Table Of ContentALSO BY VICTORIA BOUTENKO
Raw Family (with the Boutenko family)
12 Steps to Raw Foods
Raw Family Signature Dishes
Green Smoothie Revolution
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Boutenko, Victoria.
Green for life / by Victoria Boutenko ; foreword by
A. William Menzin.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58394330-4
1. Nutrition. 2. Raw foods. 3. Smoothies (Beverages)
4. Cooking (Natural foods) I. Title.
RA784.B68 2010
613.2–dc22 2010027423
v3.1
I dedicate this book to Dr. Ann Wigmore
and all those who dare to think for themselves.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To my family, for always being extraordinarily dependable in all my
endeavors, and for listening and discussing countless new concepts with
me. To Dr. Paul Fieber and his wife, Susie, for their active help in
organizing and conducting the Roseburg study. To all the participants of
the Roseburg study for their time and commitment. To Vanessa
Nowitzky for her quick fingers, impeccable grammar, and sweet sense of
humor.
CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction to the Updated Edition
Introduction
1 Dare to Observe!
2 What Was Missing in Our Raw Food Plan?
3 How Chimpanzees Eat
4 Green Smoothie Revolution
5 Why Is It Hard to Love Greens?
6 Greens: A New Food Group
7 The Abundance of Proteins in Greens
8 Fiber: The Magic Sponge
9 Greens for Homeostasis
10 The Significance of Stomach Acid
11 The Roseburg Study
12 Greens Make the Body More Alkaline
13 Healthy Soil Is More Valuable than Gold
14 The Healing Powers of Chlorophyll
15 The Wisdom of Plants
16 Greens: The Original Source of Omega-3s
17 A Tribute to Dr. Ann
Testimonials
Testimonials of Roseburg Study Participants
Green Smoothie Recipes
Important Tips
Sweet Green Smoothies
Savory Green Smoothies
Super Green Smoothie
Puddings
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
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.
N Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise, because this
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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. (Check out one of the tempting recipes for Sweet
Green Smoothies on this page.) And if another seductive green smoothie
is waiting for you in the refrigerator when you get home from work, the
dinner you prepare and consume after sipping it will almost certainly be
smaller, and possibly healthier, too.
Thirty days of green smoothies will also change how you feel and how
you feel about yourself. That’s no small achievement for one small book.
Description:Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but consuming even the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In Green for Life, raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko presents an overlooked powerhouse of nutrition in this equation: greens. For their bounty of miner
