Jason Manheim - The Healthy Green Drink Diet: Advice and Recipes to Energize, Alkalize, Lose Weight, and Feel Great

Copyright 2011 by Jason Manheim

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every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Siddhrtha Gautama

T his book is not for vegetarians. It is not for vegans, raw foodists, meat eaters, or Paleo eaters. It is for peopleeveryonefar and wide, no matter your current eating practices. It is for people who struggle, day to day, to find the right way to manage life and health. Mothers, fathers, children, athletes, business people, the common folk, royalty, the infirm this book is for all of you. It is a key step in taking your health by the reigns and finally claiming responsibility and know-how for your own well-being. The best way to do that is to give you something you can measure.

We eat healthy because we want to feel healthyfantasies of living longer should not trump the importance of living stronger. Although there have been numerous studies outlining the therapeutic effects of diet on illnesses like cancer, heart disease, and immune disorders, we cannot let that obscure our motivationthe simple fact that eating good feels good.

Despite the title suggesting diet, this book is more of a supplement to the diet you already enjoy. It is my belief that adding good foods to your diet is a more efficient way of reaching goals than taking away bad foods. Whether you want to lose weight, fight fatigue, combat disease, or just be healthier, adding green drinks will slowly replace your bad habits and transform your health for the better. Not only that, but this process retains healthy eating practices long after the motivation of trying a completely new system has worn off.

With all of that in mind, this book has one very simple goal: eat at least one green drink a day, preferably before a meal. Thats it. From there, its up to you how far you take it. optimally, I suggest two to three per day, before your biggest meals. But once a day is a great place to start.

I am, first and foremost, just a nerd with an insatiable appetite for knowledge. I love exploring new ways to push my body to extremes while still maintaining a healthy foundation. Over the years, Ive studied and converted to more diet fads and fitness programs than I can remember. Ive also worked as a certified personal trainer and slowly learned what works, and what doesnt.

In early 2008 I started healthygreendrink.com , with the premise of documenting the green drinks I consumed on a daily basis. To be honest, all I really wanted to do was teach myself how to rank in search engines for certain keywords. The website and web development in general, slowly became another one of those obsessions that claims every speck of my free time. But, it paid off. My lifelong obsession with health and fitness helped me turn my dabbling in web development into a way to share one of my other passions, green drinks.

The process of picking a topic and squeezing every bit of information out of it as I can makes it easy for me come up with ways to make the information digestibleand thats what Ive done here.

Im dedicated to the never-ending process of learning and pushing the boundaries of that knowledge in order to share what I have learned along the way. Nothing Ive ever done has proven to be more beneficial to my overall health than what is provided in the following pages. Its easy, delicious, and anybody can do it.

You are the author of your own health, so lets give you what you need to know.

O ften used to signify nature, fertility, prosperity, growth, renewal, freshness, harmony, youth, conservation, energy, balance, and well-being, green is akin to life itself. Its no wonder the greatest food a person can ingest is, well, greens.

But like I said previously, this book is not concerned with preaching a specific diet like vegetarianism or veganism. Truth be told, I lean toward the Paleolithic diet more than anything else. Green drinks supplement whatever diet you have already chosen. Luckily, theyre greeted with open arms by vegetarians, vegans, meat-eaters, Paleo eaters, and Zone diet practitioners alike. No one, it seems, can dispute the health benefits of eating greens.

First, lets put that but I need protein argument to rest. Whether or not you eat meat doesnt really matter. Plants, despite what you may have heard, can give you all the protein you need. Which, according to the Institute of Medicines (IoM) Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids, is about 50 grams per day for the average adult. A better way to gauge this is to make sure 10 to 20 percent of your total food intake consists of protein.

Proteins are made up of twenty amino acids, nine of which are known as essential because the body cannot make them and therefore requires them from food sources. You may have heard the argument that animal protein is a complete protein and vegetable protein is incomplete, however that isnt exactly true. According to the same report, a protein is said to be complete if the nine essential amino acids make up these percentages of the protein being eaten:

Since most of us eat a varied diet, and the green drinks were going to make use a wide variety of leafy greens, fruits, and other superfoods, there are absolutely no issues with hitting those numbers and more. Not to mention, most green vegetables