the raw food solution

On rising, drink a glass of water with the juice of 1/2 lemon. It will cleanse your palate, and get your digestion system off to a great start.
Start your day with a juice… just fruit, just veggies, or both fruits and veggies.You will feel the difference!
Fruits have the highest percentage of vitamins per [...]

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Most people are aware that our bodies require enzymes to digest food and raw foods contain enough naturally occurring enzymes to digest each particular food. When foods are cooked at temperatures higher than 118 degrees, these natural enzymes begin to denature and die, which places [...]

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This is a great introduction to green smoothies. The amount of spinach suggested is a recommended starting point so try adding as much as you can.

If your mangoes are really ripe and juicy you may be surprised just how much spinach you can add to this without compromising the sweet flavor.

I also enjoy this [...]

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Arugula has a very strong flavor, which relates to its beneficial effects on stimulating the flow of bile from the gall bladder. It’s sharp taste makes it challenging to use in green smoothies but mango offers the necessary sweetness to balance the flavors, while simultaneously providing a generous amount of beta [...]

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By Becki Andrus

We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, are you eating the right types of food to start your day right? The nutrients that you get from breakfast is what is supposed to help your body stay energized for the rest of the day. [...]

How can you make a healthy green smoothie even more healthy? Just add a handful of chia seeds, nature’s complete superfood. Not only will these protein-packed grains turn your green smoothie into a powerfood, they won’t affect the taste at all!

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This smoothie recipe is a twist on my favourite classic green smoothie of mango and spinach. This one, which makes about 3 pints, has a much “deeper” flavour with many layers and really is something quite special. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 bag spinach
1 cup pure water
1 ripe mango (medium sized)
1/4 ripe pineapple [...]

In this article, Victoria Boutenko shares on raw food challenges and green revelations. Victoria Boutenko is part of a raw food family and is the author of Green Smoothies and Green for Life.

Victoria: Since going raw then we began to feel better and better and better. But interesting shift in our lifestyle was seven years [...]

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It’s in the newspaper, on TV and over the Internet: if you want to reduce your risk of developing various diseases, you need to eat more raw food. You know you should, but your conception of raw food is a bunch of lettuce and maybe a carrot stick, and you [...]

Dietary adjustment can be a powerful tool to reduce the impact of aging on the body. Here are just a few of the ways that you can prevent aging with a healthy diet.