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I thought I’d share this healthy and delicious smoothie. We featured it often at our restaurant, LettuceLove Cafe, and the customers always love it! It tastes like Carrot Cake which makes it an instant “FALL IN LOVE” moment with the kids and if any of you know me by now, you know that this is ALWAYS my primary focus. To get kids turned ON to loving REAL FOOD!! For me, I’m always thinking about children’s palates (their sense of taste) and how they have changed over the past 30 years. So many children now have been swayed from healthy, whole food by the likes of McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Mars (Bar) Incorporated, Dairy Industry, Sugar Assoc.(Washington DC), etc. that they have no clear idea what REAL food should taste like and are subjected to the daily onslaught of media propaganda and peer pressure. It takes brave moms and dads and other care-givers…

Beet ‘Em to the Finish Line Beetroot juice is becoming the fitness world’s newest natural energy drink. Some studies are showing that it gives athletes an extra edge in endurance and speed, taking precious seconds off competitive times. Beetroot is naturally high in nitrates, which the body converts into nitric oxide, a gas that actually widens blood vessels. The widening blood vessels bring more oxygen to the muscles and increases an athlete’s efficiency. According to a study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, drinking beetroot juice helps shave off seconds for competitive-level cyclists. Researchers studied nine competitive male cyclists while they competed in two time trials. Let’s break down their study: Before each trial, all of the cyclists drank half a litre of beetroot juice. Time Trial #1 – The cyclists all had regular beetroot juice. Time Trial #2 – Without knowing, the cyclists drank beetroot…

Grey Hair: The ultimate telltale sign of aging. Approximately half of all 50 year olds are at least 60% grey. Try as you might to postpone the inevitable with expensive, foul-smelling messy dyes, the battle against grey is predictable and will always win. Or does it have to be this way? I’ve been doing a ton of research on this lately and the more I read, the more it astonishes me. Regular consumption of the young grass of common wheat can re-colour those gray hairs so that you can enjoy your lush natural hair colour well into your senior years. This special grass slows down your entire aging process by rejuvenating your cells, detoxifying your skin, fighting tumours and other unhealthy cells and tightening loose and saggy skin. Made up of 70% chlorophyll, wheat grass restores the health of your kidney and blood. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, hair quality…

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