Gratitude Weekend: Celebrate Your Health with Raw Food Recipes and Health Enhancing Resources
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So this year, I decided to offer a “Gratitude Weekend” sale, filled with very special offers of products and services to empower you to be healthy and vibrant throughout the holiday season. The average person gains extra pounds of fat during this season, because food surrounds us at every turn. Yesterday, as I watched my relatives consume processed, nutrient depleted, and dangerous to their health foods without thought about how it affects their “bottom line”, I started thinking about ways to reach the masses with the message that their food choices are hurting them. Read on for details of my “Gratitude Weekend” sale. You’ll see 5 special sales! Enjoy these special offers through the end of the weekend. Order Today and Win!
Gratitude Weekend Specials:
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Raw Food Recipe: Hot Mama Green Drink
The more recipes you know for green smoothies, the more your tastebuds will learn to crave variation and variety. Eating a variety of greens means you benefit from the unique mineral combinations in each type of green. This particular green smoothie recipe contains a mix of greens you’ll find readily available in most large supermarkets in pre-packaged containers, making it easy for anyone with little time for shopping or seeking out a farmer’s market.
The recipe here is an adaptation of one in my Green Smoothie Cleanse.
| Raw Food Recipe: Hot Mama Green Drink |
- 1/2 pound baby arugula
- 1/2 pound spinach and spring mix blend
- 3 – 4 cups water
- 1 large piece fresh ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/4 teaspoon kelp powder
- Place all ingredients in blender.
- Blend until smooth. Thin with water if desired and blend again.
Adapted from a recipe in my Green Cleanse Recipe Guide available at http://www.GreenSmoothieCleanse.com
Tags: arugula, Green Cleanse, green drink, green smoothie recipe, Green Smoothies, greens, raw food recipe
Posted in Cleansing Programs, Green Smoothies, Raw Food Recipes, Raw Foods
Green Smoothie Cleansing for Combatting Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia
Green Smoothie Cleansing is easy, affordable and very effective if you suffer from low energy, chronic fatigue, aches and pains and even fibromyalgia.
Here are just a few of the results we’ve seen this week:
- My fibro pain has lessened.
- I feel better physically, emotionally and spiritually.
- I have more energy
- I have lost some weight and hope to continue losing
- I feel better and hope to continue with this.
- I feel like I am not stuck anymore and am finally changing!
- The blockage is gone.
- My food cravings are gone.
- I do feel a sense of accomplishment and that I can keep learning and growing and healing.
- I still have trouble falling asleep- but do wake up ready for the day and with a feeling of gratiitude.
- My stress level is less
- no drippy nose; the chronic mucus is gone.
- I feel comfortable in my body now.
- My senses are more acute (except for my eyes; they seem to be a bit blurry still).
- My allergies are clearing up. I don’t have as much mucus/ sneezing.
- Lost about 4 lbs
- Less aches in my body.
- My energy level is improving.
- The fat around my middle has decreased.
- My congestion is gone.
- The ache in my shoulder that has been nagging me since January is gone.
- I am peaceful, calm and joyful.
- My energy is through the roof.
- My mind is clear and focused.
- I am sleeping like a baby and waking up with ease.
These are taken form the participants journals. I’ve enjoyed watching their progress.
We repeat the Green Smoothie Cleanse as a group every 3 months. The materials and support are avaialble to do the program on your own as often as possible. The newest feature we added recently is onlien pre and post cleanse assessments and daily online journals. It helps me offer more personalized support.
Here are a few delicious recipes submitted by one of our participants.
“Orange Sunrise”
1 cup frozen mango
1 cup frozen mixed fruit
4 medium oranges
4 cups spinach
1 tsp whole vanilla bean powder
“Swiss Garden Soup”
3 tomatoes
1 english cucumber
4 cups red swiss chard
Juice of 1 lemon
1 garlic clove
1/8 tsp cayenne
1 tsp spirulina
“Garden of Eden Smoothie”
1 cup papaya
1 cup frz mango
1 cup frz mixed fruit
4 cups spinach
3 celery stalks
2 medium oranges
1 tsp dried mint or handful fresh
1 lemon juiced
1 Granny Smith Apple w/ Skin (Organic)
1 ginger nub
Enjoy these recipes. For more information about Green Smotohie Cleansing, visit
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Posted in Adrenal Fatigue, Cleansing Programs, Fatigue Treatment, Green Smoothies, Raw and Living Foods
Green Cleansing Programs for Jumpstarting Low Energy
We started the mini green cleansing program today. Actually, I started Tuesday evening. No meals, just green smoothies. Not only does it save time on meal preparation and cleanup, but it dramatically decreases the time spent eating. For me, that means increased productivity and more time for fun. And it’s the perfect cure for low energy.
I announced the “DrRitamarie ‘sMini Green Cleanse” Tuesday morning and by evening over 120 people had signed up. By this afternoon we had almost 150 participants.
I usually lead 7 day cleanses, but I’d been thinking about offering a 3 and 5 day option as well. I think it gives people a good way to start out.
Next year, I’ll be offering a one month coaching program to guide you to give your diet a Green Lift. It will guide gently through diet changes and have a 7 day green cleanse in the middle. That way, you’ll be able to ease in and are less likely to experience the uncomfortable cleansing reactions that are sometimes experienced by participants.
So just what is a Green Cleanse and what exactly are we cleansing?
I’ll post more on that later. But now, I need to sign-off and get some sleep.
Oh, I almost forgot. If you’d like more information on Green Smoothies, I have good news for you. Victoria Boutenko, author of Green For Life,has a very special offer on her book “Green For Life”
She would like to see as many people benefit from green smoothies as possible so she’s offering her bestselling book Green for Life at a 5o% disc0unt from now till December 25th, 2008.
In addition, she will match every purchase of Green for Life one to one with a book donation to Relay For Life, a charitable organization for cancer survivors.
By buying Green for Life for yourself and your loved ones you’ll also be providing copies of this book to cancer survivors.
It’s a great price: Green for Life for only $7.59 a copy and for each copy you buy, a copy will be donated to a cancer survivor. (expir@s 12/25/08)
Order Victoria Boutenko’s fabulous book on Green Smoothies at
http://snipurl.com/greenforlife
For 24 hours there’s an interview with Victoria Boutenko and Kevin Gianni at
http://renegaderoundtable.com/victoria/index-main.php
Love and Health,
Dr. Ritamarie
Tags: Green Cleanse, Green For Life, green smoothie, Kevin Gianni, livingfoods, Raw Foods, Victoria Boutenko
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Cleansing for Health
Cleansing and detoxification programs have been used as a health restoration technique for thousands of years. Yet only recently has the general public become aware if them.
While some might argue the need for a cleansing program, on the basis that your body can adequately cope with the daily bombardment of toxins in your air, water and food supplies, still others (and growing numbers of others) strongly emphasize the profound benefit of periodic cleansing.
I personally completely turned my health around when I was in my 20′s by doing a 28 day water fast. The effects were profound. Unfortunately, extended water fasting is not something that most people can do successfully on their own. It is best to do it under the supervision of a professional.
Over the past 22 years, I have done several 7-10 day water fasts and always benefit. The problem is that I can’t seem to stay on track unless I do it with a partner or a group.
I started to do Green Smoothie Cleanses a few years ago, instead of water fasts, because it was easy to cleanse and maintain my busy work, family and exercise schedule. I love how I feel when I do them. Still, I often found that my plans to do a multi day green smoothie cleanse on my own often go by the wayside when a “better offer” comes along ( like a party, family birthday, invitation from a friend). It seems that when I make the comittment only to myself, it’s easy to decide part of the way through that the timing isnt’ right and schedule it for another time.
When I make a commitment to someone else, I keep it. Regardless of what comes up, if I commit to others to do a Green Smoothie Cleanse, I follow through.
So birthed the idea of a group cleanse program. At first, I figured I’d put together a bunch of recipes, create a yahoo group for all of us to communicate and take it from there. What ended up happening is that I created an elaborate implementation guide, pre and post health self assessment questionnaires and objective tests, recipes, menu planners and post cleanse guidelines.
It has been a labor of love for me. I’ve lead groups of over 50 people 4 times so far this year. Next week, will be the fifth. There are still a few spaces left and the early bird special pricing has been extended to midnight Friday. The details are at http://drritamarie.com/GreenCleanse
I’m looking forward to feeling lighter, clearer and more energetic,
Tags: detoxification, detoxification programs, Green Cleanse, green smoothie. detoxification programs, Green Smoothies, health, water fast
Posted in Detox Program
