Broccoli Smoothies!!
To eat healthier try “The Raw Foods Diet” asap! It is easy, simple, fast and low cost, by exemple: “Broccoli Smoothies” are full of good nutrients: vitamins, minerals, fibers, active enzymes and more. It is why persons with Fibromyalgia are choicing now a 70% Raw Foods Diet to feel really better!
A "Raw Foods Diet" is helping positively the persons with Fibromyalgia to recover HEALTH!
The reason is simple: the food, specially the vegetables and the fruits without cooking at hot temperature, is loosing less the good nutrients: vitamins, minerals and active emzymes in particlar. Fibromyalgic are knowing a lot of digestive problems because their enzymatic system is not fully efficient anymore. Often fibromyalgia syndrome is more complex with many symptoms like: GERD, gastric reflux, indigestion, nauseas, vomiting, diarrhea, irritable bowel, fatigue, weakness, sleepness, muscular pain or rheumatism, by exemple…
Raw Foods Diet can help in many ways in the case of Fibromyalgia. This diet is easy, simple, low cost and very healthy! At first look, it appears difficult to eat our foods RAW, but using a blender machine to make Smoothies is fast, fun and easy! It is possible you know already or you will prefer "Fruits Smoothies", but "Green Smoothies" made of green vegetables are very important. Before what we call the "Green Revolution", many Raw Foodists were knowing something was missing in their Raw Foods Diet, they discover that fact: the green vegetables were very important to reach a certain equilibrium in their diet.
Today, i will introduce you to a well known vegetable: it is the "BROCCOLI"! Broccoli is a real good green vegetable and a "must" in all diets! But, i will suggest you a different manner to use and eat it… * RAW *: so, in good, colored, tasty "Green Smoothies"!
You can cook your broccoli lightly, steamed it also, but eating it "RAW" will assure you to get the best of this vegetable and without altering too much its highly nutritious qualities.
Broccoli is a member of the cabbage family, we call them "Cruciferous". Like others cruciferous vegetables, broccoli is antioxidant and possess significant anti-cancer effects. Broccoli is boosting our immune system and our ability to detoxify or cleansing harmful compounds. With its flavonoids, broccoli offers a cardio-vascular protection and with the fibers is supporting digestive health. Rich in calcium, broccoli is helping also to make and maintain stronger bones!
You can find many good Nutrients in Broccoli:
* Vitamins: C, K, A, E, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9,
* Minerals: Calcium, Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Potassium, Phosphorus, Magnesium,
* Others: Tryptophan, Folic acid, Proteins, Glucids, Omega-3 fatty acid, Fibers, Indole, Sulforaphane, Glutathion, B-carotenoid, …and more!
SMOOTHIES are Drinks or Soups… simple, easy, fast, and not expensive ways to eat your vegetables: RAW! With Broccoli here, we speak about "Green Smoothies" specially! You need a blender machine, good knifes, that’s it! Nothing complicated.
Here some suggestions with Broccoli:
Smoothie-1
2 cups of cut raw broccoli
1/2 cup of cut raw green cabbage
1/2 feet of slices cut raw celery
1 cut pealed, empty-heart apple or 3/4 cup apples juice
Preparation: put in the blender all the pieces of the vegetables and fruit or juice and start low speed 20 secondes and then higher speed.
* If you prefer your Smoothie more liquid add water or more apple juice. If you prefer your Smoothie more thick add pieces of boiled potato (1 or 2) or pieces of banana (less than 1 because it will be too sweet). Try it and make your own favorite Green Smoothie!
Smoothie-2
1 cup of cut raw broccoli
1 cup of red or green grapes (without seeds) or 3/4 cup of grapes juice
Preparation: put in the blender the grapes or the juice and the broccoli. Start low speed 20 secondes and then higher speed. You can add pieces of ice cubes, if you want it fresher!
Smoothie-3: the Super Green!
2 cups of cut raw broccoli
2 cups of slices cut lightly boiled (less 8 minutes) leek
1 cup of the boiled leek juice
1 cup of clean fresh cut raw spinach leaves
1/2 cup of clean fresh cut raw parsley
1/4 spoon Curcuma
Preparation: put in the blender the leek juice, the vegetables with curcuma. Start on low speed 20 secondes and then higher speed.
* If you prefer your smoothie as a soup less thick: add more leek juice or milk or soya milk. If you prefer a thick smoothie add pieces of cooked potatoes, 1 or 2 medium one.
On internet with GOOGLE or YAHOO, you can find thousands of Smoothies Recipes!
Make your own recipes can be Fun and pleasing you better!
Forget not to Share with family and friends!
Good Luck! Good Health!

# 1 by Jinny
November 13th, 2006 at 8:05 am #
Way to go, cousin!
# 2 by len Paxton
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am #
I have just tried broccoli, carrot, apple mixed with veg stock and water – delicious. Anyone got a good broccoli based cancer recipe out there.