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Eating For Energy-Trying Something New-Benefits

August 2nd, 2010

FreshFruitSmoothieTrying something new using the “Eating For Energy” book as become common-place in our home.

When you eat for the right reasons, the food combinations become a game for good health. “How can I get the best drink with the most benefits”, is fun to play and very good tasting. If your lifestyle is fast paced and you always want foods that taste great, don’t be afraid, everything smoothie you make will seem better than the last.

Taste buds seem to improve as our energy level increases. Funny things happen in your mind. It is as though your body cravings search for really healthy foods. Therefore your energy levels are forever increasing.

Here is a new smoothie Pierrette invented this morning: the ingredients are the following

  1. 1/2 Fresh pineapple
  2. 1 pear(pealed and cubed)
  3. 2 bananas(medium size) use fresh or frozen
  4. 2 Tablespoon of ground flax seeds
  5. 1 small slice of Ginger(fresh)
  6. 1 cup of water/ice-Depends on how cold you like your smoothie

Directions: Put all the ingredients together in your high speed blender and let it go. Yields 2 x 14 oz glasses of incredible colors and aroma.

We have juiced pineapple and pear before and found it great but Pierrette wanted to add bananas and make a smoothie.mmm Wait till you taste this.

After you have had this drink just go to Google, yes right on top, and search for the benefits of each ingredient. You will be amazed at all the nutrition you get.

Remember, fruits act as cleansers and vegetables are builders.

Drinks like this take less then 10 minutes to prepare, you can mix and match with what you have in your refrigerator and you can leave the dishes in the sink till you get home(or dishwasher).

Off to work now, just had to let you know. Let me know how long the energy level sustains you after having a great drink like this compared to your normal breakfast.

Eating For Energy is all about saving time to give you quality time for you.

Pierre Trudel

Thee Quest For Perfect health

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Energy Diet Secrets

July 29th, 2010

So you’ve been on an energy-boosting diet as of late, and people are beginning to notice. They can see that you’re losing weight, but gaining strength and endurance. You’re no longer the mopey, quiet and tired person you were just a few scant weeks ago. Today, you’re full of pep and vigor, and of course, the people around you want to know how you did it. What is your secret?

Now, your energy diet is no big secret – it is all about selecting the right foods to give your body the energy that it needs to thrive all day long. But people aren’t going to believe you when you tell them that. Just eating the right foods? That’s boring, and anyone could do it. But you are the only one who seems to have mastered it – so clearly, you know something they don’t know. You hold the secret to eating for energy, and they want to know what it is. So, what can you tell people who want to know your energy diet secrets, but won’t be satisfied with the truth?

What you give them is the truth with a heaping helping of fancy and sexy. No lies – just overblown statements about your amazing diet plan.

For instance, telling people that you are cutting back on processed sugars is not going to wow them. Sure, we all know that those glucose/fructose enriched foods are bad for us, but people want to hear your fancy answer for what you could possibly replace the sweets with (and no, going without something sweet is simply not an option – it’s practically cheating).

What you can tell them is that the world of fruit has some amazing sweets waiting for them, but a proper energy diet won’t simply ask you to down bowl after bowl of boring mixed fruits. No, you can tell them about the exciting variety of smoothies available for people who eat for energy; you can share your recipes for all-raw, one-ingredient frozen banana ice cream; and you can wow them with information about how strawberries are calorie negative, meaning they actually use up more calories to consume, digest and pass than they provide as fuel, and how this helps your body to learn to burn it’s own fuel reserves – your fat.

Another important area for eating for energy is hydration, but no one wants to hear about how you should be drinking so many glasses of water every day. Instead, you can tell them about your super-hydrating watermelon smoothies; impress them with your abstinence from the diuretic effects of caffeine; and tell them how you can jazz up a glass of water with citrus, without adding a lot of empty calories.

And when your friends want to hear about where you’re getting all of your new, raw energy from, they don’t want to hear about how simple it is to tailor the energy diet plan to their own likes and dislikes; they want to be told that what you are doing takes effort and intellect, but with a little coaching, they too could be on the path to eating healthier, and gaining more energy.

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Plant Based Food Recipes

June 17th, 2010

Within the raw food discipline, there are many different paths to better eating. While you might initially equate a raw food regimen with a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle, there are plenty of ways to keep eating different types of meats while staying true to a raw diet.

However, these practices tend to be the minority while getting more than their fair share of the attention. In the mad rush to show outsiders that a raw food diet is not as alien and strange as they might think it is, many raw foodies will go overboard with the meat recipes, adding cold smoked salmon to just about every dish in the hopes of appealing to those who might be frightened of a raw, meatless diet.

But truth be told, there are many more delicious food choices within a raw food diet, and a majority of them involve no meat at all. These plant based food recipes rely only on what can be grown and eaten raw, and as simple as that might sound, it can offer amazingly complex flavors and textures. And no, eating plant based recipes does not mean that all you are eating are salads.

A great example of an exciting raw plant based meal is a take on vegetarian sushi. To begin the meal, you might like to start with a light beverage that can be enjoyed with the meal. Rather than opting for traditional sake, you might consider lightly carbonated mint-infusion water. While the bottled stuff at the store can be quite pricey, you can make your own at home using fresh mint, ice water and an inexpensive home seltzer kit.

Traditional Japanese sushi is made with vinegar and rice, but the raw plant varieties are more of a sashimi style of presentation. Here, there is no rice, but just thinly sliced pieces of fish – or in this case, vegetables. You can create a very delicate and intricate plate of plant sashimi by thinly slicing fruits and veggies such as avocado and eggplant. Instead of using traditional soy sauce, you can use the raw variety found in many alternative grocery and health food stores, and of course, you can add some thinly sliced ginger to the plate for flavor. If you love the sinus-clearing kick of wasabi, you can make your own by grinding up fresh wasabi root. Try to avoid the premade pastes, many of which are not wasabi at all, but a mixture of horseradish, mustard, flavors and coloring agents.

For dessert with this fancy meal, you can create your own green tea iced dessert. While mass marketed green teas have already been dried and heated, you can find raw green tea leaves online or in some specialty grocery stores. Another option is to use matcha, which is a finely ground green tea powder made from sun-dried tea leaves. Either way, you can mix your green tea with frozen bananas in a food processor to create a fine but creamy dessert that will match the elegance of your main dish.

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3 Ways to Get Your 10 Servings a Day [how to get more fruits & vegetables]

June 7th, 2010

For years, you have heard about how you should be eating ten servings a day of fruits and vegetables in order to get the most out of your everyday diet.

But ten sounds like such a large number, especially when most of us only eat three meals a day. Where can we fit in those extra seven servings?

It is too much to snack that many times in a day, so many people simply dismiss the ten servings suggestion as a great idea – for someone else. Maybe professional athletes or fitness gurus can get to ten servings of raw foods a day, but not a normal person, right?

But what most people forget is that a serving is not a meal all by itself. A serving is simply one portion, which can be part of a meal along with many other portions. So eating ten servings of fruits and vegetables a day can be as simple as having three servings within each meal, with one small snack later on in the day.

For example, breakfast offers you plenty of opportunities to have more than one serving of fruit. You can have a banana for breakfast, along with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice, and a handful of blueberries. Or, if you are really in a rush, you can combine all three servings into a fresh morning smoothie. Combining some fresh greens like spinach in a food processor along with pears, apples or kiwis will give you a great meal you can drink on the go, and provide you with a great selection of your daily requirements of fresh raw foods.

At lunch, you can easily create a delicious salad that will give you at least three servings of fruit and vegetables. Rather than settling for a simple green salad, mix it up depending on the seasons. In winter, some sliced carrots will help to keep you full and satisfied; in spring, enjoy the first batch of peapods; in summer, cool things down with a mix of citrus fruit segments; and in the fall, you can use squash or avocado to give your salads some seasonal weight.

Dinnertime will allow you to be just as creative, and still get in a ton of fruits and vegetables. If you want, you can use a veggie as the main course – a squash can be eaten right out of the peel, or you can slice it out into a raw pasta. If you prefer to have a different type of main course, you can still use fruits and vegetables both on and beside the main item.

For example, if you have cold-smoked salmon, you can use citrus to further “cook” the fish, or you can wrap the fillet in thin slices of butternut squash. Beside it on the plate, you can have a fresh vegetable medley that will give you an extra serving. And of course, for dessert, a bowl of mixed berries, or a raw seasonal fruit tart should be enough to give you all ten servings of fruits and vegetables in a single day, without feeling like you have forced it.

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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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