Archive for November 2009
Not everyone would salivate at the idea of a green smoothie. If you’re one of these people then you’re missing out on a fast track ticket to great health! This gloriously green smoothie is actually a simple blend of assorted fruits with green vegetables added to it. If your Mama never told you to eat your greens, then you’re in for a BIG surprise.
Greens are essentially nature’s most potent ingredient offered to heal our body.
Green smoothies are delicious, nutritious and by far the fastest and easiest way to jumpstart yourself to a whole new healthy revitalized YOU!
1) Fresh food
Problem:
We usually don’t consume the amount of greens we need on a daily basis. Normally, we cook or make them into salads. Heat kills a large amount of live nutrients so the more greens are cooked, the more nutritional value it has as a cardboard! The same way goes for the pasteurized 100% fruit juices seen on your store shelf and most green supplements which are both prepared in high temperature. Green supplements can give some added nutrients if you can’t cover the variety of greens, but it’s not enough to replace the real thing. Salad is a healthier option, but dark greens are not so palatable. Tendency is we cover it with oil and creamy dressing. But there is just so much you eat before you get tired of the flavors. Some only eat the sweet greens such as Romanian lettuce which contain fewer nutrients than the dark greens. The less delicious the taste the more vital nutrients it contains.
Solution:
Green smoothies; Blending your favorite fruits can easily cover the taste of quite a large amount of greens. The smooth texture is also a given benefit because it helps the body to absorb it quickly without exerting extra energy to digest it.
2) Virgin source of protein and nutrients
This power health drink can pass off as a meal on its own. Depending on your imagination with fruits and greens it can cover the A to Z of minerals and vitamins. You may ask “Don’t you need meat for protein?” Let me ask you, “Do powerful mammals like Oxen, Horses, Elephants and Gorillas eat meat to develop its muscles?” Green vegetables give us all the essential amino acids that our body turns into protein, just like any other animal. Meat is an overdose of second hand protein packed with high acids and animal toxins. Eating too much meat makes you fat easily and can lead to various liver and kidney diseases.
3) Alkalinity
As said earlier eating meat contaminates the body with acids. High acids deteriorates our blood cells, drains the body of energy, and pretty much is the route cause of our sicknesses. Greens and fruits are the strongest food sources of alkalinity and neutralize the acids in the blood. To give you an idea of how much alkaline food we should have each meal is around 80% alkaline based.
4) Antioxidants
Ever wonder why no matter how much you diet and exercise, you can’t seem to remove those extra folds? It’s because your body protects itself from excess toxins by wrapping fatty cells around it. Besides gaining weight, severe amount of toxins can lead to top silent killers such as heart diseases, diabetes and cancer. Let’s prevent ourselves from being part of these statistics!
Antioxidants in green smoothies such as Carotenoids – Lycopene, Lutein, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin E and C, selenium, anthocyanins and many more. They are like magnets that collect toxins in our body and bring them down to our human sewage, the digestive tracks; where the fiber of the green sweeps it clean out of our system.
Being green helps you loose weight. It helps you boost the immune system, keeps bones and muscles stronger, aids digestion. Being green helps you have better mental clarity and high energy levels.
5) Increased Sex Drive
Reducing junk food and replacing it with healthy alternatives removes preservatives, refined salt and sugar, and other chemical downers that lower your sex drive. So far studies on this have shown that the majority of people that have replaced at least one of their meals a day with one of me green smoothie recipes have said that their libido has dramatically increased. A healthy body results to stronger cardiac and reproductive systems plus better regulations of hormones. A healthier body, better moods, added confidence and great stamina in the sack is what you can expect from green smoothies.
Jump Start to health
Adding a green smoothie to your diet is an easy way to jump start your health. Take that step and replace one coffee (or beer or wine) for something this natural and you’ll find your body slowly craving for more. You’ll eventually unfold to healthier habits instead and spare yourself those forced guilt techniques. Share it with your family and friends. Live a refreshing green life! Cheers!
Recipes
Here are some recipes to get you started. Enjoy!!!
Spango Tango
Ingredients:
2 cups spinach
2 mangos, peeled and chopped
1 banana
Peachy Green
Ingredients:
2 cups spinach
2 peaches, seeds removed
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup water (optional)
Tropical Green Smoothie
Ingredients:
1 head romaine or any green leafy vegetable
2 cups water
1 banana
1/2 pineapple, skin and core removed
Blue & Green hit the Scene
Ingredients:
1 head romaine lettuce or any green leafy vegetable
3/4 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
1 apple, roughly chopped
1/4 lemon or lime
2 cups water
Grape Cooler Smoothie
Ingredients:
Large handful of red seedless grapes, stems removed
Basket of fresh or frozen strawberries, stems removed
1 banana, peeled
1/2 head romaine lettuce
Put grapes at the bottom of blender to create enough liquid to blend the other ingredients; add a little water, if needed.
Copyright 2009, Brendan McCarthy. All Rights Reserved.
The food we eat plays a major key as to how our body performs and holds fat. The majority of food we eat is processed or cooked so much that all the living enzymes inside the food are dead I call this type of food ‘Empty Foods’. We human-beings are living organisms and we need living enzymes just for our body’s daily functioning. When we are young we have a reservoir of enzymes, this dries out over time when we don’t replenish it from the food we eat. When we don’t get enough live enzymes from our diet our pancreas kicks into action and makes them for us. This, however, is not the main function of the pancreas, its main purpose is to produce insulin for the body. In performing this secondary function it becomes overworked and doesn’t perform as well as it should. After eating years of cooked food, the pancreas becomes overburdened and doesn’t do its functions properly. The body starts to break down and we start our downward spiral to obesity and disease. Living food repairs and restores the cells that are damaged and also builds new cells. In order to let the pancreas do its main function, you need to be getting these living enzymes from your food which can be found in fresh (uncooked) fruits and vegetables.
If the above sounds like you at all and you’re not really into eating a lot of salads and vegetables, then juicing may be a great option for you. Now, I’m not meaning the bottled or carton juices you can buy from the supermarket. Read the label you’ll see that they are full of sugar, preservatives and other substances that are hard to pronounce. These juices are also pasteurized which kills all the living enzymes.
Fresh juicing from a juice extractor machine is a super fast way of getting a concentrated hit of living enzymes. Once fruits and vegetables are juiced and directly consumed they are transformed into a powerfully healing super food in an easy-to-drink and delicious liquid form. You get all the essential vitamins, minerals, nutrients and live enzymes in an extremely powerful and healthy glass that is an absolute pleasure to drink. All the healing benefits of this great tasting beverage are quickly and easily absorbed into your body and require virtually no energy to digest.
These juice recipes are some of my personal favorites and I encourage you and your family to try them. Kids love fresh Juice too.
“CAPP”isce
5 Carrots
1 Apple
2 Pears
Parsley (a small handful).
Individual Fruit & Vegetable Effect
Carrots are a great liver cleanser and are packed with Beta-Carrotene.
Apples are high in soluble fiber which soothes digestion.
Pears reduce acidity in the body. Pears and Apples
Parsley is an excellent cleanser of the liver, kidneys and bloodstream.
Combined Synergistic Effect
This combination starts cleansing your liver, kidneys and digestive system which are the organs most affected from having an unhealthy diet. It is also great to take in the morning as a way of aiding you in going to the bathroom, as apples and pears have natural pectin inside them that help in bowel movements.
The Royal Flush
2 slices Watermelon with skin (if not organic, peel the skin)
1 Cucumber
1/2 small peeled Beet (also known as Sugar Beets or Beetroot) If you can’t find Beets, use another slice of watermelon as an alternative.
Handful of Parsley
Individual Fruit & Vegetable Effect
Watermelon and Cucumber are great diuretics and kidney cleansers.
Beets cleanse the liver and gall bladder and are good for blood circulation.
Parsley is a great diuretic and cleanser of the kidney and liver, plus it’s packed full of iron which maintains healthy blood.
Combined Synergistic Effect
Another cleanser of the liver and kidney where most of the toxins in the body are stored. This blend helps release these toxins and provides better blood circulation.
Copyright 2009, Brendan McCarthy. All Rights Reserved.
Juice Your Way Back To Health 