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| Green for Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Victoria Boutenko
Publisher: Raw Family Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 793
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0970481969
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780970481962
ASIN: 0970481969
Publication Date: October 20, 2005
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Product Description
In search of the perfect human diet, Victoria Boutenko compares the standard American diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share an estimated 99.4% of genes with humans, but their diet is dramatically different from ours. The most glaring difference is that chimpanzees consume significantly more green leaves than humans. Victoria developed a series of greens smoothies that enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a very palatable way.
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 The way to healthy living October 28, 2007
217 out of 218 found this review helpful
I used to do a lot of juicing in the past but it is very time consuming and really messy. My problem is over since I got Green for Life. Making smoothies is a great alternative to juicing. It is much faster, less messy, and you also get some fiber in addition to juice. In addition to great recipes for making smoothies the book is also a good source of information about proper nutrition, the importance of hydrochloric acid in the stomach and much more. Get this book!! Another great volume that you may not miss is Can We Live 150. These two books together make a perfect gift of showing the way to healthy living just for anyone.
Green Smoothies get rid of junk food cravings!!! March 7, 2006
184 out of 262 found this review helpful
What a wonderful book! For the past 20 years I've been on a quest to eat more natural foods,and my health improved drastically. But I still suffered from junk food cravings...until I discovered Green for Life!
Following Victoria's advice, I added lots of GREENS to my fruit smoothies, and the first day I did so MY FOOD CRAVINGS STOPPED. Bang. Just vanished. Just like my brain's "cravings switch" was flipped to the OFF position. Apparently my body had been craving minerals all those years, and once I started eating GREENS the cravings stopped. And I'm finally trimming down!
Victoria's research in this area is much needed, and much appreciated. I especially love the chapter on the chimpanzees and their daily eating habits.
My wife and I participated in one of Victoria's Green for Life teleconferences, and we loved it. She speaks from her heart, is really a nice lady, and this was one of the best conferences ever. We love Victoria! And we sure love the changes that are happening in our bodies!
Get this Green for Life book, make yourself some green smoothies, and watch your food cravings vanish. This is the secret to losing weight! :)
Thanks, Victoria, for Green for Life!
 Disappointed July 14, 2007
153 out of 223 found this review helpful
I don't write many reviews but had to in this case.
I would not call this a book, but more like a large phamplet. It contains 166 pgs of which only 7 are the green smoothie recipes. Testimonials consist of 45 pgs., thats right 45, way overdone to provide verbage where the rest of the book is lacking.
There is very little substance to this 'book'. The obvious message is to consume more greens through the use of smoothie drinks and the author gives very few facts to back up the claims. Though I have never doubted the need to consume far more greens, I wanted to learn of more factual information.
I also wanted to see lots of recipes with variety. I was left disappointed there.
I never did find any credentials for the author, Victoria Boutenko. I only assume they are good and she is a knowledgeable nutritionist of some sort. But the facts are lacking in this book, would like to see more detail.
I cannot recommend the book.
 With a grain of salt July 7, 2007
51 out of 96 found this review helpful
This book is valuable, and has a simple message: incorporate greens by mixing with fruits and blending them together to make smoothies.
The problem with it is it keeps making outlandish remarks backed with little more than the author's word. For instance, it says green smoothies will at the same time increase the acidity in your stomach so you digest food better, and will also decrease the acidity in your blood and keep you at a good alkaline pH. Green smoothies will strengthen your teeth and nails, give you more energy, and help you sleep better.
And all from the observation that we should eat more like chimpanzees. Why not adopt some of their other customs then?
Also bear in mind that this is a book by a raw foodist, and raw foodists are probably its main audience. There is a feeling of enthusiasm in the book (and in many of the reviews here), almost an extremism about food.
That said, I do like the idea of green smoothies, and I'll keep making them. But they haven't given me superpowers just yet. Read with caution.
 BEWARE Wild "Edibles" -- My friend died from a "wild greens" green smoothie November 12, 2007
45 out of 87 found this review helpful
My friend was a raw food enthusiast. She even preached it on radio shows and often referenced this book. One morning of a yoga conference, she grabbed a handful of "wild edibles," a.k.a. "wild greens" growing in an arboretum -- no pesticides! and made a green smoothie. That smoothie would be her last. One of those greens was foxglove. Digitalis. Looks like a well-known edible, but certainly is not. My friend was one of the healthiest people around, a yoga enthusiast, a business owner with multiple employees, a lovely 40-something woman. She died in less than 48 hours after ingesting the greens. Alone in a hospital.
Eating wild greens, whether they are located in an arboretum or your back yard, is very risky. The plants identified in this book are edible. One problem is that many plants look alike. The plant my friend ate looks like comphrey, which is popular as a tea. Some parts of plants are poisonous, whereas other parts of the same plant are edible. Some plants are edible in small quantities, but carcinogenic in substantial quantities. Last, there are actually plants that are fine to eat one season, e.g., spring, and yet poisonous in another season, e.g., the fall. You should really consult a botanist if you plan to eat wild greens.
If you pass this word of caution about eating wild greens, perhaps my friend will not have died in vain.
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