Drink your way into wellness : Recipes

Its summer time and at this time of the year freshly squeezed juices and smoothies are very popular. it wouldnt be a bad idea to drink your way to wellness whilst feeling refereshed and hydrated. So, here are a few healthy recipes. You dont have to go to a smoothie shop to buy this. you can do it at home yourself. all you need is a fine blender and you are good to go.



♥ The Cholesterol Buster ♥

A juice made from Apple cucumber and celery is known to fight cancer and reduce cholesterol. It also improves any sort of stomach upset and headache. This juice is a must have once you have crossed your 30's. If you have this juice every other day, then you will not have to worry about your cholesterol level any more.


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Super Breath

This juice is specifically for people who want to improve their skin complexion. The ingredients are Apple, Carrot and Tomato. For better effect use Green apples. This juice also had an added advantage of eliminating bad breath. This is due to the Apple, Tomato combination.


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Super Cooler

A combination of Bitter gourd milk and Apple is used when one generates lots of internal body heat. This juice will instantly cool down your internal body heat and make you more comfortable. It also fights bad breath just like our previous recipe.


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Super Skin

It is a very well know fact that orange and cucumber are the most vital things to have if one is concerned about the skin. A combination of these two combined with ginger will act as a supper supplement for your skin. Its combined effect will improve the skin texture and moisture content in the skin. It is also a body heat reducing drink.


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The Wild Thing

Apple, Pineapple and Watermelon blends together to form a wonderful mouth watering juice which is excellent for your kidney and bladder. It also helps with dispelling excess salts from your body.


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The Sugar Fighter

This is a simple but very useful and easy to digest juice. It regulates the sugar content in our body. The juice is made of Pear and banana. Pear is good for an ulcer, constipation, and urination and also works for congestion, fever alleviation, and cough. Banana is good for people who have high blood pressure because it is low in salt. Banana contains tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin. Serotonin is a hormone that is known to make you feel happy and improve your mood.


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Anti Oxidant

A juice made by mixing mango, pear, carrot and apple will act as an anti oxidant. It clears the body heat, counteracts toxicity and decrease blood pressure. Apple is a well known anti oxidant. The addition of mango makes this juice a very tasty drink.


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Purple Pine

Purple pine is made from pineapple and grapes. A black grape is usually used. The drink is high in iron and pineapple acts as a Potential Anti-Inflammatory and Digestive agent. It is a good drink to have after your lunch or dinner. Grape juice is known to be good for heart.


♥The Vitamin Juice♥

This is an extremely healthy drink with loads and loads of vitamin content. It is made from Honeydew, black grapes, watermelon and milk (even try using a milk alternative like soy or rice milk). If you have kids at home, they will love this. Other than Vitamin C, it also has Vitamin B2. It also increases the cell activity and strengthens body immunity.

Nature and your organs

Everything our body needs exist in nature. what i find very fascinating is the fact that some fruits and vegetables have similar resemblance to organs in our body. i came across this very useful information and would like to share.


Carrot – A sliced of carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines just like our eye. Science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.


Tomato – A tomato has 4 chambers and is red just like our heart. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.


Grapes – Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.



Walnut – A walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.


Beans – They look exactly like the human kidneys. They actually heal and help kidney function.


Celery, Rhubarb – They and many more just look like our bones. These foods specifically target bone strenght. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium on your diet, the body pulls it from the bones making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.


Avacados, Aubergines, Pears – They target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female. They just look like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats 1 avacado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevent cervical cancers. Also it takes 9 months to grow an avacado from blossom to ripened fruit.


Figs – They are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility and numbers of sperms as well as to overcome male sterility.


Olives – They just look like the ovaries and assist the health and function of the ovaries.


Oranges, Grapefruits and other citrus fruit – They look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.


Potatoes, Sweet potatoes – They look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.


Onions – They look like the body cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.