
·Lose weight with Peachy Almond Freeze
·Boost immunity with Rasanana Berry
·Reduce stress with Ginseng Soother
·Improve your memory with Pink Hurricane
·Detoxify your body with Watermelon Cooler
·And much more!
These tantalizing smoothies contain creative combinations of antioxidant-rich fruits, healing tinctures, flavorful extracts, and natural sweeteners — and they are always delicious. Once you start, you'll be drinking these smoothies for life!
Includes information for adding revitalizing herbs such as ginkgo, echinacea, goldenseal, and kava!

The Smoothies Bible

Pat Crocker

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Best Smoothies Book I have seen. Nutritional info may be dated 5 out of 5 stars.
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`The Smoothies Bible' by Pat Crocker and `The Ultimate Smoothies Book' by Cherie Calbom both profess to be a complete guide to making all sorts of smoothies. In many ways, both are better than the book, `Smoothies for Life' by Daniella Chace and Maureen B. Keane which I reviewed recently. All three focus on making smoothies for good health, but `Smoothies for Life' does little else and depends heavily on ingredients available only in some health food stores.

Of the two subjects of this review, the first, `The Smoothies Bible' is clearly the better book. In fact, it is also clearly superior to a similar book by the same publisher, `The Blender Bible' which has many fine attributes, but which simply does not stack up to the `Bible' title.

`The Smoothies Bible' includes everything that makes it deserve its honorific title. The most important aspect of the book's organization is that it looks at all sides of smoothie making and even gives us a lot more information on blender use than `The Blender Bible'.

The book begins with an excellent two page `Guidelines to Good Health' with a brief on what one should eat and especially what we should avoid such as white sugar and flour, red meat, shellfish, excess salt, coffee and strong tea, and excess alcohol. I simply do not agree with the bans on flour, shellfish, red meat, coffee and strong tea.

I believe unbleached flour is simply too important an ingredient, in reasonable amounts, as a source of gluten in yeast breads to ban entirely. The stricture against shellfish is not based on the animal but on contaminants it may pick up. This is something that may not be true of all shellfish and it may improve as time goes on. I suspect the benefits of carefully selected shellfish outweigh the dangers. I feel one or two four ounce portions of red meat a week, especially for women (source of iron), is a good thing (I am especially wary of soy as a substitute for meat on seeing some warnings on soy products for some eaters in Ms. Calbom's book. It seems that there is simply no concoction on the face of this earth that has not dangers for anyone.) On coffee and tea, I believe the final jury is still out and the weight of informed opinion on something as simple as caffeine is still flipping back and forth with each new study.

I am not an expert nutritionist, but I always wonder about certain health claims for some regimens since I have never once heard from a family doctor that I should burn all my beef recipes, eat lots of seaweed, and drink pureed, cooked rhubarb, as the authors of these books seem to suggest. I am a strong believer in the value of moderation and variety. If you avoid eating a lot of any one thing and eat a wide variety of all sorts of foods, I believe you simply cannot go wrong.

But, If you buy into the superior properties of certain foods, `The Blender Bible' gives you the very best rundown of how to make the best of these foods. It continues with an `The A to Z of Smoothies' which advises us on all the different types of smoothies and how they fit into a healthy diet.

The second major section on `Health Conditions' offers us an index to the smoothies that are best suited as an adjunct to the treatment of 63 different common conditions. And, most of these conditions are pretty common and some, such as Anemia, Constipation, Diarrhea, Flatulence, Hangover, Heartburn, Hypoglycemia, Indigestion, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Overweight, Peptic Ulcers, and Water Retention may even be effectively aided by this book's recommendations. I single these out because most are directly or indirectly related to our gastrointestinal or circulatory systems, which can be quickly influenced by what we eat. Each of these 63 sections contains a brief description of the problem, general food recommendations for the problem, general suggestions on how much to eat and drink of selected items, and one or more, usually several, smoothie recipes for relieving the condition or its symptoms. From what I can see, the book is pretty careful about recommending that one rely heavily on a doctor's advice for most of the conditions.

The next section is `Ingredient Profiles' which I find interesting, but just a bit more doctrinaire than the rest of the book. Of the 76 herbs, I commonly stock or use 24, and I have no interest whatsoever in tracking down sources for the other 52 to put into my smoothies. I also disagree with a few of the health claims for some ingredients, such as when the author states that carob is healthier than chocolate, which is another of those things whose nutritional reputation is on the rise.

I really like the smoothie recipes in this book, as they are simple and contain both English and Metric units. Important since many smoothie ingredients are liquid and metric liquid measurement is far easier to double or half than English units.

`The Ultimate Smoothie Book' simply does not deserve its title when compared to Crocker's `Bible'. Three things were especially annoying. The first was that the author used the book to push her juicing products and slant the smoothie recipes toward using output from a juicer. The second was that there were several simple grammatical errors in the text. Not acceptable from a major house such as Warner Books. The third suspicious content was the fact that potassium and some other nutrients was given as a major benefit for practically every other ingredient. While this may be true, it is unhelpful when you are looking for the very best food for potassium (probably bananas). Ms. Calbom's smoothie recipes are good with elaborate nutritional analyses, but not as clearly written as Ms. Crocker's `Bible'. I recommend Calbom's `Ultimate' book only if you have a good juicer and like using it.

Editorial Review:

One of the easiest and most delicious ways to consume the recommended 5 to 10 servings a day of fruits and vegetables is to drink them. Packed with nutrients and low in calories, smoothies are a fast, easy and great tasting way to achieve good health. The Smoothies Bible is the most comprehensive source of information to explore and detail the health benefits of these easy-to-make drinks.
288 pages, softcover.
Pat Crocker is a culinary herbalist and professional home economist with more than 25 years experience. Past president of an herbalist association, she brings her passion about herbs to many newspaper and magazine articles as well as lecture events.

Slim Smoothies: Over 130 Healthy and Energizing Recipes Without All the Calories

Donna Pliner Rodnitzky

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Great Taste Without the High Calories!
Looking for novel and nutritious ways to enrich your diet without adding too many calories or unnecessary fat? Well here you go! This tasty collection of more than 130 ultra-nutritious and energizing low-cal smoothies is the perfect complement to your daily meal plan. Smoothies are inherently healthy, but many include a high calorie count—especially when made with dairy products. Now you can enjoy the refreshing, delicious appeal of a smoothie, but with more healthful ingredients, such as fruit juice, fresh fruit, tofu, and fat-free yogurt. Sleek and simple smoothie recipes include:
·A Beautiful Rind
·Cherry Potter
·Melon Rouge
·Bing in 'Da Noise
·Thin City
·Meet the Pear-ents
·What a Waist!
·Berry Manilow
·Hawaiian De-Lite
·And many more!
With a nutritional analysis for each recipe, these revitalizing and delicious meals-on-the-go are the perfect choice for the calorie-conscious who don't want to sacrifice taste.

The Best 50 Smoothies (Best 50)

Joanna White

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

The Simple Pleasures..... 5 out of 5 stars.
40 of 40 people found this review helpful.

This review refers to "The Best 50 Smoothies" by Joanna White....

It's just a little book, nothing fancy, but inside you will find some terrific ideas and a real good variety for some delicious and nutritious smoothies. The recipes are simple and most of the ingrediants are readily available most any time of the year.

It starts of with an introduction, letting you know it's okay to get creative and experiment. Followed by a few pages of some really helpful hints like how to make thicker smoothies, how to frost a glass or mug, storing over ripe bananas, the best way to crush ice, etc. You'll also find some great garnishes and alternative sweetners in this section.

The book is divided into sections of the various types of smoothies. Breakfast Smoothies...here you find find such delights as "Apple-Cinnamon Deluxe" and a "Coffee Banana Smoothie"(who need Starbucks with these treats!)....Berry Smoothies..."Red Raspberry Razzler" and "Super Strawberry Slurpee" are just a couple of the treats for the taste buds here.."Tropical Smoothies includes..a "Pineapple Peach Pick-Me-Up " and a "Papaya Strawberry Tropical" to die for. There are also Citrus Smoothies,Melon Smoothies and Creamy Smoothies.

There's an alphabetical index in the back, to find your favorites(although with the size of this book, it not a big task) and a few blank "Note" Pages, where you can write any ideas that come to you or remember your favorites here.

There's something for everbody here, you can use ice cream or low fat yogurt in some recipes and I like that some of the recipes include soy and protein powders(I have a really bad relationship with dairy products).They taste great, are simple to make and can be used as a meal, snack or dessert!

The book is small enough to go in your purse or even your pocket and it a good thing to add to your cart when you need just that little bit more for the "Free Shipping!" If you love smoothies or want a good introduction to them, you can't go wrong with this little recipe book.

Enjoy......Laurie

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Skip expensive juice bars and make your own fresh fruit concoctions. Add nutrition to fruit blends; garnish and serve smoothies with flair.

Top Secret Recipes: Sodas, Smoothies, Spirits, & Shakes

Todd Wilbur

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Todd Wilbur has made a career out of his Top Secret Recipes series, dissecting popular recipes from America's favorite restaurant chains and presenting the results to eager home cooks. Top Secret Recipes: Sodas, Smoothies, Spirits, and Shakes continues the theme, offering homemade approximation recipes to satisfy the craving and expectations of the thirsty reader looking for a brand-name fix. Wilbur presents a host of potables to create at home, including sodas such as 7-Up and A&W root beer, brand mixtures such as Orange Julius, and even signature adult drinks from a variety of restaurant chains including Chili's, Hard Rock Cafe, and Red Lobster. But Wilbur offers more than just the genetic code to these concoctions: he provides interesting anecdotes on the origin of the beverages as well as humorous, but necessary, warnings about the various alcohol-infused drinks included. He's even dedicated a chapter to the home version of popular (and expensive) spirits such as Bailey's Irish Cream and Grand Marnier. For convenience and economy, this addition to the Top Secret collection offers a truly satisfying alternative, saving readers a trip to Starbucks for that addictive Frappuccino. --Teresa Simanton

500 Smoothies & Juices: The Only Smoothie & Juice Compendium You'll Ever Need (500 (Sellers Publishing))

Christine Watson

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Editorial Review:

This smoothie and juice compendium is packed with 500 refreshing recipes, all of them clear and easy to follow. Filled with tips on how to select the right ingredients for your smoothies and juices and then how to make them taste absolutely perfect, this is the only book of smoothies and juices you will ever need.

The Ultimate Smoothie Book: 130 Delicious Recipes for Blender Drinks, Frozen Desserts, Shakes, and More!

Cherie Calbom

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Overall good book 5 out of 5 stars.
23 of 46 people found this review helpful.

I wanted this book for workout shakes, but I ended up using it for the many other shakes it has. Good book.

Good Smoothie Book 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book for my daughter. She loves to make smoothies. She has made us a few of them already. I love the Coco Banana and the tropical ones. Some of them do take alot of ingredients so we did have to stop up on some stuff once we got it but the ones that we have tried we love.

Editorial Review:

When the original Ultimate Smoothie Book was first published, smoothies were sweeping the country and becoming the hottest item on the menu everywhere from Baskin-Robbins to Jamba Juice. And why not? Theyre creamy, fruity, delicious, quick and easy to make, and most importanttheyre good for you! Now, THE ULTIMATE SMOOTHIE BOOK has been updated by nutritionist Cherie Calbom, aka The Juice Lady, to include lots of delicious new smoothie recipes, as well as vital new information on: Carbohydrate reduction, with special low-carb smoothie recipes. The recently discovered health risks of soyand suggested substitutions wherever soy is called for. Coconut oil, the latest diet and health phenomenon.