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DETOX – Health Starts with Your Diet

**(I have decided to break today’s post up into several days as there is simply too much information to cover in one post!)

As stated by Dr. Mercola recently, “Your body was designed to maintain equilibrium of health, and one of the basic cornerstones is your diet.”  How true!  As such, one of the easiest ways to rid our bodies of toxins is to make smart choices around the foods we eat.  An essential way of doing this is by eating lots of non-adulterated foods — that is, foods that are as close to their natural state as possible.  When you consume fresh, raw, non-adulterated food, everything you eat is considered to be a “superfood.”  It’s called a “superfood” because all of the nutrients in the food remain in tact and in abundance for our bodies to digest and assimilate.  These nutrients are important because

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DETOX WEEK!
– “Don’t You KNOW That You’re TOXIC?!”

If you walked into a Whole Foods Market a few days before New Year’s Day you couldn’t miss it. “Detox Kits” and “Whole Body Cleanses” sat in pyramid stacks throughout the store. So what does it mean to detox? Are we that toxic to begin with? Is it as easy as buying a kit, a bottle of pills, or a jar of juice?

“Detox” is short for “detoxification.” We all have toxins within us. They come from what we eat and drink, what we put on our body, the air we breathe, and even the mist in the shower. Toxic thoughts can also create chemical reactions within our bodies that can pollute our systems. This week I want everyone to pay careful attention to what you put into your body:

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Easy Saturday Green Smoothie

Oh how I love the weekend! This smoothie is an easy green fruit smoothie for a relaxed weekend morning. I like to keep it simple when possible. I remember when I would read smoothie recipes before I was a “smoothie person.” This started when my husband bought me a Vitamix for my 26th birthday. I had the desire to want to be healthier, but didn’t know how to do it. At the time the idea of putting greens in my fruit smoothie was challenging. Little did I know what I’d be eating 2 months later after the cancer diagnosis!

So here is the “Simple Saturday Smoothie” to ease into your green smoothie consumption:

Simple Saturday Smoothie

1 banana
3/4 cup blueberries
handful of ice (or use frozen blueberries instead)
3/4 – 1 cup almond milk or liquid of choice
1 tbsp raw almond butter
1 cup spinach, kale, or chard
honey to taste (optional- I do not use)

Now, one tip for your “green drink psychology” is to not give up trying a recipe just because you don’t have all of the perfect ingredients! For instance, if you don’t have blueberries, try another kind of berry. If you’re missing almond butter or almond milk, try peanut butter or regular milk if that’s what you prefer. I will see everyone back on Monday!

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THE SUPPLEMENTS –
Kind of like The Expendables, but
actually worth your time and money!

 

Posts on Supplements for Cancer:

For Immune Support: Beta-1, 3D Glucan

Storage/ Organization for Vitamins: My Favorite Vitamin Box!

 

Supplements I Used For Healing From Cancer:

Dr. Williams Daily Advantage

One of the most common questions I am asked is what daily vitamin I recommend. Many of my friends who ask me this are taking a store bought multi-vitamin such as Centrum or even Flintstone Vitamins.  They complain of being tired halfway through the day, having allergy problems, and getting sick often. With absolutely no judgment being passed whatsoever (hey, I remember how yummy Flintstones tasted!) I would like to encourage anyone reading this to look into Dr. Williams Daily Advantage.  These vitamins come in a pack of eight caplets.  They are packed with the highest quality, food-based nutrients.  Food based vitamins are just that – vitamins that are derived from food.  They are recommended because their nutrients are more efficiently digested and assimilated into the body, making them very effective and

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Organic Raw Vegan Diet

Spinach….Collards….Dandelions….Kale….Sprouts….YUCK!!! This is not always my reaction anymore, but this was definitely how I felt at the beginning of my anti-cancer protocol. Why is organic, raw, and vegan so important?

Organic- Since I didn’t eat vegetables to begin with, whether they had pesticides or not didn’t concern me… That is, until cancer became an issue.

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How I Beat “the kanser”

How I Beat “the kanser”

Kris Carr of “Crazy, Sexy, Cancer” fame said not to give “your” cancer any notoriety or power by labeling it “my cancer.” She went even further, preaching even to spell it wrong when possible in order to take away its power over you. Though it is not always appropriate, I try my hardest not to call it “my cancer” and to spell it incorrectly when I can. Below is the “LONG” version of “the” (my) cancer story. It is not meant to be an award winning narrative, but just the details of how I overcame a cancer diagnosis through holistic methods.

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Green Drink Psychology: The Pros and Cons of a Green Smoothie Habit

Ok, let’s get real. Some Green Smoothie can taste pretty gross. I want to go over the psychology of drinking a green smoothie everyday. For me it’s a no-brainer. There are simply more pros than cons. See below.

Pros:
It is ridiculously healthy.
It helps prevent cancer from happening and even fights it!
It contains all kinds of vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals.
It is about 14 servings of vegetables!!!
It is much faster than eating a very large salad.
It cleans out my colon on its way….out.
It can increase fertility.
It can clear up your skin!
It fills your belly up for hours.

Cons:
It MAY not taste so yummy.

So there you go. It’s a sacrifice of taste for health that I make everyday. When you feel its benefits, it just doesn’t matter what it tastes like. And it’s only ONE meal out of your day. It’s like the Slim Fast diet when you replace a meal with a shake, but with WAAAY healthier ingredients!

Here are some tips to get you started:

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Green Drink Love Affair

If you read my last post you can see the evolution of my green drink consumption. It was definitely not a love affair from the beginning, but more so a relationship of necessity. It is still not delicious and at the start was just slightly better than eating a gallon-size salad for 2 hours. Growing up I NEVER ate salad or any raw vegetables unless it came smothered in dressing and came free with a meal. But then came cancer. Since my husband and I decided to forgo chemotherapy and radiation for holistic treatment but I hated eating vegetables, “Green Drink” was one of my answers.

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The Birth of Green Drink

Everyday for lunch I have green drink. 64 ounces of green drink. My drink has gone through several different reincarnations. First it was just a salad blended up in my Vitamix at the beginning of my lymphoma diagnosis. This was a survival tactic since I hated salad. It once brought me to tears to eat it, and now raw vegetables make up 90% of my food!

green drink recipes

Update 3/2018: This post was originally published as one of my first posts when I started my blog in January, 2011! Back then blog was called “Green Drink Diaries” and little did I know I’d still be doing this seven years later under a new name. 🙂 Recently, this post has been receiving more traffic so I’m giving it a little bit of a boost in content while keeping the original writing. Enjoy.