Green Foods For Men

THE 30-DAY GREEN FOODS DIET CHALLENGE: GREENS FOR GAINS

This 30-day plan is a healthy, clean eating plan, where you have to keep the amount of green foods you eat at a minimum of ten servings per day. We hope that this challenge can be something you can keep up past day thirty. Along with the increase in greenness, you’ll see gains in flavor, gains in culinary confidence, and of course, all those other amazing gains that come with eating more of nature’s best. Think better energy, more productivity, improved sex drive, immunity made of steel, and a complete and total domination of life.

We’ll highlight specific recipes found in this book you can add for specific gains you are looking for, and you will also get a sample fifteen-day plan you can double up on, or just use as a sample to make your own thirty-day challenge.

YOUR MISSION Eat a minimum of 10 servings a day for a month—and beyond

We’ll suggest numerous recipes found throughout the profiles of the 50 Green Superfoods that will provide you with inspiration and motivation for your 30-day mission. The recipes are divided into handy categories, such as Smoothies, Juices, Breakfasts, Entrees, Sides and Dressings, Salads, Beverages, and Snacks. You will also find a sample 15-day plan followed by a blank meal planner template you can use to customize and design the second half of the challenge.

We also suggest you flip ahead to the Resources section, beginning on page 143. There you’ll find a guide listing the top foods for achieving a half dozen very specific goals. Whether you’re looking for the green foods most likely to improve your sexual performance or decrease stress, you’ll have them all indexed in easy-to-use lists. You’ll also find lists of other foods to enjoy--and foods to avoid--as well as a treasure trove of tips for everything from eating out and eating clean to juicing, making smoothies, and more.

WHY IT WORKS

SUPPORTS YOUR HEALTH

The plan was designed to support male health from the inside out. You’ll improve your prostate health and boost your prevention of prostate cancer. You’ll handle chronic or low-grade inflammation, the precursor of many chronic diseases, with anti-inflammatory herbs and healthy fats. You will improve your body composition by decreasing dietary stressors, a common obstacle to fat loss. You will gain energy, mental clarity, and more to have you feeling younger than you have ever felt.

KEEPS THINGS SIMPLE

We keep this plan straight to the point with simple ingredients and easy-to-follow directions. Every recipe features at least one green food and is four ingredients or less, excluding cooking oil and simple seasoning. The directions are short, but the result will make you feel like a culinary genius.

TASTES GREAT

Why eat food that you don’t enjoy? With these recipes, there’s no need for chemical flavor enhancers! Simple seasoning and high-quality real food heighten the flavor of every recipe. Herbs and spices add a punch of nutrients along with tastebud-pleasing taste.

DISCLAIMERS

Serving Sizes: This meal plan is not one-size-fits-all. Rather, it is a template and starting point. Serving sizes are general recommendations and will vary based on your weight, activity level, and goals.

Variety: You want some degree of variety in your diet to ensure you are getting a well-rounded amount of nutrients. However, there is no shame in rotating your top three to five meals, snacks, smoothies, and juices. Routine is never a bad thing as long as the routine is good.

Hydration: Because green foods are fiber powerhouses, as your green food intake goes up, your water intake must also go up. Consider adding a pinch of unrefined sea salt, lime, cucumber, or mint to your water as well.

Tip: Green smoothies and juices are the easiest ways to consume many green food servings in one sitting. We suggest adding a smoothie and a juice every day during the 7 days. For more, refer to the “Smoothie Tips” and “Basic Smoothie Builder” sections, on page 150.

DAY 1-15

This challenge is set up as a way to ensure you get ten servings of greens everyday. We’ve outlined fifteen days in this sample meal plan so you can see how best to balance your meal choices. You can choose to follow this plan once and make up your own for the second half of the challenge, follow this plan twice to fill out your thirty days, or make up your own mind for every meal—making sure you reach your ten green foods per day quota.

DAY ONE