Review: Free and worth it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2013
I'm glad I didn't pay anything for this book.  That would have been stressful.  It's not that these foods don't help, it's just that anybody who thinks they can calm themselves with a smoothie are probably missing the reason they need calming to begin with.  When I was a kid, I loved to have a chocolate malted after school.  It was cold, sweet, refreshing and delicious.  It made me feel good because it was those things, not because the milk contained tryptophan or the chocolate contained theobromine or the sugar contained, well, sugar.  I have no doubt that the true active ingredient in these drinks is sitting down to some cool refreshment.  Proof?  Try drinking one while running around stressing yourself out multitasking.  See if any of them help.  Antioxidants don't work quickly enough to do what the author proclaims.  They're all nice healthy and low fat and probably good for you, but stress relieving?  Gimme a break.