Dr. Oz Signature Weight Loss Drink

America’s best loved doctor to facilitate weight loss & optimized health

A Sip that’s great for Dieting

If you do just one thing differently for your health this year, follow his lead and make this be it! When Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., director of the Integrative Medicine Program at the Columbia University Medical Center and host of the Dr. Oz Show, marked his milestone 100th episode on air, he toasted the success of his studio audience 100 people who’d lost 13,000 pounds combined with a vivid green drink.  And when he invited Chicago Mayor Richard Daley onstage to announce the Dr. Oz Health Expo, a history making event designed to optimize the health, weight and waist size of an entire city, what beverage did his honorary assistant, Oprah, serve up?  You guessed it green glasses clinked again.

Losing Weight with a Delicious Smoothie

Call it the sip that started a wave:

Dr. Oz’s humble blend of cucumbers, apples and
leafy greens has ignited a trend

What makes Dr. oz’s signature sip such a breakthrough beverage?

As America’s healthy guru, Dr. oz himself cites the fact that it compensates for one of our top concerns that we are simply not getting sufficient nourishment form standard diets.  “We know we have to have at least five fistfuls of leafy green vegetables and fruit every day, so we make a morning green drink,” he has said. “It only takes a minute to  make, and it’s inexpensive.” Plus, there’s ample evidence to suggest that even if we could eat five cups of leafy greens a day, we wouldn’t get as many benefits as we do from juicing them.  The credit goes to the mechanical processes of blending and juicing that helps break apart plant-cell walls better than even the most persistent chewing could, which give green drinks an intestinal absorption edge that food from produce can’t match.  “Breaking apart those plant cell walls has an effect much like throwing marbles at a chain link fence”, “Their contents go through in a way that tennis balls just can’t.” These readily absorbable micronutrients do more than just slim, they optimize overall health and wellness.

Here, the science behind green drinks’ transformative powers and the reasons they fire up metabolism, speed slimming and supercharge health in ways that nothing else can.

Enzymes Speed up Fat Burning!

In addition to nutrient deficiencies, elite nutritionists now name another deficit as a major contributor to stubborn fatigue and weight gain: enzyme depletion, which strikes more than three quarter of women by the age of 35.  Digestive enzymes produced by the liver and pancreas are needed to break down food and absorb its nutrients, but those organs also produce metabolic enzymes that assist in the breakdown and burning of fat.  The body’s ability to produce enzymes drops off naturally over time, plus, enzymes in foods are easily destroyed by heat, so diets high in cooked and processed fare can’t supply them.  This causes a shortage that forces enzyme producing organs to work overtime on digestion.  And that results in metabolism taking a backseat.  Luckily, green drinks raw fruit and vegetables (leafy greens in particular) are chock full of inner “activators” that reverse the draining trend:   “Their enzymes provide a digestive assist that reduces the workload on the liver and pancreas, allowing them to focus on their metabolic tasks like fat burning and energy production”

“I’ve never been thinner or in better shape,” Lesley says. “It’s awesome to think that when you’re in your mid 40’s and are premenopausal, you don’t have to pack on the pounds you can actually do the opposite!”

But it did work better than she dreamed it could! Florrie followed the plan created by the detox diet, and within four days of drinking green “cocktails”, she raves, “My body felt more alive.”  Instead of feeling frazzled like things were going to fall apart, I discovered an overall sense of well-being,” says Florrie. “I moved from rejecting my body to loving it.”

Get started blending your Delicious Green Smoothie:

Blenders that boast 1,000 plus watts whip up the smoothest drinks, consider the Vitamix 5200 Blender, though pricey fans swear by its smooth results and longevity some say their Vitamix has outlasted the seven year warranty.

Dr Oz Green Smoothie’s Recipes Start your Slim Down:

Green Smoothie Recipe with Ginger Root

1. In blender, combine 2 cups spinach; 2 cups chopped cucumbers; 1 head celery; 1/2 or 1 tsp. ginger root; 1 bunch parsley; 2 apples, chopped; juice of 1 lime and juice of 1/2 lemon.  Puree 30 second, or until smooth.  Makes 3 to 4 servings.

Green Smoothie Recipe with Spinach

2. In blender, combine 3 to 4 cups chopped Swiss chard, spinach, romaine lettuce and/or collard greens; 1 cup each chopped kale and cilantro; 1 banana, frozen and sliced; 2 cups assorted frozen berries and 1 clove garlic, peeled.  Puree 30 seconds, or unit smooth.

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