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Trusted family food expert and Weelicious founder serves up almost 100 transformative recipes for nourishing and delicious smoothies Weelicious founder Catherine McCord is an expert recipe developer who helps families eat healthfully and deliciously. When her son started suffering from chronic nausea and her family doctors couldn't help, McCord turned to her experience with nutrition for an answer, researching until she discovered a surprisingly simple solution - smoothies. She shared her family's story and some of her favorite smoothie recipes on social media, and the Smoothie Project, a daily online source of inspiration, was born. People began to use her recipes and share how smoothies had become a force of change in their lives, too. Years of witnessing the positive effects that smoothies can offer inspired McCord to create a smoothie bible packed with almost 100 of her favorite, tried-and-tested recipes. With guidance from top nutritionists, McCord also explains how to eat based on your age and details the health benefits of key smoothie ingredients, so you can: * Reduce stress and anxiety* Lose weight* Control ADHD symptoms* Boost your immune system* Improve digestion* Increase your energy* Eat to support pregnancy or breastfeeding* Have beautiful, strong skin, hair, and nails* Encourage kids to eat nutritious foods* And more ... McCord offers a way to change your life in just twenty-eight days, using only your blender. All you have to do is commit to having one of her smoothies each morning for a month, and every glass will bring you one step closer to achieving your goals.
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Launched in 2007, Catherine, mom to Kenya (12) , Chloe (10) and Gemma (4) , created Weelicious.com as a platform to show parents around the world how easy and beneficial it is to expose children to wholesome, delicious homemade food. After personally struggling with how to feed Kenya as a baby, Catherine recognized a need to be filled: simple, nutritious recipes for parents using minimal ingredients that are fully loaded with flavor. Weelicious is currently home to over 1,300 original family friendly recipes and more than 300 videos. Catherine inspires the Weelicious community with readily available ingredients and recipes that are fast and easy. Weelicious is a wealth of trusted information for families.In 2012, William Morrow published Catherine's first book, Weelicious: One Family. One Meal. An inspirational feeding guide, Catherine cleverly weaves together first-hand experience with fact-based evidence, then naturally progresses into 140 of her original "fast, fun and easy" recipes. Her second book, Weelicious Lunches: Think Outside the Lunchbox published by William Morrow in September 2013. Addressing the familiar lament of the redundant nature of creating lunches for children, Catherine provides a variety of realistic solutions and more than 160 recipes to help time-challenged parents think outside the box, and beyond the standard PB&J, when packing their kids' lunch.Catherine authors a monthly "Snack Mom" column in Parenting Magazine, has appeared multiple times in People, Self and Real Simple Magazine, on the Today Show, The Chew, Access Hollywood Live, Good Morning America and Fox News. She apprears regularly on the Food Network's Guy's Grocery Games has guested on Next Food Network Star and Duff Till Dawn and each week on NBC's Danny Seo Naturally. Catherine is the co-founder of One Potato: an organic family friendly meal company delivering semi-prepared meals to encourage families to cook and eat together. Currently One Potato is in 8 states on the west coast and working towards national expansion.
