Detox Smoothies For Your Spring Cleanse

Spring is on it's way and it is time to make plans for the Spring Detox.  I have been using smoothies for breakfast and noon, then eating a normal meal for an early supper.  I want to share these detoxification smoothies with those of you who are interested in a simple and delicious way to accomplish your Spring detox.  You may find a few of these helpful as suggestions and of course, you can substitute ingredients to fit your taste and physical needs.

Everything we consume by mouth, every thing we breath in our environment, everything we put on our body (as in creams, perfumes, toothpaste, deoderant, etc) has the potential of either contributing to the daily toxic load or to healing and vitality.    We live in a very toxic world and we are moving further and further away from a life-style in harmony with nature.   Instead of organic and natural, it is chemicle and artificial.

As you know, our physical body has an impressive capacity to move a lot of toxic waste.  However, if we do not co-operate with it's process, it has many unpleasant ways to store it and we begin to suffer in various ways as the body gets sluggish and degenerates from exhaustion.  Spring and Fall are good times to shift gears and give these wonderful, amazing bodies the help it needs to catch up or stay on top of thing.  Your liver, kidneys  will thank you.

In this series, I plan to share with you smoothies that detox and nourish.   All of the ingredients contribute to strengthening the detox organs of the body, aiding digestion and providing anti-oxidents to slow down degeneration.  To increase the effectiveness of this process, I would advise you to cut out all meat and bread the first week.  Eat only lightly cooked and raw vegetables, some brown rice, and smoothies.  Drink alkalizing water to help flush out the toxins as the body begins to release them.  If you decide to continue using meat once a day, reduce the amount.    Some of you will have other plans going and just be interested in the smoothies.  Others, of course, may be on restrictive diets and foods for medical reasons. 

Here is the first Detox Drink

                                                  LEMON GINGER ZINGER
1 stalk of Celery    cut in chunks
1 frozen Banana
1 cup of chopped Cucumber   
1/2 of a Lemon     peel and remove seeds or juice it and use some of the zest.
1 inch of Ginger Root     place remainder of the root in a plastic bag in the freezer.
1 cup of liquid      this could be water, coconut water, kefir water, a mineral water like S.Pellegrino

Place all ingredients in a good blender or Magic Bullet.  Blend until smooth.

The frozen banana add creaminess, sweet and lots of potassium.
Celery helps lower  blood pressure, aids in proper matabolism, and high in B Vitimans.
Cucumber, and lemon are alkalizing and cleansing agents.
Ginger aids digestion, cleanses and sooths the digestive track.

After you  have made of few of these and know how they taste, we will add other things to one like this basic one; like fresh spinach and basil leaves.  Or you can taste this, then add a few fresh Spinach  leaves.  It is too early for you in the cold country to have Basil growing.  I love Basil in food.