Ottoson - Healthy drinks: 60 vital recipes for green smoothies, juice shots, broths, detox water, kombucha, and more

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INDULGE IN GREAT HEALTH with no rules I live. I love. I laugh. And I eat. I think theres nothing more beautiful than a person who feels good in his or her own body.

And Im not talking about pounds and wrinkles. For me, life and healthy food mean possibilities, pleasure, and heading toward a place of radiant energy and an abundance of joy. Its about treating and giving ourselves the best of the best, and doing the best we can. Thats why I love healthy drinks: theyre such a simple yet liberating way to drink yourself to health. Prep time takes only a few minutes, yet they make a huge difference to your well-being, to how you feel, and to your energy level (youll shine like a thousand suns!). Also, they taste crazy good.

Super smoothies provide you with amazing daily energy. Juice shots are your best friends come flu season. Refreshing lemonades, juices, and slushiestheyre all totally sugar-free. Warm broths feel like great big hugs, especially when you need them the most. Or a wonderfully healthy hot chocolate, made with real chocolate, can make you believe youre gazing deep into Johnny Depps eyes in the movie Chocolat. I grew up in a family of hard-core exercisers.

Running thirty to thirty-five miles a week and putting in a three-hour road session on Sundays was part of my life. It just wasnt worth lacing up your sneakers for anything less than six miles. From these beginnings blossomed a keen interest in how what we eat can affect athletic performance. As a young girl, I stayed in my room slurping up every book on nutrition I could find, long before the current health craze hit. At sixteen, I realized this was my destiny, which defined my academic path during my four years at university and ultimately my career. This would be my Dharmamy lifes purpose.

But thats not the whole truth. Theres another story, one about confronting death head on and the fear of loss. The school of hard knocks has shaped me to the core and defined what I believe in. As a kid, I would visit my mother after her radiation treatment and be utterly convinced that she would not survive to see my eighteenth birthday. I have had close encounters with cancer all my life. Friends have become angels.

Life is a roller-coaster ride, filled with exhilarating experiences, along with a few seriously nasty bumps. These two parallel journeys have led up to this point in my life and what Im all about today: working in the world of food and health. Its also one of the reasons why I founded Foodpowers, a rehabilitation program for cancer survivors. Its important for me to seize the day. I like to let my hair down and let myself go, to dance on the table like theres no tomorrow. I am fully and totally dedicated to working with food, health, and all the amazing ways there are to live healthily.

For me, these healthy drinks have been totally groundbreaking; in our home, drinking them is second nature. Its an easy way for the kids to get the nutrients they need, even if they pick at their dinner. Stop dieting. Quit the rules. There is nothing you must do . Were pressured into counting calories till were blue in the face, or were dieting our precious lives away.

I believe that life is too short to be on a diet. Its a bit like walking around in too-tight shoes: theyre just never going to fit you and your life. So instead of zeroing in on what you cant eat, focus on all the other options that are out there, the many tasty possibilities you can enjoy that will bless you with a radiant, vibrant energy to live the life you long for. Drink yourself healthy. Add one healthy drink to your dayitll take you so far. The quickest recipe in this book can be prepared in a minutejust like brushing your teeth.

Lets blend together! Green love from Anna Ottosson, a.k.a. Madame Moustache FOODPOWER FOOD SUPERPOWERS What Foodpower means to me is eating and enjoying food that makes us radiant and stronger. The food we eat holds enormous power. The tears rolling down our cheeks as we chop onions, our pee turning pink after eating beets, our tongue colors stained blue by blueberriesthose are all visible signs of how much were affected by the foods we enjoy. Nutrition research from all over the world shows that we can boost our immune system and protect ourselves from illness in an incredibly potent way via our food. We know that over 30 percent of all cancers are connected to our eating habits.

Thousands of antioxidants protect and build up our body, and neutralize free radicals to prevent them from damaging our cells. But you dont need to study all of thisjust enjoy fruit and vegetables in all the colors of the rainbow, and get into the habit of knocking back a colorful healthy drink every day. By doing this, you will have already taken a large dose of beneficial power that will build up your defenses against colds, heightened stress, and the rest of life. The rainbow is truly an amazing guide to follow when selecting your foodits the only one I use. Make your food colorful, and youll leave behind all shades of brown! By eating a variety of vibrantly colorful foods, youll receive lots of vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and other powerful nutrients effortlessly. Enjoytickle your taste buds and totally love yourself, because there is only one precious you .

Eat and drink food that gives you real, deep, and long-lasting energy. Inside-out. For real. You are what you eat.
Don't be fast, cheap, easy, or fake. HEALTHY DRINKSA SIMPLE WAY TO MAXIMIZE YOUR HEALTH Do you want to make a single change that will have maximum impact on your health? Thats as quick and easy as A-B-C? Then this is for you. I get asked this question every day, and my answer is: start with healthy drinks.