Joe Cross - The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet Cookbook: Juice, Smoothie, and Plant-based Recipes Inspired by the Hit Documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

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Cross, Joe.
The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet Cookbook: Juices, Smoothies and Plant-based Recipes Inspired by the Hit Documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead/ Joe Cross.1st ed.
p. ; cm.
Companion to book titled The Reboot with Joe juice diet.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN (Print): 978-1-62634-137-1
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-62967-020-1

1. Vegetable juices. 2. Fruit juices 3. Smoothies (Beverages) 4. Reducing diets--Recipes. 5. Cookbooks. I. Companion to (work) Cross, Joe. Reboot with Joe juice diet. II. Title. III. Title: Inspired by (work) Fat, sick, and nearly dead.
TX840.J84 C76 2014
641.875 2014939965
First Edition

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The ideas and opinions expressed in this book are intended to be used for informational purposes only. The book is provided with the understanding that the author and publisher are not rendering medical advice of any kind and that the information is not intended to replace medical advice or to be used to diagnose, prescribe, or treat any disease, medical condition, illness, or injury.

The author and publisher of this book claim no responsibility to any person for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information within.

Before beginning any diet program, including the Reboot with Joe Juice Diet, please consult your physician or health-care professional. No individual results or health effects from the Reboot with Joe Juice Diet can be guaranteed, predicted, or foreseen. The US Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated any of the statements contained in this book.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to the Reboot TeamKari Thorstensen, Amie Hannon, Brenna Ryan, Jamie Schneider, Sophie Carrel, Chris Zilo, Ameet Matura, Alex Tibbetts, Erin Flowers, Sarah Mawson, Sean Frechette, Vernon Caldwell, Jamin Mendelsohn, Kurt Engfehr, Shane Hodson, Stacy Kennedy, and Claire Georgiou who, regardless of their jobs, all take delight in creating and taste testing new and delicious Reboot-friendly recipes. Their work is in these pages.

Thank you to the Reboot with Joe Medical Advisory Board (in addition to Stacy Kennedy)Ronald Penny MD, DSc, Carrie Diulus MD, and Adrian Rawlinson MDwho continue to endorse and advocate for Rebooting as an effective means to achieve weight loss and health and always endeavor to keep me straight on my facts.

Thank you to Sarah Hammond and the team at Hodder & Stoughton for their suggestion to do this book and their guidance and enthusiasm in bringing it to market along with the team at Greenleaf Book Group.

Seventy percent of all disease is caused by lifestyle choices.

Let me say that again.

Seventy percent of all disease is caused by lifestyle choices.

What are those choices, you ask? Well, the big three are whether you smoke, how much you exercise, and what you eat and drink. Its pretty clear that if you make good choices (dont smoke, exercise consistently, and eat healthy foods), youll be on the right side of the fight against disease. But sometimes making those good choices is harder than you think. Its become normalaverage, evento be overweight in our society. And pretty average to be managing a chronic illness by taking medication. In that case, I was just an average bloke.

A few years ago, on the cusp of forty, I took a long, hard look in the mirror and wasnt pleased with what was looking back at mea lifetime of not-good choices (OK, finepretty terrible choices) had taken their predictable toll. I was chronically ill and almost 100 pounds overweight. But instead of registering nothing but shock and horror, I saw a silver liningit was 70 percent likely that I had caused this myself. And if that were the case, I had a pretty good chance of fixing it myself, too. In order to do that, I needed to enlist the help of Mother Nature, so I decided to consume nothing but the juice of fresh fruits and vegetables for 60 days. I chronicled this in the documentary