Blending 101: 20 Reasons to Blend Raw

Gabriel Braun

I have been blending for about 6 months. Prior to blending I juiced and maintained a relatively healthy diet that excludes (4 legged animals and fried foods). My juicer is stored away in my garage, and I now blend 32 oz drinks 1-2 times a day. Though I have only bending a short time, I and others have noticed a significant health improvements (weight loss, hair, skin, allergies, and energy). This article presents the value proposition for blending raw fruits, vegetables and nuts.

Why Blend?

By giving in to the skillful seductions of the advertisers to try "new food," our bodies are starving while we constantly chew and swallow. Ironically, the variety and affordability of foodstuffs leads us to become overfed and at the same time undernourished.
We need bitter, dark, leafy greens! Juicing them throws away the best part. The fiber which keeps your pipes clean, carries away toxins, and is loaded with nutrients.
Cooking always removes or spoils the goodness of food. Cooked and frozen food is dead food. Humans are the only animals that heat their food. Humans on average as a race, die at or below half their potential life span of chronic illness that is largely diet and lifestyle related.
Green drinks create opportunity for you to get nutrition in the morning that you would rarely get. Most breakfast consist of primarily Carbs, dairy, meats and limited fruits. Rarely would you get greens and any quantities of raw vegetables.
Compared to juicing: Saves prep and cleanup time – no slicing and dicing and painstakingly cleaning of numerous parts, saves money and less waste -more filling and satisfying- a complete food because it still has the fiber.
Green smoothies are easy to digest. When blended well, all the valuable nutrients in fruits and veggies become homogenized, or divided into such small micronized particles that it becomes easy for the body to absorb these nutrients, the micronized particles is like chewing for 2 hours. This level of blending is made possible through 3+hp blenders.
3+hp blenders also enable the release of phytochemicals when they are broken out of the cell walls of fruits and vegetables - your body cannot digest
Pronounced "fight-o-chemicals,"- a Phytochemical is a natural bioactive compound found in plant foods that works with nutrients and dietary fiber to protect against disease. Research suggests that phytochemicals, working together with nutrients found in fruits, vegetables and nuts, may help slow the aging process and reduce the risk of many diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cataracts, osteoporosis, and urinary tract infections.
About Seeds: inside fruit and vegetable seeds there are a soft kernel were some of the most potent phytochemicals and antioxidants are found. Most seeds are not palatable to chew (melons
pomegranate, grapes, pepper, apple) and others are nearly impossible to chew or blend (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries) 3+HP blender resolves this by breaking through the cell wall of even the smallest seeds.
Blenders in the 3+HP range are the best for getting the Phytochemical and Antioxidants out of fruits and vegetables. One apple has about 385 different phytochemicals, but you only utilize them when they are broken out of the cell walls, via high speed blender. Your body cannot digest all the photochemical if they are still locked inside the cell structure of your food.
Green smoothies can be very tasty drink for everyone by adjusting the ratio of fruits to veggies to meet their minimum level sweetness requirements; additionally you can add natural sweeteners like honey. As your smoothie regimen matures you can gradually move towards weighting your ratio more on the veggie side. Suggest starting with 60/40 fruit to veggie then moving towards 60/40 veggie to fruit.
Kill that craving. I believe that cravings are the physical notification that body is starving for real nutrition. The mental aspect of craving is our conditioning to satisfy our body's cravings with the wrong foods. Feeding your body nutritional green smoothies can potentially subdue your cravings, but you still have to intervene to un-condition your bad food habits. Many people have reported that after a couple of weeks of green smoothies they began to crave eating greens and have less desire for bad foods.
Two or three cups of green smoothies daily you will consume enough of greens for the day to nourish your body. Most people do not consume enough of greens, even those who stay on a raw food diet.
The molecule of chlorophyll has only one atom that makes it different from a molecule of human blood. According to teachings of Dr. Ann Wigmore, to consume chlorophyll is like receiving a healthy blood transfusion.
Getting enough greens is a problem for everyone, especially children. Green smoothies are perfect food for children of all ages, including babies of six or more months old when introducing new food to them after mother's milk. Of course you have to be careful and slowly introduce ingredients and slowly increase the amount of smoothies to avoid food allergies.
Green smoothies greatly reduce the consumption of oils and salt in your diet normally associated with cooked vegetables.
Some of the most nutritious greens (collards, kale, and turnips) and other veggies (asparagus, artichoke) are not palatable raw. Mixing veggies with fruit elements bitter taste and tough textures.
Blending is a great way to add fiber and other nutritious supplements into your drink such as healthy ingredients like flaxseed oil and spirulina wheat germ can easily be added to your smoothie.
Going totally raw takes lots of effort and a complete lifestyle change. Blending raw greatly influences your taste buds and appetite in transitioning to a healthier lifestyle.
It is as close as you will as you will ever get to the magic pill.