The Raw Food Solution

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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 [...]

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This is a great smoothie to reduce the symptoms of PMS. Oranges are known to improve the health of the blood vessels of the uterus. Spinach is a great source of magnesium which helps to reduce muscle cramps. Cinnamon helps to keep the blood sugar levels stable to reduce cravings for carbohydrate foods.

If you choose to add the optional bee pollen this will give you an extra boost of B vitamins to help you cope with stress and alleviate depression.

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