Healthy recipes
Green Smoothie: ideal for liquid fasting
Ingredients:
spinach
cucumber
mint
carrot
apple
papaya
orange
lemon
water
rice milk
Healing effects of some fruits and vegetables in this juice:
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Spinach |
blood builder, good for eczema |
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Cucumber |
helpful toward edema and diabetes |
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Carrot |
good for eyes and skin, fights infection, helps with arthritis and osteoporosis |
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Orange |
strengthen immune and nervous sytems, good for cardiovascular disease, obesity, and varicose veins |
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Lemon |
good for liver and gallbladder, helps with allergies, asthma, cardiovascular disease, and coldsaling effects of some fruits and vegetables in this juice: |
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Apple |
good for liver and intestines, relieves diarrhea |
NB: I used rice milk by option, to give a different texture, but you can use another kind of milk, water or nothing else than the fruits and vegetables juice.
To know more about the benefits of fasting... please have a look at the following websites...
http://www.paleodiario.com/2014/04/por-que-jejuar-parte-vi-escolhendo-um.html
http://www.allaboutfasting.com/types-of-fasting.html
Turmeric tea
Ingredients for 1 person:
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
3 gloves
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon of cardamom
1 cm fresh ginger
2 cups of water
1/2 teaspoon of honey
After having boiled the water with all the spices, let it rest for 10 minutes.
Filter the water, add the honey and enjoy!
Smoothie
A complete breakfast in a big cup... Liquid food favors the digestion.
Ingredients:
1 banana
1 cup of frozen berries
1 yogurt 180 gr (0% fat)
1 little piece of ginger (0.5 cm)
1 teaspoon cinnamon (powder)
3 teaspoons pollen seeds
water (1 yogurt cup)
Put all the ingredients together in a blender.
Simply delicious...
Millet porridge - tasty alternative for breakfast
An healthy meal that promises to calm your cravings for sugar during the day
Ingredients for 1 person:
40 gr. millet
1 teaspoon of butter
1/2 cinnamon stick
1/2 teaspoon of cardamome
4 cloves
a pinch of salt
half a juice of a small orange (I use blood orange, because I love it)
water
1/2 teaspoon of honey
fruit
• In a saucepan, toast millet high heat for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon: it will release a nutty taste of the grain.
• Add the orange juice, cinnamon stick, cardamom, butter and salt. Fill with water to cover the grains. Heat to a simmer, lower the heat, cover and cook about 12-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stop cooking just before the total absorption of the liquid and add the honey. Serve it with some fresh fruit or some nuts (walnuts, grapes, dates, etc.)
Enjoy!
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