Review: Misleading Title and poor overall Quality
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2013
The title promises "New Juicing Recipes for Year 2013", here is a short sample of these "new" recipes:Orange and Carrot Juice - yup, just that, nothing else in it. That is a new recipe for 2013??? Similar "new combos" include: Mango and Pineapple, Tomato and Cucumber and, perhaps my all time favorite "Easy Lemon Juice" where the author needs a whole paragraph to explain to us how to mix the juice of two lemons with "sugar or other forms of organic flavors" and water. Seriously? That is a new recipe for 2013???Other negative points:The author doesn't state his own professional credentials when it comes to nutrition / health care and looking at some statements in this book, I wonder if he has any.Outrageous claims, such as in "Juicing for Lung Cancer", he writes "... why several health institutions recommend juicing as the best way ... to fight off lung cancer." are never backed up by a source, leaving me wondering where the author found them. Or, equally without source "The good news is that with juicing, 2 million men were able to survive this cancer." which can be found in the "Juicing for Prostate Cancer section.Or, even more dangerous, in the section "Juice Recipes for Diabetes" he writes "To get cured or to prevent this condition [diabetes], why don't you check out some juice recipes for diabetes?" Unfortunately, diabetes is still a chronic disease that can't be cured! And to add insult to injury, he suggests then to add "honey to taste" to the first juice recipe specifically for people with diabetes.Whilst the author states in the introduction "... the benefits of juicing including the nutrients and vitamins contained in every fruit or vegetable is also explained to let the readers know what healthy juice drink is best for them." Perhaps it was the authors original intention to include such information in the book, but looking at the recipes - he forgot to do so! There are not there.Lots of filler content, as other reviewers have already stated, with proper formatting / getting rid off the unnecessary empty lines, this book would be max. half as long as it is now. Also basic information, that should have gone in one "base recipe" like "Blend all the ingredients in a piece of juicing equipment. Stir and serve chilled." gets repeated over and over again.Recipes do repeat themselves without much variation between them. It would have been better to just include one of them with an added sentences you can vary the taste by also adding xyz, instead of creating a completely new recipe.Summary: Save your money, one hour surfing the internet will give you more and better information about juicing and recipes than this book!