Completely Annihilate Cravings For Junk Living On Green Smoothies
I really don’t think that it’s far off to propose that a diet of green smoothies can supply just about all the components that your body needs to maintain health. Besides perhaps Vitamin D and Vitamin B12, I believe, these healthful drinks have it all (yes, protein as well). The major dilemma I faced when I started off drinking green smoothies were the unhealthy cravings. Discover how I alleviated them.
I would like to start by telling you that the information in this article is just my opinion which is based on data I have read from expert authors and from the 10+ years living and eating the way I have daily. That and my blood work done twice each year which indicates no deficiencies, I believe this information is valid and very valuable. It could be that it just works for me, my genetic makeup and my body type, I can’t say for certain. However, just like smoking will affect each of us with varying degrees of health negatives, eating green smoothies, I believe, will affect each of us with varying degrees of health positives. Try it for yourself, after you speak with your natural, or other, health practitioner first of course.
The body is equipped to heal itself correct? Why is it that so many people are becoming and staying sick? Perhaps it is in inaccurate statement that the body is truly designed to heal itself? No! The dilemma is that we a) don’t provide it with the correct amount of tools, usually in terms of food intake, it needs to reset itself and b) we bombard it with stuff that hinders the performance of the limited tools that we do give it.
I’m a big advocate of raw foods. To suggest that adding heat to food over and above a specific temperature destroying required enzymes that are significant to digestion makes sense to me. Further, it is indicated that to get the most out of our food that we should be chewing it it until it’s gone. Our body has troubles handling big chunks of food. Also, I feel that humans can survive off of a diet of chiefly fruits and dark green leafy vegetables, with the occasional healthy fats. Healthy fats in the form of avocados, soaked nuts and seeds is all I eat.
The main foods I have each an every day consist of lots of raw fruits and green vegetables in the form of green smoothies. Being that they are in a liquid state, my body does a great job of assimilating the nutrients.
A giant hurdle for some when switching diets, and a big one for me is the cravings for bad foods. Just like a person addicted to alcohol or drugs must go through a detox in order to heal, we pretty much must to do a similar thing. The cells in our body are comprised of stuff from foods that we have consumed in the past. The body usually craves more of the same unhealthy foods that contribute to the makings of each of the cells in our body. For drug detoxes, often times, sauna therapy is used to sweat out the drugs. This usually helps to eliminate the physical drug cravings which will allow the individual an improved chance at sobriety. For us, adjusting our eating habits may possibly induce the elimination of toxic foods as well which can be naturally removed in stool, through sweat and urine. However, we may still crave those foods while some of the contaminants in our cells are still there.
I have found that immediately after having the first drink of my green smoothie my cravings for greasy foods, meat, sweets, salt, etc began to calm down. After I was done drinking the smoothie, the unhealthy cravings vanished completely and I would be content. The concern then was that the unhealthy cravings would come back as I grew hungry. So I started to make certain I was on top of it and would have another green smoothie available before the cravings would reoccur, or shortly after they started. The unhealthy cravings in the end subsided for good as I became healthier. Then I began to crave greens instead!
The question to you is, do you want to stay sick and overweight or do you want to possibly consider an improved diet giving your body everything that it needs?
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