Comments on: Green for Life http://help4things.com/269/green-for-life/ Find things that help. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: K. Hawkins http://help4things.com/269/green-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-89 K. Hawkins Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:01:10 +0000 http://help4things.com/?p=269#comment-89 Victoria is very refreshing in her forward thinking. She presents her ideas and coorolations into a very easy to understand fashion. While reading her book, it was like I was having a conversation with her. Her research makes complete sense and follows previous research. She displays her suggestion in a methodical manner and allows the reader to expand in a way which will fit their life style. As a marathon runner, this book is very useful to my diet. I have taken her foundation and expanded it in my life, and it has been amaxing. Also, I run for charity, so please see my website for more information: <br />runnersvision.com Rating: 5 / 5 Victoria is very refreshing in her forward thinking. She presents her ideas and coorolations into a very easy to understand fashion. While reading her book, it was like I was having a conversation with her. Her research makes complete sense and follows previous research. She displays her suggestion in a methodical manner and allows the reader to expand in a way which will fit their life style. As a marathon runner, this book is very useful to my diet. I have taken her foundation and expanded it in my life, and it has been amaxing. Also, I run for charity, so please see my website for more information:

runnersvision.com
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: H. hamel http://help4things.com/269/green-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-88 H. hamel Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:16:00 +0000 http://help4things.com/?p=269#comment-88 I didn't buy much of what was said in this book. The author misses in trying too hard to create a "green for life" community with her stories. I guess the book would be good for someone who would rather drink than eat their greens. I prefer the traditional way of eating my greens rather than drinking blended up romaine lettuce, spinach and celery (yuck!). Rating: 1 / 5 I didn’t buy much of what was said in this book. The author misses in trying too hard to create a “green for life” community with her stories. I guess the book would be good for someone who would rather drink than eat their greens. I prefer the traditional way of eating my greens rather than drinking blended up romaine lettuce, spinach and celery (yuck!).
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Real Change Rose http://help4things.com/269/green-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Real Change Rose Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:52:50 +0000 http://help4things.com/?p=269#comment-87 Yes, it's super important for us to eat lots of greens, and most people don't understand just how much of it we really need. However, exclusively eating greens, or plant matter of any kind, isn't healthy. Humans are omnivores and our digestive systems and bodies in general were designed to eat meat AND green leafy vegetables. The way we ate long long ago when we were hunter gatherers is the closest thing to comparing our diet to chimpanzees. we knew what our bodies needed then, unlike now. the hunter gatherer diet is basically just meat and veggies (mostly non-carby ones) and a little bit of nuts and fruits. that's it. there is no traditionally vegan society in the world for a reason. all food traditions have some form of meat or dairy in them, even if they don't know it. there was only one traditionally vegan culture they found and it was in india. but the researchers discovered that the reason it worked for them is because, since they lived in a jungle setting, there was larvae growing all over their food that they couldn't see, and they were eating tons of it. <br /> <br />so, i think there is some valuable information in this book, i think it's super important to eat tons of greens, and i think this issue of not enough HCL (hydrochloric acid) is a big one that applies to a large population of people in modern times. but exclusively eating greens, or exclusively eating a raw vegan diet, is just not healthy. there are a host of essential nutrients that you just don't get through that diet, and there's just no way of getting the amount of protein that our bodies need. it messes up your hormones, throws off your metabolism, strains your thyroid, and causes a chain reaction of one problem after another. So, if you're reading this book, use the recipes, but don't see it as your exclusive diet. eat some meat too. if you have an idealogical issue with that, think of it this way: how many bugs died to harvest your bowl of cereal or rice? is the life of an insect less important than the life of an animal? is the life of an animal more precious than the life of a plant? animals eating other animals is just a fact of life, however ugly. so, unless you want to go around telling all the carnivorous animals in the world that they're wrong, i suggest coming to terms with these facts. good luck to everyone in search of the right diet for them :) Rating: 3 / 5 Yes, it’s super important for us to eat lots of greens, and most people don’t understand just how much of it we really need. However, exclusively eating greens, or plant matter of any kind, isn’t healthy. Humans are omnivores and our digestive systems and bodies in general were designed to eat meat AND green leafy vegetables. The way we ate long long ago when we were hunter gatherers is the closest thing to comparing our diet to chimpanzees. we knew what our bodies needed then, unlike now. the hunter gatherer diet is basically just meat and veggies (mostly non-carby ones) and a little bit of nuts and fruits. that’s it. there is no traditionally vegan society in the world for a reason. all food traditions have some form of meat or dairy in them, even if they don’t know it. there was only one traditionally vegan culture they found and it was in india. but the researchers discovered that the reason it worked for them is because, since they lived in a jungle setting, there was larvae growing all over their food that they couldn’t see, and they were eating tons of it.

so, i think there is some valuable information in this book, i think it’s super important to eat tons of greens, and i think this issue of not enough HCL (hydrochloric acid) is a big one that applies to a large population of people in modern times. but exclusively eating greens, or exclusively eating a raw vegan diet, is just not healthy. there are a host of essential nutrients that you just don’t get through that diet, and there’s just no way of getting the amount of protein that our bodies need. it messes up your hormones, throws off your metabolism, strains your thyroid, and causes a chain reaction of one problem after another. So, if you’re reading this book, use the recipes, but don’t see it as your exclusive diet. eat some meat too. if you have an idealogical issue with that, think of it this way: how many bugs died to harvest your bowl of cereal or rice? is the life of an insect less important than the life of an animal? is the life of an animal more precious than the life of a plant? animals eating other animals is just a fact of life, however ugly. so, unless you want to go around telling all the carnivorous animals in the world that they’re wrong, i suggest coming to terms with these facts. good luck to everyone in search of the right diet for them :)
Rating: 3 / 5

]]> By: WiseWoman http://help4things.com/269/green-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-86 WiseWoman Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:32:48 +0000 http://help4things.com/?p=269#comment-86 This is a great book and one of a kind! The recipes are very good, although I was disappointed that there were relatively few of them (a few pages). I was able to notice an immediate different in my energy levels upon drinking only 1/2 of the daily quart of green drinks recommended. If you need a lot of energy for staying up late or getting up earlier in the morning, using these drinks is a great strategy. I did notice some indigestion and have read in Mary Enig's 2005 or so book about a coconut oil diet she invented that indigestion is often a consequence of drinking green drinks. She recommends cooking leafy greens for sound scientific reasons and using only 4 oz juice a day from fruit juices once in awhile if one desires, also for sound scientific reasons. She largely refutes the idea that drinking lots of juices is the best way to cleanse the body or get enzymes. Drinking bone broths helps the body cleanse itself as amino acids in these are used by the liver to cleanse. Juices, she says, don't have as many enzymes as people think. Andrew Weil and other doctors recommend sparing use of juices, and mostly or only fruit, these days. However, I think this book is very useful for persons wanting to resist coffee and snacks for awhile, start a diet, build energy levels, slim down; and I think the author is probably right when she writes that modern jaws/teeth don't masticate greens as well as they once did and this is why we don't get as much energy from chewing salad greens as we once did. So possilby the truth about what is best for us is somewhere between Enig's perspective and the perspective in this book, weighted more towards Enig. I'd drink less than a quart of green drink and chew it well before swallowing and stick to largely fruitier drinks most of the time. Rating: 5 / 5 This is a great book and one of a kind! The recipes are very good, although I was disappointed that there were relatively few of them (a few pages). I was able to notice an immediate different in my energy levels upon drinking only 1/2 of the daily quart of green drinks recommended. If you need a lot of energy for staying up late or getting up earlier in the morning, using these drinks is a great strategy. I did notice some indigestion and have read in Mary Enig’s 2005 or so book about a coconut oil diet she invented that indigestion is often a consequence of drinking green drinks. She recommends cooking leafy greens for sound scientific reasons and using only 4 oz juice a day from fruit juices once in awhile if one desires, also for sound scientific reasons. She largely refutes the idea that drinking lots of juices is the best way to cleanse the body or get enzymes. Drinking bone broths helps the body cleanse itself as amino acids in these are used by the liver to cleanse. Juices, she says, don’t have as many enzymes as people think. Andrew Weil and other doctors recommend sparing use of juices, and mostly or only fruit, these days. However, I think this book is very useful for persons wanting to resist coffee and snacks for awhile, start a diet, build energy levels, slim down; and I think the author is probably right when she writes that modern jaws/teeth don’t masticate greens as well as they once did and this is why we don’t get as much energy from chewing salad greens as we once did. So possilby the truth about what is best for us is somewhere between Enig’s perspective and the perspective in this book, weighted more towards Enig. I’d drink less than a quart of green drink and chew it well before swallowing and stick to largely fruitier drinks most of the time.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Boka http://help4things.com/269/green-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Boka Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:22:36 +0000 http://help4things.com/?p=269#comment-85 Not a good book. It's interesting but nothing worth spending your money on. It's a glorified newsletter slap together for a book. If you like being treated like a chump by all means waste your money. One third of the book is testimonials about how great the book is. I mean come on. In a nutshell this is the book - monkeys are closest in genes to humans than any other animal. monkeys eat a lot of green leaves, so guess what? Eat lots of green leaves. Don't like eating greens? throw it in a blender with fruit. Wow that's insightful. hahaha. Really dudes, this is a bad book. Rating: 2 / 5 Not a good book. It’s interesting but nothing worth spending your money on. It’s a glorified newsletter slap together for a book. If you like being treated like a chump by all means waste your money. One third of the book is testimonials about how great the book is. I mean come on. In a nutshell this is the book – monkeys are closest in genes to humans than any other animal. monkeys eat a lot of green leaves, so guess what? Eat lots of green leaves. Don’t like eating greens? throw it in a blender with fruit. Wow that’s insightful. hahaha. Really dudes, this is a bad book.
Rating: 2 / 5

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