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Burn More Fat With These Smoothies 

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Burning fat includes a good balance of diet and exercise. In terms of your nutrition, smoothies are a great place to burn fat. They often include fruits and other ingredients that help to give you energy and boost your metabolism. Give some of these smoothie recipes a try.

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Mango Smoothie

If you like mango fruit, then you will love this fun smoothie! It only uses a few simple ingredients and is very easy to make. Plus, it includes multiple ingredients that help to burn fat, including the mango, lime juice, and avocado. Don’t worry; it won’t taste like a vegetable. The sweetness of the fruit far outweighs the flavor of the avocado. Just get out your blender and add mango pieces, a mashed avocado, vanilla yogurt, and lime juice. You can add a little bit of sugar if you want, but it is not needed. Finish it off with some ice or half a frozen banana.

Citrus Smoothie

You can also use your favorite citrus fruits and combine them with ice and your choice of dairy product to make a sweet, creamy smoothie that helps you to lose weight. Some citrus fruits that usually go good are lemons, oranges, and grapefruit, but go ahead and use any combination of fruits you have at home. You want to make it creamy with a little bit of yogurt and some skim milk. You can use flavored yogurt like lemon, or just plain fat-free yogurt. Add some ice and a little flaxseed for added fat burning potential.

Berry Smoothie

Berries are at the top of the list for fruits that help to burn more fat and calories. Strawberries in particular contain a lot of antioxidants and are high in fiber, which helps you to increase your fat burning. And if you’re on a Ketogenic diet, berries are low in sugar! You can make a simple smoothie with strawberries and other berries, along with your choice of nut milk, yogurt, and flax seed oil. For a thicker smoothie, add some oats to it. I like adding in some raw cacao nibs.

Blueberry Smoothie

Another version of the berry smoothie is one that contains blueberries. This provides a slightly different flavor, but the same health benefits of a strawberry or mixed berry smoothie. Plus, blueberries contain a lot of nutrients and antioxidants that make it a popular super food. Blueberries taste great just with nut milk, yogurt and ice. Another option is to add in raw honey or frozen banana instead of ice. 

Try out your own combinations using these and other fruits.

Have fun experimenting.

Shaline

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3 Easy Superfood Smoothies To Get Your Daily Dose Of Hemp Oil

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This Article first appeared on MadeByHemp.com

 

A new way to take your CBD…

Smoothies are a great way to start your day off on the right foot. These recipes are packed with clean, healthy ingredients as well as some of our favorite superfoods. Read on for some simple recipes to jump start your day!

 

Green Machine

 

greem cbd smoothies

Ingredients:

1/2 dropper Spearmint flavored Tasty Drops (depending on serving size)

1 frozen banana

1/2 avocado

1/4-1/2 cup ice

1 cup almond, soy, or coconut milk

1-2 handfuls of spinach

1-2 tsp agave, maple syrup, honey, or other natural sweetener (optional)

Directions:

Blend all ingredients together in a blender.

 

Strawberry Dream

 

Strawberry CBD smoothie

Ingredients:

1/2 dropper Berry flavored Tasty Drops (depending on serving size)

1 frozen banana

1 cup frozen strawberries

1 cup almond, soy, or coconut milk

1/4 cup ice

1 Tbsp almond butter

1 Tbsp ground flax seeds

2 tsp vanilla

1-2 tsp agave, maple syrup, honey, or other natural sweetener (optional)

Directions:

Blend all ingredients together in a blender.

 

Cacao Maca

 

Cacao cbd smoothie

 

Ingredients:

1/2 dropper Vanilla flavored Tasty Drops

1 frozen banana

2 Tbsp cacao powder

1 tsp maca powder

1 Tbsp almond butter

1/4-1/2 cup ice

1-2 tsp agave, maple syrup, honey, or other natural sweetener (optional)

Directions:

Blend all ingredients together in a blender.

 

Have fun trying these recipes! By the way, Made by Hemp has a special for March Madness, code MADNESS, 25% off selected products.

Hugs,

S

 

7 Steps to Reducing Acid Reflux

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How I alleviated my acid reflux

My Journey

For years I’ve had digestive issues and I was on and off proton pump inhibitors.  It got to the point where the medication didn’t work.  You name the medication, I probably was prescribed it. I knew I had to make a change.

I’ve always been interested in nutrition and enrolled in an online nutrition class.

It was at a women’s networking meeting that I met a woman who was enrolled in the Health Coach Training Program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.  I asked her why she was enrolled at IIN and the difference between their program and the nutrition class I was taking.  She mentioned that she liked the IIN program because they offered a holistic approach to nutrition and taught over 100 dietary theories.

When I got home from the meeting, I got on the internet and began researching IIN.  I was impressed with their program and the fact the program covered learning several dietary theories and there was a section of the program devoted to digestive health. So, I enrolled in the program!  I was excited!  I met so many like-minded people and these people are now my friends/colleagues!

When I enrolled in the Health Coach Training Program, my first objective was to write down my health goal. My goal was to naturally alleviate my acid reflux.

Steps to reducing acid

Elimination Diet

The Elimination Diet means doing the following for one week:

  1. Temporarily eliminating dairy products (milk, ice cream, cheese, etc.)
  2. Eliminating the “white” stuff (white pasta, white rice, potatoes, white flour/bread)…gluten!
  3. Reducing/Eliminating meat (beef, chicken, etc.)
  4. Eliminating processed foods
  5. Reducing acidic foods
  6. Reducing sugar cravings!  This is a big one for me!  I love my sweets!
  7. Reducing caffeine and alcohol consumption.

Reintroducing foods the right way

This is also much simpler than people make it out to be.

Pick one thing you eliminated—like gluten, dairy, or eggs—but not more than one, and eat it.

Once you’ve made a call on the first food you reintroduce, pick another one and follow the same steps.

By gradually reintroducing one food group back into your diet at a time and keeping a food journal, you can track how you feel after eating these foods. See how you feel over the next 48 hours. If you have no reaction after two days, eat that same food again, and for a second time, notice how you feel. From there, it’s up to you whether or not to re-incorporate that food into your diet on a regular basis.

  • DO eat fish.  Watch out for fish with high content of mercury and try to avoid farm raised fish.
  • DO eat lots of fiber, fresh whole foods, and unprocessed meals you make yourself.
  • DO eat lots of healthy fats found in olive oil, ghee, coconut oil, sunflower oil, flax oil, walnut oil, and avocados.

Adding clean foods back into your diet such as brown rice, brown rice, buckwheat, or whole grain pasta, quinoa, almond milk or coconut milk, organic ice cream, and sprouted bread. Adding in more fruits and vegetables, and alkaline foods.

On a personal note: I began eating kale and I had never heard or tried kale and had not eaten many other leafy greens (cruciferous vegetables ) until I enrolled at IIN. I added kale in to my smoothies as well as superfoods. I also added quality nutritional supplements, probiotics, digestive enzymes, omega-3, Vitamin D, resveratrol, and grape seed extract.

I temporarily went vegan but I consider myself a Flexitarian. I eat raw, vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, and organic when I can. I also eat eggs, chicken, fish, and ground turkey. I add turmeric, ginger, and lemon for my foods/soups/water.

You will lose weight, feel less bloated, have more energy, and sleep better!

Remember this: No one diet works for everyone.  Eating healthy, losing weight, and weight management is a lifestyle not a diet!

Check out my eBook, Clean Eating: Guide to Clean Food Detoxing and Gut Rebuilding on Amazon.

What is the difference between blending and juicing?

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Several of my clients have asked me what the difference is between blending and juicing.  In this first post, we will discuss the differences.   In my second and third post, we will discuss the differences between a blender (VitaMix), a juicer (Breville), and an extractor (NutriBullet), and we will compare brands.

Blending

Blending is a technique that creates a smoothie out of a number of fruits and vegetables.  You can include as little as two or three, or add more. Blending liquefies and emulsifies the ingredients you throw in the blender, creating a relatively thick, homogenous and voluminous beverage. While technically you could throw anything in there, the more ingredients you add the more important it is to keep an eye on complementary flavors and textures, or you’ll end up with a weird tasting, weird looking, and texturized drink. With blending you should cut fruits and vegetables in smaller pieces, remove skins and pits, and be careful not to overload the blender. High speed blenders like Vitamix and Blendtec are hardly sensitive for such ailments. The smoothies made with a blender can be made more nutritious by adding ingredients such as yogurt, flaxseeds, avocado, coconut oil, protein powder, etc.

Juicing

Juicing is the extracting of juice from fruits and vegetables. The vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytonutrients end up in the juice, while the pulp and the fiber is removed and discarded. This makes for a very liquid and smooth drink. By separating the pulp from the juice, it is also a very concentrated beverage. This can be an advantage as well as a disadvantage. The level of concentration makes it easy to consume a large quantity of fruits and vegetables. People juice because all of the nutrients get assimilated into the bloodstream straight away, your body gets to use it all without having to digest food first. Juice is also a very clean drink, containing only juice from freshly juiced produce.

Reasons to Blend Fruits and Vegetables

These are some of the reasons why blending is not only a convenient way to get your greens, but also a superior way:

Quantity:To get the most out of eating leafy greens, you need to eat a LOT of them.  This is actually a time consuming task, and unless you love greens more than any other food in the world and plan to eat several large salads a day; you aren’t likely to eat them in the quantities that will deliver serious health benefits.  You may find that you are able to consume up to three times as many greens in a smoothie as you are in a salad or steamed dish.

Taste:Thanks to our modern processed diet, many of us have a hard time appreciating the flavors of greens.  Some of us love them, but for the many more who don’t, hiding greens in a smoothie is the perfect way to eat them without tasting them.

Benefits of Raw:  There is a lot of evidence pointing to the benefits of eating raw foods.  Most plants, when cooked, tend to lose their nutrients and digestive enzymes to varying degrees, depending on the temperature at which they are cooked, the method, etc.  Anything heated over the temperature of 118 degrees is considered cooked.  Raw Foodists use this temperature as a baseline.  Since the greens in your smoothie are always raw, you get the benefit of all the nutrients in their purest whole food state.

Digestion:  Greens are called roughage for a reason; they can be pretty rough on our intestinal tracts.  And when we chew, we don’t always get all the benefits of the food.  According to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, longtime advocate of achieving nutritional excellence through the consumption of a plant-based diet: “When we simply chew a salad, about 70 to 90 percent of the [plant] cells are not broken open. As a result, most of the valuable nutrients contained within those cells never enter our bloodstream.”  He considers what he calls a “blended salad” a “powerful and delicious way to maximize your intake of nutrients.” Since the food in a smoothie has already been mostly pulverized from going through the blender, your body will digest the food much more easily, and assimilate the nutrients much faster.  Once the nutrients are in your system, you often feel the difference in terms of energy and well-being immediately.