A fun and delicious, way to take your health back into your hands one glass at a time

The Green Smoothie Challenge is free project dedicated to your health, vitality and self-empowerment. It was initiated by Anand Wells, a living food educator, who through his work met so many people suffering needlessly chronic and degenerative diseases (obesity, cancer, heart disease, the list goes on) that he was compelled to make this information freely available to everyone. These conditions are almost entirely preventable "lifestyle" diseases which are almost entirely due to poor dietary choices and lack of education.

All the Green Smoothie Challenge involves is learning how to make a simple drink, a green smoothie and drinking one a day for a minimum 2 weeks to see what happens. That's it in a nutshell! No need for any huge dietary changes, expensive meal replacements or supplements, just fresh organic fruit, leafy greens, water and a blender.

The next official Green Smoothie Challenge will run from Sunday September 7th until Saturday September 20th.

What is a Green Smoothie?

A green smoothie is a blended drink comprising of approximately 40% (on weight) fresh dark leafy green vegetables, 60% fresh fruit plus water. It was pioneered by health and nutrition educator Victoria Boutenko who is the author of several books including "Green For Life" a beautifully simple book on how to create health with green smoothies.

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. Based on these observations, Victoria has developed a series of green smoothie recipes that enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a palatable way. Victoria introduces the idea of blending, rather than juicing, as being the superior way to ingest greens, for the very necessary insoluble fibre, which is essential for healing and maintenance of our elimination systems. Also documented is a study in which a group of regular people drink a one quart green smoothie every day for a month, in addition to their regular diet. One pound of certain greens can give you your RDA of all nine essential amino acids, not to mention an abundance of vitamins and minerals.

So how do you get started? Just join the Green Smoothie Challenge for free and we will guide you step by step on how to begin, the best recipes and other useful information. This will be done through a daily emails which you will receive before and during your 14 day Green Smoothie Challenge. Even though the first Green Smoothie Challenge began on May 21st 2008, if you want to get started now click on the "Join now for free" tab.

May you take your health and vibrancy to new levels! (and bring your family and friends)

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