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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

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Having a Smoothie Breakfast-Eating For Energy

October 9th, 2010

The start of a child’s day should be memorable. The foods he(she) starts with must do two specific things:

  1. The food choice should be a cleanser to help digestion early in the morning before going off to school or daycare.
  2. The food choice should be rich in vitamins and minerals to prepare and supply the “Energy” needed to sustain attention span throughout the morning.

Here is a smoothie Pierrette just invented and I was so excited about the taste I really needed to share it with all of you right now.

Serves 1:ingredients

1 cup of Red Grape juice

1/2 cup fresh(frozen) blueberriessmoothie bleu

1 whole banana

1 tablespoon ground flax seed

ice

water

Preparation:

Juice fresh Red Grapes in a juicer.

Add the juice and all other ingredients in a blender and add ice and water to the smoothness you like.

P.S. No added anything. This is just pure taste, natural healthy food. Easy to prepare and quick to get everyone off in the morning. Try it and tell Pierrette & I what you think.

P.S.S. Here is a new one to add to your collection Yuri.

Eating For Energy has many other great ideas for you and the whole family. Get it today.

Thanks

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

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

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Why Eat a Raw Diet?

April 8th, 2010

“Why don’t you go raw?”

You might have had this asked of you at some point, if you have been talking to people about some of the new and innovative diet plans out there today. A raw diet plan has been gaining traction lately as far as popularity, and that has led some people to dismiss it as just another silly fad diet.

But hold your horses – this is not another quick weight loss miracle plan. If you take the time to really look, you will find that eating raw can offer you a lot of benefits. It is not always the easiest diet plan to follow, but the best things in life often require a little bit of hard work.

So, why go raw?

There are all sorts of benefits to consuming less cooked foods. For one, when you cook many of the foods we eat today, you leach away a lot of the benefits that your body could really use.

With vegetables, common cooking practices often include steaming or boiling, both of which pull out valuable nutrients and vitamins, leaving you with soggy, mushy carrots that are not nearly as useful or nutritious as they were before they hit the heat.

By cooking, you are also killing off the natural living enzymes in many foods – enzymes that can help with healthy digestion and processing of food within your body. Without those additional sources of enzymes, your body has to work hard to process, digest and pass foods, and often does a poorer job of it, meaning that what few nutrients are left in food are sometimes not fully absorbed by your body.

Another example of the killing power of cooking is milk products. These days, every milk product you can buy in the store – milk, cheese, and yogurt – has gone through a pasteurization process, killing off all of the bacteria in the milk. While this does protect you against the bad bacteria, it also destroys the good bacteria that can help your body.

Want proof?

Look at the new trend in yogurt – adding back in certain active bacterial cultures in order to benefit your overall health. Without pasteurization, those bacteria wouldn’t have to be added in – they would already be there.

So, how do you go raw? The best way to get into the groove with raw foods is to add them slowly, and little by little, remove the cooked items from your diet. Start off by substituting your side dishes at meals with raw items – cold raw soups, fresh salads or mixed vegetables instead of the usual hot items. Then, once your body begins to get used to these new sources of vitamins and nutrients, you can replace a meal a day with a raw alternative.

Breakfast is often the best place to start, as a smoothie for breakfast can really get your day going. Again, small steps are the best, and before you know it, you will be eating nothing but raw foods, and feeling great for it. And not only that, you will be able to sustain that sort of eating plan for the long term.

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Benefits of Eating More Raw Foods

April 5th, 2010

There are plenty of very good reasons to make the switch to a higher concentration of raw foods in your diet. Ideally, of course, you would make the switch to an all-raw diet if eating for energy was your main priority in life. However, sometimes life gets in the way of your ideal eating goals.

But when you feel yourself wavering between a healthy raw option and that processed chocolate bar at snack time, here’s a few thoughts you can review in your mind to remind yourself of why you chose to eat more raw foods in the first place.

Raw foods take less preparation time. Sure, it might not seem like it at time, but overall, a raw diet means you spend a lot less time in the kitchen, and a lot more time out enjoying your life. No longer will you have to baste roasts, cook pasta, thaw turkeys, or wait for water to boil. A raw diet means, at most, you have to put something in the dehydrator overnight. Otherwise, it’s a few minutes of prep time, and straight onto the plate.

Eating raw also means less energy waste, both in your home and in your body. Cooking foods means electricity-hogging appliances like your stove are used, spilling excess heat into your home and adding big bucks to your bills.

But while eating raw means less energy used, it is also a high energy diet for you, in that the essential vitamins, nutrients and living enzymes in the food that sometimes are lost to the cooking process are instead brought into the body. You will probably notice, almost immediately after you begin eating more raw foods that you will have energy levels you haven’t felt since you were much younger. You won’t believe how tired and sluggish you used to feel, and it is that feeling of power, energy and vitality that you need to remember when you feel your will power slipping, and the lure of something cooked and unhealthy beaconing to you.

What other reasons do you need to keep yourself on the raw foods straight and narrow path? Eating for energy in its raw form means you will be taking in more fibre, which will aide in digestion and help you to feel full on less food.

Eating raw also usually means an intake of fewer calories, but more good calories. Many people try to lose weight by simply cutting calories, but in the end, their body craves the energy. Eating raw doesn’t deprive the body, it floods it with good fuel, and encourages the body to become a more high-powered and efficient machine in the process.

A diet high in raw foods will, by its very nature, have less processed sugar than the average person’s diet. But with all of the fresh fruits available, you will never have to deny your sweet tooth.

In the end, when you make the change to eat more raw foods, the biggest benefit will be the higher levels of energy, and how good overall you will feel. Can a moment on the lips replace that? Fat chance.

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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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