Using Smoothies as a cleanse, and in everyday good nutrition.

By Candace

Your body needs nice stuff for your ongoing ascension. You should try to consume 50% of your diet in fresh, raw foods. Rafael put me on smoothies once, for 2 months, almost nothing but, because grinding the food releases more colors, vitamins, etc, making the best use of foods diminished in nutritional content, and they are nicely absorbed by the digestive track. He put a bunch of my readers on the same regimen, to cleanse their bodies. I still love them, except I don't love salad ones, but make them occasionally still, when I need salad, because I have lost some teeth, don't want fake ones, and salad is sometimes hard to chew. Especially if a tooth ache exists temporarily.

At that time he wanted me to consume the equivalent of a small head of lettuce a day, and not iceberg lettuce, but really green lettuce, such as romaine. Green is really cleansing, from the chlorophyll in it. Raw green, because cooking damages Chlorophyll. Nice green brocolli and other really green veggies are good too. A total smoothie diet for a couple months is very cleansing. You do need in that case to use protein in them, and take a vitamin B blend, such as a stress tab, plus a one a day type vitamin tablet.

You can do an occasional cleanse for a few days as desired with raw smoothies. The protein can be whey, egg white, or soy. I prefer egg white. I use soy in the salad ones sometimes, and also in fruit juice in the morning. I blend the soy protein with nutritional yeast. (My cats LOVE nutritional yeast, they have opened several bags without my permission. So I feed it to them when I remember, a few pinches per cat).

You need to supplement with some multi B vitamins, because the diet has no grain, unless you wish to add home sprouted grain to the salad smoothies. You do not need high powered B tabs, just the stress caps type ones, that give you around 300% (3 times) your daily requirments or thereabouts. Do not use the 50mg and 100 mg mixed B tabs, these are way to potent in some of the B vitamins.

Now what I really like, is this all purpose fruit and part salad smoothie. I have a couple of these a day, still.

One banana, or peaches, or mango (if you like mango), or pineapple.

A handfull of blueberries, blackberries, or dark cherries

A handfull of cranberries, or raspberries, or strawberries.

One great big romaine lettuce leaf or 2 small ones

3-5 baby carrots depending on size

a bit of frozen watermelon is nice for Lutein. All the fruits may be fresh or frozen. I buy ripe marked down bananas, slice them, freeze on cookie sheet, then place in bag. I buy fruit in season on sale and freeze in this manner. If you have mostly fresh fruit in it, add some ice. Frozen watermelon is wonderful.

OK, add some water to your blender or smoothie maker, or soy milk, and a scoop of egg protein or powdered whey (I don't like whey). Add potasium if you need to supplement it, and some stevia if you wish it a bit sweeter.  Also add some freshly ground flax seed, about a TBS or so.

Blend it well, and enjoy. The lettuce isn't too strong tasting in this, and you can't taste the carrot. You get lots of nice colors in the mix. However, experiment as you wish for different tastes and flavors. You can use almost any fruit, just get several different colors over the day. I add the romaine leaf and the carrot to all my smoothies, no matter the fruit I chose. This way I get the good stuff in both.

If you wish to experiment with salad smoothies, I find they need some fruit, banana's seem to work the best to me. Salad smoothies are just that, made of whatever you wish, but include plenty of green lettuce. Add brocolli, tomatoes, onion is better than I thought it would be. Nawlene likes a bit of cheyenne pepper in hers. Celery is OK in them. Beets are actually fairly decent tasting with lettuce, and fresh beets have tons of red, you don't need but a slice a day for all the deep red you need. Feel free however, to make a real salad as desired and chew it really good. But you will get a greater punch if you blend the thing. Add salt. Use sea salt, that is colored. I don't trust the white stuff, because I have never seen pure white salt blocks. Sea salt from the Great salt lake is beige in color. Rafael said to use colored sea salt. Use it on all your foods that you salt. It tastes better. If you can afford, the French sea salt, from the clay cliffs is really good tasting, but it went way up in price.

You can buy sea water, minus the sodium chloride and concentrated. It's called ConCentrace. It is high in magnesium which we need. Low magnesium is the commonest cause of restless leg syndrome. I used to have that and took drugs for 3 years until I started on magnesium, and it went away. Low potassium and calcium can also be a factor in restless leg syndrome. I add Concentrace to my drinking water. You can get a lot of missing trace minerals that are often lost in food these days, because of farming methods, this way, as well as using the colored sea salt.

A note on doing a smoothies cleanse. You will likely loose weight on this. If you are already thin, please add olive oils, raw nuts and the like to your diet, so you get enough calories. But consume only raw nuts, please. And organic green olive oil. You can also have REAl Butter. I need the cholesterol in eggs, still, so I do eat eggs from cage free chickens, and I needed them (but not raw) while on my smoothies cleanse.

PS: I think I forgot to mention, fermented foods are also needed, and a good way to do that is to add yogurt or kefir to your smoothies, particularly the fruit ones, plain kefir is really good in those. If you like real raw fermented pickles and veggies, add some of those to your diet. If not, it's a good idea, especially during a cleanse to add probiotics to your diet, if you are not eating fermented foods. If you like miso, you can drink it dissolved into warm but not hot water to drink. Too hot will kill it's natural cultures. If you are using soy, and not diary, homemade soy yogurt is better tasting than store bought soy yogurt and it yogs faster than homemade dairy yogurt and doesn't require a little added warmth. Grows nice right on your counter. You can buy a little container of soy or diary yogurt to start it.

Also using any of the parsley type greens in your smoothies will help remove metals from your body. Cilantro is the most powerful but Italian parsely is fine too. Try baby greens, dandelion greens and the like also for variety.