I thought of some healthy smoothie ideas for breakfast from reading a small excerpt in a chapter on healthy meal ideas by Evita Ochel. Evita is a certified holistic nutritionist, biologist, educator, writer, and speaker and promotes nutrition, natural health, and holistic wellness. Evita’s newly released book, Healing and Prevention(1), emphasizes the importance of eating raw, healthy foods. Evita’s book has inspired me to further look for ways and ideas to improve upon my health. Today’s blog deals with incorporating good, healthy smoothies into your diet. My next blog will look at Evita’s book in its entirety and why it should be a part of everybody’s home health library. Healing & Prevention gives plenty of tips and advice on how we can make the necessary changes and improvements on our everyday health through nutrition.
Breakfast is considered to be the most important meal of the day. It is essential for starting up our metabolism. However, it is very difficult to find health in our typical breakfast meals. For example, breads, bagels, muffins, crepes, waffles, pancakes and doughnuts are all made from enriched white and wheat flours and other nutritional flaws. Breakfast meats, such as bacon, sausage, and ham are laden with high amounts of sodium, saturated fats, and other harmful chemicals and additives. There are other concerns about boxed cereals. One claim is that cereals are a significant source of whole grains. Many people believe they are receiving the goodness of whole grains and vitamins in their most important meal of the day, breakfast; instead, they are eating a tremendous amount of sugar, sodium, and other added chemicals.: It’s no wonder there’s confusion when even nutritionists and educators, from either online colleges or brick-and-mortar colleges, seem to disagree on the healthiest foods.
On my journey toward searching for healthy breakfast ideas, I had to use a few stepping 
stones along the way to reach my ultimate goal of obtaining better health. My first step was to eat Nature’s Path organic cereals instead of other boxed cereals that contained an excess of sugar, sodium and other chemicals. My second step was to substitute Natures Path organic cereals for whole grain cereals that required cooking. This way, I could add some of my own raw healthy food ingredients, such as hemp seeds, flax seeds, raw cacao nibs, Medjool dates, cinnamon, berries and fruits. My third step was to introduce healthy smoothies(2 )for breakfast in addition to whole grain cereals into my diet. Good healthy smoothies consist of four major components, which include different types of dark leafy greens, fruits, healthy proteins and healthy fats. What I like about Evita’s book is that she doesn’t offer a recipe; she offers many raw healthy food ideas and combination’s for each of the different components for successfully making the most nutritional smoothie as possible. Evita empowers people to create many different raw healthy smoothies through their own experimentation from the many choices that she has outlined. Get your blender or vita mixer out while I show you how to make a good healthy smoothie, then, feel free to share your idea in the comment box below. Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition: Natural and holistic approach for How to Eat, What to Eat and Why for optimal health and wellness
Conclusion:
Most of us need to make better breakfast choices. Good healthy smoothies are a superb way of accomplishing this goal. Smoothies are not made up of fruits and sugar in a blender, but they contain leafy greens, fruit, protein and healthy fats for an optimal health experience. Please join me in my next blog when we explore the many natural and holistic approaches with Evita Ochel on her new and exciting book, Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition.
1,2Ochel, Evita. Healing and Prevention Through Nutrition. Evita Ochel (2011).
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Evita says:
December 12, 2011 at 2:23 pm (UTC 0 )
Hi Dave
What a phenomenal article and video full of great breakfast facts, ideas, tips and advice! We do so much need to break our unconscious patterns and habits of what we put into our bodies each day, especially breakfast. The common foods you mentioned are so nutrient deficient and contribute so much to our weight and disease problems.
And so thank you not only for being an advocate for optimal health and nutrition, where people can look toward you as a reliable source of expertise and inspiration. But thank you also for your valuable feedback with regards to my work and book.
Wishing you optimal health and wellness always
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dabower@crunchyourhealth.com says:
December 12, 2011 at 7:40 pm (UTC 0 )
Hi Evita,
Your so welcome and thank you for such an outstanding book on natural and holistic approaches to optimal health and wellness. Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition has cleared up questions that I wasn’t to sure about when it came to the health of our foods. Breakfast for so many people is often skipped and for those of us that have the time unfortunately eat unhealthy choices that cause so many of our health problems. Smoothies however, are a great way to include raw foods in the way of healthy proteins, healthy fats, fruits and leafy green vegetables for some much needed alkalinity in our diet.
Dave
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