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by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com
Continuing our 15-part article series called Heal Yourself in 15 Days, today we
focus on cleansing your digestive tract and energizing your cellular energy with the
help of some living foods. This is in preparation for part six in the series, which we'll
get to tomorrow.
Here's the cool part about this: You don't need a juicer to do this step. All you really
need is a blender and a nut milk bag (a fine mesh bag used to squeeze out the
juice). Of course, a proper juicer really helps, but it's not required. Below, I'm going
to give you an absolutely delicious live foods juicing recipe that I think you'll really
enjoy. I'm using special ingredients in this juice that help mask the more bland
tastes of the green ingredients, so even if you've tried fresh living juices in the past
and didn't like them, check out what you'll read below...
Raw living foods offer one of the greatest secrets to disease reversal and lasting
health, and nothing beats fresh living foods right out of the garden. So if you can
grow any of your own ingredients for this when Spring comes around, definitely
make an effort to do so. Otherwise, buy them at a store or farmer's market.
Here's what you'll need (always choose organic):
• 1 container of Blackberries (use all the blackberries)
• 1 bunch of Parsley (use all the parsley)
• 1 bunch of Kale (only use 2-3 large leaves in this recipe)
• 1 bag of Carrots (only use 3 large carrots for this recipe)
• 1 bunch of Celery (use 2-3 stalks for this recipe)
• 2 Pears (use both pears)
If you can't find these ingredients, substitute something close. It's crucial to have
some berries in the mix, however. They are part of the recipe for making it all taste
good.
After proper preparation (washing, etc.), push all these ingredients through a juicer
to generate the fresh juice. If you only have a blender, then blend all these
ingredients with water, then pour the juice into a nut milk bag and squeeze out the
juice from that. With either method, you'll end up with a container of fresh juice.
This juice will be extremely potent, so mix this with water (add an equal amount of
water to the juice). You may also wish to add some stevia if you'd like to sweeten up
the taste a bit.
Health benefits of the fresh living juice
• The blackberries will mask the bitter tastes of the other ingredients with their
acidity. This acidity greatly improves the overall taste of the recipe. It also improves
digestion of the minerals in the vegetables (you need an acidic digestive
environment to absorb minerals).
• Blackberries also have a powerful anti-cancer effect through your entire digestive
tract, from your mouth and gums down through your colon.
• Parsley is a super digestive cleanser. It will help eliminate toxins while providing
your body with a burst of chlorophyll that will help cleanse your blood and liver.
• Kale is a potent anti-cancer vegetable. It also contains healthy plant-based
proteins and healing phytonutrients.
• The carrots are used primarily as a sweetener here (they really do sweeten up the
juice), and they also contain a wide assortment of beneficial nutrients, most notably
beta carotene (from which carrots get their name).
• The pears are the sweeteners here. I find that pear juice tastes much better than
apple juice in these raw living juices, but of course it's your choice of what's best for
you. If you're diabetic or want to reduce the sugars in this recipe, reduce the
numbers of pears to just one or eliminate them altogether (when I juice here in
Ecuador, I don't use pears at all. I just use carrots.) Some people prefer to use
oranges instead of pears. The tart taste of the oranges in some ways provides a
better overall taste. Try the recipe both ways and see what you like best.
In addition to all the benefits listed above, these foods are alive with nutrients and
energies. They are live foods, not dead processed foods, and they provide both the
nutrients and the energies of life! It's a simple concept, really: If you want to stay
alive, eat more living foods. If you want to be dead, eat more dead foods.
Your body will thank you
The point of today's living foods juice is to both introduce you to the joy of juicing (if
you don't already know about it), and to prepare your digestive tract for tomorrow's
action item.
How much juice should you drink? Just drink whatever amount you feel comfortable
with. I recommend an 8 oz. glass of this juice at minimum, but if you only feel like
drinking half that much, that's fine, too. Some people will drink as much as 64
ounces of fresh juice in a day! (Juice Feasting)
For the purposes of this 15-day experience you can still eat all your other normal
food during the day. This isn't about eliminating everything else, it's about adding
some fresh, living juice to your day. Ideally, you'll make this a regular part of your
diet because whatever your diet consists of -- whether it's pure vegan or based on
McDonald's cheeseburgers -- it will be helped by adding several ounces of fresh
juice.
Pointers and shortcuts
Don't have time to make your own fresh juice? There are shortcuts, but none of
them are as good as actual living fresh juice.
You can, if you wish, consume juice from a superfood powder such as EnerFood,
VitaMineral Green, Boku Superfood, Delicious Greens or others. These are all
reasonable alternatives to fresh juice, but by their very nature they are not as fresh
as living foods would be.
Do NOT reach for a Naked Juice, or Odwalla juice and make the mistake of thinking
they are fresh living juices. All of those juices are DEAD, pasteurized juices made
by the big soft drink companies (Coke and Pepsi). None of them are fresh, raw and
alive. They still have nutritional benefits, so I'm not saying they're worthless, but they
pale in comparison to fresh, raw juices that you make at home.
You can drink this juice between meals, or during a meal, or any time you want.
Just drink it quickly after making it, because fresh juice oxidizes in mere minutes.
The nutritional quality of the fresh juice you make literally starts to degrade with
each passing second. Ideally, start to consume it within two minutes of juicing it,
and finish it in no more than five.
You may feel some "detox" side effects from this juice, especially if you currently
pursue a relatively unhealthful diet. But they should be mild. After all, this is just
simple juice from simple foods. These aren't drugs or extracts. They are the foods
your body was meant to consume.
By the way, I'm not here to push a vegan diet or a vegetarian diet on you. Decide to
eat whatever you wish to eat, for your own reasons. Just add this fresh juice to your
day and see what happens for yourself. Even if you gobble down pepperoni pizza
and diet soda, these fresh juices will improve your health results in a noticeable
way.
In case you're curious, I drink about 16 ounces of this fresh juice each day, right
from my own garden. Except I don't use the pears, and I add in fresh aloe vera gel
from fresh leaves that I grow myself here in Ecuador. I grow all my own fresh
berries, kale, carrots, parsley, broccoli, cucumbers and more, and these go right
into my juice.
Just so you know how powerful this is, I just finished a 90-hour fast. Aside from a
raw coconut food bar a friend gave me, I didn't eat any solid food for 90 hours. I did,
however, drink one glass of fresh, living vegetable juice each day.
If I had been consuming a junk food diet, my energy would have collapsed within
the first 24 hours. I would have been dead tired, detoxing in bed and probably
suffering through it all. But because my daily diet is so clean, I was able to eat
virtually nothing for nearly four days and still have the energy to write these articles,
to go hiking up the mountains behind my house and generally get along with a
normal day. (Yes, it got difficult on the fourth day, which is why I ended the fast at 90
hours.)
Fresh living juice is such a powerhouse of nutrition and energy that even when you
eat virtually nothing for several days in a row, the juice you had before the fast
keeps you alive, healthy and energetic. That's been my experience, at least.
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