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Smoothies can be a really tasty and nutritious means of getting all of your fiber and vitamins and nutrients as well. These days with all the different toxins and poisons that bombard our bodies either through the pollutants in our air and water or through the very food that we eat, our bodies are becoming much more toxic and bogged down by all these toxins and pollutants. So with all that being said, people these days are trying to find natural and alternative ways to improve their overall health and total cleanse their body. One of the most popular ways that people are starting to do this is through the use of fruit smoothies known as “green smoothies”. In this article I’ll be detailing some basic cream smoothie cleanse tips to help improve your overall detox program.
The most important tip that I could possibly stress when making any sort of green smoothie for a cleanse is to make sure that you buy organic produce, and if at all possible try and buy locally from farms if there are any near you. The reason this is so important is because organic produce tends to have much less exposure to pesticides and toxins, you obviously would not want to be concentrating all those bad things into your smoothie that you be drinking on a regular basis. My other recommendation would be the types of produce that you use; I generally advise using berries, in particular wild berries, as they are the most nutritionally dense, but using other fruits like melons and bananas are also really good for green smoothie cleanse drinks. One of the best green smoothie cleanse tips I could possibly give is to make sure that you use high quality greens in your green smoothie like kale or rainbow chard, and especially spinach. These greens are some of the most nutritionally beneficial you can have but always change things up to keep the type of nutrition that you get fresh.
One of the other really important green smoothie cleanse tips I can give is the fact that you need to have a high quality and high powered blender. This is because not only will these blenders last much longer but they also will blend your various ingredients into a much more pleasurable and beneficial consistency. If this consistency that allows for the smoothies to be not only very tasty but nutritionally beneficial because of how fine the fibers are broken down and allowed to release their nutrients. The two blenders’s that I tend to recommend the most are either the total blender by blendtec or the vita-mix blender. These two models are generally considered the best of the bunch; I personally tend to favor the total blender myself.
Cleansing can be done a variety of ways, and through a variety of systems and programs. Generally cleansing is done by taking a natural laxative and flushing a large portion of the waste stuck in you colon out of your system which then allows for not only better digestion but also the absorption of nutrients you would receive through diet and cleansing agents as well. This delivery system is usually through juice, and it can either be through the process of selecting fresh fruits or vegetables and juicing them through a machine, or buying organic not from concentrate bottled juices and using that as an alternative to the preferred method of juicing.
This form of body detox or colon cleansing can sometimes be too much for certain people to take, and they may need to start out slower and build up to a juice fast or juice cleanse as it were. This alternative method is known as the green smoothie cleanse. A green smoothie cleanse is just as it sounds its mostly a mostly green fruit smoothie because you add greens to it, such as but not limited to, kale, collard greens, spinage, chard, and other dark leafy greens. Leafy greens are different form standard “vegetables” as they are considered to be a “green” or “leaf” and as such can be mixed with virtually any other kind of food. There are no set rules for what fruits and greens you have to use, and that’s one of the green smoothie benefits, you can mix and match what feels and tastes right for you. A green smoothie recipe I generally recommend is one that consists of mostly berries as the base fruit and kale and spinage as the leafy greens. I advise using frozen fruit for a thicker consistency but fresh is always great too, blueberries, blackberries, aronia berries, and cranberries always make a great and healthy base, along with a banana or two for thickness and sweetness, you have a great fruit smoothie base to ad greens to.
The Reason this cleanse works so well is that you are getting the WHOLE food not just a fraction of it like juicing, and you also get lots of fiber often 10-20 grams or more per glass. This fiber does two things: one, like all fiber, this fiber within the smoothie helps keep you regular and allows your body to naturally do what a laxative does for you. Reason 2, the fiber slows down and evens out the absorption of sugar contained within the fruit, which unlike juice which has no fiber and can spike your blood sugar levels, which can be very dangerous for many. If you are going to try the green smoothie cleanse, and I hope you do, because they are great to do every day, I recommend getting a high powered blender so you can really get an even consistency and so you can also really break down the fibers and unlock the nutrients contained therein. A standard blender simply won’t cut it, and you will likely ruin the blender as a result, the two models or brands I recommend are the vitamix models or my personal favorite-the total blender from blendtec. The total blender is super easy to clean, is very durable, and had automatic smoothie settings so you don’t have to guess what works, it really gets the job down and I highly recommend it.
