Green Smoothie with Victoria Boutenko

Author of the book ‘”Green For Life” – Victoria Boutenko is one of the innovators of the green smoothie. She explains about how important chlorophyll is for our health. A green smoothie as a daily ritual does wonders for energy and overall health.

Chlorophyll is what makes plants green. Liquid chlorophyll is nearly identical to human blood in its molecular structure. Studies have been done showing that liquid chlorophyll can be used for blood transfusions. It is inexpensively produced, stores easily without expensive refrigeration and does not pass along disease.
Dr. Robert Young

Natural Answer to Botox: “Facial Yoga”

In this Howdini.com video, Annelise Hagan, author of The Yoga Face, with exercises for minimizing eye wrinkles and lifting brows. (more videos below)

Our current culture is concerned with our appearance as we age and heavy media emphasis is put on youth and beauty. But we are also a culture that loves instant gratification, convenience and the quick fix. As evidenced by the millions of plastic surgery procedures performed each year. Bottom line is that there are no quick fixes. There will always be some personal effort involved, but the rewards are well worth it.

We rarely ever hear about exercising our faces, but as we like to say around here “there must be a natural way” and it makes perfect sense. We exercise our bodies, stretching and working muscles to keep toned and firm, so why not our faces and necks? There is a movement to do so and with great results. Not to mention with a more graceful aging than the look one can often get going under the knife. And aging is a natural, unavoidable part of life.

Of course, anyone with an interest in exercise, and looking good will need a diet rich in organic, raw fruits and vegetables that may keep wrinkles at bay by strengthening your skin’s natural ability to protect itself from sun damage.  Drinking plenty of water will keep you hydrated and your skin will be more plump and elastic. Insulin and leptin resistance accelerate the aging processes, so it’s important to keep their levels low if you want to stay healthy and have a youthful appearance. The most effective way to do this is by reducing or eliminating grains and sugar , especially fructose, from your diet. Get a good night’s sleep, there’s a reason they call it beauty rest. And reduce stress levels in your life. I will do a post one day soon about ways to reduce stress.

Just like the rest of your body, with lack of use the muscles will begin to droop causing a sagging appearance in the skin. Your face has more than 50 muscles that we use to create our many facial expressions. Some we aren’t even aware that we have. These muscles also create contouring and shaping of your face, so that’s how exercising your face can help you keep a youthful look as you age, by preventing those drooping eyelids, crows feet or sagging neckline.

By regularly exercising your face and neck, you can help keep them firm. Increasing blood flow through these muscles can also help counteract wrinkles. And how much better (not to mention safer) than an expensive trip to a plastic surgeon is that? Best of all, it’s free!

Most recommendations call for repeating each exercise 10 times, at least twice a week, for noticeable results. So bookmark this page and start working your face firmer!

Hagan discussing the cause of double chins and sagging jowls, and several exercises for firming and toning your neck area.

In this video, Gary Sikorski, creator of Happy Face Yoga, explains and demonstrates how to lift and tone your cheeks and combat bags under your eyes for a more youthful look.

The Marketing of Madness: Are we all insane?

The ‘Marketing of Madness‘ is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit centre.

But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists’ diagnoses – and how safe are their drugs? Digging deep beneath the corporate veneer, this three-part documentary exposes the truth behind the slick marketing schemes and scientific deceit that conceal dangerous and often deadly sales campaigns.
In this film you’ll discover that…

• Many of the drugs side effects may actually make your ‘mental illness’ worse
• Psychiatric drugs can induce aggression or depression
• Some psychotropic drugs prescribed to children are more addictive than cocaine
• Psychiatric diagnoses appears to be based on dubious science. Of the 297 mental disorders contained with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, none can be objectively measured by pathological tests. Mental illness symptoms within this manual are arbitrarily assigned by a subjective voting system in a psychiatric panel
• It is estimated that 100 million people globally use psychotropic drugs

The Marketing of Madness exposes the real insanity in our psychiatric ‘health care’ system: profit-driven drug marketing at the expense of human rights.

This film plunges into an industry corrupted by corporate greed and delivers a shocking warning from courageous experts who value public health over dollar.

“If you, a loved one, or anyone you know is taking drugs recommended by an MD or Psychiatrist for Anxiety, Depression, Bi-Polar, ADHD, Obsessive Compulsive, Schizophrenia etc… then this film is an absolute must watch.”
— James Colquhoun – Producer Director, ‘Food Matters‘

GREEN SMOOTHIES!

Tim Van Orden of RunningRaw.com was the inspiration of my Green Smoothie obsession. Now I’m a Green Smoothie card-carrying-member-for-life!

Kimberly Snyder, Clinical Nutritionist to the *Stars* really knows her stuff. She has some super tasty recipes to try for everything from detox to great skin. She is truly an inspiration.

Once starting your day, every day with fresh, raw, blended superfoods you’ll feel such an increase in energy you won’t want to go back to that bagel or bowl of cereal. At least I don’t. What is most noticeable to me is the tingly energetic feeling I have after my smoothie breakfast (first thing in the day) as opposed to the “food coma”, bloated feeling one might get after a big cooked meal. Our food should make us feel good, not bad.

The first, primary ingredient in making the green smoothie is the right blender. Without a quality blender your smoothie could turn out grainy or chunky, and not quite so easy to get down. Not to mention most importantly, the blending step makes all the wonderful greens and fruits easier for your body to digest and the nutrients are more easily absorbed into your system for maximum benefit and optimum health. You would really be missing out on this crucial benefit for all your efforts of making the smoothie and making a change in your life and health. If you want to get the most from your smoothie invest in a proper blender. I use the Vita-Mix and recommend it. At 2+ horse-power it really get’s the job done right. You might also consider the Blendtec a little more expensive, this one is 3 horse-power. You decide, both are industry standard and highly recommended among raw enthusiasts as well. It really is the way to go.

The Magic of Greens – 8 Benefits of Drinking Green Smoothies

By Linda Loo

Do you want to feel happy, peaceful, calm and in control no matter what happens? Do you wish that somehow, you know a way to stop all those crazy cravings for sweet, fatty snacks at erratic times of the day?

Would you believe it if I tell you that this is possible, permanently, and can happen in the comfort of your own home? And while you are doing this, you are also building your body with the best life-giving brand new raw materials available!

Greens are leaves which contain chlorophyll, and they are probably the most neglected food group in the entire supermarket. But yet it is these humble green warriors which does magic for our cells.

Why is drinking a green smoothie better than just eating greens? Because the blending actually breaks down the cellular walls of the leaves, leaving you with the finest particles of nutrients which are delivered straight to your cells.

And of course, all these living nutrients are still intact and not destroyed by heating.

1) You feel calm and peaceful
The chlorophyll in greens deliver oxygen to your cells and puts the body in a slightly alkaline state. This is a state in which optimal health is required and which cancer cells do not thrive.

Degenerative diseases like cancer thrives and grow in an acidic state.

2) You feel happy for no reason
A healthy body is a happy body. Research has proven that subjects whom are in optimal health condition still feel in control and calm even in the face of seemingly tough life events; while those who are not, tend to feel unhappy even when they are rewarded with promotions or striking the lottery.

3) You adopt a more positive outlook in life
Things which you used to sweat over now seem smaller. You have grown in capacity to handle things because your body is now constructed with newer, better materials.

And did I mention that your cells are rejoicing with the change?

4) Get rid of Unnecessary Addictions
Your body is made up of billions of tiny cells. Every cell is You, they combine to make up your tissues, organs, bones, face, hair, legs etc.

When nutrition is improved, the body is strengthened on a cellular level.

When your cells know what it is like to receive first class nutrition, they will not want to go back to the old ways!

They will resist old substances like nicotine which does not do the body good.

Only You are Capable of Transcending the Madness of our ‘Sickcare Industry’.

Sometimes I feel that it would be infinitely easier to pretend that our world’s healthcare problems do not exist. It would be bliss to trust that our food industry operates with the public’s best interests at heart and that the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are committed to human health. I suspect however that you already realize that this is currently a fairy tale dream. Or perhaps you’re like many others and understandably feel confronted by criticism of these paradigms. Whatever the case may be, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch have learnt the hard way.

In 2003, James’ father experienced a severe health crisis. After decades of working in stressful conditions and consuming a typical western diet, Roy Colquhoun’s body completely shut down. Bedridden for months with depression, chronic fatigue, anxiety and severe flu-like symptoms, Roy sought the best medical care available. Psychiatrists and medical specialists recommended a myriad of drugs that did nothing to alleviate Roy’s physical ailments and, Roy asserts, actually worsened his mental condition.

“My life was a psychotic daze and spiraling downward out of control,” Roy recalls. “Ultimately, this lead to my psychiatrist admitting me to a specialist psychiatric hospital for a period of thirty days. This hospitalization did not help and all that was achieved was a change in the ingredients of my cocktail of prescription medication… Feelings of hopelessness started to predominate my life. Suicide was becoming a frightening and very real option.”

As a professional businessman with obstinate faith in conventional practices, Roy was initially very unreceptive when James and Laurentine encouraged him to read about the natural health methods they were learning about. Roy explains his attitude at the time was, “If the best of the medical profession could not help me, how could my son and daughter-in-law with their nutrition and vitamin-based approach help?”

James and Laurentine understood that it would take powerful measures to shock Roy into kicking his dangerous pharmaceutical drug habit. After realizing that he wasn’t reading the books that they sent him, the duo set off around the world interviewing experienced doctors, researchers, naturopaths and journalists. Their reasoning was that if Roy wouldn’t read the books then maybe he would listen to these experts on DVD.

“They arrived on my doorstep and I was told they were not leaving until I recovered,” Roy remembers. Seeing the filmed footage of all these experts clearly had its desired effect. “After five years on heavy doses of anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, anxiety medication and sleeping tablets, I started taking therapeutic doses of vitamins and minerals and within a week had withdrawn from all prescription medication.” Also, with some not-so-gentle persuasion according to Roy, “I was ordered onto a ten day detox, eating only raw food and no alcohol and continuing on a special cleansing diet thereafter.”

The results? Nothing short of spectacular. Roy suffered none of the serious drug withdrawal side-effects cautioned by the medical profession. Today, he is disease-free, drug-free, twenty kilograms lighter, running twice a week and enjoying a happy retirement.

Interview with David Wolfe Part 2

Interview with David Wolfe: Diabetes & Diet. Part 1

Excellent interview with David Wolfe by Alex Ortner of Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.
Simply Raw is on a mission to educate people living with Diabetes type 2 and type 1 about how changing their diet can reverse all effects of Diabetes on the body.

The least talked about treatment for Depression.

This documentary is full of simple, natural solutions to common health problems, even disease. Watch the film here.

Treat Cancer Naturally.

Excerpt from Food Maters documentary.
In 1971, President Nixon declared a war on cancer. In the ensuing decades, tens of billions of dollars have been spent on the cause yet a cure by orthodox means remains elusive. By any standards this campaign has been a failed endeavor; or worse, a shameful fraud. Progress is a myth, and sustaining hope for the development of a safe and effective cancer drug is pointless. It’s up to each individual to empower themselves with knowledge of the myriad ways to eradicate cancer without harming the body. Although it’s easier to prevent cancer than to reverse it once it has taken hold, it is nevertheless reversible with holistic therapies that address imbalances of the body, mind and spirit. This is not an opinion; it is a statement of fact that’s based on this author’s first-hand experience.

A comprehensive approach to healing cancer includes at least the following eight factors:

• 1. Proper nutrition and clean water
• 2. Detoxification
• 3. Immune building
• 4. Oxygen therapy
• 5. Natural chemotherapies
• 6. Lifestyle changes: adequate sleep, sunlight & exercise
• 7. A positive attitude
• 8. Spiritual cleansing

Regardless of the cancer’s aggressiveness, the body will respond to this holistic approach – the speed and degree to which it does so is commensurate with the diligence and extent to which these eight factors are applied. No cancer treatment, conventional or otherwise, comes with an iron-clad guarantee; however, it’s important to consider that orthodox treatments ravage the body and ignore the underlying causes while alternative treatments strengthen the body and address its healing requirements. Reason and logic side with alternative therapies.

These guidelines are merely an overview of what a comprehensive holistic protocol would include. The term “cancer survivor” refers to those who have been diagnosed with the disease and are still alive – whether they are in remission or not. The cancer survivor should adopt as many of these strategies as is feasible, slowly incorporating them into one’s lifestyle and working with a naturopath if necessary. A holistic healer can be located through the help of a reputable chiropractor, acupuncturist or other practitioner of the healing arts. A health food store may also provide contacts.

It’s useful to determine whether the body’s chronic stressors include specific nutritional deficiencies, absorption problems and/or the burden of toxic heavy metals. This insight is possible through analysis of hair, urine or blood, and will help determine which supplements and therapies will enhance treatment. Without addressing these conditions, optimum healing may be delayed or prevented.
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Reverse Diabetes in 30 Days.

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, uncooked food in order to reverse disease without pharmaceutical medication.

In the film the six are challenged to give up meat, dairy, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, soda, junk food, fast food, processed food, packaged food, and even cooked food for 30 days. The film follows each participant’s remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.

Additional wisdom is provided throughout the film by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.