Have you tried any green smoothies yet? Maybe these recipes will arouse more interest and reward your taste buds. Basic Green Smoothie combo: 2-3 sweet fruits, e.g. apple or pear – blend first to form a tasty base, 1 vegetable fruit or a celery stalk – add next for extra minerals, e.g. summer squash or [...]
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Green smoothies pack a wallop of nutrients into a simple to make and delicious raw food drink. Blending the greens with fruit in your blender or food processor breaks up the cell membranes, releasing the nutrients for you to easily digest and assimilate. You would have to chew your greens very thoroughly to adequately break [...]
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Green smoothies, that blended combination of fruit and green leafy plants, provide you with a wonderful array of nutrients to replenish and rebuild your body. With a few wise precautions you can enjoy them in abundance. Oxalates in Greens Oxalates occur naturally in plants and can be a problem for certain people that form oxalate [...]
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If incorporating more raw food in your diet challenges you, consider adding green smoothies. They are fast, fun and highly nutritious. What’s in a green smoothie? Most recipes include whole raw fruit and leafy greens blended together in a blender or food processor. So experimenting with flavors you like becomes an enjoyable adventure. You will [...]
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What’s the Cause of the Big Enzyme Leak? Eating mostly cooked and processed food gradually depletes our enzyme bank accounts. (Aha, perhaps we could actually do something about this. Perhaps make better choices.) Also, current mass agricultural techniques produce vegetables, fruits and grains lower in enzymes. And, fruit and vegetables may be genetically altered to [...]
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Dr. Pottenger and his cats shed some light on how we rob ourselves of the enzymes in our enzyme bank accout. In his great nutritional experiment, Dr. Pottenger fed 3 generations of cats either raw food (enzymes intact) or cooked food (no enzymes left). The second and third generation of kitties on the cooked food [...]
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Enzymes are the sparks of life that keep us alive. Most people have depleted their stores of digestive and metabolic enzymes. But you can get that spark of life back in your body. What is an enzyme and why are they important? Enzymes are huge proteins that speed up chemical reactions. They are the sparks [...]
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Green smoothie recipes made mostly from vegetables are healthier for those of us with blood sugar or yeast overgrowth problems. Take a look at the following recipes from other readers of this Be Wise-Health Wise newsletter. One of our faithful readers suggests a recipe from Body Ecology that uses more vegetables than fruit: Good Morning Greens [...]
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How does your mind react to goal setting? Does it say, “no way” or “yes, I love to set goals?” I must admit that my mind balks at goal setting right now because I have been an over-achiever in my past. I’m enjoying a more relaxed approach to living now. But I do have goals [...]
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Your mind’s humming along not even thinking about the things that have become your daily habits (whether good or bad habits). You grab a doughnut with your coffee at the service station on your way to work. In the lunch room someone left some brownies out on the table to share. You pop one in [...]
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