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

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Recipe type: Beverage

Author: Dr. Ritamaire Loscalzo

Prep time: 5 mins

Total time: 5 mins

Serves: 1-2

The lemon and spices completely neutralize the bitterness of the arugula and other greens. The result is a delicious, high energy pick me up drink to enjoy anytime, except perhaps at bedtime!

Ingredients:

• 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

Instructions:

1. Place all ingredients in blender.
2. Blend until smooth. Thin with water if desired and blend again.

Notes:

Adapted from a recipe in my Green Cleanse Recipe Guide available at http://www.GreenSmoothieCleanse.com

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Eat Green for Life: SERGEI BOUTENKO shares How to Find Wild Edibles

WILD EDIBLES WALK WITH SERGEI BOUTENKO

Sergei Boutenko, world renowned authority on wild edible plants and son of internationally acclaimed author Victoria Boutenko, of Green Smoothie fame,  isleading a  Wild Edible Walk in Austin Texas on Monday May 30 at 5:45 PM CENTRAL time and we’re  filming it so even those far away can participate.

****DETAILS FOR WALKING WITH US IN AUSTIN****

DATE: Monday May 30
MEETING TIME: 5:45 pm for orientation; walk starts promptly at 6:00 pm
LOCATION:  Barton Springs Pool at Zilker Park, 2301 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78746
MAP: http://www.drritamarie.com/go/MapZilker
WHAT TO BRING: Comfortable walking shoes, paper and pen to take notes and a camera to take pictures.

Sergei has generously offered to lead this walk for only $10 so everyone can afford to attend.  With what you’ll save in grocery bills if you apply what Sergei teaches, you’ll pay f or this in just one trip to the market.

If you can afford to pay more and find this of value, I suggest giving Sergei a cash donation above and beyond this to help cover the cost of his gasoline and time driving to and from Dallas.

Go here to register in advance:
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/WildEdiblesWalkLive

If you’re not sure about your schedule, and find you are able to come at the last minute, please arrive early so we an handle registration for you.  It’s much easier if you register in advance if you can, and will ensure we start on time.

http://www.drritamarie.com/go/WildEdiblesWalkLive

See you soon.  Video signup is below.

Love, Health and Joy,

Dr. Ritamarie

P.S.  Can’t make it live?  Here’s where you can sign up to get the video.  It’s $10, just like the live walk.
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/WildEdiblesVideo

Video will be available within a week, once it’s edited and
uploaded.

Cleansing and Detoxification: A great antidote for Adrenal fatigue symptoms

If you are tired and run down, quick to anger, have blood sugar problems or difficulty concentrating, you may be suggering from adrenal fatigue or exhaustion. Adrenal fatigue treatment may include some combination of rest and relaxation, herbal support,vitamin and mineral supplementation, especially Vitamin C, the B complex vitamins, zinc and magnesium,and diet changes. The diet that I find to be most successful with patients suffering from adrenal fatigue is high in fresh, whole living plant based foods, especially green leafy vegetables.

For the past year, I’ve been doing group green smoothie cleanses every 2 months.  Cleansing and a simple living foods diet are great ways to combat adrenal fatigue and exhaustion, calm an irritable bowel, and overall reduce the stress on your body and increase your energy.  Adrenal fatigue is common at the end of the year, due to the stress of the holidays, increased processed food intake and overall sense of overwhelm.

I had decided to skip my December green cleans program because I figured everyone would be busy with holiday preparations and wouldn’t have the time.  As December progressed, I began to really want to do the cleanse. I guess I’m a creature of habit. Anyway, I got to thinking that perhaps a short cleanse would be a good idea.   I’ve been a bit exhausted myself, with all the work to do this time of year and lack of sleep.  So I decided to a mini green smoothie cleanse. I plan to start Tuesday night at dinner time and continue through Friday, December 19. Would you like to join me?

It will be fun! It’s also a great way to get ready for the holidays. There’s no charge. I’ll be sending you an email message each day, sharing recipes and motivating you to stick with it. I can do a brief check-in call on Wednesday evening if you have any questions or want some support. Basically you can either.

A- drink nothing but Green Smoothies for 3 days
B- drink a lot of green smoothies and also eat raw foods only
C- drink 1-2 or more smoothies each day and eat your regular diet the rest of the time.

Sign up for the free mini green cleansing program .

If you’re not sure what a green smoothie  cleanse is, read about it here http://www.greensmoothiecleanse.com

The 3 day mini Green Smoothie Cleansing Program is free, and so is the Drink Your Greens recipe book at www.drritamarie.com/green

The full green cleanse program is extremely helpful if you are showing signs of adrenal fatigue.  Since a lot of adrenal fatigue can be helped with a gluten free diet as well as a living and raw foods diet, the green smoothie cleansing program is a very helpful jump start on repairing the stressed adrenal glands.

I’d appreciate if you’d join me on this mini green smoothie cleanse. I need the support of the group to follow through on doing the cleanse. We’ll do the full cleanse again in January 2009. Actually I have a surprise planned for January which I’ll be announcing soon. Let’s just say that you’ll be able to get a longer green and living foods coaching program to start the new year off right.

And if you sign up for the full green cleanse program before the end of the year, you’ll get special treatment and pricing for the new program.

I plan to start the cleanse right away, on Tuesday evening, December 16. My dinner will be a green smoothie.

If you’d like to join me for the cleanse, go to

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/contact.asp?id=122906

Let’s have fun with this, ok?

Love and health,

Dr. Ritamarie

The New Health Insurance: Eating Like Chimps

I read an article today about a man in Medford, Oregon who lost almost 200 pounds, overcame type-2 diabetes, and climbed California’s Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 U.S. states.  He now claims to enjoy the best health of his life.  How did he do it?   He changed his diet to a raw-food diet that includes copious quantities of green smoothies. Click here to read the entire article.

About a month ago, a new DVD was released called Raw for 30 Days.  It’s a documentary following a group of type 2 diabetics on a raw foods program, including an abundance of greens,  with Dr. Gabriel Cousins at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona.  The people who finished the program had amazing results.  One of the men, a long time diabetic, completely reversed his condition and went on to enroll in naturopathic school so he could help others on their road to health.

A few days ago, I went back to eating solid foods after a week of drinking only green smoothies.  I was joined by at least 50 others who spent last week drinking their greens and experiencing a wide range of health benefits including weight loss, allergy relief, reduction in joint pain, normalization of blood sugar, elimination of depression, mental clarity and abundant energy.

Sounds like snake oil, doesn’t it.  It’s not magic, or placebo or even secret properties of rare and exotic herbs that produce  these amazing results so quickly.  It is the power of green foods, many of them wild and free, often classified as weeds, that produce these miraculous changes.

When you blend the green foods that are too often left as garnish, and mix them with delicious fruits, herbs, and spices, you create a tasty and powerful beverage that can transform your life.  When you remove the foods that drain your health and replace them with foods that fully nourish every cell in your body, miracles can start to happen.

I’ve seen it over and over.  Every two months I lead a group of 50 or so busy people through a 7 day green smoothie cleanse.   During our week together, we each follow our own path and choose the plan that works for us as individuals.  Some of us choose the most rigorous option and replace all of our meals with green smoothies.  Others replace one or two meals a day with green smoothies and eat a high quality diet composed of raw fruits and vegetables.  Still others choose to get their feet wet and replace one or two meals with green smoothies and focus on eating a mostly a whole foods, green vegetable rich diet.

One of the participants last week lost 12 pounds, her allergies cleared and aches and pains that had been plaguing her for months were dramatically reduced.  A participant on one of the previous cleanses reduced his blood sugars by 100 points in just 3 days.  A fibromyalgia sufferer experienced the joy of pain free movement for the first time in years.

I personally know people who have gone off antidepressants and antihistamines after a month of raw foods and greens.  I  know others who have recovered from cancer.

If I were talking about a prescription drug that claimed all the results I’ve seen with whole, fresh foods and green smoothies,  people would be knocking down doors for it.

If this diet is so powerful, why aren’t more people doing it? It’s a question worth exploring and I’ll be doing just that over the next few blog posts, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, learn more about the miracles of green food at www.GreenFoodMagic.com

In this time of political unrest and economic stress, the best gift you can give yourself is health insurance of the most effective and economical sort…taking charge of your health through conscious diet and lifestyle choices and periodic cleansing to counteract the toxic effects of your stressful lifestyle.  Mental clarity, energy and focus will help see you through even the most difficult of times.

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,