Juicing Beginners Essential Recipes Weight Reviews Summary

Health Benefits

Pros:

• "Not only does regular juicing detoxify the body of processed foods and other toxins, the book recommends and guides one through a 3-5 day detoxification process that can help with digestion, allergies, dry hair and skin, weight loss, and other issues."
• "Juicing isn't just about getting the proper doses of vitamins and minerals. It's used for detoxification, weight loss and it's loaded with antioxidants and has been shown to prevent or fight diseases like cancer or gastrointestinal ailments."
• "It also highlights benefits such as helping improve or even reverse symptoms of high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma."
• "A 'Common Ailments' section discusses how juicing can help with symptoms of specific health problems from depression to strokes to obesity (juicing also promotes weight loss, another section in the book!)."
• "This author of this book explains that because the Western diet is lacking in many essential nutrients, nearly everyone in our society can benefit from making and consuming freshly squeezed juices."
• "While some juices are good for detoxing, others may help to regulate blood pressure or reduce mood swings and promote sleep."
• "The recipes themselves are coded with colored icons that provide you with nutritional and health information such as healthy digestion, anti-cancer, brain health, heart health, cleanse & detox, and bone and blood health."

Cons:

• "The authors cite very little research and make claims that are specious at best."
• "This book contains lots of health claims without providing many citations."
• "The guide does a great job of expressing that there may be no true benefit to juicing over eating raw fruits and vegetables."
• "In my opinion the list of the illnesses benefitted by juicing is enough; explanation paragraphs on each illness are overkill."
• "The authors also seem to espouse a paleolithic diet and repeat misinformation, such as how in the Paleolithic age, humans did not eat grains. That is actually not true, according to scientific scientific and archaelogical research."

Recipes and Ingredients

Pros:

• "There are 100 delicious recipes along with a description of the health benefits for each that no one can possibly get bored with planning one's dietary menu each week!"
• "These are great recipes that don’t require a bunch of ingredients or fancy add ins."
• "The recipes are amazing@"
• "I love how it encourages you to take inexpensive fruits and veggies from the grocery store and turn them into great tasting healthy juices."
• "This book has lots of great recipes."
• "The recipes look ridiculously delicious-- from Mango Tango Green Juice to Peachy Pineapple Cooler."
• "This book contains a multitude of fantastic recipes - enough to keep all of the above from getting bored with their fruits and veggies over the long haul."

Cons:

• "Get a magnifier to read the print and oh my God the ingredient list typed in pale green makes this tortuous to read."
• "The juice recipes might be fine, but the book should be re-printed in black and white."
• "Unfortunately, the green text color for the ingredients is difficult to read, the nutrition information is not included and most of the recipes just don't taste that good."
• "The list of ingredients is hard to read because the light green is hard to read on white paper."
• "The recipes are printed in very pale green ink so you need a magnifying glass to read them."
• "The ingredient list was so pale you can hardly see them."
• "The ingredients for the juice recipes are unreadable. They are printed in very pale green on white pages."

Usability and Design

Pros:

• "ARRIVED FAST & INTACT. 187 PAGES OF RECIPES & INFORMATION WITH PICTURES IN COLOR. CLEAR BLACK PRINT."
• "The book comes with a nice large, readable letters except the recipes, they are written in same letter size but the ink is so weak that it is almost impossible to read them."
• "The page numbers are on the middle of the page in the edge which I love because I find the recipe quick."
• "The chapters are well laid-out and thorough while remaining uncomplicated."
• "The presentation is attractive and the information is easy to understand."
• "This book was very informative and easy to read."
• "This book is written in a well thought out and easy to follow manner."

Cons:

• "This book is a waste of time. Almost everything in it can easily be looked up online for free."
• "The dumb book does not have page numbers so good luck trying to find that recipe you were looking for."
• "There are NO PAGE NUMBERS so you can’t look up anything."
• "The problem is there are no page numbers throughout the book. Makes it hard to locate what I want to make."
• "Page numbers are white on yellow and tiny. Really?!"
• "Looks like a great book, but I find it useless with No page numbers."
• "The book contains NO PAGE NUMBERS! It is impossible to quickly look up a recipe."

Value and Quality

Pros:

• "This book really helped me understand juicing so much better than I had before reading it!"
• "For a complete and objective overview on juicing, I would certainly recommend this book."
• "This is actually a pretty good book with so many juicing recipes out there."
• "I think this book is very informative and has delicious recipes!"
• "It also happens to be a great low-cost option!"
• "Perfect for gifting to a friend for learning different juices to make."
• "This book explains the benefits as well as provides some simple recipes using both fruits and veggies."

Cons:

• "The book went into the garbage and I'll get my recipes off the internet."
• "After experiencing the bulky 'power juicers' from TV infomercials, frustrations over recipes, set-up, and clean-up time have prompted us to throw in the towel."
• "I'm not sure I would recommend this book."
• "Could have gotten most of the information provide online for free."
• "The book itself is not the highest quality printing. The pages and cover are thin and my copy came all bent up."
• "At least the book wasn't expensive, so I guess you get what you pay for."
• "The recipes themselves are things I would come up with myself, No real aha great recipes in the whole batch."