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Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health (2009)

by Victoria Boutenko(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1556438125 (ISBN13: 9781556438127)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

North Atlantic Books

review 1: I mainly picked up this book for the recipes towards the back and I am very glad that is what drew me to this book as I will continue to use those but felt the writing of the book to leave much desired. I felt that at every other sentence of the book the author was promoting herself with endless self references, references to her family, and things she claimed to have "discovered" on her own. I found this to be EXTREMELY annoying and ended up skimming the rest of the information because of it. Additionally it is filled with so much pseudo-science I wanted to vomit or go educate the author myself on the topic. Again good recipes so if you are looking for that not a bad book but I would NOT recommend this book for the written information. There are so many other books out th... moreere on this topic that have REAL information and are not filled with the author's endless self promotion.
review 2: Not bad... but not great. The sentiment is good - drink your greens! Otherwise, this book was a little too anecdotal for my taste without enough science behind it. There may have been science behind the author's reasoning, but in most cases it isn't cited or explicitly referred to. There's only so far I can swallow the "we should eat like monkeys!" argument without any research behind it. I also disagree with the author about not including vegetables (aside from greens) in smoothies. If that's the only way I'm going to eat a carrot, doggone it, I'm putting it in my smoothie! (The author advises against putting vegetables in smoothies, for reasons that didn't seem scientifically sound). That said, there's a good variety of recipes to try out (though one might have just as good of luck tossing stuff into the Vitamix and seeing what comes out... many recipes seemed like recipes for that). less

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