Green Smoothies 

GREEN SMOOTHIES help suppress appetite, and for several good reasons. They contain a variety of appetite-suppressing ingredients. For example: 

·       Water 

·       Fiber 

·       Nutrient-dense foods 

One huge and damaging downside to the all-too-typical American diet is its heavy percentage of “empty calories”—sugars, starches, and other highly refined carbs.   

Your body craves nutrition—vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, antioxidants, fiber- and water-rich foods. And when instead it gets a load of largely empty calories, your body’s up to one trillion cells are still hungry! You may have taken in thousands of calories, but your body is still malnourished. So you eat even more—yet never can seem to feel full and satisfied.

Common smoothie ingredients

A green smoothie is called “green,” because typically it contains lots of green veggies—especially the nutrient-dense and appetite-suppressing leafy greens. But if you’ve never had one, don’t conclude ahead of time that a green smoothie won’t taste good—that it’s likely to be like chewing on lawn grass or choking down certain bitter greens you may have on your dinner plate.  

Green smoothies can be made with a blend of veggies, fruit, seeds, omega-3 oils, and other ingredients, to produce a tasty and power-packed drink that will be among the most appetite satisfying items you can add to your personal weight loss and health regimen.  

Some common ingredients for a super-healthy green drink can include any of the following: spinach, kale, or other leafy greens; fruits such as bananas, berries, or pears; chia seeds or flaxseed meal; oils such as flax or coconut; chlorella and spirulina powders; whey; aloe vera juice; and many others.

Two power blenders

To add green smoothies regularly to your diet, you’ll need to invest in a blender with enough power to completely liquefy the fibrous greens these drinks contain. An “ordinary” kitchen blender simply won’t do this and will leave unpleasant fibers behind.  

Two blenders, however, have enough power to completely liquefy everything you can think to add to your green smoothies: the Vita-Mix—and the Blend-Tec (see links below).  

In the “List of Sources” menu section, you’ll find links to several great websites focused on green smoothies. Browse those, and also check some of the excellent books below at Amazon.   

WHERE TO GET WHAT YOU NEED:

Vita-Mix Blenders

Blend-Tec Blender 

Some Great Green Smoothies Books