I strongly feel that it isn’t too far off to suggest that having just green smoothies can easily offer virtually everything that your body requires to maintain health. Shy of just Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D, I feel, these beverages supply it all (yes, even protein). This biggest issue for me when I started off on the smoothies were the unhealthy cravings. Learn how I conquered them forever.
I’d like to start by stating that the contents of this article merely my opinion based on the information I have read regarding health and from more than a decade of eating and living the way I have on a daily basis. Couple that with my blood work results every 6 months which indicates zero deficiencies, I think that this information is valid. Perhaps it works just for me, my body type and genetics, I can’t say for certain. However, just like smoking cigarettes will have an affect on each one of us with various degrees of health negatives, the green smoothie diet, I feel, will have an affect on each one of us with various degrees of health positives. Try it and see, after you speak with your natural, or other, health practitioner first of course.
The body is designed to heal itself right? Why are people always sick then? Maybe it’s an inaccurate statement, and the body is not equipped to heal itself? No! The trouble is that men and women a) don’t provide the body with the sufficient amount of tools, usually in terms of food intake, it requires to become whole again and b) we bombard it with things that hinder the operation of the limited number of essential resources that we do give it.
I’m a huge admirer of the raw food lifestyle. The suggestion that adding heat to foods over and above a certain temperature destroying much needed enzymes that are important for digestion makes sense to me. Beyond that, it is advised that to get the most out of our foods we should masticate it until it’s completely liquefied. Our body has troubles digesting big morsels of food. Also, I feel that men women and children can survive with a a diet of largely fruits and dark green leafy vegetables, with of course some healthy fats. For the healthy fats, avocados, soaked nuts and seeds is all I consume.
The main foods I have each an every day are composed of lots of raw fruits and greens in the form of green smoothies. Being mostly liquid, my body has no issues assimilating the nutrients.
A giant hurdle for some people when changing the way they eat, and a huge one for me is the unhealthy cravings. Like a person addicted to alcohol or drugs must go through a detox so they can heal, we pretty much have to do a similar thing. Our cells are comprised of stuff from foods that we have eaten in the past. The body usually craves much of the same unhealthy foods that contribute to the contents of each of the sick cells in our bodies. With a drug detox, many times, sauna therapy is used to sweat the drugs out of the system. That generally helps eliminate the physical cravings allowing the individual a better chance of remaining sober. For us, adjusting our eating habits may induce the clearing of toxic foods as well which can be quickly removed in stool, perspiration and our pee. However, we still might having cravings for those foods while some of the contaminants in our cells are still present.
I, myself, have found that quickly after having the first drink of my green smoothie the cravings for greasy foods, meat, sweets, salt, etc started to subside. After I was finished drinking the smoothie, the cravings disappeared completely and I would be content. The issue then was that the cravings would come back as I grew hungry. So I started to make certain I was on top of it and would have another green smoothie prepared before the cravings would reoccur, or not too long after they started. The cravings in the end subsided for good as I cleaned out my body. After that I began to crave greens instead!
The question I have now is, do you plan to remain unhealthy with extra pounds or would you like to think about an improved diet giving your body all its required nutrition?
Learn more about green smoothies, go check out this free resource -> Green Smoothie Start-Up Guide.
I talk more about health and raw foods on my blog here: http://rawfoodhealthwatch.com and Ezine account here.
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