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One of the greatest ways to total cleanse your body is through the use of colon cleansing smoothies. These types of smoothies can come in all sorts of different forms, tastes, colors and consistencies. Colon cleansing smoothies are generally done with two different types of smoothies, one of these types is a simple fruit smoothie made from your favorite frozen produce or local fresh produce. The other kind of smoothie that’s great for colon cleansing is what’s known as the green smoothie, this kind of smoothie is essentially a fruit smoothie with additional greens like spinach or kale. Both smoothies have their place and can both be effective while colon cleansing. If you really want to cover ground I suggest doing both types of smoothies and seeing which ones work best for you, you may find you like both.
The first kind of smoothie that I’ll address is a simple fruit smoothie which can be done with any number of different produce. I do love or feel they are certain types of fruits that give you more bang for your buck than others might. My personal favorite fruits for making colon cleansing smoothies are primarily with different types of berries and a banana or two to add thickness and potassium. The types of berries advise using our Aronia berries, elderberries, wild blueberries, acai berries, and raspberries for extra fiber. Fruits in general naturally act as a cleanser and detoxifying agent, these types of smoothies are great to have any time and give you a much-needed boost of fiber, vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and enzymes that will really allow your body to stay in peak shape and also keep your colon and digestive system moving in a healthy manner.
Another type of colon cleansing smoothie is the one I mentioned earlier, these are recent trend and have lovingly become known as “green smoothies”. As I said before what makes these green is that they are essentially fruit smoothies with additional greens added to them. While plenty of people enjoy drinking a sweet and satisfying fruit smoothie many would not like the idea of drinking leafy greens just as much as they generally don’t like eating them whole. The benefit of blending them within a fruit smoothie however is that all the fruit sugars mask the taste of the greens and so you end up getting all the benefits of greens like kale, spinach, chard and other types of greens without having to feel like you are a rabbit chewing on salad. You also get the added benefit of increased nutrition over a regular smoothie plus you get a large amount of additional fiber which is key to keeping your colon cleansed.
Any full body cleanse worth its cost or effort is one that helps facilitate the detox and cleansing process that your body naturally does and is likely engaged in already. This short full body cleanse guide will detail what a full body cleanse will actually do for you as well as some additional information to keep your expectations of what these cleanse routines can actually do in check. With the right knowledge and the right I’ll look in the correct expectations cleansing can be an effective way to help accelerate your body’s detox faculties.
Depending on your current health that can either be a lot or very little that you actually need to do to encourage her body to remove toxins from itself. You can help facilitate this natural process by reducing the amount of endogenous and exogenous toxins that your body is exposed to on a daily basis. The other factor is not only giving your digestive system but your entire body rest and relaxation that way can devote all of its energy and resources to cleaning out your body naturally; your body needs some both physical and emotional level. Pure water, plenty of fresh air, and sufficient rest go a long way to promoting your buys natural body cleanse mechanisms. Another point that needs to be made is while certain ingredients and certain cleanses will affect certain parts of the body more than they will others, the body itself in fact cleanses itself completely throughout the body at relatively the same pace, so you should really never be concerned that your only cleaning one part of your body or cleaning one too fast.
The simple fact is if you really do start a period of very intense detoxification that although you may feel better initially afterwards it may be many months before you start to really feel the full effects of the total cleanse. It’s no different than when you start taking any supplement as most dietitians will tell you, it takes a few months of regular use before anyone will start to feel its real effects. At this point, most really serious or chronic health conditions often take many years to develop so to rather unrealistic to expect these kinds of conditions and issues to be solved within a short timeframe via a full body cleanse, so keep in mind the three month time period is usually a minimum it very well may take more time than that and this is with the assumption that you are leading a healthy lifestyle as well to help support the cleanse you did.
In this section of the full I cleanse guide I’ll detail some of the basic principles and things that you need to do in order to really cleanse your body. It’s fairly simple, as I said before, getting plenty of fresh air and good rest is key to any nutritional supplementation and cleansing you do. You will generally want to consume a lot of water rich foods and liquids, I recommend drinking carrot and beet juice, consuming plenty of freshly made smoothies as well as green smoothies, and generally sticking to a raw diet. Raw foods are rich in nutrients and minerals as well as fiber and will help to support your entire body which then in turn will to talks by itself much more efficiently. Also reduce your exposure to exterior and interior toxins and always make sure you’re drinking fresh purified water each and every day.
Cleansing can sometimes be a very difficult thing to do if you’re not quite sure what steps to take especially if you’re a person needs to know each detail step-by-step. To be honest, I don’t think there’s any real clear one-way method to do every type of total cleanse that can possibly be done. However depending on which cleansing routine you choose to go with, there are definitely some total cleanse directions, tips, and some general guidelines that should help you give you a better idea of what you want to do relative to what you’re trying to remedy your heal. Always room or that these are guidelines and guidelines alone, you should always consult your doctor before doing any serious cleansing routine and also listen to your body and make sure you’re not doing anything to harm yourself.
If your primary cleansing routine is through juicing then what I recommend you do is take at least a couple glasses with each meal or where normally you would have a meal during the day. If at all possible please make sure that this is freshly juiced juice, this is important because fresh juice contains enzymes which are more effective at delivering nutrients into your system. In addition to the two glasses at each meal you should also make sure you have water with them as well at least a glass or two along with having water in between. You can also have a glass or two of fresh juice in between your main juice drinking meals, just don’t ever forget to drink purified water it’s crucial that your body is made of mostly water you need it to survive juice alone is not enough.
If your method for cleansing is through drinking smoothies or green smoothies for directions will be similar but slightly different. Depending upon the serving size you can have anywhere between one large glass or two smaller glasses of smoothies within each time you normally eat a meal or along with a meal. You generally need to drink more juice than you do drinking smoothies because juice contains no fiber and smoothies do and they generally are more filling as a result. If you’re curious what kind of juice I would personally recommend you take I recommend doing a minimum mixture of beet juice, cucumber juice, carrot juice, celery juice and anything else you might want to add for sweetness like apple Juice. As regards the smoothies I generally recommend you add greens to your fruit smoothies. The fruits I would recommend are mostly berries like blueberries, elderberries, aronia berries, black berries, and at least one whole banana for thickness and potassium. The greens I recommend adding would be kale, spinach, or rainbow chard. Always remember not to be afraid to try out different varieties and change things up with greens and fruits you use for your juices and your smoothies so you keep things not only new and interesting but also healthy by introducing different nutrients and flavors on a regular basis. These are simple total cleanse directions and guidelines that anyone can follow and really work.
Green smoothies have a lot of different benefits that they are both widely known for and not so known for, but both are equally important to your overall health, whether you are doing a total cleanse, or you are just trying to maintain what you have achieved, or simply trying to live healthier in general. Juicing can be a real hassle with even the most simple of designed juicing models, all of the cleaning and prep work to get your juicer and your produce ready isn’t always practical for many of us who are on a busy schedule and just need something filling, nutritious, and convenient. The right blender can blend your smoothie with minutes or even seconds and can be cleaned within a minute or two as well, so making smoothies may be in your best interest.
Now for what kind of smoothie, well I suggest making what is commonly known as the “green smoothie”. Green smoothie benefits are numerous, but one of the things that set them apart from normal fruit smoothies is the fact that you can add greens to them and make all sorts of green smoothie recipes. You can go with any kind of green you like, but I advise starting out with spinach, kale, or some kind of chard, with a powerful blender these greens will blend consistently along with the fruits and you’ll never taste they are there. This is because the fruit sugars mask the favor, so green smoothies have the added benefit of giving you your daily does of leafy greens in a more easily digestible and tastier way. What makes these “green smoothies” green is all the added chlorophyll that is coming from the leafy greens which is very good for you, and something most people are severely lacking. These will often either create green or a darker colored smoothie in general.
One of the other green smoothie benefits is the sheer amount of nutrition you getting for your dollar. Unlike juicing where you’re removing the fiber blended keeps the entire of the fruit or vegetable while allowing it still be processed into a more digestible form. That makes these green smoothies one of the best ways to get most of the daily fiber that’s required for optimum health, and they keep you colon moving along at a natural and healthy pace. Plus these smoothies come packed with all sorts of vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and enzymes, that along with the fiber will help keep you satisfied all day if taken as a midday meal or treat, and especially at breakfast, so give the green smoothie diet a chance, i think you’ll enjoy it!
Cleansing your colon can sometimes be a rather unpleasant experience for many, because most people associate it with invasive enemas, expensive cleansing products, and complicated regimens a lot of practitioners seem to advocate and teach. However, for the general masses juicing, and cleansing and all these kinds of practices are simply not practical for the modern person let alone a typical modern family trying to live healthier. There is however a saving grace and it can be found in what is affectionately come to be known as the “Green Smoothie”. A bowel cleanse with green smoothies can be a really easy, economical, daily, and especially tasty means of doing natural bowel cleanse instead of something pre packaged. It’s not the easiest thing to do in the world, but most find this method they use the most simply because of the aforementioned reasons, so be sure to give it a chance.
I always recommend doing an organic bowel cleanse instead of using any old vegetables or fruit. The reason for this is that even if the regularly grown produce is nutritionally identical, the organic produce is much less likely to have been exposed to the same level of pesticides, chemicals, and toxins. I also recommend buying from your local farms as well if at all possible; sometimes they may advertise that they grow their produce conventionally but may in fact grow to “organic standards” without having the official label to cost cutting, so always be on the lookout for local farmers markets, as they have cheap prices as well. Be sure even if you do buy organic, that you use a good veggie wash to remove the dirt and grime that may have been collected so you’re not taking that into your body.
A lot of people like to do something fancier or exotic like a herbal bowel cleanse, but really all you need to do is find your favorite fruits, I recommend blueberries, strawberries, elderberries, and aronia berries in particular, but any berry is great because they are nutritionally dense. Add some bananas and other fiber rich fruits, add some greens you enjoy like kale, spinach, or chard if you like- any leafy greens will do, and then add some ice, and voila you blend it up and you got yourself a healthy and nutritious green smoothie. All you need is a high powered blender, some fresh or frozen produce and a few moments of your time and you have yourself a daily nutritious treat that will keep your digestive system in tip top shape all day and every day, so give them a try, you’ll find plenty of recipe ideas online, including this site.
Smoothies can be a really healthy and equally tasty alternative to all sorts of treats like ice cream, fatty and processed yogurts, jello, pudding, and many more. But wouldn’t it be great if these could provide an even bigger health impact on our bodies then what most would think to make? Well these power packed smoothies are affectionately known as the green smoothie in most health circles, and it has started to catch on in the mainstream. What makes these smoothies so much more potent than a traditional fruit smoothie is that they contain greens. These greens can be either one or a mixture of any you like some of the most common and healthful of the bunch are greens like kale, chard, spinach, and many more. Blenders exist now that can mince these hearty leaves into a fine consistency that ends up mixing within a fruit smoothie, and the natural sugars from the fruits end up covering up the taste of the greens, so it’s a win-win recipe.
Another great function of these cleansing green smoothies is their ability to help cleanse the colon. The primary reason these act as great colon cleansers is because fruits are naturally very cleansing to begin with but also beyond the high fiber content of the whole blended fruit itself, you get the added boost of fiber made by the addition of greens to your smoothies. This incredibly high fiber content provided you have multiple servings can nearly complete and sometimes exceed your total daily recommended serving for fiber! This is amazing to get in a tasty sweet treat! This fiber is going to allow your body to naturally push through clogged fecal matter and after regular use every day and keep your bowel movements regular and efficient.
These cleansing green smoothies can be made every single day, and if you buy the right blender, you’ll find they are incredibly easy to make, affordable to do, and easy to clean up. I personally recommend the total blender from blendtec, its pricey at around 400$ as of this writing, but it is very much worth it, this is the same blender used in juice shops like jamba juice, its industrial quality. This blender is the most powerful on the market, and its super easy to clean, myself and my friends all enjoy it because of how quick it is to clean, just squeeze a few drops of soap, pulse the blender and rinse and your done! This will make it so blending doesn’t feel like a chore every day, but something you look forward to, so here’s to your health!
With the advent of high powered blenders and a more health conscious society the idea of making smoothies at home instead of paying the very expensive prices for smoothie bar smoothies and juices has become quite popular. An even newer trend is the wonderful creation of what many call green smoothies, these little wonder elixirs allow for ALL the beneficial ingredients that make up the fruit and leafy greens to be consumed whole and as a result, are one of the best sources of natural fat burning foods. There is a debate within the health community whether a person should juice or blend and I’ve struggled with that question too when I started out. The answer I came to was both had their place and if you can do both regularly if not daily you’ll get the benefits from each wonderful source of vitamins and nutrients. In future articles ill detail the differences both subtle and obvious between blending and juicing but for now I’ll extol the virtues of smoothies, particularly, green smoothies, and how they too allow for a Total Cleanse and detoxify the body.
First and foremost and it’s something I’ll likely get into in a separate article because there’s so much to praise about it, the best blender for blending is the Total Blender by BlendTec. This appliance as of this writing is about 400$ but is worth every penny as it makes the smoothies effortlessly, is an easy cleanup, and is very durable.
Fruits if juiced too much can be too much sugar for the body to take in one shot and can be very detrimental to one’s health if done regularly due to said sugar, but at the same time you want to mask the often times unpleasant taste of the low sugar veggie juice. In this case you want to make a smoothie instead, this allows for the full nutritional value of berries and other fruits to be consumed while also incorporating lots of leafy greens like wheatgrass (which are not technically veggies) that can be mixed with anything (unlike actual veggies including starches like carrots or other types as well which have a tendency not to play nice when digested at the same time with fruits as a whole food albeit blended food). These are famously known as the green smoothies and there are many great recipes out there ill detail in another article. These taste amazing as well just for a healthy treat.
One of the greatest benefits of any smoothie but particularly green smoothies is due to the fiber content (very dense in leafy greens) which regulates all the sugar in the blended fruit that ends up missing in the juiced drinks. This fiber also helps in digestion and getting your regular does of 25-30 grams of fiber per day, which in turn can also help boost your overall fat burning capabilities by speeding up your metabolism. As a result, it is really one one of the best natural weight loss solutions out there. Please look forward to more information on these wonderful creations and stay in good health!
