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Eating For Energy-Don’t Give Up-Try,Try Again

October 18th, 2010

Eating For Energy-Don’t Give Up-Try,Try,Again

Changing your lifestyle can be more complicated than it seems. Being discouraged and dumbfounded at the taste of fruit and vegetable juices will seem weird at first. Your taste buds will adjust.

Listen to the Yuri videos as he talks a lot about this subject. The beauty of Eating For Energy is that you have a whole staff of people ready to answer all your questions. Where else can you find all this info in a package like this?

Apples and carrots help to sweeten most drinks and will help in the transition. Try beets also in your vegetable juices. Combined with apples, carrots, Bok Choy(Chinese cabbage) and other incredible ingredients,the taste will amaze you.

Attitude is the #1 ingredient

More than anything I believe your attitude towards being in Perfect Health is the most important ingredient. Fruits and vegetables cost a fraction of what processed foods do. If you do not believe that, then your mind is not focused on being healthy. Being positive about how important you are worth make many foods taste better. Assume that foods taste awful and you know what, they usually do.

I often had to fight with Pierrette about buying certain fruits and vegetables. Bananas at 69 cents a pound seemed incredible. How much are you paying for a pound of steak? All the health questions are in your mind. What price is “health” at today? Any idea what your health is worth?

Eating For Energy-Don’t Give Up-Try,Try Again

Desire is the #2 ingredient

How badly do you want this?
How many times have you tried to gain control and failed?
What are the benefits of being in Perfect health, just for you, not your family and friends?

Taking action is the #3 ingredient

How often have you visited this blog and not taken action?
How often have you pulled out the juicer, and just put it back in the box or hidden it in the cupboard?
How often have you told yourself you are “sick and tired” and just melted back to your old ways?

Eating For Energy is just a beginning. Try, try again is the key that opens your mind to new heights.Give it a try for real. Leave nothing on the table. Play this health game till you feel the best you ever have.

Become Passionate about “You”. I did and I am so Passionate about sharing it with you all.

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

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

Buy Eating For Energy today.

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Tags: eating for energy Fruits And Vegetables green juices green smoothie Raw Foods Weight Loss

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 stalks 17beaae153660e6a_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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Tags: digestion digestive enzymes green juices minerals nutrients

New Additions To My Kitchen

August 28th, 2010

H2O aka Water

I finally purchased a water filtration system a few weekends ago.

One of the reasons I held off buying this was price. The model online I was looking at was very expensive, but this was something I didn’t want to compromise on since I would have it for a long time and would be using it everyday. Thankfully I found a reasonably priced one at a local health food store. It has everything I was looking for. It:

Filters unwanted chemicals like chlorine
Mineralises the water
Alkalizes the water
Is a countertop model
Requires simple maintenance

I really wanted to purchase some litmus paper and test the PH blanace of the filtered water compared to my tap water and show you guys in the photo, but do you think I could find any? Alas, it was not meant to be, so for now I’m just going to have to trust the claim that it alkalizes my water.

The second reason I delayed this purchase was that my tap water tastes good. Taste wise, I don’t notice any difference between the two. I know in the larger cities the tap water tastes awful, and I can’t even stand to brush my teeth with it, but where I live it tastes clean. But because I know it still has bad things like chlorine in it (even if I don’t notice) I bought the filtration system, and if nothing else, it makes me feel better.

Juicing

Another purchase I recently made was a food emulsifier. I liked it because I could make both smoothies and juices without any waste. Well, my first attempt at making a juice was a disaster, and I’ve discovered there is a definite learning curve to using this thing.

The emulsifier works differently than a juicer in that you put the whole vegetable in and it pulverizes it into a liquid. Following Yuri’s recipe for Green Revolution, the result was a thick goopy mess, so I added some water to thin it out. Then I added more water and ran it for several minutes. It worked, except the friction from the blade heated the juice! Trust me, warm green juice isn’t the greatest. So I put it in the fridge (the entire jug full) and let it cool.

The end result: I still didn’t like it (Sorry, Yuri.) I did drink most of it because I committed so much food to its making and I knew it was good for me, but never again. My emulsifier also sat unused for a week.

The next weekend I tried something simpler: kale, spinach and an apple. I also added water right from the start and didn’t run it as long. This time, I like what I got – a green juice that tastes like apple. I haven’t used it again, but I hope to utilize it more in the future and make yummy smoothies and juices to drink.

I bought some frozen berries to make some “ice-cream” instead of using frozen bananas. I’m looking forward to it.

Nichole

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Tags: alkalinity green juices water water filtration system

Raw Diet Recipes – Great Tasting Simple Nutrition

April 3rd, 2010

If you remember a few years ago, there was a very effective advertising campaign for a beer company, debating what the key quality was that drew in their consumers. Was it the great taste, or the fact that the beer was less filling? There was no clear answer, no definitive winner.

And while you would usually be at a loss as to what a mass-produced beer and a healthy raw diet might have in common, this is one instance where a similar argument can be made for both.

With a raw diet, there are two key reasons to forgo the cooked foods, and move towards a diet rich in vitamins, nutrients and fresh foods. Raw foods taste great! No, raw foods offer better nutrition! Both are right, and both draw a different group of people to the raw food diet.

Sure, raw foods taste great. Raw food recipes use plenty of fresh, ripe produce that is full of its own flavors – so much so, that you rarely need the salts and sugars that you might otherwise add to your cooking to give an extra dimension of taste.

Take, for instance, those fresh green smoothie recipes that you have heard so much about. While the average grocery store purchased smoothie might be full of sugars, preservatives and other chemicals in order to enhance the long-dead and diluted tastes, a fresh smoothie recipe reads more like a haiku. No long list of additives and other outside influences on flavor. Instead, it’s a few simple ingredients that will taste that much better.

This is great, especially if you have children and you want to set a good example for them by eating healthy, and providing them a tasty way to follow in your footsteps. After all, if you make the healthy option a delicious one, it makes the raw food diet a lot easier to stick with.

On the other side of the coin, those easy raw food recipes are more than just crowd pleasers for taste. The vitamins and nutrients that you find in the average raw food diet are going to be several powers higher than a similar cooked food item.

A great example of this is broccoli. Most people eat their broccoli cooked, which means boiling it in a pot of water, and then covering it with melted cheese to make it somewhat palatable. But if you skip the scalding, and eat your broccoli raw, you will find a lot more than better flavors. You will find that the vitamins A, C and K that you hear so much about will actually stay on your food, not get leached out in the cooking pot. On top of that, the natural levels of glucoraphanin in your broccoli will be closer to what the studies tell you should be there, helping to create sulforaphane in the body to help fight cancer. And don’t forget about the iron, calcium, magnesium and other minerals that will stay on your broccoli, and get into your body when you consume it raw.

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3 Easy Ways to Boost Your Immunity

November 4th, 2009

Since beginning our soccer season just 4 months ago, I’ve been amazed at how many of our players have been sick. Now I’m not talking about H1N1 (at least I don’t that’s what’s going on) but instead the common cold and even flu.

One of the reasons these kinds of sicknesses can spread so easily within a sports team is that the guys spend a lot of time together, they shake hands and don’t follow proper hand washing protocols, possibly share water bottles, and don’t necessarily eat the healthiest of diets.

After all, they are university students.

So if you find yourself in a similar situation or know someone who is, then the following 3 tips to boosting your immunity will help.

Before we get into the specifics, I want you to consider your overall diet. If you eat a whole foods diet (preferably raw) then you are already providing tremendous immune support – via good nutrition.

However, the poorer your diet, the weaker your immune system and the more susceptible you will be to getting sick.

Look at it this way…

Food can be a form of physical stress to your body. Eat the wrong foods and you increase the stress load, which in turn taxes your immune system even more.

But eat the right foods and you provide the nutrients and stress-free environment for your immune system to focus on more important issues.

Alright, so now let’s look these 3 easy ways to boost your immunity so you can prevent getting sick or get over a cold if you already have one.

1. Alkalize and Oxygenate Your Body

When you think alkalinity, think oxygenation. Alkalinity brings more oxygen into your body. The reason it is important to alkalize and oxygenate your body is that “unfriendly” micro-organisms do not flourish in oxygen-rich environments.

For instance, cancer has been shown to flourish in acidic, oxygen-deprivated tissues, yet will literally die off when exposed to high oxygen environments inside the body. That’s why one of the most important things you can do to prevent (and treat) cancer is drink (and eat) lots of greens – which are the highest source of alkalinity on the planet. It’s actually too bad that the medical establishment doesn’t even know about the power of greens for improving the vitality of the human body.

Some of my favourite strategies for alkalizing my body (and those of my clients) are the following:

- green juices (my favourite contains kale, celery, cucumber, parsley, lemon, ginger, and apple)
- green smoothies (one of my favourites has spinach, spirulina, apple, banana, and lime juice)
- wheat grass shots (just 1 oz has the nutritional value of 2 lbs of vegetables)
- barley grass powder added to water (very similar properties as wheat grass)
- lemon water throughout the day

All of these nutritional strategies will add tremendous alkalinity (ie. alkalizing minerals such calcium, potassium, magnesium) to your body and create an internal physiology that strengthens your immune system and prevents bacteria, viruses, and other nasty critters from spreading!

2. Avoid Refined Sugar

This is an important one. Entire books have been written on the body-decaying effects that sugar brings about. From an immune system perspective, it has been shown that as little as 1 tablespoon of refined sugar can depress your immune system for up to 6 hrs! Moreover, sugar curtails the action of the immune system’s lymphocytes and other “foreign invader-killing” cells.

If you want to avoid getting sick and want to skyrocket your health, minimizing or avoiding refined sugars may be one of the most important things you do.

3. Fortify Your Defenses with Natural Immune Boosters

I’m not a fan of antibiotics – not by a long shot. They actually create more sickness (or business) for the health care system to deal with.

In order to avoid having to use them, you need to eat a clean whole foods diet (preferably a raw diet) and you can further boost your defenses with the following natural weapons:

Garlic – it’s active ingredient – allicin – is an incredible natural “anti-everything” will fend off bacteria, viruses, fungi, and much more.

Oregano oil – wow! If there’s one thing you need in your medicine cabinet it’s this powerful essential oil. Anytime you feel any kind of cold coming on, just drink 1-2 drops of oregano oil with 1 oz of water a few times a day and you’ll be feeling in no time. Oregano oil also kills off the unwanted yeast – candida albicans!

Probiotics – Having good bacteria to balance out the 400 different types of mico-organisms in your colon will definitely support your immune system. Your best source will come from supplementation but naturally fermented foods and drinks like miso, sauerkraut, and kombucha are also good food-based sources.

Not only are these tips great for builing your immune system but they will obviously create a strong foundation for great health.

Considering the spread of H1N1 and how many unhealthy people there are, you need to fortify your defenses – naturally!

To give you some more helpful tips, you can watch this video I put together on natural cold remedies about a year ago. Enjoy!

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