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"It is impossible to look at the rainbow of options in Smoothie Project without seeing health on every page. I am, as in all things WEELICIOUS, sold." -Jennifer Garner Let Catherine McCord, the trusted family food expert and Weelicious founder, serve up for you almost 100 transformative recipes for nourishing and delicious smoothies. She is an expert recipe developer who helps families eat healthfully and deliciously. When her son started suffering from chronic nausea and her family doctors couldn't help, McCord turned to her experience with nutrition for an answer, researching until she discovered a solution-smoothies. She shared her family's story and some of her favorite smoothie recipes on social media, and the Smoothie Project, a daily online source of inspiration, was born. People began to use her recipes and share how smoothies had become a force of change in their lives, too. Years of witnessing the positive effects that smoothies can offer inspired McCord to create a smoothie bible packed with almost 100 of her favorite tried-and-tested recipes. With guidance from top nutritionists, McCord explains how to eat based on your age and details the health benefits of key smoothie ingredients, so you can:Reduce stress and anxietyLose weightControl ADHD symptomsBoost your immune systemImprove digestionIncrease your energyEat to support pregnancy or breastfeedingHave beautiful, strong skin, hair, and nailsEncourage kids to eat nutritious foodsAnd more!McCord offers a way to change your life in just twenty-eight days, using only your blender. All you have to do is commit to having one of her smoothies each morning for a month, and every glass will bring you one step closer to achieving your goals.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	17 décembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	7
EAN13	9781683357537
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	10 Mo

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Contents
GETTING STARTED
Introduction: You Can Change Your Life in 28 Days
The Origin of the Smoothie Project
How to Use This Book
Why Smoothies?
Making It Simple for Everyone ( Otherwise, What s the Point? )
Tools of the Trade
RECIPES
Tropical
Green
Vanilla + Chocolate + Coffee + Matcha
Berry Heavy
Clean + Clear
Decadent
Healing + Supporting
Seasonal
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR INGREDIENTS
What Your Body Needs, Age by Age
What Your Body Needs to Achieve a Goal or Address a Health Concern
Super Boosts and Other Key Smoothie Ingredients: A Health Benefits Primer
Maximum Vitamin Absorption
Fresh or Frozen?
Choosing Your Liquid
Nuts: To Soak or Not to Soak
Acknowledgments
Index of Searchable Terms
Introduction: You Can Change Your Life in 28 Days
This is the smoothie book for everyone. Most smoothie books focus solely on dieting, detoxing, and cleansing (which, don t get me wrong, are important subjects, and I will cover them in the pages that follow), but I ve discovered that when it comes to the wellness and therapeutic potential of smoothies, these are merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Smoothies can be used to effectively address an incredibly wide range of health and nutritional issues-weight loss, eating right, pregnancy, nursing, feeding kids of all ages, from babies to teens-as well as many chronic health conditions such as anxiety, ADHD, depression, eczema, nausea, stress, and promoting weight gain during cancer treatment. Smoothies have a great deal more to offer-for anyone, at any stage of life-and my mission in writing this book is to show you how they can change your life for the better.
This book also demonstrates just how easy, fun, and delicious incorporating smoothies into your daily routine can be. My advice is based on an approach to food that I developed in the decade-plus of running my family food business, Weelicious, where I devise strategies to make cooking a simple, healthful, and affordable experience for families. So when I discovered the healing properties of smoothies, I applied that same Weelicious philosophy to making them. Because one smoothie a day really can make a difference in your quality of life, and who doesn t want an easy way to do that?
We have become all too accustomed to strict and complicated diet plans we re told can improve our health, so I understand how the simple idea that smoothies can be life-changing might seem a bit absurd at first.
But I have been on the Smoothie Project journey since 2015, and I have witnessed the impact it has had on members of the online #smoothieproject community who have gone on this odyssey with me. I ve been moved by the powerful accounts of people who have overcome a wide spectrum of health challenges and accomplished major lifestyle goals with the help of smoothies. I have observed firsthand how transformative smoothies can be for families (my own included)-for every single member, no matter what their age, health, goals, likes, and dislikes are.
However, addressing each person s particular needs requires some careful curating. When you take into account lifestyle goals, health issues, or even individual flavor preferences, each of us will want and need different things from a smoothie; especially when it comes to health benefits, weeding through the overwhelming amount of nutritional information out there in order to decipher what our bodies can benefit most from can leave us feeling confused and hopeless. So with this book I set out to address individual concerns and guide every age group, from babies to baby boomers and everyone in between.
Think of this book as your Smoothie Bible-a comprehensive, only-one-you ll-ever-need collection of the best smoothie recipes with detailed advice on everything from nutrition to convenience. It will inspire you throughout the year and grow with you, accommodating both your changing needs and tastes.
You ll see how you can rid your diet of foods that may be making your body fight back and turn on you, and also how easy it is to replace them with foods that will optimize your physical, mental, and emotional states of being.
No matter your age, lifestyle goals, or the current quality of your health, in this busy, faster, seemingly always-connected 24/7 world, the basic foundations of self-care-sleeping, exercise, and eating well-are harder than ever to maintain. That s why I am challenging you (and your family) to take just a few minutes each morning for twenty-eight days to start your day with a smoothie using the recipes in the pages that follow. It s that simple.
Where, you may be wondering, did this twenty-eight-day number come from? -a good question to ask given that I have been on the daily smoothie plan for almost five years. The answer is twofold: First, twenty-eight days is more or less the time it took for a smoothie regimen to turn around the health issues troubling my own family. Second, years of research and hearing from others using smoothies therapeutically confirmed that significant results could be achieved in that amount of time.
If you make the commitment to adding a nutrient-dense smoothie to your daily diet for just twenty-eight days, this book can be a force of positive change in your life. And, if the benefits experienced by my family, as well as the scores of Weelicious followers who went on this years-long journey with me have proven anything, you ll be excited to keep going.
No matter your reason for picking up this book, the easy-to-adopt lifestyle shift of drinking smoothies will get you started on a path to feeling and looking your very best.
The Origin of the Smoothie Project
My evangelical embrace of smoothies began with a challenging health situation with my son (my son is also the person who unintentionally inspired Weelicious, the family food company I founded in 2007, so we like to say that he is my muse).
In January 2015, when my son was eight, he started complaining of constant nausea, headaches, stomachaches, and general fatigue. It was a daily refrain that began each morning when he woke up and continued throughout the day, right up until the moment he went to bed; it persisted for months. After several visits to the doctor s office and a battery of tests, our pediatrician told us he could find nothing discernibly wrong. While that certainly was a relief, watching my little boy continue to cope with these unpleasant symptoms every day was breaking my heart.
My Journey Begins
Needing to start somewhere, I turned to an area I have a lot of experience with: nutrition. I adore the doctors who treat our family; however, I ve never found comprehensive nutritional advice to be a strong suit of Western medicine. Between nutrition not being taught in depth in medical school and Big Pharma spending a fortune to convince us all (doctors included) that there is a pill to cure everything, most of the doctors I know cannot even begin to address the things that ail us through what we eat. Beyond offering preventative advice, such as avoiding foods high in sugar and saturated fat, most doctors never even consider food as a remedy. That s kind of ironic when the age-old adage is an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but there s twenty-first-century Western medicine for you.
I had always believed that my son s diet was reasonably healthy for a kid his age (obviously with a lot of help, guidance, and occasional arm twisting from his parents). A vegetarian since the age of six (a decision he made completely on his own), my son has always had a love for a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. He more or less eats almost completely organic, consumes little to no processed food, and completely avoids food dyes, so eliminating things like nitrates and synthetic chemicals as potential culprits was easy for me to do. That still left a lot of nutrition to explore, so I began reading countless books and talking to nutritionists, allergists, and other specialists about what could be at the root of my son s issues. Over time, his breakfasts had become pretty carb heavy. He was almost always requesting pancakes, waffles, crepes, toast and butter, and French toast, and, like many parents, I fell into the trap of indulging him, believing that the rest of his diet was good and that since I was making almost all of those things homemade, with good organic ingredients, it wasn t causing any real harm.
Finding a Needle in a Haystack
In the midst of my seemingly endless research, I came across an interview with a fascinating clinical nutritionist named Kelly Dorfman, who is one of the world s foremost experts in using nutrition therapeutically to improve brain function, energy, and mood. 1 In 2013, she wrote Cure Your Child with Food, which explores the hidden connections between food and childhood ailments such as anxiety, recurrent ear infections, stomachaches, ADHD, and more. This was a big moment for me: Dorfman was approaching treatment of chronic, elusive conditions with food and having significant results. I felt like I had been rummaging through a huge informational haystack up until that point, and suddenly, I happened upon the needle. It opened my eyes to the likelihood that those foods my son was starting each morning with-the waffles, pancakes, and other foods rich in wheat and dairy-were having a negative impact on his health and how he felt on a daily basis. Now I had to prove it.
For some reason, while I was reading Cure Your Child with Food, a word caught my attention: smoothies . Dorfman puts no particular emphasis on smoothies nor does she offer guidelines for how to employ them therapeutically. However, for someone who spends most of her waking moments thinking about the simplest and most enjoyable ways to get good nutrition into kids, the ease of that suggestion struck a chord with me. A daily smoothie regimen seemed like a great (and hopefully fun) way to expose to my son to a variety of diffe