Aryana Libris

Author : Boutenko Victoria
Title : Green for life The updated classic on green smoothie nutrition
Year : 2005

Link download : Boutenko_Victoria_-_Green_for_life.zip

Foreword. In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing well: human behavior is very hard to change. NOW Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise, because this remarkable woman has developed a strategy for helping ordinary Americans (the ones who love ice cream and steak and French fries and pizza) introduce green living foods into their life in a delicious and habit-forming way. Nothing she says in this book about our body’s ability to restore itself to good health if given the right nutrients to work with is exactly new in itself. And yet Green for Life is a groundbreaking achievement because Ms. Boutenko has understood that the way to encourage her readers to trigger their natural mechanisms for cleaning cholesterol, fat, and toxins from their bodies—and thereby to improve first their physical lives and then their mental and spiritual lives—is not to lecture about the need to consume more living plant life but to make it easy and pleasant for them to do it. The green smoothie—or, to be more specific, the quart of green smoothie that Ms. Boutenko recommends we all start our day with—is in and of itself a tremendous injection of chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and antioxidants into the typical American diet. A quart of green smoothie a day also discourages consumption of denatured and greasy foods. For one thing, it’s hard to stuff yourself with refined starches and sugars when you’re full of one of Ms. Boutenko’s tasty and energizing concoctions. ...