If you are looking for a quick breakfast, a satisfying snack, a concentrate of vitamins and minerals, here for you are smoothies and juices. not only of fruit, but vegetables, mixed, light or protein-based to suit your dietary needs. When you have only a little time, but you want a relaxing break to recharge the batteries without overdoing the calories, preservatives and fats, a freshly prepared fruit juice or a vegetable smoothie is a resource that can be accessed easily: only a few steps to obtain a healthy concentrate which is known to help in the case of special diets. But how is it possible to lose weight with smoothies and juices? Although almost all fruits and vegetables are composed of more than 90% water and have fewer calories (except for rare exceptions, and dried fruits), if ingested having been processed in this way, they can replace a meal of as much as 500-600 calories. What is more, in various combinations, juices and smoothies can complete the daily diet thanks to the fibers and nutrients they provide, the satisfaction they provide and their ability to take the edge off the hunger that often accompanies weight-loss or detox diets. This book presents 88 quick, fresh, and colorful recipes, that will help you prepare delicious mixes, shakes, emulsions, juices, both sweet and savory, and it is enhanced with healthy hints and accompanied by diet advice for combinations that are not only tasty but capable of stimulating, for example, the excretory organs, filling in the protein, vitamin and mineral gaps of diets and providing the necessary nutritional completeness. A book that will prove to be an indispensable companion for weight-loss but also detoxifying or energizing diets, and, depending on the month, useful for preparing as well as possible to face the summer, winter or the changes of season, moments of stress or simply to lose those unappealing curves. AUTHOR: Cinzia Trenchi, naturopath, journalist and freelance photographer specializing in food and enogastronomic tours, offers new recipes or interpretations of traditional ones for books and kitchen magazines in Italy and abroad, providing text and photographs and dishes she has invented herself.

She writes cookbooks offering original and creative diets, combining unusual flavors and mixtures to develop new dishes in pursuit of the taste for good food and the pleasure of the palate, but also bearing in mind the nutritional characteristics of foods to achieve a greater balance at the table and a consequent improvement in health. For White Star Publishers she realized Gluten-Free: gourmet recipes and Fat-Free: gourmet recipes, Chili Pepper: Moments of Spicy Passion and the album My Favorite Recipes. Colour illustrations.