Posted by Alexandra on March 2, 2010 at 8:56 am
Drinking your vegetables is a convenient and energizing way to eat while cleansing your body from the Standard American Diet. Blending a bunch of veggies together means you’ll eat more heal-giving ingredients in a sitting, and your body will digest them easier. Why is that?
Your teeth have to do a lot of work to chew vegetables well enough to get all the available nutrition out of raw vegetables. By blending the ingredients first, your body will be able to access all those lovely vitamins and minerals more easily.
I love this recipe because the avocado is high in essential fatty acids and you can easily change the flavor by mixing up the herbs and spices mentioned or by alternating between lemon and lime. This also makes a great breakfast! Just trust me – starting your day with raw vegetables instead of a sugary refined carbohydrate will change your energy in a major way.
Ingredients:
1 ripe Haas avocado, pitted and scooped
2 scallions, diced green and white parts
1 red pepper, seeded and chopped
1 cucumber, peeled if waxy
2 handfuls of spinach
1 small clove garlic
1 teaspoon Bragg’s Liquid Aminos
Juice of 1 lemon or lime
Optional: fresh parsley, basil leaves, cilantro, cayenne powder, almonds soaked overnight in water and drained, etc.
Blend all the ingredients together until creamy – enjoy!
Posted by Alexandra on November 11, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Bike racer in training Steve Medcroft has written a fabulous testimonial about using my book The Great American Detox to help him improve his performance:
“The second diet revelation I had was reading the book The Great American Detox Diet by Alex Jamieson. Alex was the fiancée of Morgan Spurlock, the independent documentary filmmaker who made Super Size Me.
In that documentary, Spurlock ate McDonald’s fast food for all three of his daily meals and took the Supersize option whenever it was offered for 30 days. Jamieson’s book details the physiological changes he went through and the diet that she, a nutritionist and chef, put him on to bring his system back from the brink of total collapse once his experiment ended.
The book does a fantastic job of helping you understand food as it is produced for mass consumption in the US today; educating about processes the agriculture and food processing industry use to make food cheap and plentiful that rob us of much of its nutritional value….”
Read the entire article here:
http://www.bikeradar.com/blogs/article/el-tour-de-tucson-the-final-countdown-23915
Posted by Alexandra on July 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I often get questions from women who are experiencing digestive problems. Not only do they have stomach problems, they also notice their energy isn’t as good as it used to be, as well as skin problems. The complaints range from gas and bloating, frequent stomach cramps, dry and itchy skin, rashes, fatigue, weight loss or gain, as well as every type of diarrhea and/or constipation. They often have mood swings, depression and an inability to concentrate.
The first thing I look at is their diet. What foods are they eating?
I have worked with many clients who discovered that they felt much better if they avoided gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley and most oat products.
If you think you may have celiac disease, or gluten intolerance, talk to you doctor or an allergist about getting tested. You can experiment at home by removing all gluten from your diet for a few weeks to see if you feel better. To help you get started, consider subscribing to Living Without Magazine is an incredible resource for anyone who suffers from celiac disease. http://www.livingwithout.com/recipes.html
Your teeth have to do a lot of work to chew vegetables well enough to get all the available nutrition out of raw vegetables. By blending the ingredients first, your body will be able to access all those lovely vitamins and minerals more easily. 
