Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson

I'm often asked the one thing that can be done right away to improve health & begin feeling better. Green smoothies & vegetable juices, I cheer!

Start each day with a green smoothie (or alternate swapping out lunch or dinner for one) & you will be amazed at the positive lifestyle shift that you'll notice right away: improved elimination, less cravings, and more energy, for starters. Best of all, you'll be getting such large amounts of nutrition from that smooth, sweet delicious drink ... as it's quite a challenge chewing all those veggies & fruits in their original whole food state, as yummy as they are.


AHH, CONSIDER THIS!

Every day, we have a certain number of opportunities to get our daily nutrition when we (hopefully) sit down consciously for the meals throughout our day. During all our waking hours, our body expects us to make choices that will nourish it.

Yet it's impossible to get everything we need, everyday. Our greens, our grains, our fats, our carbs, our proteins. Balancing the acidic/alkaline in our body. Add in what our left brain tells us (logic, science), compared to what our right brain tells us (intuition, emotion); contractive vs. contractive (yin/yang) foods; superfoods (goji, acai, algaes); sea vegetables (dulse, hiziki) ... and allergies, cravings, preferences, and accessibility. Yikes!

How can one person identify, balance, & manage to give our bodies everything it needs, everyday? It's easy to feel we lost the race before we even begin.

Okay, lean in closer. When we eat, we take the outside world & put it into our body. Every moment we open our mouth to let something in, 1 of 2 things can happen: (1) If the food has LIFE to offer (nourishment), it brings US life; or (2) If the stuff we're eating is only for pleasure/taste/convenience and lacks LIFE (processed, fake, chemicals), then we're just using our tongues to enjoy that moment-second taste, and our organs as a garbage disposal to flush it out. Long term, this will help to determine the length & quality of this lifetime.

Think about that! A whole food is where LIFE is. Eating whole foods is the flat-out best way to add to the life growing (or ailing) inside of you. We can't eat 3 pounds of veggies for breakfast but we can positively drink it!


(By the way, my biggest fave are leafy greens! They are packed with nutrition & are a great source of non-dairy calcium, magnesium, and Vitamin C. They are loaded with antioxidants & vitamins; and they contain carotenoids that may help protect against macular degeneration, and folate to guard against heart disease & cancer. This excites me!)

Many smoothie-tryers have shared with me their dislike for the 'chunks' or 'chews' they find in thier smoothies. It's true, some store-bought blenders pose this challenge because of their low-speeds. Don't give up though! Do what you can, with what you have, and I promise you will benefit more every day, and in the long run, than if you didn't. (This advice is for more than just smoothies!)

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VITA-MIX & BLENDTEC
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  • Vita-Mix 5200 is bigger, having a more heavy-duty & industrial feel than the Blendtec Total Blender.
  • Both blenders now come with BPA-Free Copolyester containers.
  • Vita-Mix has the industry's best warranty for a complete 7 years full use, while the Blendtec warranty offers 3 years limited on the motor & pitcher and lifetime on the blade. Both companies are known for honoring their warranties without hassle.
  • Vita-Mix offers complete manual control over your blending pleasure with its' variable speed dial, in addition to a Hi/Lo switch. It also comes with a tamper to assist in blending solid & whole (uncut) foods. The tamper is not needed for most applications but is extremely helpful in making frozen entrees, nut butters, & thick puddings. With the Blendtec, large items need to be cut-up (or additional liquid is needed) to get the more solid entrees to blend completely.
  • Blendtec allows you to push a button & walk away while it runs through a hands-free automatic program cycle that stops when completed. Blendtec will automatically shut off after a maximum of 50 seconds of continuous blending, while the Vita-Mix will continue to run until manually shut off or until the thermal protection kicks in to keep it from overheating.
  • Both Vita-Mix and Blendtec process food sufficiently to break down plant cell walls resulting in better nutrition.
  • Blendtec boasts one blade that does it all (both wet & dry), while Vita-Mix comes with a 'wet blade' container & offers a separate 'dry blade' container.
  • While both the Vita-Mix and Blendtec make gorgeous tasting smoothies, they are not traditional juicers. Instead, they make 'whole food' juices. The benefit of a Juicer is that is auto-extracts the liquid from whole foods (separating out the fiber). Blenders high-speed process so the fiber remains intact in the ingredients. If you really want to make juice in your Vita-Mix or Blendtec, you need to take an extra step after blending: you can strain the whole food juice to remove the fiber by using a cheesecloth or a nut milk bag.

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