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Eating For Energy Green Juice Recipe

October 14th, 2010

Eating green and juicing green are two of Pierrette & I’s favorite things. Juicing is easy on the digestive system and helps to lower your heart rate and improve the use of your oxygen levels in your blood stream.

Slowing your body metabolism down by juicing is a great way to energize your day without all the stomach problems involved in digesting whole foods.

Here is a recipe Pierrette invented that satisfies the sweet needs of people that are just starting to green juice. Adding apples and carrots to all your green juices will take some of the “bland” out of  the green taste.

The benefits of juicing green are so important to your health. You have no idea how great you will feel. Enough said, here is the secret drink Pierrette wants to share with you:

Serves 2

Ingredients:

3 medium size carrots

2 medium apples(choose the variety you love most) We buy the ones on special at the time.

1 medium beet (yes uncooked,red secret ingredient)

3 celery stalks17beaae153660e6a_beet-juice

1/2 cucumber

1/4 head of cauliflower

2 tablespoon of ground flax seed

Juice all the ingredients  in your juicer and serve.(add ground flax seed after)

The benefits of juicing are that you get all the nutritional value into your blood stream without all the fiber. Notice all the pulp left over in your Juicer?

Just look at the pulp as part of the price of being healthy. Ask yourself, what would of all that pulp done inside my body and how hard would my digestive system have to work to process all of it?

Pierre & Pierrette from: http://www.theequest.com

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

Buy Eating For Energy today.Start your juicing career now.

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Anyone Up For Some Turkey, eh?

October 6th, 2010

HPIM1660Sorry. I couldn’t help myself with the title.

Now that the leaves are changing and autumn is upon us, for us Canadians, Thanksgiving is just around the corner. This Monday to be exact. What comes to mind when you think of Thanksgiving?

I think it safe to say for a lot of people it’s turkey!

Yes, yummy turkey. The holiday just wouldn’t be the same without Mom’s turkey dinner. Now, how does this play into my new Eating for Energy lifestyle and the strict diet I’m following at the moment?

When I began this, I gave myself permission to have one “cheat” meal a month. This way, if a holiday or birthday comes up, there is no need for me to sit by and watch while my family enjoys a meal I want to share in. So this weekend I will be having turkey and all the fixings.

But this doesn’t mean I get a free pass. Definitely not. I’m going to be smart about this. There is no need to pile my plate so full there’s no plate to be seen. I already know what overeating feels like, and I’ll pass, thanks.

I only need small helpings to gain the satisfaction of having that turkey dinner. I will also begin the meal with a large salad and raw veggies to make sure I eat something that hasn’t had all the enzymes killed by the cooking process. In addition, I’ll be sure to take digestive enzymes to help my body process all the cooked food I’m giving it.

And you know what? I won’t feel guilty as long as I don’t overindulge. Moderation is going to be the key to this holiday dinner. I may even treat myself to a small slice of pumpkin pie. Yum, my favourite.

So hopefully this year I won’t experience quite the same level of fatigue that always accompanies a large meal, although I think it’s inevitable to a degree when it comes to turkey. Isn’t there something in turkey that makes us sleepy?

As for the week leading up to the dinner, I’m trying to be extra good. I haven’t been as strict lately and I feel the difference in the fact I’m more fatigued that I’d like to be. Today went well, with me eating mostly raw and nothing refined and I feel the improvement already. I’ve been eating too many things with flour lately. Just because I switched to brown rice flour isn’t an excuse to over do it.

So what are your plans for Thanksgiving? What are you grateful for? (Which is what the holiday should be about.) I’m grateful for my ever improving health and new positive outlook and a chance to share the evening with my family.

Feel free to leave comments.

Nichole

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Eating for Energy Smoothie and Juice Guide

July 29th, 2010

FreshFruitSmoothieI am often asked what I eat for breakfast in order to be always be in such a great mood. Well, besides, always having energy to enjoy the day, using the 50 pages of smoothie & juice guide that Yuri gave me with my Eating  For Energy book gives me ideas and combinations to more than fill 365 days of breakfast solutions.

If you have a busy lifestyle(who doesn’t), skipping breakfast is a great mistake. I did it for years and still suffer from it today. Always being tired and “out of gas” before lunch had been a problem for years until I learned why smoothies and juice were the ideal solution:

  1. They are quick to prepare in the morning or the night before.
  2. You can use fresh fruit from the freezer, blend with your own home made nut milk(always fresh) and in less than 5 minutes you are out the door.
  3. A quick get away in the morning when you are full of energy is the only solution. Just take the smoothie or juice with you, that’s all. Simple?

Digestibility of the drink in the morning is the key to a healthy breakfast success. Having a big breakfast use to make my stomach ache in the morning going to work. I think that is a big reason why we tend to skip it. We think we are doing our stomachs a favor, and maybe we where, but our energy levels have always suffered.

  • The whole eating thing as to do with what the food does for our bodies. Highly digestible foods, that quickly gets to our blood streams to give us energy without upseting our sleeping stomachs, is the key to smoothies and juices. You drink it, it goes through your stomach within minutes, is absorbed into your system and “voila”, everyone is happy!
  • Smoothies and juice prepared from real fruits and vegetables(no store bought processed stuff for me) gives me all the vitamins and nutrition without the excess fibers and stomach discomforts.
  • Let your stomach breath and sleep easy every morning. Have a smoothie or a juice and your stomach will thank you for it. Believe me when I tell you that your energy level will jump. Try it for a week and let me know.

The variety will get your whole family involved. You will have a waiting list of everyone’s favorite. Each will have there own combinations and you will see beaming faces in the morning.(Have you ever seen Yuri not be beaming?)

You can have  a Spinach Pear Smoothie, page 310.

A Cinnamon Banana Smoothie, page 313.

A Blueberry Sunrise, page 315, incredible great stuff is written in ink next to it in my book.

Bananamania (great for the kids too) page 331.

The list goes on and on. I am trying to paint a breakfast picture for you here!

Yerry and Yammy’s Green Juice, page 336.

Apple-Pear Morning Pick ME Up, page 340.

Are you starting to get the picture? No more excuses. Get the Eating For Energy book today. You can download it before breakfast and use what you have in the refrigerator right now.

Have a great time and feel the energy Pierrette & I feel every morning.

P.S. Do you have a favorite juice or smoothie recipe to share with us?

Pierre & Pierrette Trudel: from http://www.theequest.com

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

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Why it’s Good to Eat More Raw Foods

February 24th, 2010

If you’ve been on the fence wondering whether eating more raw foods is a good thing or not, then let me help you over – to the good side. Obviously I have a very biased opinion about eating raw foods, after all I’ve written a book on the subject (ie. Eating for Energy).

But you just can’t refute the numerous benefits of eating raw. One of the reasons I started eating more raw foods several years ago was that I wanted more energy. I was sick and tired of needing lots of sleep (ie. 8-10 hours) to feel rested and somewhat energetic.

After all, most sleep experts have told us that our bodies need a “specific” amount of sleep for our body to regenerate and feel rested. I used to believe that…now I’m not so sure. What I’ve found is that when most of my food intake comes from raw foods, I don’t need as much sleep. In fact, when I’m about 80% raw, I can thrive on just 5-6 hours of sleep.

Part of the reason this happens is the body is getting “life energy” from the foods you’re feeding it. When we eat dead, cooked foods, there is little to no energy (other than calories) that we are providing our body.

Think of eating raw foods like recharging a battery. The more raw foods you eat, the more you are recharging your battery – which, in this case, is your body. Conversely, when the majority of your diet is comprised of dead foods, you inherently drain more of your battery’s energy.

This occurs because dead foods require more energy to be digested and metabolized. For instance, eating meat (that is cooked) draws more water from your body to be digested since most, if not all, the water in the meat has been evaporated by the cooking process.

Not only does eating cooked meat help to dehydrate your body but it also taxes your body’s digestive enzymes. Because the food is dead it no longer contains it’s natural food enzymes. As a result, your body must now spend more of its own energy to produce and secrete more of its limited digestive enzymes.

These are just a few reasons why cooked foods drain your energy but there are many more. Now, I’m not saying that you have to totally forego cooked foods from here on out (I certainly haven’t) but it’s important to understand that you should offset some of the “stress” imposed by cooked foods with an abundance of raw foods.

And it doesn’t have to be complicated. Simply eating more fruits and vegetables, in their raw state, is really all you need to do. When people ask me how to start eating raw, I usually just tell them that the easiest way to do so is by adding a few more fruits and vegetables into their daily diet.

Once you experience the benefits of doing so, you’ll find it easier to transition away from those foods that have held you hostage for so many years.

Go for it – you can do it!

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Eating for Energy Reviews

January 28th, 2010

book_cover_webHere are 5 recent Eating for Energy reviews from some of our happy readers…

“Yuri, your book really helped me understand WHY I was doing some of what I had decided to do. That made it a lot easier to follow through! Also, I like the balance of your advice, including that one doesn’t have to follow 100% of the diet 100% of the time. Balance is very important, imo!

Thanks so much for your help Yuri!”

- Pamela Houck

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“The numerous healthy and delicious recipies in Eating for Energy have greatly helped me get in better shape. I exercise often, but found it difficult to find enough healthy food options to add to my diet until I consulted Eating for Energy. Also, learning about digestive enzymes and probiotics was helpful. I never used to take digestive enzymes or probiotics, but now I take probiotics every night and digestive enzymes after heavy meals. I’ve noticed a great improvement in my digestion and consistency in my bowel movements. The smoothie recipies are my favorite part of the book. I found that smoothies are the best way for me to incorporate vegetables into my diet, which I rarely used to do. Thanks for all the great information Yuri.”

- Nehal Shah

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“One thing I really love is to see you have organized the 12 weeks meal plans for someone like me who want to change to eat raw food with lot of energy….this made me very happy customer because I had challenge in putting the meals together for each week. This is a good starting basic foundation for me to develop a way of Eating for Energy until I learn to do on my own meal plan. I love to see the layout for each week meals that save me time to organize them…. and I love the way the food taste that make my body happy especially Mariana Sauce for Zucchini as pasta. The things you have written made perfect sense about the relationship with food and body actually save my time to figure out in term of which food to buy healthy food. Thank you Yuri! You know your stuff! : )

- Robyn Brooks

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“Love the recipies , still working towards my 80 percent raw diet, but already over all big improvement, even my family notice the leaness of my body. Noticable skin approvement, not bad for a 48 yr old. Thumbs up.”

- Sam Farmer

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“Hi Yuri, the facts speak for themselves! Since purchasing Eating for Energy less than 2 months ago I have subscribed to your program and not only lost 5 kgs but I am now at my lowest weight in 20 years and have the energy levels of a 20 yo!! (I’m 41).

The great thing about Eating for Energy is that the recipes are so simple and incredibly tasty – I certainly don’t feel like I am missing out on any food experiences. In fact, I am appreciating the flavours in my food more than ever!

I’d always known which foods I should be eating more of but you’ve made it easy for me to finally do it through the variety of recipes and food ideas in your book.

Thank you so much Yuri – my family and I feel like we owe you so much! Best regards,”

- Geraint Gearon
Bangkok, Thailand

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