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Clear Skin Smoothie for Acne, Inflammation and Anti-Aging
This smoothie for better skin is designed to provide plenty of the nutrition your skin needs to look its best.
The recipe is full to bursting with antioxidants, healthy fats and specific nutrients to help prevent and treat acne, eczema and other forms of skin inflammation.
Used regularly it may even help slow down the signs of skin aging caused by collagen breakdown, poor moisture balance and free radical damage to your skin cells.
Apple, Carrot, Parsley and Beet Detox Smoothie Recipe
Your liver is the major detoxification organ of your body and has a hard job these days with all the various toxic compounds in processed foods and the polluted environment we live in.
This detox smoothie recipe with beet, parsley, carrot and other liver-healing ingredients can give it a well-deserved break and help alleviate that sluggish, run-down feeling that so many people experience due to an overburdened liver.
Your toxin-filtering kidneys can also benefit from this apple, carrot and beet smoothie and having it regularly, along with plenty of water throughout your day, may even help prevent painful kidney stones.
Banana and Matcha Breakfast Smoothie for Extra Energy
This matcha, cinnamon and banana smoothie is simple to make, full of nutritious ingredients and is a delicious way to start your day.
It can be used as a replacement for coffee in the morning and provides a more long-lasting energy than the quick hit and crash of caffeine.
Why This Green Smoothie is So Energizing
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It’s no surprise the athletes like tennis players often snack on bananas during their matches. The fruit gives a fast and satisfying energy boost and is full of beneficial nutrients.
Parsley Juice for Kidney Cleansing and Liver Detoxification
Parsley juice is a potent and concentrated version of all the nutrition in the herb, including a rich array of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, chlorophyll and volatile oils.
Some of the best known parsley juice benefits include kidney cleansing and liver detoxification.
Ahead are two special recipes for using parsley as a natural kidney treatment and liver healer.
The first is a potent parsley juice with a combination of natural ingredients for effective detox and cleansing.
The second is a great tasting parsley, cucumber and watermelon smoothie that is especially good for flushing your kidneys of toxins.
First, a couple of precautions before using the amounts of parsley recommended in these recipes. Continue Reading
Better Hair Smoothie Recipe to Promote Growth and Stop Grey Hairs
This potent smoothie recipe blends natural foods with specifically important nutritional elements for healthy hair into a great tasting drink.
It’s a simple and delicious way to give your hair follicles the valuable fatty acids, protein, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients they need to produce strong and beautiful hair.
Hair Smoothie Ingredients and Their Benefits
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Cooking Pumpkin for the Best Taste and Maximum Nutrients
There is a better way to cook your pumpkins than boiling that will retain the most nutritional value when you eat them.
It’s also quick and simple and makes for a much better tasting pumpkin, whatever recipe you’re using it for.
How to Cook Pumpkins to Retain Vitamins and Minerals
A Guide to Eating Papaya: Ripeness Test, Preparation Method & Best Time to Enjoy
Papayas are a delicious tropical fruit that is full of nutrition and particularly good at aiding digestion with their abundant enzyme content.
This article covers how to tell if papaya is ripe, preparing it for eating and the best times to enjoy it for the highest nutritional content.
How to Pick a Ripe Papaya Fruit
A Maca and Blueberry Testosterone Smoothie Recipe
Blueberry smoothies are delicious but this special recipe for increasing testosterone and raising libido is far more than just something nice to drink.
Each of the ingredients in this smoothie recipe plays its part in making it a powerful treatment for elevating one of the most important of hormones for both men and women — testosterone.
For people lacking in the many nutrients this testosterone smoothie provides, drinking it can make the kind of difference most people usually only associate with expensive little tablets.
Let’s have a look at what’s in this testosterone boosting smoothie and why each of them is so good for proper sex hormone function and a strong and healthy libido. Continue Reading
How to Use Papaya Seeds for Parasites: An Anti-Parasitic Smoothie Recipe
Intestinal parasites are a far more common problem than most people realize. They are also notoriously difficult to diagnose due to the wide variety of symptoms that can result from a parasitic infection.
Some, but by no means all of these symptoms can include bloating and excessive gas, frequent diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, extreme fatigue, an increasing number of allergies and poor general immunity with regular sickness.
The seeds from papaya fruit have strong anthelmintic and antiamoebic properties. This means they kill intestinal worms and other parasitic organisms in your digestive system and using papaya seeds for parasites has proven to be very effective.
Papaya Seeds and Honey Parasite Cleanse
Turmeric Smoothie Recipe for Arthritis and Painful Joints
This great tasting anti-inflammatory smoothie for arthritis combines potent natural ingredients that can help reduce joint pain and other arthritic symptoms.
It contains nutrients like bromelain from pineapple, curcumin from turmeric, and gingerols from ginger that have been demonstrated in research studies to combat inflammatory conditions throughout your body.
There are quite a few ingredients in this smoothie recipe and you may not be able to get all of them with a visit to your regular supermarket.
My advice would be to make it up with whatever you can get to start with. If you’d like to add more ingredients in future you can do so, perhaps one at a time to see how each improves the recipe’s effectiveness in treating your symptoms.
Ingredients and Why They Are Used for Joint Pain
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A Digestive Smoothie for Better Gut Health
This digestion smoothie recipe is made with ingredients chosen to improve your intestinal environment.
Many people experience gastrointestinal problems eating processed food diets.
Lactose in milk, processed meats, acids in soda, gluten in wheat, sugar alcohols and many other additives are linked to digestive issues affecting so many in today’s Western societies.
In the long-term, switching to a natural food diet can greatly improve your intestinal environment and help treat symptoms like bloating, IBS, acid reflux and excessive gas.
For more immediate relief, this smoothie for digestion has a combination of superfoods for quickly relieving intestinal troubles and getting your gut health back on track.
How to Make Healthier Salads in 4 Simple Steps
Salads can make for a healthy lunch or light, yet nutritious dinner. The key to making a great salad is to move beyond the old iceberg lettuce, tomato and olive oil combination and get more adventurous with stronger tasting greens like arugula and more interesting ingredients.
Here’s a simple formula to create delicious tasting and healthier salads that are also extremely good for you.