Dear readers,
Pretty soon I am going to learn how to use my new point and shoot
camera which came with 62 large pages of directions. Then this blog
will be more interesting to look at.
I intended to begin describing some of my 33 foods individually today, but instead
I am giving you another recipe - one of those power foods that can quickly change your condition - BLENDED GREEN DRINKS.
I say drinks plural because there are pretty much infinite permutations
of this idea. You can go online and find tons of recipes.
I give some suggestions below.
If I were to suggest one daily habit that would
absolutely change your health it is the intake of lots of greens.
Not occasionally. EVERY DAY.
There is no more economical way of getting a lot
of them into your body than by blending.*
Here is the easy version.
Put into the blender the basics:
at least one dark leafy green,
some sprouts (buckwheat, sunflower, mung bean, pea, etc.)
some romaine lettuce
and some fruit to ease the green
just enough water to make the blender go.
(Now what about food combining? Aren't fruits and vegetable supposed to be
eaten at different times? Yes, except when the vegetable are leafy greens.
They combine with everything.)
Other possible additions: avocado, ground seeds,
cucumbers, anything fresh that will blend. I usually like to put
in blueberries (one of my 33 foods) as my fruit,
but it turns the drink a kind of loden green color,
more appropriate for a Scottish jacket than breakfast.
You could try something like mango until you toughen up.
Ground seeds or avocado will make it thicker and heartier.
I recently spent some time in CA with my beloved friend Rhea
who eats a green drink every day, and she was set up to do it easily.
Beside her VitaMix were little jars of different kinds of seeds to add to her drink every day -
ground flax, hemp seed, black sesame seeds, and chia seeds.
Because everything was right there it was easy to put together an amazing power
breakfast every morning. Her version is not for sissies,
but it was really a meal for a whole morning.
* * * *
The Hippocrates Health Institute version is the version
I have used for years as part of the cleanses I run.
It consists of 1/2 and avocado, an apple,
fresh mung sprouts, buckwheat sprouts (often called buckwheat lettuce),
sunflower sprouts, sometimes pea sprouts, although they are not in the original recipe,
a couple of kinds of greens like spinach, kale, watercress, collards, etc.
and a small piece of soaked seaweed with enough water to be able to blend.
Not too much. You want it fairly thick. At certain times of the year -
at least around here - all the ingredients can be found in the health food store.
You can also grow them or order on line.
These things are all blended like mad until they are smooth.
I realize I have not given you amounts, but by the time you have managed
to get some of each of these things into the blender and enough water
to make the blender run, you will have about a quart. If you can get this down in
one day, you will have given your body enough nutrients to keep it from
having many cravings, and you can give yourself a merit badge for the day.
Now here is the thing. For some people this version
can be bland. But it is possible to spark it.
If I have been drinking it for over a period of several days, I want
to put some cumin and chipotle pepper powder in it - or maybe a blob
of salsa. You can experiment, but go easy on the salt.
You will have fewer sugar cravings, the less salt you eat.
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One powerhouse woman who has promoted the use of Green Drinks
is Victoria Boutenko. Her story is wonderful but I don't have time
to relate it here. She has, however, had enormous success helping thousands
heal with the use of her greens drinks. One of her most amazing stories in
is about an experiment run with a group of patients of gastroenterologist,
Dr. Paul Fieber, to test the effect of drinking a daily quart of
green smoothie on the production of Hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
He was working with people who had serious Hydrochloric acid
(HCL) deficiencies. In one month of consuming one quart a day
of the greens drink with no other dietary changes the increase of HCL
was 62% overall in the experiment group.
Tomorrow I'll talk about the effects of low Hydrochloric Acid.
There is a chapter about this subject in Victoria Boutenko's book
called Green For Life which I highly recommend.
The publisher is Raw Family Publishing. I am guessing self published.
Also on her website there are green smoothie recipes. click here for Victoria Boutenko's website.
* Not everyone can or should eat raw foods, because they are cooling which is not supportive for some conditions and constitutions, and some people have difficulty digesting them. The concept of eating tons of greens still applies, but you will have to lightly cook or ferment them.
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