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    The Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long
    The Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long
    The Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long
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    The Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long

    By Farnoosh Brock

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    “Love love love this book!” – one of over 300 *FIVE STAR* Amazon reviews!

    START YOUR BLENDERS! Whatever your fitness regimen, health goals, or daily routine, this massive book of 100+ recipes has the perfect smoothies for every occasion, including:
    • Zesty Berry Morning
    • Citrus Superload
    • Cacao Vanilla Shake
    • Better than Sex Elixir
    • Limy Minty Charm
    • Spicy Sweet Potato Shake
    • Matcha Doing
    • Blue Green Ocean

    In this comprehensive resource about every aspect of the wonderful world of healthy smoothies, author and healthy drink expert Farnoosh Brock shares her knowledge, discoveries, useful tips, and lessons learned from years of making smoothies and getting healthier from the powerhouse of nutrition from these drinks. She gives you the full scoop:
    • How to get started
    • How to keep it simple
    • How to listen to your body as you add healthy smoothies into your life
    • How to heal your body and return it to harmony using the magic of your blender

    Potassium-rich bananas, free radical-fighting blueberries, nutrient-rich spinach, succulent mango, light and sweet almond milk… every delicious natural ingredient you can think of pairs up in this smoothie book for devoted followers of the healthy smoothie revolution that's sweeping the nation.

    Wondering how to stay motivated after the initial excitement wears off? How to make smoothies quickly and efficiently while still keeping it fun and fresh? Brock talks you through these situations and many more, giving you useful tips on how to manage each as you move forward with The Healthy Smoothie Bible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateApr 22, 2014
    ISBN9781629140582
    The Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long
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    Farnoosh Brock

    Farnoosh Brock is a business and leadership coach, an author, and a speaker. She left her corporate career to start her own company, Prolific Living Inc., in 2011 to pursue a new mission: to empower business owners and leaders to achieve their highest possibilities in life through powerful mindsets and methodologies. She’s an expert green juicer, an Ashtanga yoga practitioner, a voracious reader, and a world traveler. Brock is also the author of The Healthy Juicer’s Bible and The Healthy Smoothie Bible, both of which continue to be favorites in the juicing and smoothie community, as well as her business book, The Serving Mindset: Stop Selling and Grow Your Business. She lives in Cary, North Carolina.

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      The Healthy Smoothie Bible - Farnoosh Brock

      Cover Page of Healthy Smoothie BibleHalf Title of Healthy Smoothie BibleTitle Title of Healthy Smoothie Bible

      Copyright © 2014 Farnoosh Brock

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      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

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      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

      ISBN: 978–1-62873-712-7

      Printed in China

      Disclaimer

      This book is not meant to be used to diagnose or treat any medical condition. For diagnosis or treatment of any medical problem, consult your own physician. Consult with your doctor before beginning any new diet or exercise regimen.

      For more information about smoothies, please visit:

      http://www.prolificjuicing.com/healthysmoothies

      To all who seek health and healing from Mother Nature

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      How Best to Use This Book

      Introduction, and Why Love Is the Path to Smoothies

      The Healthy Smoothie Magic

      Redefine Your Health, Regain Your Beauty

      19 Massive Benefits of A Smoothie Lifestyle

      Smoothies versus Juices: Which is Better?

      Why Dairy-Free Smoothies?

      The War on Fructose: Does Fruit Make You Fat?

      Smoothies as Meal Replacement or Just a Snack?

      Ingredients 101 for the Perfect Smoothie

      The Scoop on the Greens for Your Smoothies

      The Skinny on Fruits for Smoothies

      On Superfoods, Seeds, and Powders

      Choosing Your Liquid Base

      On Mixing and Matching Flavors

      What Not to Add to Your Smoothies

      In the Kitchen: Getting Ready to Blend

      Smoothie Tools of the Trade

      Selecting the Best Blender for You

      How to Best Shop, Wash, Store, and Plan Ahead for Your Smoothies

      Tips on Freezing Your Fruits

      When and Why to Forgo the Ice

      Soaking Your Nuts, Seeds, and Oats

      Steps to Make Your Smoothie

      To Store or Not Store Your Smoothie?

      108 Delectable Healthy Smoothie Recipes

      About the 108 Smoothie Recipes

      Smart Recipe Tags

      108 Healthy Smoothie Recipes

      A Smoothie Beauty Detox & Cleanse Plan

      Detox & Cleanse Smoothie Plans

      Suggested Detox & Cleanse Regimens

      The Healthy Smoothie Lifestyle: Building the Habit

      Improvise Your Own Smoothies

      Building the Smoothie Habit

      Closing Words & Best Wishes for Blending

      Recipe Index

      Top Brand Product Recommendations and Gratitude

      Ingredients and Highlights Index

      Acknowledgments

      Iwanted to write this book to make healthy, delicious smoothies accessible to you. Food and nutrition can get complicated, and I prefer it simple. Simple is easy to follow. Simple is easy to integrate into a busy lifestyle. And if simple works, then why not? Smoothies are simple. You don’t need to shop at fancy health food stores to make great healthy smoothies. You don’t need to get everything organic and locally grown. It would be nice, but it gets expensive and takes longer to plan, and you will have a hard time keeping it up. I want to help you develop a healthy smoothie habit for life by using ingredients found in a typical kitchen and within an average budget.

      I feel fortunate that so many wonderful friends, family and fellow smoothie lovers extended their kind support in the writing of this book. First, I want to thank my husband, best friend, and business partner, Andy Brock, for keeping me on task, helping me come up with the best recipes, and going to a smoothie-tasting contest with me to help get all my recipes in order. I want to thank my parents and my husband’s parents for being supportive of my vision of helping you return to health and harmony with natural foods. I was thrilled to have the generosity of many companies that sent me samples of their products to test. A complete list of these companies appears after the index. I also want to give a special thanks to all my fabulous recipe contributors: Joshua Waldman, Hollie Jeakins, Rob Cooper, Leslie Broberg, Vickie Velasquez, Adrienne Jurado, Tracy Russell, Jen Hansard, Jadah Sellner, Katherine Natalia, and Jennifer Thompson. They shared their favorite recipes and what led them to healthy smoothies to inspire you to make your own journey to health. Our humble hope is that you will experience it all for yourself. May this book help you find your way back to total health and vitality. Blend away and breathe new life into your body!

      How Best to Use This Book

      Are you new to smoothies, or just here for the recipes?

      If you are brand-new to smoothies, then please read the book in the right order. I’ll introduce you to the smoothie basics, the simple and more complex ingredients (from greens and fruits to nuts and superfoods and other additives), and take you through the preparation and set-up process step by step before we dive into the recipes. Then we talk about cleansing and detoxing with smoothies and easy ways to build smoothies as a sustainable daily habit.

      If you are a smoothie pro and are here just for the recipes, then skip over to the Smoothie Recipes section on page 122 for 108 healthy smoothie recipes. You can use the recipes index to find recipes by name or search by major ingredients.

      You will also come across a few featured recipes throughout the book from smoothie-lover contributors who have shared their own spin on making a delicious smoothie.

      This book can serve as a reference for you over time. As you might know, it’s a great idea to rotate your recipes, and especially your greens, so you get a nice variety of ingredients in your system to build up your taste buds as well as get all the vitamins and minerals your body needs. As tempting as it is, don’t make the same recipe every day. Not that I can easily convince my own husband when he locks in on his favorite concoctions, but it really is best to switch it up for variety and for maximizing overall nutrition. Plus, variety will keep you intrigued and inspired on your smoothie journey, so don’t discount it as you build up your healthy smoothie habit for life.

      Introduction, and Why Love Is the Path to Smoothies

      When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is right, medicine is of no need.

      ~Ayurvedic Proverb

      Iam in love with the color green in every shade. The green of spinach, kale, Swiss chard, and parsley. The green of lime, cucumber, celery, and green peppers. Simply and utterly in love!

      My fascination with green leafy vegetables started in 2007, which I affectionately—albeit seriously—call my fat year, even though my family and friends still laugh when I refer to it as such, because for reasons that are still beyond my comprehension, none of them will admit to this day that I had grown larger in size, uglier in character, and miserable in spirit that year.

      If you want the truth about your health, my advice is not to ask your family or friends. When has anyone in history ever responded truthfully to the question, Do I look fat?

      We love them and all, but our families and friends always lie about this (although they have good intentions). Oh, honey, you look great! comes out automatically, often without really looking at you. Yes, they love you, no matter what, but if your concern is to be your healthiest, happiest, and most energetic, you need to take charge here. It does you no good to be deceived that you are just fine when you know that you are far from your optimal health and shape. This is one area of your life in which you need the brutal version of the truth as soon as possible.

      Start by looking within yourself for answers: How do you really feel about your body? How much energy do you really have to get through your days? And how happy—or not so happy—are you with yourself and your general state of well-being?

      You are your own voice of truth, and it is that voice that will carry you from the depths of any misery, sickness, and sluggishness to better health, more vibrancy, and higher energy. Trust that voice, always!

      As for me, when I could no longer deny being miserable in my own body, I started to take baby steps in the right direction.

      It was not easy to admit to myself that my health was declining, in part due to my stressful corporate job, which I have long since quit to start my own business. It was no fun to face the fact that I had gained twenty pounds, which was outrageous considering my small frame and my lifelong self-discipline about health and fitness.

      Worst of all, it was no picnic to realize that I had been in complete denial about what was happening.

      So I started to take action, but this time, I did not follow my usual regimen to getting back in shape, which used to be hitting the gym, ramping up my cardio, and eating less. Those are all wonderful things to do, but I needed a radical change.

      I started looking at my nutrition to see if there was a revolutionary way back to health without resorting to fad diets, which I can’t stand or follow for the life of me. I needed a permanent shift in lifestyle, one that would be easy enough to sustain and delicious and fun enough to make me fall in love. Those were my conditions.

      Diets are a temporary solution. What’s the point of going on a diet for a while, sticking to a crazy regimen for a few weeks, accomplishing your goals, and then what? Going back to your old ways of eating, and feeling guilty about it to boot?

      I’m sorry, but I can’t get on board with diets and any kind of strict calorie-counting regimens that only last for a specific period of time. I am not interested in using them for myself or pushing any dietary dogmas or products onto you. Health and vitality is about feeling great in your body and your mind, not feeling deprived or restricted just so you reach some goal on the scale.

      And feeling great was my measuring stick for returning to health. That is what kept me going down this path of raw foods, green juices, and healthy smoothies. The more I did them, the better, healthier, and happier I felt. They revolutionized my health and well-being, and I want to share my experience and inspire you to do the same for yourself. True health is an everyday endeavor. It’s a lifestyle; a way of living that fulfills you, makes you happy, and is good to your body.

      My journey back to health began with green juicing. That was my first savior. My second godsend, shortly after, was green smoothies. Today, both juices and smoothies fuel my days with a powerhouse of nutrition and energy, as well as the holistic love and care that I had neglected to give my body for a long time.

      Juicing and smoothies came into my life as a result of my growing interest in raw and natural whole foods. Confession: I am not, and never have been, a full-time raw foodist, except for a seventeen-day raw vegan challenge in the summer of 2012 and a nine-month vegan period, which I enjoyed immensely. I am also not exclusively on a diet of juices and smoothies. I eat and enjoy solid foods.

      But I consume a ton of raw whole foods every day. When I am not on the road, it’s a lot easier to keep to my healthy routine. I eat about 60 to 70 percent raw foods during the warmer seasons and about 40 percent during the winter months. When I travel, I look up juice bars and smoothie places. I also take my blender whenever I can, order raw salads, and shop for dark leafy vegetables and fruits in the local grocery stores.

      Why the foray into raw foods? I started to study them out of curiosity during my fat year in 2007, and I was fascinated by what I learned about the healing and nutritious powers of dark leafy vegetables, herbs, and fruits in their various forms—juiced, blended, and whole—and that knowledge sparked my love affair with the world of green (green juices and green smoothies), and years later, I can tell you that the love is stronger every day, and here to stay.

      Raw foods, juices, and smoothies

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